Education technology support is provided by the Academic Technologies team within the Office of Information Technology. We offer a wide range of services to enhance the instructional/learning experience for Baylor College of Medicine faculty and learners.
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Software Link |
Description |
Comments |
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| Aquifer | Aquifer provides case-based virtual courses for clinical learning. Aquifer’s courses are evidence-based, peer-reviewed, and continuously updated by the Educators Consortium, to support best practices in clinical teaching and learning. Aquifer’s courses build essential knowledge and clinical reasoning skills for health professions students, grounded in Aquifer’s pedagogy. | Access only for SOM. Request access by sending an email to ed-tech@bcm.edu |
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BCM Learning Management System. |
You will be prompted to login using SSO |
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| Box |
BCM Cloud Storage |
Contact the BCM Help Desk at 713-798-8737 for issues or concerns. You will be prompted to login using your SSO |
| Comprehensive Academic Management System (CAMS) |
Unofficial transcripts, Letter Grades, Financial Aid Info, Student Account Info, Student Directory, Elective Registration (MS1) |
You will be prompted to login using SSO |
| E*Value |
Web-based Evaluation Software |
School of Medicine - contact Lori Ezzell School of Health Professions PA Program - contact Yvonnne Baier |
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Assessment software for Educational Programs |
You will be prompted to login using SSO |
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| MedHub |
MedHub is a web-based Residency Management System designed to track and document a variety of program and resident activities for scheduling, curricula delivery and evaluations, which are required for program and institutional accreditation. |
Graduate Medical Education Contact: Dennis Jeorje You will be prompted to login using SSO |
| Medline Plus |
MedlinePlus brings together information from NLM, the NIH, and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news. |
Off-campus access: Yes |
| Microsoft Office | Office Basics |
You will be prompted to login using SSO |
| Mobile Apps |
Approved BCM Mobile Apps |
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| National Library of Medicine |
The world’s largest medical library including a gateway to simultaneous searching of 20 NLM databases. |
Off-campus access: Yes |
| NBME Testing Resources |
School of Medicine NBME Licensure Exam |
Contact the NBME Chief Proctor for questions: Email Phuong Huynh, Ph.D. or reach her at 713-798-3271 |
| Nursing Reference Center | Nursing references | Access through the TMC Library |
| Poll Everywhere |
Classroom Response System. Helps instructors assess student understanding of course topics, provides immediate feedback to students, builds class community |
As a poll is displayed to an audience, students submit responses by visiting a specific Web site or by sending text messages to our short code number (22333). |
| PubMed |
PubMed comprises more than 29 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. |
Access through the TMC Library |
| RefWorks |
Reference Management Software |
Access through the TMC Library |
| Success Factors | BCM Learning Management System | For general questions about the LMS LMSquestions@bcm.edu. For login issues contact the BCM IT Helpdesk lt-support@bcm.edu. |
| Typhon |
Web-based Evaluation Software |
School of Health Professions - contact Ramona Miller You will be prompted to login using SSO |
| Up-to-Date |
Clinical decision support resource
Free if accessing on campus with BCM WiFi, or off-campus with VPN. |
If users access the site on campus (with BCM WiFi) the site will recognize them and they won’t be asked to pay for a subscription. If users access the site away from campus (like from home), then they need to be on VPN (Choose Group: ERC). If they are off campus and not on VPN, then they will be prompted to pay for a subscription. You will be prompted to login using SSO. |
| vBrick |
Cloud Portal for Accessing Lecture Videos |
For questions or help with issues, contact AV at av@bcm.edu. Contact the BCM Help Desk at 713-798-8737 for login issues. You will be prompted to login using SSO |
| Virtual Private Network (VPN) |
Baylor College of Medicine’s VPN solution allows employees/students who are connected to the Internet through their own private connection (DSL, cable modem, AT&T U-verse, etc.) to access BCM computing resources as if they were physically connected to Baylor’s network. |
In order to use a VPN connection, you will be required to install and configure the VPN software on the computer that you will be using to remotely connect to the Baylor network. BCM Office of Information Technology provides the VPN software client and the instructions to download and install it.
You will be prompted to login using SSO |
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Video Conferencing service |
For questions or help with issues, contact AV at av@bcm.edu. Contact the BCM Help Desk at 713-798-8737 for login issues.
You will be prompted to login using SSO |
