RMstudents Technology meets medical education

Finally!  Our website got a much-needed upgrade to Drupal 6.  This has been a long time coming, but we didn't want to upgrade before knowing that all of the features we currently have implemented would work flawlessly.  We've done a fair amount of checking to make sure that's the case, but just in case we missed something, leave a comment or use the Contact Form to let us know.  In addition to keeping all of our old features, there's a few new ones that we have in store over the coming weeks and months.  We look forward to showing them to you once they're perfected.  Thanks again for your support and happy browsing from the RMstudents team!

Due to the problems we were having with our old webhost, we decided to move the website.  We apologize for the extended down time, but we're hoping that this new host will be much better for us.  You may experience a few intermittent problems over the next day or two as "the web" starts pointing "rmstudents.com" towards our new host.  After that, hopefully things should be smooth sailing.  Let us know if you're having any unexpected problems.  

As many of you may have noticed, this website is spitting out strange error messages at the top of the page quite often.  Also, we're getting (way too frequent) occasions where our site can't properly connect to its database.  This is because we're currently having an issue with our web host, which we hope will resolve itself soon.  If not, we will be migrating web hosts in the near future (although probably after midterms).  Please bear with us during these messages and errors.  Understand that we're doing our best to fix the problem in a timely manner.  We hope that you will continue to use this site despite the errors, and we apologize for any inconveniece they cause you.  Please bear in mind that they seem to follow no rhyme or reason, so if you're writing up something to post on here, please back it up before you submit it (just in case something does not go through).  Thanks a lot, and we'll keep you informed!

Gotta love em, right? I've been wanting a statistics module for Drupal since I started using it. Turns out there was one built in and I just had to enable it correctly. Now there's plenty of statistic-y goodness on RMstudents. You should see "X Read(s)" at the bottom of each post to let you know how popular it is. This may be more useful in the future, such as for a sidebar block with a list of the most popular posts. More upgrades to come after finals.

By looking at the logs over the past few weeks, I have noticed quite a few users are having trouble remembering what their password is. After attempting to log in a few times, they use the "Request new password" feature to reset their password. No big deal, except maybe some frustration for you. If you'd like to avoid that, keep reading.  Read More »

Congratulations to the Emergency Medicine Interest Group for being the first student group to join RMstudents after our meeting. We hope more groups will be following suit after finals are over!

Anyone out there a graphic designer? We could definitely use some graphics for the RMstudents website. We could use a nice graphic for our header (next to RMstudents Technology meets medical education, above). Max size would probably be 120x120 px for that. We could also use a custom favicon (bookmark icon) since we're currently using Drupal's default logo.  This would be 16x16 px in GIF format. If you're a graphic designer of any sort, play around and see if you could come up with something we could use. We'd really appreciate it. My (poor) example is attached. Tushar mentioned that we're like a Technology Interest Group (TIGR) so I made a green and white tiger.

I see they finally put up a new version of the medical college website. They've 301 redirected to their new address. Hopefully their next step is to work on their URL rewrite engine so the page displays as http://www.rushu.rush.edu/medcol/ or something and not:

Sheesh . Seems like that could raise security issues. Ah well they're making progress, I guess.

We've officially updated to Drupal 5.3. This was mainly a security upgrade. We've also upgraded to the most recent versions of Organic Groups and Pathauto. In addition, we've installed Upgrade Status to keep us up to date on the most current version of Drupal and its modules. But all of this was behind the scenes. As far as outward appearance, nothing has changed (or shouldn't have). Let us know if you find any problems. Feel free to leave comments!