eCoM is an electronic communication and submission system for submission of assignments and research project related documents.
Every student in the program is provided with a College of Medicine e-mail address upon completion of registration procedures. The CoM domain is hosted by Gmail and is widely accessible across Malawi. You should expect to receive information concerning timetables, venues, assignments etc via this account and therefore to check it regularly. You should use this account for communication with your supervisors too.
For submission of assignments and research project related documents e-mail should not be used. An electronic portal should be used. It can be accessed via a link on the College web-pages or via the link http://dev.medcol.mw/ecom/login/index.php. This link is known as eCoM. To log into it you will use your CoM e-mail login details (full e-mail address and password). For each piece of work you are expected to submit there will be an area into which to upload it, after you have registered for the module or other component of the course. After you have uploaded your work you will be able to view what you have submitted. Where relevant your supervisor will post feedback in the same system. Access to your submissions is limited to those authorised to access your work.
To protect the integrity of the document you submit you are advised to use pdf format for submis-sion of each typeset document. This ensures that the original document is viewed in the same layout etc on any computer.