Laptop Requirements

First year medical and dental students at the University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) will receive a pre-imaged laptop with required software already installed when you arrive during orientation week. The cost of the laptop is included in the equipment portion of your tuition bill. The required laptops include software to support the medical and dental curriculums as well as software to be used in e-testing. The laptops come with an accidental coverage warranty and are serviced by Lenovo in a timely manner. Finally, UCHC student support staff can assist students with their academic technology needs.

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Service

Student required laptops come with Lenovo ThinkPad Protection which covers accidental damage. Students with laptops that require hardware service may contact Lenovo directly by following these steps: Lenovo Laptop Service Steps

Wireless

UCHC's wireless network is accessible to students, faculty, and Health Center employees. To logon to the UCHC network you must know your domain/email user name and password.
Windows XP (Service Pack 3) Setup Instructions
Intel PROSet Wireless Setup Instructions
Cisco Wireless Care Setup Instructions

Printing

Students are able to access CEC and Study room printers for curricular related printing. Four printers are located in the CEC in which all computers are setup with the ability to print to these printers. A fifth printer is located and accessible in the Shafer Study Rooms 24 hours a day. Students also have the ability to setup their laptops to print to these printers. For instructions on how to setup your laptop to print to these printers please click here (you will need to login using your Blackboard username and password to view or download these documents - these instructions may also be found within Blackboard by clicking on Laptop/PDA Support under UCHC Tools (left side of the screen) and then clicking on Printing).

Recommended Software

It is recommended that students install security software such as Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, and Firewall software. The Health Center's IT department has purchased a subscription to Symantec Anti-Virus which can be installed on student's personal laptops and can be downloaded from the Health Center's IT web site. Note: the student version of Symantec Anti-Virus must be installed onsite using Internet Explorer. The link for the student version of Symantec Anti-Virus is provided below. In addition to an anti-virus program, students should also use Anti-Spyware protection software. There are a number of products on the market which you may purchase, but the CEC also recommends three Anti-Spyware programs which are free for personal use. Unlike Anti-Virus programs you may install more than one Anti-Spyware program on your computer. The recommended Anti-Spyware programs are listed below. The CEC recommends that students install a Firewall on their personal machines. Only one Firewall should be installed on a machine or Internet application conflicts will arise. It is also recommended that you install a third party firewall that monitors incoming and outgoing Internet traffic over Windows Firewall which only monitors incoming traffic. The CEC recommends a third party Firewall below which is free for personal use. CEC Staff has listed additional recommended software that students may want to install. Finally, it is highly recommended that students stay up to date with Windows Updates which are usually released the first Tuesday of every month. You can set your Windows machine to do one of the following: (1) Automatically download recommended updates for my computer and install them (2) Download updates for me, but let me choose when to install them (3) Notify me but don't automatically download or install them (4) Turn off Automatic Updates. These options can be set by going to your Start Menu and clicking on Control Panel. Then locating Security Center and finding Automatic Updates in the Security Center.

Software Recommendations
Anti-Virus	Symantec Anti-Virus (PC)
Anti-Spyware	Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE Personal	Malwarebytes Anti-Malware	Spybot Search and Destroy	Windows Defender
Firewall	FREE ZoneAlarm®
Multimedia Applications	Adobe Flash Player	Apple iTunes	QuickTime Player	Windows Media Player
Web Browsers	Mozilla Firefox		Opera

Curricular Software

3D Tooth Atlas: The 3D Tooth Atlas software is an interactive 3D Dental anatomy program. The program requires the use of ActiveX controls and because of that is only fully viewable in Internet Explorer. The ActiveX controls must be downloaded and installed in order for the program to run properly. If you are using 3D Tooth Atlas offsite you will need to login using your Domain username and password. The ActiveX controls download can be found here.

ADAM Online Interactive Anatomy: The ADAM Interactive Anatomy program is an interactive anatomy program with fully dissectible human bodies. More information on the features of ADAM Interactive Anatomy may be found at the company's web site here. This program is available on all CEC computers and may be installed on student laptops as well. Please note though that this program is only accessible while onsite at the Health Center and has a maximum of 10 users at one time. Please talk with CEC staff for assistance.

Bates' Guide To Physical Examination: Bates' Guide to Physical Examination is a web based version of the Bates' Guide to Physical Examination series in streaming video format. Requirements include: Windows Media Player 9 or higher, 56kbs modem or higher, Flash Player, and Internet Explorer.

CMAP: CMAP is a free concept mapping program.

Dynamic Human Anatomy: Dynamic Human Anatomy is a web based supplement to Lippincott Williams & Wilkins's print anatomy products. Version 2.0 includes 2,600 illustrations from Grant's Atlas of Anatomy, Eleventh Edition, Clinically Oriented Anatomy, Fourth Edition, Dean/Herbener's Cross-Sectional Human Anatomy, and Langman's Medical Embryology, Ninth Edition-plus 76 video clips from Acland's DVD Atlas of Human Anatomy and six embryology animations from Simbryo, Version 1.0. Also included are 300 USMLE-style review questions in gross anatomy, embryology, and neuroanatomy. Please use Internet Explorer as your Browser.