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ACADEMIC and STUDENT SERVICE RESOURCES

DEANS and DIRECTORS

Academic Deans

Each school at the Medical Center is directed by a separate academic dean's office and their support staff. Each dean is ultimately responsible for the curriculum and the operation of the school and all of its programs. Questions regarding course requirements, in-course exams, national board exams, clinical requirements, etc., may be directed to an academic dean's staff:

Non-Academic Dean/Director

Campus Life is responsible for non-academic student life, services and programs. The responsibility of Campus Life extends campus wide to students in every school located at the Medical Center. The Student Activity Fee, student organizations and governments, student activities, the housing reference service, yearbooks, University student life policies and regulations, and the conduct system are a few of the responsibilities of this office.

Campus Life is also a liaison to services such as the Student Health Service, the Student Personal Counseling Service, the Center for Health & Fitness, the food service, the offices of International Services and Programs, Department of Student Diversity, and Mundelein College. Campus Life is located in the Stritch School of Medicine, extension 63651.

BURSAR

The Medical School Bursar's Office, located in Bldg 120, Room 204 (708-216-3228), serves students enrolled in the Stritch School of Medicine.

Tuition and fees are due and payable within two weeks of the beginning of the academic year. Payments may be made at the Bursar's Office, or by mail, using cash, check or credit card. A late payment fee is assessed after the due date. Failure to pay tuition may result in suspension of the student's registration for the following semester. Any work done during the period will not be awarded credit until all financial obligations are satisfactorily resolved.

Tuition Refund Policy:

The Department of Education has established the "Return of Title IV Funds" regulation (34 CFR 668.22) which must be calculated prior to using the Stritch refund policy. For a detailed description of the "Return of Title IV Funds," refer to www.ed.gov. The Bursar will return unearned Title IV funds to outstanding Title IV loans:

• Unsubsidized Federal Stafford Loans
• Subsidized Federal Stafford Loans
• Federal Perkins Loans

Adjustments and refunds of tuition are authorized only after the Associate Dean for Student Affairs has officially approved a withdrawal from the Medical School. The schedule of refunds is as follows:

All graduating students and students who withdraw or transfer must have their accounts paid in full. An encumbrance is placed upon the student's records until the account is cleared of all indebtedness. Outstanding parking fines, late fees, Student Health fees (for spouses and dependents), and other miscellaneous fees are handled and collected by the Bursar.

COMPUTER AIDED LEARNING LABORATORY (C.A.L.L.)

The C.A.L.L. is located in room 254 of the Stritch School of Medicine, and has over 30 computer stations available to students 24 hours/day, 7 days/week. Additionally, the SSOM has an additional 48 computers spread out among the Learning Clusters, Seminar Rooms and the Gross Labs. There are data connections at every seat in the M1 and M2 lecture halls, and the building has over 1000 data connections throughout. Loyola has a connection with an Internet Service Provider that will give the students access to LUMEN and gross lab web pages from home.

Upon arrival at SSOM, students are given a login I.D. and can have unlimited access to the Internet, and to the internal Intranet, including e-mail. Please note, there are very specific policies regarding the appropriate use of university electronic mail. To view this policy statement, please go to http://www.luc.edu/infotech/sae/general-email.html

A plethora of information is provided through both the Loyola and the SSOM home pages, oftentimes including academic course schedules, policy manuals, and other pertinent data. The e-mail system is the preferred method of communication between administration and the students.

The C.A.L.L. can be reached at extension 65207.

FINANCIAL AID/STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE OFFICE

The Financial Aid office serving the medical students is located in Bldg 120, Room 210 (708-216-3227). For information or answers to specific financial aid questions relating to the Medical School, students should refer to the Financial Aid Information pamphlet available in the Medical School Financial Aid office.

The Student Financial Assistance office serving graduate students registered at the Medical Center is located at the Lake Shore Campus. Their phone number is 773-508-3155. The office hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Please call ahead if you would like an individual appointment.

LIBRARY & LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER (LRC)

The Medical Center Health Sciences Library, and the Learning Resource Center (LRC), primarily serves faculty, students and staff of Loyola's medical, graduate and nursing schools, as well as physicians and staff of the Loyola University Health System. The Library and LRC are major information resources for the entire Loyola community and for institutions in the Chicago metropolitan area and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM).

The Library (708-216-9192) is located on the first floor of Building 101. The LRC (708-216-4764) is situated on the lower level with entrance via the Health Sciences Library. The Library/LRC covers an area of 34,000 square feet. Seating for nearly 300 is provided in individual and cluster carrels, group study rooms, and the main reading room. Photocopy machines, including a color copier, are conveniently located on all Library/LRC floors.

The Library/LRC print and audiovisual collections contain approximately 180,000 monographs and bound periodicals, over 1,000 audiovisual titles, and over 2,300 current serial titles. Internet access is provided to over 3,000 full-text electronic journals, 45 full-text medical textbooks, thousands of patient education handouts, clinical trials and summaries, and pharmaceutical updates. Bibliographic databases such as MEDLINE, Current Contents, and Cochrane (evidence-based medicine), information on library hours and policies, Loyola University Libraries collections, and links to thousands of other electronic resources are available from the Library home page: http://www.lumen.luc.edu/library/library.html

Computerized literature searching (staff assisted and end-user) for MEDLINE and other databases, knowledge-management education classes, audiovisual and multi-media services, photocopying and interlibrary loans are among the major services provided by the Library/LRC. Immediate access to the Loyola University Libraries collections (1 million plus volumes) as well as access to thousands of information sources throughout the United States and the world is available via any faculty, student, or staff Internet connected computer. Short classes (1 hour) are offered on how to use the library and how to access Internet resources, and medical databases. Individual instruction is always available for those who want to learn more about information management, how to use the Online Catalog, and how to search Biomedicine Databases.

 Regular Library Hours and LRC Hours (variations to regular schedule for exam periods, summer schedule, and holiday hours are posted outside the Library entrance):

• Monday-Thursday 7:45 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
• Friday 7:45 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
• Saturday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
• Sunday 12:00 noon - 8:00 p.m.

REGISTRATION AND RECORDS

The Office of Registration and Records for the Medical School is located in Bldg 120, Room 220. For specific information call 708-216-3222. The Office of Registration and Records for the Graduate School, Nursing School, and Mundelein College is located at the Water Tower Campus. For specific information regarding policies, directory information, etc., of these schools, please call 312-915-7221.

DID YOU KNOW THAT:

• in 1915, on the property bordered by Roosevelt Road on the north (known then as 12th street), 1st Avenue on the east, the Illinois Central Railroad on the south, and 9th Avenue on the west side, stood a wooden auto race track, built by lumber mogul Edward Hines, Sr. called "Speedway Park"? The park grandstand and open field seats had a combined capacity of 200,000 people. That year a car driven by Dario Resta was the first ever to drive 100 miles in less than an hour. Another race was won by a man whose name would soon become very recognized, Louis Chevrolet. In 1918, a combination of war needs and a financially failing race track prompted Edward Hines, Sr. to begin construction of a hospital. It was finally dedicated in 1921 in honor of his son, Edward Hines, Jr., who was killed in France during World War I.
• in 1919 the southeast corner of 1st & Roosevelt was used as an airfield by a company called Society Brand Clothes? They flew two "Curtiss Jennies," painted as a checkerboard to fly the company's clothes to towns outside the Chicago area. These planes established the field's name as the "Checkerboard Flying Field." In 1920 the U.S. Air Mail Service moved their field from Grant Park (a strip of land running south from Randolph Street) to the Checkerboard Flying Field. One of the early airmail pilots landing here was a not-yet-famous Charles Lindbergh.
• Speaking of Lindbergh, did you know he worked with Nobel Laureate and surgeon Dr. Alexis Carrel on inventing a glass perfusion heart pump that would make future heart operations possible? In 1930 Lindbergh's sister-in-law developed a heart condition that would eventually lead to her death, and he was determined to learn why no one could repair hearts with surgery. On finding that there was no way to keep organs alive outside of the body, he and Dr. Carrel created the pump. Lindbergh also found a method for washing blood corpuscles and invented a way to rapidly separate plasma from whole blood by using a centrifuge.

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