Looking through posts tagged ‘Rush Medical College’
Rush Proxy Bookmarklet | 9th Mar 2010
Graham Walker, a tech-savvy ER Resident who blogs over at The Central Line, recently posted a really nifty little solution to a problem that plagues higher education. Many academic journals require subscriptions to view their contents, and although most school libraries offer proxy accounts to facilitate student access from home, these accounts are often cumbersome [...]
M3 Clerkships Lottery | 23rd Feb 2009
Rush has a “lottery” to determine what order everyone’s M3 clerkships will be in. For those who don’t know, our M3 and M4 years are entirely clinical. We’re supposed to rank them from best to worst depending on our preferences, and a computer program will crunch the numbers and determine which order each student will [...]
Rush’s Poor Excuse for Email | 6th Sep 2007
Note: If you’d like to skip my rant and go right to the instructions for bypassing Lotus notes, click here. Call me spoiled. Maybe I am. I don’t know, but Gmail gives me exactly what I want in a web-based email application. I mainly use Outlook only to force myself to consistently archive my Gmail [...]
First Day Woes | 5th Sep 2007
Overall, the first day went pretty well, I thought. One thing that turned me off was Rush’s apparent aversion to some technologies. These were mainly web-based technologies, although according to the computer gurus my Sandisk Cruzer jump drive is frowned upon due to its U3 software package. I can’t say that I blame them, considering [...]
The Eve of It All | 4th Sep 2007
Well tomorrow I start medical school. Well, not the “school” part of it so much, since actual classes don’t start until Monday Sept 10th, but orientation. I’m a mixture of nerves and excitement at the moment. I know this year is probably going to be hell, but I’m sticking to the adage “Ignorace is bliss.”
I'm Jonathan Blackhall, a 4th year medical student at RMC. This is my blog, where I ramble about technology, medicine, free software, and other random stuff. 
