When conducting a laboratory session for a medical school course, faculty members must first obtain a lab packet for their course. This packet requests all required information regarding the laboratory activity that you are planning for your course including, but is not limited to:
Laboratory materials for undergraduate medical school courses are ordered and paid for by the OER, unless other arrangements have been made. Please note that faculty members should discuss details of course plans/needs with OER staff to be sure that sufficient funds are available for these activities.
Laboratory arrangements need to be made at least 10 days prior to the activity dates.
Laboratory Assignments for first and second year students are made by the OER at the beginning of each academic year. If you would like a copy of these student assignments, please request that OER forward you a copy. Note that these laboratory assignments divide students randomly into four groups of 25 students and assigns them to a particular lab room on the 2-8500 corridor only. The Curricular Affairs office (along with advisory deans) randomly assigns students to their PBL groups and rooms for each course at the beginning of each year and copies of these lists are distributed to faculty when the are completed. Note that it is the responsibility of the course director to assign faculty to these rooms and communicate this to them. If a course exercise requires another division of students, course directors can divide the students themselves or request that the Curricular Affairs Office do this for them.