Medical Computing Resource

The Medical Computing Resource (Medcor), in the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University, is located on the 2nd floor of the McIntyre Medical Sciences Building.

Medcor and its staff

Medcor is a small group whose main responsibilities are to support administrative computing in the Deanery, to manage the Faculty's connection to the McGill fibre-optic network backbone, and to provide e-mail facilities for the faculty. They also support computing facilities for students and residents. Over 1500 user accounts are currently supported.

Carmelo Granja	Manager
Pravin Mistry	Technician	398-3501	prav@med.mcgill.ca
Luis Siles	Analyst
Abdul Syed	Analyst

The Medcor offices are in room 222 of the McIntyre Building. The computer labs for students are also on the second floor of the McIntyre.

Medcor accounts

Application forms are available for students and residents wanting to obtain a Medcor computer account.

First-year students are given the application form at registration, together with a computing-experience questionnaire which must be filled out and returned with the application form. The questionnaire is designed to help us respond to students' needs.

Getting help

There is normally someone in the Medcor offices during regular working hours. You can ask any one of them for help if you have an urgent problem with the system, or e-mail questions to help@med.mcgill.ca . You are also welcome to contact Prof. Robert Funnell (e-mail R.Funnell@med.mcgill.ca, telephone 398-6739).

On-line help is available in these SOS pages. Various computer-related seminars and workshops are offered by McGill Network & Communications Services and by the Health Sciences Library.

Tutorial material on a variety of basic computer notions (word processing, e-mail, Web searching, buying a computer, etc.) is available at Bacon.

Servers

Several multiuser computers and their associated communication equipment are located in a computer room next to the Medcor offices. The computers there act as servers for e-mail, Web pages, databases, etc. The server used for e-mail is a Digital (Compaq) Alpha named Castle and runs Unix.

Normally users do not require access to the main computer room. The computers there are generally accessed by using the personal computers in the computer labs, or from computers at home or elsewhere.