Student Technology
Requirements and Responsibilities
The UCSF School of Medicine has defined a policy requiring incoming
(Fall 2001) medical students to communicate and share documents electronically
with faculty, staff and other students, access data, and run web-based
instructional programs from home. To do this, the School of Medicine
has established minimum standards for hardware and software to enable
students to access the Internet/Web, UCSF e-mail, and primary information
resources such as the online curriculum, California Digital Library,
and patient information systems.
The online components of the Essential Core curriculum are a required
part of the course work. Therefore, it is important that all medical
students entering UCSF as of the fall of 2001 have equal and reliable
access to the online curriculum, UCSF e-mail services and file sharing
capabilities, as defined by the Computer Requirement Policy.
Faculty and Staff
The School of Medicine faculty and staff who teach and administer undergraduate
medical curriculum have the following responsibilities to UCSF medical
students entering medical school on or after September 2001.
| Responsibility |
Description |
Use educational technology appropriately.
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Develop and maintain an electronic
curriculum that utilizes educational technology appropriately and
effectively. |
Work within minimum hardware/software
requirements.
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Develop an electronic curriculum that
adheres to the minimum hardware and software requirement set forth
in this policy. All components of the required ecurriculum
must be accessible by students regardless of platform, e.g. from
the web where platform is not an issue, from an institutional computing
facility (the Interactive Learning Center, Medical Student Lounge,
departmental labs, etc.) where the component is made available
and accessible, or distributed on disk or CD for both Mac and PC
environments. Faculty who distribute "optional" software
to the students on only one platform can do so as long as students
are not held accountable for its use.
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E-mail Accounts
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The School of Medicine is responsible
for requesting e-mail accounts for entering medical students from
Information Technology Services (ITS) prior to the start of classes.
These accounts will be distributed during the first week of class.
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Student Financial Services
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The School of Medicine will submit
the annual minimum hardware/software requirements to the UCSF Student
Financial Services Office in time for entering students to apply
for a one-time computer requirement loan, if needed.
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Students
Medical students entering under the Computer Requirement Policy (starting
Fall 2001) must meet the following technology requirement.
| Responsibility |
Description |
Own a personal computer and printer.
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Entering medical students must have a
personal computer and printer when they enter the Doctor of Medicine
program. The School of Medicine requires each student to have a computer
that meets the minimum requirements as determined for their entering
class. The minimum requirements are designed to carry a medical student
through the four-year curriculum. |
Access UCSF issued e-mail account regularly.
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Medical students are required to access
their UCSF issued e-mail account on a regular basis. |
Have Internet access from home.
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Medical students are required to have
an Internet connection from their home. Dial-in access at 56K meets
the minimum requirement, but high-speed DSL (Digital Subscriber Line)
access is strongly recommended in order to effectively utilize the
electronic curriculum from home. The monthly cost of DSL will be
included in the 2001-2002 student expense budget developed by the
Student Financial Services Office. |
Have confidence in basic computer skills.
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At the minimum, students must be able
to perform the following basic computer skills without assistance,
prior to the first day of classes:
- Create and save a new document in Microsoft Word.
- Create and save a new spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel.
- Cut and paste text between programs.
- Connect to specific Web sites via Netscape Navigator or Internet
Explorer.
- Download, open and print Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel
and Adobe Acrobat (PDF) documents from the Web.
- Send an e-mail message with an attached document.
- Receive, save, open and print e-mail attachments.
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