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September, 2008
IN THIS ISSUE:
1.
Welcome new students!
2.
RESOURCE UPDATES: Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination, Universal
Precaution DVDs, MDConsult & Nursing Consult, More Anatomical Models
3.
RESOURCE TIP: A New Interface for CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and
Allied Health)
4.
TEACHING TIPS: Linking to Articles in Blackboard
5.
NATIONAL HEALTH OBSERVANCES: Need materials to encourage patients to slim
down and eat better to lower cholesterol
6.
Electronic Textbooks and ASAC Supported Reserve Texts
7.
LIBRARIAN PICKS: Two Books, One Title, Similar Experience, 40 Years Apart:
Intern
8.
New Exhibit in Library Gallery
1. Welcome new students!
Need to locate evidence-based information, or primary source articles? Required to organize your bibliography in APA or AMA format using EndNote Web? Looking for resources for USMLE, NAPLEX, NBDE, or PANCE? How about just a quiet place to study for your exams? Library staff can answer these questions and more.
Start at the library home page, to access databases, e-journals (more than 30,000 online), electronic course reserves, electronic databases (including Exam Master for your board exams), and many other
resources.
Your 9-digit student ID number is the off campus login to the library's books, journals and databases. If you don't know this number, you can find it through the online Student ID Lookup Form, accessed with your Social Security Number and PIN.
The library website is also the gateway for many other services.
Register for library classes for help with PubMed, EndNote, CINAHL, Web of Science, and many other resources.
Request special classes for your small group's specific topic. Use helpful handouts to learn about the library and its resources.
Review the Health Sciences Library Orientation 101 Flash tutorial to learn essential skills for new Library users.
Use the e-reserve system to retrieve your course readings online.
Get started with your email account with these instructions or for specific questions, email
student.postmaster@uchsc.edu.
Get customized help with a one-on-one consultation on questions related to literature searching, citation management, or PDA resources.
Renew your books online or order books from other Colorado libraries using the Prospector system. Order other books and articles from libraries nationwide through the Interlibrary Loan Service. There is a fee associated with this service.
You can get to most library resources without ever leaving your home, but there are many reasons to visit the library in person.
Use one of nearly fifty computer workstations at the Computing Commons, a few with unique software
like SAS, SPSS, Macbaby, Transfusion Medicine, and Adobe Elements. One workstation is equipped with ZoomText for the visually impaired and two have document scanners.
Use your laptop to access Internet and library resources via the campus' wireless Guest network throughout and around the library,
Check out the library's thirty study rooms, which offer ample natural lighting and space for one to ten users. No reservations necessary, they are all first-come-first-serve.
Connect your laptop to the flat-panel LCD screens to show a presentation or website to your study room audience.
Study or take a break outdoors using any one of several library patios. Wireless Internet and electrical outlets are available.
Visit the Library Cafe next to the front entrance for coffee, snacks, sandwiches, and salads. Finally, come to the library to get personalized assistance from library specialists.
Talk to the student email coordinator, Mary Mauck (303-724-2171), mary.mauck@ucdenver.edu , for problems with your email account.
Visit the Service Desk (303-724-2152) to check out books on reserve, pay book fines, or obtain a copy card for photocopying.
Ring the bell at the Service Desk or contact Ask A Librarian for help with questions about searching the health literature or managing your bibliography for your class paper.
top FYI:
Jeff Kuntzman has been with the Health Sciences Library
(formerly Denison Library) as the Online Services/Web Librarian since 2003. Before that, he served as an
Instruction Librarian at the library (beginning in 1997). Jeff specializes in web page design and troubleshooting access to online resources. He also serves as the library's Liaison
to the UCD AMC Graduate School. For troubleshooting of access problems to the library's online resources, please contact Jeff at 303-724-2126 or through email:
jeff.kuntzman@ucdenver.edu.
2. RESOURCE UPDATES
We have great resources for students at the Health Sciences Library! All of these new resources can be accessed from our Databases web page, unless otherwise noted.
Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination. Thanks to funds contributed by our students, the library is now able to offer Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination in streaming video. You can access these videos, consisting of 18 anatomy and system-specific modules ranging from 12 to 44 minutes in length, from your own home or office. Each module shows step-by-step examinations with rationales for the clinician's actions and discussions of health history taking, interviewing, and describing findings.
Link to the series on campus and connect directly to the website. If you are off campus, note the Bates' login and password and then enter that login and password at the subsequent prompt. Contact Ask a Librarian at reference.library@uchsc.edu if you have any questions about connecting to this resource.
Please note: This resource does not work on most Macintosh computers. Also available in video and DVD formats for checkout.
OSHA Exam - Updated Videos and DVDs!
The library has purchased DVDs or updated videos to assist nursing students preparing for the OSHA exam with a review of universal precautions:
Latex Allergy: Stop the Reaction, Call # WD 300 L3519 2007 DVD
Body Mechanics: The Science of Moving Safely, Call # WE 103 B6688 2006 DVD
Bloodborne Safety: Universal Precautions, Standard Precautions, and Needlestick Prevention, Call # WX 167 B6653 2003 DVD
TB or Not TB: Prevention and Treatment, Call # WF 300 T248 1994 VHS
Better Safe: Fire and Electrical Safety in the Healthcare System, WX 18 B5654 2006 DVD
These items are located by call number in the general book collection on the 3rd floor of the library and are available for check-out. Older copies provided by the instructors are on reserve at the Service Desk
MD Consult and First Consult - great clinical databases!
MD Consult is divided into First Consult (evidence-based answers for point of care), Books, Journals, The Clinics (full text articles for many titles in the Clinics of North America series), Patient Education (nearly 10,000 printable and customizable patient handouts), Drugs,
Guidelines (more than 1,000 peer-reviewed practice guidelines), Images, News, and CME (Grand Rounds activities across fifteen specialties).
The Books section contains over fifty popular full text medical texts, including Campbell's
Operative Orthopaedics, Browner's Skeletal Trauma, Cecil Medicine, and Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2008, among many others.
In the Images section you can search for and compare the over 50,000 high-quality photos, tables, and graphs that appear in the MD Consult reference books.
Access MD Consult directly from the library's home page.
Nursing Consult provides focused online content valuable to nursing students and practicing nurses.
The Evidence-Based Nursing section contains monographs based on high quality research and suggests nursing diagnoses, interventions, and outcomes associated with specific diseases.
Nursing Consult offers full-text electronic books, e.g. Meiner's Gerontologic Nursing, Ulrich & Canale's Nursing Care Planning Guides, Swearingen's Manual of Medical-Surgical Nursing Care, and Mosby's Clinical Nursing, to name just a few.
Nursing Consult is linked directly from the library's home page.
New Anatomical Models
A twice life-size anatomical reproduction of a heart with over 60
coded structures and with four chambers that open for viewing is
available for study.
A lower jaw of a preadolescent with removable teeth. There are 31
hand-labeled parts identified in an accompanying answer key.
And more: a life-size model of a foot, models of the muscles of the leg and the human
brain, and a full skeleton that is on display next to the exhibits case. All models are for
in-library use only. Ask for them at the Service Desk.
top FYI:
New instructors! Now is the time to add your course readings to the library's Reserves
-http://hsclibrary.uchsc.edu/newsletter/current/#7
3. RESOURCE TIP
At the end of this year, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
(CINAHL) will be available only from EBSCO. Ovid will no longer carry the product, which means
searchers will need to learn a different interface to the database. The content within the database remains the same. The following exercise will familiarize you with the new EBSCO interface.
Browse to CINAHL from the library's All Databases link on the home page. We'll now try to find the Jeff Foxworthy-esque article "You know you're a nurse if…" by Catherine Booth. Select CINAHL
(EBSCO version) from the library's databases. Notice there are three search boxes instead of one like in Ovid. Enter Booth C into the first box and change the dropdown box on the right to AU Author. Enter You know in the second box and change the dropdown box to its right to TI Title.
Now click the Search button and you will see your search history followed by any results you had in the most recent search. In the results you see your article with a link to the full text within the CINAHL database.
If you hold your mouse over the magnifying glass symbol, you can see the abstract if it is available. If you click on the article title, you will see links that can help you print, email, cite, save and export the citation. On the main search results page, you will also see this symbol: , which allows you to set up an alert for new articles in that search.
Subject Searching
Searching by subject is also different in EBSCO CINAHL. To find the same article by subject, type
Nurses in the search box and leave the dropdown field box at the default Select a Field (optional)
setting. In the resulting page you can check Nurses as the subject you wanted and type humor in the box above and click browse.
On the next screen, check Wit and Humor and choose Combine selections with and using the drop down to the left of the search button.
Then click Search Database and the article should appear near the top of the 160 results displayed. Note that the green button appears next to selected articles to direct you to Health Sciences Library full text. If you would like more information about CINAHL or other databases, contact a reference librarian to set up a one-on-one or small group training session and look for EBSCO CINAHL classes to be held in the fall.
top FYI:
NCBI Beta Version of Advanced Search Available
Read more about the new options for searching multiple fields in a search strategy or new options for limiting searches.
4. TEACHING TIP: Linking to articles in Blackboard
Course readings in Blackboard can be a challenge to retrieve. Instructors may provide a smooth experience for students by considering these tips:
1. Use a standard file type,
All students can acquire Adobe Acrobat Reader, so consider converting files and posting PDF
documents. MS Word documents present challenges due to different versions and whether the student has a Mac or PC. Rich Text Format (RTF) should allow every student to open files. HTML files present no compatibility problems, but printing requires more pages. PowerPoint viewers can be downloaded for free from Microsoft's download site. Some problems with opening/viewing PowerPoint
presentations have been reported nonetheless. 2. Note the launch settings
Will the file open in a new separate window or open in the content frame? It's easier for students to view, edit, and print or save files that open in a separate window.
3. Link to documents on the Web
Use Google Docs, Fliiby, Yahoo Briefcase or a similar web-based file storage site to share files with your students.
4. Consider download speeds and older hardware
Many students have slow connection speeds, making the download of lengthy documents difficult. Keep files as short as possible to accommodate students with varying connection speeds. Consider breaking up large files into smaller, separate files.
5. Place documents on electronic reserve
These files can be viewed within your Blackboard class site from links you provide. To insert a link to an electronic reserve reading:
o Find your course list from the eReserves page
http://library.uchsc.edu/search/px/px/-51,0,0,B/browse
o Copy the link for your electronic reserves list and insert it within your Course Documents. o Students will use their library login to access the article.
6. Link to IMPULSE (library catalog) records for books and other items
New "permalinks" have been added to the library catalog, that make it easy to find a short URL for linking to these items. When in IMPULSE, simply find the item you want to link to, and look for the "Permanent Address for this page/item". It will be a URL you can copy and paste anywhere that accepts a hyperlink.
7. Link to how-tos and tutorials for research
The librarians at the Health Sciences Library create a variety of resources that could be valuable links in your Blackboard course site. Link to the library classes web page to encourage students to attend a class. Or you may arrange for group instruction for your class by contacting the Education Department at 303-724-2141 or email lisa.traditi@ucdenver.edu . Links to library handouts and tutorials may be added from any of the Blackboard Content Areas.
top FYI:
Do you have extensive or complex travel plans in your future? How will you manage all the itineraries,
documents, and travel guides for your multiple destinations? Why not consider Google Docs?
5. National Health Observances
Need materials to encourage patients to slim down and eat better to lower cholesterol?
September 1 – 30
America On the Move's September Campaign
America On the Move Foundation
44 School Street, Suite 325 Boston, MA 02108
(800) 807-0077 (617) 367-6894 (617) 367-6899 Fax
www.americaonthemove.org
Contact: Sani Liu
sani@americaonthemove.org
September 1 - 30
Fruit and Veggies - More Matters Month
Fruit and Vegetable Program Office Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention/Produce for Better Health Foundation
4770 Buford Highway NE, MS K-26
Atlanta, GA 30341 (770) 488-5413 (800) 243-7889 TTY
www.fruitsandveggiesmatter.gov
Contact: Laura Tanase
fsto@cdc.gov
September 1 - 30
National Cholesterol Education Month
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Health Information Center
P.O. Box 30105 Bethesda, MD 20824-0105
(301) 592-8573 (240) 629-3255 TTY (301) 592-8563 Fax
hp2010.nhlbihin.net/cholmont
Contact: Information Specialist
nhlbiinfo@nhlbi.nih.gov
The Health Sciences Library subscribes to many patient education resources. Affiliated health
providers can access these materials online, to print and share with patients. Beginning students can also benefit from simple illustrations and explanations of disease processes, or treatment strategies.
ACP PIER ( via STAT!Ref) offers guidance to health care providers on teaching points to be communicated during patient visits.
MD Consult / First Consult / Nursing Consult provides nearly 10,000 easy to understand patient handouts with illustrations. Click on the Patient Handouts tab to search for and print information for your patients. This resource is available directly to patients only in the Health Sciences Library.
MEDLINEPlus provides easy-to-read, multilingual materials, Flash tutorials, and other resources for patients which have been reviewed for accuracy and reliability of information by the National Library of Medicine. Browse or search a catalog of links to consumer health information or just refer your patients here.
Micromedex Healthcare Series includes numerous handouts. Click the Patient Education tab, then CareNotes System. This resource is not available to patients, you must print handouts to give to them.
Patient Education materials are available in many languages. Two sites with accurate translations and reliable content are:
The 24 Languages Project, which offers audio materials in many languages for patients who cannot read.
New South Wales Multicultural Health Communication Service which offers a great variety of topics and languages. Click on Resources by Topic or Resources by Language on left side of page.
top FYI:
It's almost cold and flu season: "Why Don't We Do It In
Our Sleeves?" encourages us to sneeze in our sleeves, not
our hands or a tissue. View the video at Google Video (flash) or in Windows Media or in Quicktime. Order your own copy at
http://www.coughsafe.com/purchase.html.
Now you can justify using your IPod for work!
Qian LJ.An easy and effective approach to manage radiologic portable document format (PDF) files using iTunes. AJR
American Journal of Roentgenology 2008 Jul; 191(1):
290-1. PDF files are widely used as a standard file format for electronic publications as well as for medical online
documents. Unfortunately, there is a lack of powerful software to manage numerous PDF documents. This article explains how to use the hidden function of iTunes to manage PDF documents as easily as managing music files.
6. Electronic Textbooks and ASAC Supported Reserve Texts
The Health Sciences Library currently has over two hundred textbooks available online for affiliated primary library patrons. Search the titles in the collection by author/editor OR by title. Or search the keyword ebooks to link to the electronic textbook collection web page. Once you arrive at the
Electronic Textbooks Currently Available from the Health Sciences Library page, the actual
full-text of the books are only a click or two away. Off-campus users will need to log in using their name and University ID number (student ID number, employee ID number, or custom number if applicable) in order to read or search the books. Unaffiliated or secondary (clinical, volunteers, adjunct, and preceptor faculty) patrons may access electronic textbooks on site at the library. Questions? Call the library's Service Desk for more information: 303-724-2152.
Did you know that your student fees have allowed the Health Sciences Library to purchase a
funds to start the ASAC textbook collection, currently held on Reserves. In most cases there are three copies to check out for 2 hours at a time:
Copy 1 for in-library use only. This copy cannot be checked out overnight or removed from the library at any time.
Copy 2 (if available) can go out overnight. To do so, you must check it out within 2 hours of the library's closing hour and return it within 2 hours after the library's opening the following day. At all other times, copy 2 is to be used in-house only.
Copy 3 (if available) circulates for a one day period. It can leave the library at the time of checkout and will be due by closing the following day.
All ASAC texts are available on a first-come, first serve basis and cannot be placed on hold or reserved for a specific user.
To search the titles available in this collection, simply type the letters ASAC in the search bar on the library's homepage and check off the “Catalog” button next to it:
COMING SOON: Keep your eye on the Library's website—a by-title list and a by-author list of ASAC textbooks is in the works by Circulation-Access staff!
top FYI:
LibriVox: free audiobooks
LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public
domain and release the audio files back onto the net. The goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.
Learn about health services research resources and search strategies via Introduction to Health Services Research: A Self-Study Course.
Have a few minutes to refresh before your next class or meeting? Learn How to Power Nap
Two Books, One Title, Similar Experience, 40 Years Apart: Intern
Reviewed by Adelaide Fletcher, Information Research & Outreach Librarian
No part of a physician's training is more notorious than the first year internship. Two books of the same name document the ordeal in frank detail. I came across the first one on my grandfather's bookshelf one day and thought it was a slasher novel. Intern by Doctor X pictures a sinister looking man in white with a surgeon's cap and mask and sunglasses to hide his identity. "Shattering
revelations from a young doctor's tape-recorded diary of his life as an intern…" teases the cover. Scandalous for its time, the book was written in 1965 immediately after the author (now unmasked in the library's catalog as Mario Jascalavich) finished his internship in an unnamed hospital in the
southwest.
I was surprised not only to find the author's identity listed in the catalog, but another book appeared by the same title, copyrighted in 2008. The second book, Intern: a doctor's initiation, by Sandeep Jauhar, makes it clear that after changes upon changes, medical internship is more or less the same, even forty years later. Interns are still sleep-deprived, overworked and underpaid. From the moment they begin, they are thrust into complex situations requiring life or death decisions, completely unsure of their abilities. There is no time to deliberate or seek help from a textbook or colleague and they often make mistakes, sometimes with serious consequences. But they learn fast because they have to, and through it all they hide their insecurities from everyone, including their peers. By the end of the year both men have resolved their ambivalence about their choice of a career and feel ready to take on the world.
But there are striking differences between the internship of 1965 and 2008, reflecting broad changes in the practice of medicine. Technology has added an ethical dimension that Jauhar struggles with while Jascalavich laments the monotony of repetitive procedures no longer performed today. Patients are treated differently and they have become increasingly complicated medically. Jauhar gives his patients' names and histories, while Jascalavich refers to them by condition or occasionally by an offensive personality trait. While Jascalavich's diary is just that, a blow-by-blow account of what happened, Jauhar tells a story of himself, his approach to medicine, and his struggle with its ambiguities, especially with the principle precept to "first do no harm".
Intern. Jascalavich, Mario. New York: Harper & Row, 1965
Location: PASCAL @ Anschutz, Call # W 20 X3i 1965
Intern: a doctor's initiation. Jauhar, Sandeep. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Location: HSL History of Medicine/3rd floor, Call # WZ 100 J4095 2008
top FYI:
Capture and Find Information with Evernote
Are you always forgetting things? Evernote can help you remember — it's is a web-based service that allows you to capture information from websites, upload photos, write to-dos or other notes, and then organize and find that
information from any computer. Besides a web version, you can also download a desktop client or client for a mobile device.
The National Institutes of Health has created an
interesting website with Historical Anatomical titles. Add this to your Favorites list for those historical medical research questions, and also perhaps for interesting engravings or diagrams for displays. The web site includes extremely high resolution images.
The Health Sciences Library will be hosting a new exhibit in the 3rd floor Gallery. The art exhibit is entitled Prijedor: Lives from the Bosnian Genocide, and it depicts the genocide that transpired in the town of Prijedor and nearby concentration camps. Through documentary artifacts, photographs, and first-person survivor accounts, the exhibition presents a compelling chronicle of human tragedy. An opening reception was held on the patio of the Health Sciences Library September 13 featuring speakers and traditional Bosnian food. The exhibit will continue through mid-December and it is available for viewing any time the library is open.
Prijedor came to the Heath Sciences Library from the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning
Center and will next travel to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. The University of Colorado Office of the President, the Office of Diversity and AMC Student Senate as well as many other sponsors have made contributions to assist in bringing this exhibit to the Health Sciences Library. The Health Sciences Library accepts proposals from members of the UCD campus and the community for future exhibits. Policies regarding exhibits and an application form can be found on the library's web site: http://hsclibrary.uchsc.edu/policies/exhibits.php .
top FYI:
Dr. Web Makes Many Americans Question Trusted Health Providers
NCBI has created a converter that will allow users to input a PubMed (PMID) ID number when you only have the PubMed
Central ID (PMCID) number. You can also enter PMCIDs
and get their associated PMIDs.
Do you have questions about the new rules for depositing manuscripts at PubMed Central and reporting PMCIDs in your grant continuation reports or applications? Check out the library webpage on the NIH Public Access Policy Mandate and Author Rights.
Need to distribute a large file more conveniently to a group? Try SendThisFile or SendUit.
The Saab Memorial Medical Library (at the American University of Beirut) has quizzes to test your PubMed knowledge in both Basic and Advanced flavors.
"My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared." - PJ Plauger
Sparky the Info-Dog is the mascot for the Health Sciences Library Newsletter. He doesn't usually
eat the newspaper.
Except where otherwise noted, this content is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
The Appendix is a publication of the Health Sciences Library, University of Colorado Denver. Comments or questions? Email us at: library.web@uchsc.edu.
Contributors include: Rhonda Altonen, Melissa DeSantis, Tina Drew, Addie Fletcher, Lynne Fox, Lilian Hoffecker, Jeff Kuntzman, Sally MacGowan, Mary Mauck
Thanks to NIDDK Image Library for the image of the appendix. Copy Editor: Lynne Fox
Design and Layout: Jeff Kuntzman
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