Medical Education and Technology

Accounts

Student Accounts

MedEDTech & HS IT issues and manages computer accounts for medical students, coordinating those provided by the UCSD campus with those provided by MedEd to facilitate single Username and Password access to all systems. Medical Students are automatically issued computer accounts before orientation week. To learn about the rules for your username/password, refer to the Passwords support article.

Accounts for SOM Graduate & SSPPS Students

Other SOM graduate groups and SSPPS students are provided with MedEDTech-issued accounts as requested by the programs and not by individual students. VPN and wireless access can be acquired through the links above. Other individuals seeking access to MedEd electronic resources should contact the MedEDTech Office during business hours or submit a request through the Help Desk.

Teaching Faculty Accounts

MedEDTech & HS IT provides the UCSD SOM teaching faculty with access to systems used to deliver and manage medical education. Please see the details below. If you have questions, please contact the MedEDTech Office for assistance.

Closing Your Account

If your status as an actively enrolled SOM student changes due to graduation, leave of absence, or withdrawal, please take the following steps beforehand. This action will preserve your valued computer files and minimize the risk of missing email sent to you. MedEDTech, HS IT and Campus IT (Educational Technology Services - ETS) groups will work with you to ensure your transition occurs with the least amount of disruption to your services.

If no action is taken, then student email accounts will expire and be automatically closed approximately 90 days after the last official school term of enrollment - e.g., 1 quarter after the last enrolled class.

Refer to the Campus' Things To Do Before Your Account Close page for details. Note the following addendums to that information:

If you become UCSD resident, your new department/program will become your home department and HS IT will be supporting your email service.
If you become UCSD staff or faculty, Campus IT will retain your @ucsd.edu mail address record beyond the usual time period (usually 90-120 days), assuming that your new department requests to keep your UCSD email address active. Note, you still need to obtain a new account (new mailbox on a different mail server) or have your student account moved to a non-student mail server.
When asking ETS to delete your account from student/instructional systems, also include MedEDTech. To do this login to your account BEFORE IT CLOSES and send a message to ets-consult@ucsd.edu and mededtech@ucsd.edu, saying something like, "I have graduated. Please close my student e-mail account, 'username'@mail.ucsd.edu."

Passwords

Password management is critical in order to protect your personal information and any sensitive data (e.g., patient records, student files, etc), that you access.

Create a password that will be accepted by all UCSD systems

Read the Campus' Passwords support article for guidelines to select your password, the best frequency to change your password as well as why strong passwords are important.

Changing your passwords

If you want to change your passwords, please follow the steps outlined below. Since the AD Password rules are very strict, it is important that you first complete that process. Most user accounts on MedEd Systems (Canvas, MedHub, ExamSoft & ProgressIQ) utilize the AD credentials for the login process. However, in some rare cases - mostly for visiting students - a separate username/password on the native system are created.