Student Lounge
School of Medicine Smoke-Free Campus
Publications
Bulletin Boards
Student Mailboxes and Desks
Email
Computing Facilities
Funding Requests
Building Evacuation Policy
University Libraries
University Bookstore
Parking
Athletic Services
Student Lounge
Room E-430 is the John L. Caughey Student Lounge. Located at the end of the fourth floor beyond the second year labs, the lounge features comfortable study space as well as vending machines, a microwave, a television, and a ping-pong table.
School of Medicine Smoke-Free Campus
The Case School of Medicine (CSM) is committed to creating an environment that promotes general health and wellness for its students, faculty, staff, and visitors. As part of this effort, CSM has partnered with University Hospitals Health Systems, and the other Health Sciences Schools at Case Western Reserve University (School of Dental Medicine and the Bolton School of Nursing) to adopt a smoke-free environment policy that took effect on November 17, 2005. Smoking will not be allowed both indoors and outdoors throughout the Health Sciences Campus. As part of the promotion of health and creating a smoke-free campus, the SOM is offering opportunities for students and staff to enroll in smoking cessation programs which will be available through the School’s partnership with University Hospitals of Cleveland.
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Publications
Medlines and the Medical Bulletin, publications for faculty, staff, students, donors, alumni and friends of the School of Medicine, are published throughout the year. Each publication highlights activities, academic programs, research projects, and noteworthy events during the school year. Both are available on the medical school’s web page. The rest of the University is included in Case Daily, the University’s email newsletter for faculty and staff, Case Magazine, and The Observer, the undergraduate student newspaper available weekly in the lobby of the Biomedical Research Building. These publications are also posted on the web.
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Bulletin Boards
On the third and fourth floors of the east wing of the School of Medicine, several bulletin boards feature announcements about School of Medicine seminars and events, as well as information on the activities of student organizations. All posted material must be dated and will be removed two weeks after initial posting. Undated material will be removed immediately, as it is limited to the bulletin boards on the third and fourth floors across from the elevators. The bulletin board outside the Office of Financial Aid (T-303) is reserved primarily for scholarship and fellowship announcements.
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Student Mailboxes and Desks
Each Year I and Year II student is assigned a specific mailbox, located outside the appropriate lecture hall (first year student lectures are given in E301 and second-year lectures are given in E401). These mailboxes are designated for official School of Medicine communications. The School of Medicine does not have the facilities to provide delivery of U.S. mail to students. Year I and Year II students are assigned a laboratory desk and a locker. A key is issued so that each student can lock valuables, such as textbooks, for convenience. The School of Medicine is not responsible for student possessions in the event of loss or theft.
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EMail
Students and all other members of the Case community are assigned Case Network User IDs upon enrollment at Case Western Reserve University. The format of the Case Network user ID is usually the three letters representing your FN, MI and LN and sometimes followed by numbers, if there is more than one person with the same three letters in his/her Case Network ID. For example: John S. Doe and Jonathan S. Delrio would both have “jsd” as part of their ID, but Jonathan S. Delrio would probably end up with a final ID of “jsd1.” Until recently all email addresses were represented in the jds@po.cwru.edu format. The Case Network ID, while synonymous with the email address, is currently not the preferred format. The latest trend is to use the firstname.lastname@case.edu format for email address, though the old formats will continue to work for a while longer.
The online Case Directory lists email addresses of all members of the Case community.
Case email can now be sent and received via web-mail and via other email clients, Eudora being the recommended client. All official email from the University, including mail from the Professors, will be sent to your Case email address and you will be expected to check your email regularly.
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Computing Facilities
The School of Medicine houses a Computer Classroom in E324. There are 24 stations for participants and an Instructor’s station, loaded with standard software and connected to the Internet, in addition to a Laserjet printer, video projector/screen and document camera. This classroom must be reserved by faculty and staff who wish to conduct hands-on training sessions for new software, demonstrations, simulations, presentations and electronic examinations. Please contact Sharon Callahan via email with the requested date and time.
Each 1st and 2nd year medical student has an assigned desk on the third and fourth floors of the School of Medicine. Each of those 300 desks is equipped with an Ethernet connection to the University’s Gigabit network. This high speed connection provides complete access to the School of Medicine network and the Internet via the student laptop computers. Two networked high-speed Laserjet printers are available in each of the six student labs on each floor, which allows printing at 5 cents/page.
The student laptops also have wireless capability. Wireless access points have been deployed widely throughout the School of Medicine and other parts of the campus.
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Funding Requests
Students seeking assistance with funding for specific purposes relating to the medical educational experience (such as traveling out of town to present a paper, attend a conference, or student groups making annual requests for donations) can do so through the Office of Student Affairs. Forms are available for either individual or group funding requests. These forms should be filled out completely, well in advance of the time that the funds are actually needed. Students should be prepared to provide accurate estimates of projected expenses, and to elaborate on the purpose and value of the project(s) being funded. The Associate Dean for Student Affairs reviews each request and will either respond directly, or forward the request to the appropriate source for additional review. Please forward all Student Activity requests to Jennifer Hawkins, SOM, Room E421 (Office of Student Affairs).
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Building Evacuation Policy
The School of Medicine is an active research center with many potential biochemical and other flammable hazards. A system of alarms has been installed to warn and protect people in the building in the event of a chemical spill or fire. Occasionally, the inherent hazards will result in the sounding of the fire alarms. All students, faculty, and staff are required to exit the building when the fire alarms sound. There are no exceptions to this rule. When fire alarms are sounded, exit the building as quickly as possible, using stairways instead of elevators.
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University Libraries
The Cleveland Health Sciences Library, formed in 1965 by an agreement between the Cleveland Medical Library and Western Reserve University, operates in two locations: the Health Center Library and the Allen Memorial Library, which includes the Howard Dittrick Museum of Historical Medicine and the collections of the Cleveland Medical Library Association. The Health Center Library located in the School of Medicine, houses collections of the CWRU Department of Biology and the Schools of Dentistry, Medicine, and Nursing.
The University facilities contain more than 1.5 million volumes, most of which are on open shelves. These facilities include Kelvin Smith Library, which houses materials pertaining to the humanities, arts, and social and behavioral sciences; Sears Library, which contains materials pertaining to engineering, science, management, and economics; the Kulas Music Library in Hayden Hall; and the Astronomy Library in the Smith Building.
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University Bookstore
The University Bookstore is located at Thwing Center on the Case campus. The regular hours for the University Bookstore are Monday through Thursday, 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM, Friday, 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM, and Saturday 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM. The phone number for the bookstore is (216) 368-2650 and the fax number is (216) 368-5205.
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Parking
Parking privileges are offered, as space permits, to all registered students. Students may obtain information about campus parking, fees, and purchasing permits from the Parking Office in Crawford Hall, Room 18. The telephone number is (216) 368-2724.
For those third- and fourth-year medical students assigned to clerkships at University Hospitals or the Louis Stokes Veterans Affairs Medical Center (Wade Park), parking is arranged through the Parking Office in Crawford Hall (see above). Permits are usually obtained on the first day of the rotation. The Office of the Registrar submits a list to the Parking Office of all students doing rotations at the above-mentioned hospitals.
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Athletic Facilities
A variety of physical fitness facilities are available for each registered student with a valid ID. The Emerson Physical Education Center includes a swimming pool, squash and racquetball courts, and wrestling rooms, and Nautilus and free weight rooms.
The Veale Convocation, Recreation, Athletic Center has a 200 meter track, four basketball, volleyball, and tennis courts and two aerobic dance studios. Adelbert Gymnasium has basketball, badminton, and volleyball courts, as well as an archery range and fencing arena. Tennis courts are located on campus as well.
Also, a membership to One to One Fitness Center, across from the University Hospitals garage on Adelbert Road, can be obtained by calling (216) 368-1121.
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