Contents 1 Pre-WR2 2 Academic Resources 2.1 Advisors 2.1.1 Society Dean 2.1.2 Second-year "Buddy" 2.1.3 Assistant Dean for Students Affairs 2.2 Student Committee on Medical Education (SCME) 3 Grading System 3.1 SSEQ Block Grading 3.2 Grading for Block 7 3.3 Honor Code 4 Online Calendar [A Calendar for 2013 is Coming!] 5 ePortal 6 eCurriculum 7 eAssessment 7.1 Important to remember that the histopathology quizzes are REQUIRED for the class of 2013 8 ePortfolio 9 Online Resources 9.1 Blackboard 9.2 Virtual Microscope 9.3 Anatomy World 9.4 Online Databases 10 Textbooks 11 Note-Taking Service & Official Learning Objectives 12 Videostreaming Lectures

[edit] Pre-WR2

• Description: Case has long been a leader in medical education, even as far back as the Flexner Report in 1910. The change to systems-based modes of education in the 50's was both revolutionary and widely adopted amongst American medical colleges. In the old curriculum (before 2006), each organ system was included as part of a "committee" (which you will still hear some professors use to refer to Blocks) that lasted a few weeks. Although Case has long maintained the need for independent study time, the old curriculum relied primarily on lectures and study guides. In addition, most of the lectures were videostreamed and available online.
• DJ3 Online Pre-Wr2 Study Guides - This online resource has study notes from the old curriculum.
• Pre-WR2 eCurriculum - This resource is available through the new eCurriculum by scrolling down and there is a link on the left hand side. You can often find the old lecture videostreams, which are often very similar to the ones we get in WR2. So, if you happen to miss a class or want to go over something again, you can check out this site for some more information. In addition, you can often find useful study guides. Since many of the MCQs were created in the old curriculum, you can often find many answers to some trick MCQs by checking the study guides for that particular topic.

[edit] Academic Resources

[edit] Advisors

• Each first-year student is assigned a faculty advisor and a second-year advisor.

[edit] Society Dean

• The role of your faculty advisor is up to you and your advisor. Communicate with him or her as much or as little as you feel is necessary. You will meet your

faculty advisor during Society Sorting and again for regular Personal Learning Plan (PLP) sessions.

[edit] Second-year "Buddy"

• Most second-year advisors (referred to as your “second-year”, separate from your PeerHandoff Facilitator) will try to help you by answering any questions you may have. This program is still taking shape and, honestly, doesn't serve much of a function at the moment. With time and more effort, hopefully this will turn into a good program for mentoring first-year students and beyond as you transition into the hospital and graduate.

[edit] Assistant Dean for Students Affairs

• Each of you has established study habits that have served you well, but you may need to make some subtle adjustments to remain afloat in the swamp of new

information. It can be disconcerting if you find that your “tried and true” method of study is not working here. If you find yourself feeling overwhelmed, don’t worry—you are not alone, and there are plenty of ways to receive assistance. The office of the Assistant Dean for Students Affairs (Deans Smith and Haynie) are probably your best resource for finding a tutor who is suited to help you (e.g. a second-year or grad student). The office will also pay for your tutor. Just don’t wait until the last test of the semester to ask for help!

[edit] Student Committee on Medical Education (SCME)

• It is only natural that a new curriculum will have some kinks that need to be worked out. SCME is a group of students, with a chairperson elected each year by the student body, that works with administrators to voice student concerns about the curriculum. They prepare reports and collect opinions of the students.

[edit] Grading System

[edit] SSEQ Block Grading

• We would love to be able to tell you how the grading system works, but we don't even know for sure. For the class of 2011, they changed their methodology after Block 1 from assigning a number of points for each question for a total score of x out of 100. In the current system, each SSEQ question is evaluated by a faculty member. They decide if it "Meets Expectations", is "Borderline", or "Does Not Meet Expectations". You can only have 5-6 "Does Not Meet Expectations" to pass a block. Obviously, there is a bit of subjectivity in this process, which makes it complicated and something we were not even sure about for our Block 4 exam. It is our hope that you can at least go into the test knowing that it may not be as straight-forward as you might think or as used to from undergrad. Also, expect to wait a while before getting you results back. It typically takes them well over a month to return our results, but they say they are trying to get better about that.

[edit] Grading for Block 7

• The class of 2013 will have required Histopathology Quizzes that are formative.
• The class of 2013 will have a end of block structure exam that focuses on SURFACE ANATOMY.
• General Structure Grading Paradigms:
  • Anatomy and Histopathology are much more easier to grasp. Typically, histopathology will be a series of 30 questions taken on your computer using a combination of Virtual Microscope images and static images - similar to the format Dr. Ziats uses for his histopath quizzes during the block. You will have a written portion to your anatomy exam asking you to identify items on diagrams, multiple choice, or fill in the blank but this will depend on the block and how the Block Leaders want to give the test. Usually this will follow well with the written pre-lab material and study guides given by the faculty.
  • Finally, there is an anatomy practical in the anatomy room where the cadavers or models will be tagged and you must identify each. There are approximately 20-30 stations and one person stands at each station. There is a 1-minute timer that goes off and then you move to the next station. You fill out your answers on paper (bring a clipboard). Most, if not all, of the items come from the Anatomy Hitlist composed of the bolded items from the dissection manuals and study guides. In later blocks, you will be asked to identify physical structures from X-rays and CT scans. Many students suggest looking at NetAnatomy.com to find ample CT scans for practice.
  • The combined score of your anatomy and histopathology assessment should be >70% in order to pass that part of Block 7.

[edit] Honor Code

• You will sign an agreement to the school's honor code during orientation saying that you will not cheat. Pretty straightforward here as most undergrad institutions have these in place. CSR is working to formalize this document a little better and make it a more prominent component during medical school.

[edit] Online Calendar [A Calendar for 2013 is Coming!]

• Class of 2011 Google Calendar - The class of 2011 was the first to adopt an online calendar for their curricular events. The calendar maintained on Google's servers and is run by Kumar Sukhdeo (R'11). Student volunteers populate each block's events with courses and sessions from eCurriculum only. It only displays events pertaining to school work. Additional social information can be found on the overall school's CaseMed Google Calendar as seen on the ePortal page. If you're ever curious as to what your schedule will like, it would be good to look back at previous years' online calendars (they are publicly available) to get a sense of timing. Also note that the Google Calendar integrates with Microsoft Outlook or iCal, so that any user can subscribe to the same calendar.
• Class of 2012 Google Calendar - A Google calendar has already been set up for your class (the Tech Rep should set this up every year before the incoming students arrive) that contains the first few weeks' worth of classes. It will become the responsibility of your class to adopt the calendar and have volunteers populate it with the relavent information. It is a little time consuming, but spreading the work load has worked well for us.

[edit] ePortal

• Website: http://casemed.case.edu/portal
• This will be your main conduit to all aspects of the curriculum and should be loaded as your internet browser's homepage. It was originally created by Wayne Liang (R'10) and has undergone some revisions. It includes your most used links to eCurriculum, ePortfolio, and eAssessment across the top with their corresponding icons. Beneath are links to the multiple resources you will need during your time as a medical student. There are also some additional links to study breaks and search bars for Google, Wikipedia, and PubMed. Also included are the weather and the CSR calendar.

[edit] eCurriculum

• This is the main site for listing the upcoming sessions for the Block, including a weekly view as well as a feature called "At a Glance" which allows you to view the whole week's courses, assignments, required readings, and post-class activities all on one page. Click on each class to get the full detailed description. Also introduced in 2007 was the feature to have your FCM assignments listed in the weekly view. The links on the left also provide ways to look at who's in which IQ group, the class roster, and allows you to self-schedule for FCM events.

[edit] eAssessment

• This site is where you will complete your weekly MCQ and SEQ questions. Also available through this site are the links to Dr. Ziats Histopathology quizzes. Furthermore, PD reflections and some CPCP modules will be listed on here and you will have to submit them online. At the end of each block, they will activate the link for the SSEQ so that you can get to your exam through here. You will also be able to find your SSEQ results through this page as well.

[edit] Important to remember that the histopathology quizzes are REQUIRED for the class of 2013

[edit] ePortfolio

• This site you will probably only use occasionally throughout the year. This is where you will write your Peer-Feedback evaluations and your PLP's. In turn, this page will also serve to collect information about your performance. You will get your IQ and FCM facilitator's feedback on this page as well as Peer-Feedback. Don't ignore this information because it will be used after Block 4 for your ePortfolio (which is its own "portfolio"; they could have used less confusing names), where you have to write essays documenting how you did throughout the block.

[edit] Online Resources

[edit] Blackboard

• Blackboard (BB) is separate from eCurriculum and the other sites. BB is maintained by the university and the SOM uses it mostly for the "wiki" feature. Each IQ group for each block will get its own wiki site that you can use to add Learning Objectives and share notes. There will probably be a demonstration from the class of 2011 about how our class used this resource. If not, we'd recommend you ask a second-year for ways to get the most of out BB. If you are taking grad classes, the professor may use this website to post links, documents, etc.

[edit] Virtual Microscope

• Our school stopped using microscopes (for better or for worse) in favor of using Virtual Microscope. This website has high-resolution images of histology sections that allows you to zoom in and out as if you were using a real microscope. Almost all the histopathology professors will use this site as a reference for you to study. It actually works pretty well and the images are clear. Just be sure not to open too many instances of VM because it can cause your browser to lock up or for the VM screen to go black.

[edit] Anatomy World

• Another online resource used mainly by the Anatomy professors. It will have some videos from Acland that include a creepy old British (?) guy going through the identification of structures. The dissections are excellent and, creepiness aside, the videos are very useful. Also available on this website are some videos from Dr. Freeman about neuroanatomy.
• Many of the written exams have questions taken directly from the guides that she reviews in these lectures.

[edit] Online Databases

These are collections of papers, books, reports, etc. about various topics in medicine that are useful for your IQ research. Which one you use is a matter of preference, so explore more than one to see which one you like the best.

• Up-to-Date
  • This resource is great for finding recent and accurate drug information. It is also great for finding details about case studies.
• AccessMedicine
  
  • Harrison's Internal Medicine
  • This resource allows you to access the electronic copies of well known and useful medical textbooks. You can use Harrison's for detailed clinical information about diseases introduces in cases. You can also find electronic editions of various Lange textbooks that have more concise schematic representations of medical concepts.
• MD Consult
  • Robbin's & Cotran: Pathological Basis of Disease:
    • This book is The Pathology Bible. It's great to be able to use these pictures to supplement the VM slides provided by the school.
  • Cecil's Internal Medicine
• eMedicine

[edit] Textbooks

• Because so much of our curriculum is self-directed, we use textbooks extensively to learn the material. In addition, you will need to consult outside resources such as the online databases mentioned above. Although the library has many books available for your to use on a 2-hour basis, it is often times easier to buy your own copy. Consult the Book List for more information about what books to buy.

[edit] Note-Taking Service & Official Learning Objectives

• We do not have an official note-taking service.
• One thing that the class of 2011 did was to post the learning objectives from IQ cases on their Blackboard Wiki sites and have people research and answer them. At the end of the block, they were able to have these as a resource to study from.
• To add to this organization, the class of 2012 compiled their learning objectives for 2012 into a collection of "best" learning objective answers. This was useful for SSEQ review and has yet to be used for Board Review.

• It is important to become familiar with your T-drive. In this is the "Cerebellum" drive. This is your link to study guides created and passed on by students with the Pre-WR2 curriculum. Especially helpful are the pathology, anatomy, and pharmacology study guides found here.

[edit] Videostreaming Lectures

• Starting with WR2 in 2006, they no longer videostream any lectures. However, review sessions on Thursdays are videostreamed. Be sure to watch any videos in Internet Explorer, which will allow you to watch in 2X speed (not available in Firefox). Just wait for it to finish downloading then click on the 1.0 to change it to 1.5 or 2.0 speed.