‘Core Services’ Articles

The Office of Medical Informatics is pleased to announce a new service currently under development and ready for beta testing by faculty and students. Respond is a simple, web-based audience response system. It requires no special software or plug-ins, just a web browser and an Internet connection. This includes “smart” phones and PDAs. [Click on [...]

For those interested in renaming the “Recent Articles” text on your home pages, you will now find an option under the menu ‘Appearance’ / ‘Theme Options’ called “Articles” Title on home page.
Enter into that field whatever you would like to call the Post listing on your home page (e.g. Events, Announcements, etc.) and the title [...]

For sites utilizing the COM “top menu” theme, drop-down menus have now been enabled.

Many clerkship directors are already using a feature of our legacy system called “roll-up”. These evaluations are done in two steps, with initial input from clerkship faculty followed by a summative evaluation completed by the course director. The data from the first step are rolled up and summarized on the summative form. This information is [...]

It’s time for a core systems update. We’ve made significant progress over the past six months or so. (Compare with the 2008 and 2007 updates.)

The most significant recent milestones are:

Replaced LDAP with direct access to the Bridges directory for demographics in FIND.
Maturation of COMTrac integration with FIND and ModCore.
Course and faculty evaluations moved from EvalSuite  to ModCore.
Launch [...]

We are in the process of updating our core course/clerkship evaluation form to match the recently updated faculty evaluation forms.

A new update to our content management software will be installed Sunday (4/26) — don’t be alarmed if you log in and things look different. Read more for some helpful videos about the new changes.

With the growing number of interconnected systems there is a need for a single consistent way to refer to a specific class.
We have designed a four part nomenclature that includes the campus
course number (when available), an extension for electives, the academic year,
and the period/rotation (when applicable).
All have the form…
<campus course number>.<com extension>.<year>.<rotation/period>
The second and fourth [...]

The College of Medicine (COM) has used the same ten question faculty evaluation form (shown at right) for more than eleven years. This is about to change. Read this article to learn more.

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