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!

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!

This page will help you get started with accessing lecture recordings at Rush.  This program is run by RMstudents and sponsored by the OMSP.

If you are looking for lecture recordings, they are not available at RMstudents.com for legal reasons.  To access them, you must log in to WebCT.   Lectures are available in WMV format.  For Windows users, this means that you'll need to have the latest Windows Media Player installed in order to view the videos.  For Mac users, unfortunately you will need to install Windows Media Player for Mac.  We realize that there are other work-arounds available to view WMVs on a Mac (such as using the Flip4Mac plugin for Quicktime), however the last we heard they are not compatible with the latest Windows Media audio codec, which is what the audio is encoded with on Camtasia (our recording software).  If this has changed, let us know, but otherwise you're stuck installing WMP for Mac.  We may switch to an alternative format in the future, but this has not been decided yet.

If you are having problems viewing a specific lecture or are wondering why a lecture has not been uploaded yet, please first try to contact the person in charge of recording that class.  Read More »

Does your group have a new set of leaders, like new steering committee members?  Do you want them to take control of your group's page on RMstudents?  If so, here are some instructions.  Are you a new leader in a group and just realized it's not represented on the RMstudents.com website?  If so, why not take a few minutes and do it?

For people who are having questions about lecture recordings, they should be up to date online on WebCT as of today (actually they have been up to date for a while).  Lecture recordings are not hosted on RMstudents.com.  For future reference, Jonathan Blackhall is in charge of Biochem and Ross Rozycki is in charge of Anatomy.  Please contact either of us with questions about recordings for a specific course.  We can be found in the NotesMail address book.  Read More »

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.

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!