CHICAGO – Feinberg students returning from winter break will find an updated interface for accessing course documents as the Office of Medical Education continues to improve eMerg. Administrators raised concerns before the winter vacation that the online resource gateway had been too easy to use during the first four months of the new curriculum rolled out in August.

“Medicine is a difficult profession,” said one dean. “We want graduates of the Feinberg School of Medicine to be able to locate and access the resources they need even in the face of utmost adversity.”

After noting that first year medical students had become too complacent, the Office of Medical Education set forth to make learning guides, lecture slides and readings more challenging to find through the online resource gateway. “For starters students will have to work their way through a lot more dropdown menus to get to content now,” explained a computer programmer hired for the redesign. “Students will start by choosing an academic term, then selecting an option from a list of competency standards and then classroom location…it goes on from there, but I have a trouble remembering the exact navigation.”

More changes are planned for eMerg as the new year continues including scheduled service outages and uploading revised learning guides shortly after lectures begin. In an official statement released by the Office of Medical Education, the expedited implementation of the dropdown menu system was highlighted as an important facet of the new Feinberg curriculum. “At Feinberg we value the education of our students too highly to pass up such a high-yield opportunity to expose students to the struggles of the medical profession.”