Technology in Medicine (tMed) can sometimes be intimidating, out-of-date, or just simply frustrating to use. But if you subscribe to Asimov’s Laws of Robotic (ex: iRobot) and not Terminator’s Skynet, then you’d appreciate technology is here to help us, not destroy us.tMed is a love-child conceived by Lei and James Z. when they were in first year medicine. The goal of tMed is to help make your lives in medicine easier with the technology you have to work with.
Main goals:
- Information sessions/blog posts (bring your tech problems to us)
- Technology advocacy (ex: improving the academic calendar system in the CoM)
- Tech support for fellow classmates and professors (If there's something strange in your neighborhood, Who ya gonna call?)
- Tackling one45 and Blackboard
- Adding calendars to your mobile devices and laptops (iCal)
- PAWS/Blackboard email forwarding
- Gmail and Google Calendar
- Adding notes to PDFs
- Backing up data! (how many students have to lose all their school notes before someone cares)
- Changing PDFs to other formats
- Importing a custom contact list
- Laser printer vs. Ink printer (Please buy laser)
- Orientation on RSS feeds & Twitter
- How to buy a laptop or mobile device
- Time Machine & backing up
- Classroom multimedia equipment
- Horror stories of lost data!
- And much more!
Because computers need love too...
(Originally published in the SMSS First Year Handbook - 2013 Edition)
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