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Bulletin boards are placed in the student laboratory (CM 308), computer
lab We are required by the host campus to not affix posters directly to any walls. There are also bulletin boards on the inner north and south walls adjacent to faculty offices on which faculty members display posters about research they have presented at recent scientific meetings. Examine these carefully so you will know faculty research interests.
Each student has a campus mailbox in the IUSM-FW student lounge (CM 312). Routine memos will be placed on the students' bulletin board. The campus mailbox will be used mainly for notices to all students, and should be checked daily. It is recommended that a student use his/her local residential address for receiving personal mail. Outgoing mail may be deposited in a tray on the cart by the door located in the IUSM-FW administrative office, room CM 345. There is a campus post office located in the IPFW Printing Services Building. Outgoing mail and Fed EX leaves the campus at 4:00 PM daily. Bring your own postage stamps.
Each student may select a locker from among the unoccupied, which are located adjacent to the Gross Anatomy Lab. Locks are not furnished by the Center, but should be used to prevent losses.
Please keep Ms. Agnes Auchtung, Administrative Assistant, CM 345, apprised of your current local address and phone number. Any changes during the academic year should be reported not only to our offices, but to the Office of Medical Student Affairs in Indianapolis (phone 8-1-317-274-1970). IPFW Student lounges are located on the northeast corner of the first floor of the Classroom Medical Building. There are additional lounge areas on the first floor of Walb Student Union, the first floor of Helmke Library, and the ground floor of Kettler Hall. Vending machines are located in most of these areas. There is a Subway located in the basement of Kettler, and there is also a Pizza Hut and Taco Bell in the basement of the Walb Student Union Building. Your IUSM-FW student lounge is located in CM 312. Two refrigerator/freezers
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Freshman students can study in the Multipurpose Laboratory (room CM 308),
the Smoking is prohibited in all indoor areas of the IPFW campus. Drugs, alcohol, and firearms are strictly prohibited on this campus. All students will have keys to the CM Building (southeast entrance only),
third floor entry doors, and the IUSM-FW teaching labs and classrooms. IUSM-FW
medical students have unlimited access to the building, but you should; however,
limit visits by guests. Teaching labs are off-limits to non-medical school
visitors.
All equipment within the Center is carefully inventoried by Indiana University and Purdue University and is assigned to a particular location including faculty research laboratories, classrooms, library, or teaching laboratories. The room assignments have been based on urgency of need for either faculty research programs or for the teaching programs. In order to maintain continuity in both activities, it will be necessary to leave all materials in their assigned location unless you have permission from the Center Director to move them. Computers should be used for appropriate Internet searches, graphics, statistical analysis and work-related word processing. Each student will have an IUPUI based E-mail account and address, which will facilitate statewide communication. The account will be established during Orientation. Check your E-mail consistently. DO NOT VISIT INAPPROPRIATE WEB SITES ON THESE COMPUTERS. PLEASE DO NOT HAVE ANY FOOD OR DRINK AROUND THE COMPUTERS. Food and liquids spilled on a computer can ruin it.
Center students will receive FWC cards to transact business in Fort Wayne. IUSM identification cards are necessary for use of Ruth Lilly Medical Library at Indianapolis or for access to IU athletic events. You will need these cards when arriving in Indianapolis during Junior Year. Cards can be obtained during Summer 2003 at Ball Residence Hall, Room 107 or at Student Activities, 815 West Michigan, Room 127; Monday through Friday, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:45 p.m.
1. Eating or drinking is prohibited in all research and teaching laboratories. 2. Safety glasses, gloves, appropriate lab coats, or surgical scrubs should be worn when working in the gross anatomy laboratory. 3. A First Aid kit is located in the Copy Room/Mail Room (CM 305). Please familiarize yourself with its location. 4. Eye wash stations and fire showers are located in all teaching and research laboratories. To use the fire shower, pull the chain leading to the overhead unit; to use the eye wash station, turn the water on with the push lever to divert water upward through the eyewash device. 5. Fire extinguishers are located in each laboratory. Familiarize yourself with their location. 6. Loud fire alarms are located strategically in the corridors of the third floor of the Classroom Medical Building. Although we have not had any emergencies in the past, we should respond to any alarms by promptly leaving the building in an orderly fashion. 7. Broken glass containers are located in each research laboratory. Broken glass should not be placed in containers with waste paper and other trash. 8. Specific bio-hazard containers are located in research laboratories using hypodermic needles, scalpels, etc. 9. Familiarize yourself with Universal Precautions in the handling of all human biological fluids.
Pay phones are located in the southeast corner of the first floor of the Classroom Medical Building, and most other buildings on campus also have pay phones. The phones located in the various IUSM-FW laboratories and administrative offices are principally for administrative, faculty, and staff use. Our Center phones can access SUVON, a no-charge phone network to other Indiana Universities and Colleges in some cities. Students who need to make business calls within the IU system may use SUVON. In case of emergencies, incoming calls can be directed to 260-481-6730. Ms. Auchtung will receive these calls and promptly contact the student involved. A telephone is also available in the IUSM-FW student lounge (CM312). Do not make long distance calls from this phone. For this convenient phone to remain in the lounge, we will need the cooperation of all students in not abusing its use.
Dr. Chang, Acting Center Director, is available to provide each student with personal counseling and assistance on any problem he or she may have. Academic problems should be discussed promptly with the relevant faculty member involved first, and if unresolved, next with Dr. Chang. Dr. Chang may be able to provide some information on job possibilities for spouses of medical students and information about off-campus housing. The IPFW Job Location Center (Career Services) can be reached by dialing 481-6595. Additional information about off campus housing and counseling can be obtained at 481-6730.
All medical students are required to have health insurance. If you need medical assistance, you can go to IPFW/Parkview Health & Wellness Clinic in Walb Union Building, Room 234. Their phone number is 481-5748. Their hours are Monday-Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Friday 8:00 a.m. to noon. There are several RediMeds in Fort Wayne, if you need to see a doctor in the evenings or on weekends. If at any point during the semester that you find yourself in need of talking to someone about a personal, spiritual, or family crisis, please call any of the following individuals: Don Smith, IPFW personal counselor, at 481-6592; Ben Gates, Protestant campus minister, at 481-6992; or Sister Patricia Ann Murray, Catholic campus minister, at 481-6994. Dr. Chang can arrange counseling services for medical students with Dr. Kevin Murphy, or Dr. Herb Trier.
All student fees (including microscope rental) will be paid at the Medical School campus in Indianapolis as discussed in the Indiana University School of Medicine Student Manual during Indianapolis orientation programs.
An Athletic Center fee can be paid at the IPFW Gates Athletic Center located on the second floor level of the Gates Center. For a fee of $40.00 a semester or $70 a year, a student may purchase an athletic center and activities card. PARKING FEES AND REGULATIONS Students can park in "B" parking areas only. If you receive four unpaid parking or campus traffic violations your car will be towed from campus. Failure to pay for traffic violations can lead to action by the IUSM Promotions Committee since proper student ethics are required.
As indicated in the Indiana University School of Medicine Student Manual, all lectures, laboratories, and clinical conferences are to be attended by all students. Classes will begin promptly at their scheduled times. If you need to be absent for a personal illness or some family emergency, please notify your instructors and Ms. Auchtung (481-6730) in advance of your absence. Contact instructors upon return to the Center about missed work.
At times during the winter months, IUSM-FW classes have been infrequently cancelled. The most common cause for these cancellations is excessive snowfall requiring campus closure to permit the complete clearing of all parking lots and roadways. You will be able to determine if IUSM-FW classes are cancelled by tuning in to local radio or TV stations early in the morning or by 481-5770 or 481-6050. If IPFW is closed, the Fort Wayne Center will be closed to all medical students. If you have assigned clinical activities in a physician's office or in a local hospital during that day, you should presume that these clinical activities will occur unless you have been specifically notified by phone of cancellations.
Students at the Fort Wayne Center for Medical Education will have Labor Day off, a fall break, Thanksgiving recess, Christmas - New Year recess, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday, and a spring break. Check individual class calendars for specifics about recesses.
The grading scale that will be used within the Fort Wayne Center is as follows: Each course director is allowed some flexibility when assigning final grades; thus the student should discuss grading philosophy with the individual faculty member. Additional information on the Indiana University School of Medicine grading system, academic performance, and professional conduct is provided in the Indiana University School of Medicine Student Manual. Some unit exams may be weighted to reflect the percentage of contact hours spent in the coverage of a given topic. For example, a unit exam over material covered during twenty classroom hours may have a greater weighting factor assigned to it than a unit exam related to ten one hour sessions. Check with individual faculty members to determine if any unit exams are weighted. At the beginning of each course, the course director provides introductory material that usually explains the relative percentage assigned to each unit exam and to the final exam in determining each student’s composite score. CHEATING It is the responsibility of each medical student to refrain from cheating
and to avoid any appearance of cheating. One should guard against the possibility
of others attempting to cheat on exam papers and written works. It is the
responsibility of each course director to carefully supervise all exams and
class exercises. Each faculty member will explain to the class how he/she
will administer and monitor exams. If a faculty member suspects that cheating
is occurring during an exam, the faculty member will call this to the attention
of the involved student(s) and may change the seating pattern during the
exam. Generally, a student will be required to appear before the IUSM Student Promotions Committee and show cause why he/she should not be dismissed from medical school for incidents of cheating.
Plagiarized works (problem sets, term papers, other reports) will not be accepted to fulfill course requirements. Plagiarism not only includes directly copying the work of another current or past student, but also quoting large sections of a textbook or journal article without properly citing the original source.
The Somers Medical Library located in CM 328 of the Classroom Medical Building will serve many of your library needs. Several journal subscriptions are currently available as well as back issues of certain journals. Approximately 200 textbooks are housed within this library, and additional textbooks are on order. Feel free to suggest other books for potential purchase to Dr. Chang. Information will be provided about procedures for use of library materials and services. Many additional periodicals, textbooks and monographs are located in the IPFW Helmke Library. A full-time library staff is present there to assist you with your needs. There are microfilm readers and printers located on the first floor of the Helmke Campus Library as well as coin/card operated copy machines. Computerized literature searches can be purchased through local hospital libraries. Xerox copies of journal articles can be obtained through IUSM Interlibrary Loan Services on the internet. OTHER LIBRARY SERVICES Medical students in Fort Wayne have access to the following local medical library services: 1. St. Joseph Hospital Medical Information Center 2. Parkview Memorial Hospital
Opportunities are available for first and second year medical students to
participate in Students have the opportunity to participate in the IUSM Honors in Medicine
Program Stipends have been available from the Midwest Alliance for Health Education
for USMLE-I BOARD EXAMINATIONS Please consult the Indiana University School of Medicine Student Manual
for Standardized statewide final examinations for the two semester Introduction
to Medicine Freshman students will complete OSCE’s during semester one, a triple
jump exam practice We will offer brief review sessions in selected basic sciences areas to
IUSM-FW sophomore
Food services are provided in the cafeteria area of the Walb Student Union
Building, lower Two refrigerator/freezers and four microwave ovens are available for student
use in the
All textbooks and materials for the medical education program within the
Fort Wayne Center
Lectures and clinical correlation conferences for freshmen will be offered
in room CM Some clinical correlation conferences will be hosted in area hospitals and
physician’s offices. Laboratory exercises associated with the various freshman courses will be
offered in SPECIAL EVENTS Periodically, seminars will be offered within the Fort Wayne Center for
Medical Education,
If you have an interest in local Medical Society activities, you can contact
President Local hospitals have research review boards and medical ethics committees.
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