It provides medical education to 75 students per year who will serve as family doctors and an additional 25-40 graduate students training for several medical specialties. JSMC has a complex and extensive website that uses frames even when one clicks on a link on the page. The links are to other medical schools, government agencies and some pharmaceutical company sites. For several years, students have been required to have laptop computers that come loaded with the syllabi for the first year courses.
Students extensively use the Internet for their own research.
This year, for the first time, students have also been required to purchase wireless Palm Pilots on which they can access the medical library catalog and many of the library s licensed electronic databases and journals. Additionally, they can record notes on individual patients and access patient charts as well as record data on those charts. One of the most important uses of PDAs by medical students is to access an important drug database which they can do from a patient s room. There are Internet terminals located around the school, in the library, in all faculty and staff offices, as well as in the back of the Clinics, the resident on-call sleep rooms, hospital nursing stations and various public areas in the school and hospital. Several students have been charged with failure to maintain the confidentiality of patient records which they had downloaded to their Palms by showing off in front of their friends and accessing the records of those patients at a party.