UNIVERSITY
OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Newark Division
@ New Jersey Medical School
Student Services
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GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION
All students enrolled in degree programs of UMDNJ-Graduate
School of Biomedical Sciences are eligible for membership
in the Graduate Student Association. The group's
objectives are to encourage student initiative in
cultivating interest in the biomedical sciences
and to encourage mutual assistance, social involvement,
fraternalism, and other functions vital to a wholesome
environment for graduate studies.
STUDENT HEALTH SERVICE
The Student Health Service is located on the lower
level of the Doctor's Office Complex. Students
are provided with advisory and screening services,
and, in many instances, a degree of out-patient
care and preventive medicine. In the event of
more serious illness, the service offers helpful
guidance and assistance in obtaining referral,
consultation, hospitalization, or emergency treatment.
The service is limited to students. It is not
available to their spouses or other dependents.
MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM
Student Mental Health Service is an outpatient
treatment facility for medical, dental and graduate
students in need of psychiatric help. The service
is not available to student's dependents. Dependents
may, however, be seen in consultation. Treatment
here refers primarily to relatively short-term
restorative intervention in problems that may
have arisen during a student's stay in school,
and not to long-term, in-depth psychotherapy.
When it is necessary to have further therapy on
a long-term basis, the student will be referred
to private care.
HOUSING Although
the school does not have dormitory facilities
for its students, housing is available in surrounding
areas. A list of students who wish to share housing
is compiled each year and is available on the
GSBS web site (http:/www.umdnj.edu). Contact the
Graduate School office if you need assistance.
GEORGE F. SMITH LIBRARY
OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES Located on UMDNJ's
Newark campus, the George F. Smith Library is
a resource center for the University's teaching
and research programs, as well as a major resource
for biomedical literature throughout the Northeast.
The George F. Smith Library currently houses more
than 105,000 volumes of monographs, texts and
periodicals, and receives more than 2,200 periodicals
in the basic and clinical sciences. Individual
study carrels are equipped for use of audio-visual
aids and closed circuit television. Resources
available through the library's Media Center include
slides, filmstrips, audiotape cartridges and video-cassettes.
The center also provides information from journals
and technical reports on microfilm and microfiche.
The library offers many services, including computer-generated
bibliographies in medicine, dentistry and the
basic sciences. A modest fee is charged for this
service to faculty, students and staff of UMDNJ.
RESEARCH FACILITIES
Located in the University's modern Academic Health
Center in Newark, the Graduate School is fully
equipped with the most up-to-date scientific instruments
to carry out advanced scientific studies. The
laboratories are spacious, and serve both the
graduate school and the New Jersey Medical School.
COMPUTER SERVICES
The Academic Computing Services Center at NJMS
provides investigators and their students with
off-the-shelf applications as well as powerful
development tools for biomedical signals processing,
genetic engineering, artificial intelligence,
supercomputing, research and publication graphics,
statistics, general mathematics and text formatting.
The Center is linked to similar Centers at other
units of UMDNJ as well as to many departmental
computing systems through a sophisticated high-speed
network providing a variety of resource-sharing
services. This network is in turn connected to
the Internet, allowing investigators at UMDNJ
to exchange information with users on thousands
of computers throughout the United States and
elsewhere. The Computer Center is open 8:00 a.m.
to 10:00 p.m. and is accessible remotely at all
times.
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