Nutrition In Medicine® Policy
1. US and international medical schools
Use of our web-based nutrition instruction material is free for all students enrolled in accredited medical schools and schools of osteopathic medicine. We encourage medical school instructors to contact us (nimprof@unc.edu) about the details for setting up the materials for their students. Students who want access to the NIM course materials should contact their instructors who can arrange with us the details.
2. NIM user survey
To help us better understand the needs of medical schools and their students, we will annually ask instructors to complete our on-line user survey. Completion and submission of this survey also ensures that instructors remain active on our mailing list and receive periodic information on new course materials and features.
3. Technical support
We ask that all users review the FAQs for minimum computer and software requirements and basic trouble shooting before contacting us for technical assistance. To help with problems that cannot be solved with the listed procedures, our technical support team can be reached by email (nimtech@unc.edu).
4. Instructors at institutions other than medical schools
The Nutrition in Medicine project can provide free access to the NIM material only for medical students. We realize that the NIM materials can be very helpful for many other undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. However, with our limited funding we cannot support such non-medical students directly. In order to make the materials more broadly available, the University of North Carolina has entered into an agreement with an information and publishing company, PogoHealth, to distribute the NIM modules for educational purposes outside medical schools. Go to http://www.pogohealtheducation.com/ for further information and ordering details.
5. Copyright issues
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is not funded to support the use of the NIM materials for any users other than medical students. It is a copyright violation to use the NIM products or components thereof other than intended. Copyright violations include but are not limited to: partial or complete reproduction of the programs, removal of graphics, creating slides of the images, destroying, reconfiguring or reverse engineering the programs, or use of the materials with students not currently enrolled in accredited medical schools.