Reed Medical and Allied Health Library’s Blog
Lisa’s office is now in the health sciences library on the second floor of the Carnegie-Vincent Library.
I’m pleased to announce that we now have access to PAEasy. Here is more information about it and a link to it.
PAEasy
This product includes 1,201 review questions for the Physician Assistance National Certifying Exam (PANCE) and the Physician Assistant National Recertifying Exam (PANRE). To view personal progress reports and construct exams out of previously unseen or incorrectly answered questions, one must freely register and create an account within the system and then log in with those credentials. When taking an exam, you can choose a mode (practice, exam, or a PANCE/PANRE simulation); may specify how many questions you want and what type of question (new/unanswered only, previously incorrectly answered only, or all questions). You may also choose task area(s) and/or organ system(s).
The Carnegie-Vincent Library and Cedar Bluff Library will be open the following hours:
Beginning Monday, May 13th:
Carnegie-Vincent Library – Harrogate
Closed on Saturdays and Sundays beginning with the weekend of May 18th.
Open Monday through Thursday 8:00 a.m. through 9:00 p.m.
Friday 8:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.
Cedar Bluff Open Hours
Monday through Thursday 9:00 a.m. through 7:00 p.m.
Friday 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.
Saturday 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.
The back door of the library will be closed and locked beginning on Saturday, May 4. All patrons are asked to use the front doors for entering and exiting the building beginning on Saturday.
Lisa Travis’s office is now in the cubicle area on the first floor of the library. She will moving to an office in the health sciences library on the second floor soon.
The library’s front doors and back door are currently open.
-Library Staff
The library will be open at the following times during spring break:
Sunday, March 24 : CLOSED
Monday – Thursday, March 25 -28:
- Cedar Bluff: 9:00am-7:00pm
- Harrogate: 8:00am-8:00pm
Friday – Sunday, March 29-31: CLOSED
UpToDate’s The Basics patient information topics are now available in Spanish.
Chat is no longer available on the library website due to Google Talk’s sudden incompatibility with the website. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
Removed link to Virtual Stethoscope since the link is now broken. Changed link for a scrubbing video since the link was broken.
The workers are here to put on a new roof on the library! Please be patient as construction takes place.
Currently, the front doors are closed due to the construction. We are asking everyone to use the entrance in the Reed Health Sciences Library, on the second floor on the back side of the library, to enter and exit the Library.
Please check back often for updates!
-Library Staff
New titles and new editions have been added to Thieme. The collection now includes 69 books. The new titles and new editions follow.
Color Atlas of Biochemistry, 3rd edition, December 2012
Color Atlas of Genetics, 4th edition, December 2012
Comprehensive Board Review in Neurology, 2nd edition, October 2012
Breast Imaging, 1st edition, December 2007
Cardiac Imaging, 1st edition, September 2007
Thoracic Imaging, 1st edition, March 2010
Added Symptom Search by Healthline to the diagnosis sections of the Nursing, Osteopathic Medicine, and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages.
Added a page for Help with Style Manuals that provides link to help with AMA and APA style.
Added Practical Clinical Skills to the auscultation subsections of the physical assessment sections of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources webpages. Also added it to ECGs sections of the Nursing and Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web pages. It includes tutorials for heart sounds, lung sound, EKGs, and blood pressure.
The Carnegie-Vincent Library in Harrogate, TN, and the Reed Health Sciences Library in Harrogate, TN, will begin holiday hours on December 16.
Sunday, December 16, 2012: closed
Monday, December 17, 2012, to Thursday, December 20, 2012: 8:00am – 4:30pm
Friday, December 21, 2012, to Tuesday, January 1, 2013: closed
The libraries will resume normal hours on Wednesday, January 2, 2013.
Access to the full-text content of OSTMED.DR has been restored.
One of our LMU-DCOM 2012 DO graduates, Britton Jewel, sent Lisa an email a few minutes ago to let her know about his internal medicine blog at http://www.internalizemedicine.com/. In his own words: “This is a blog that I started about a year ago where I post my thoughts on medicine, mnemonics, and helpful tips. I think that this would be vey [sic] helpful for DCOM students and was wondering if you would mind sharing it with them. Also, I am always on the lookout for new content, and it would be great if any students would be interested in writing for my site. I would provide credit to them, and a link back to their site if they have one. All of my content is free, sourced, and written by me so far.” Britton was one of three students who Lisa Travis remembers very fondly as practically living in what she thinks is the most beautiful and comfortable room in the library, the room above the Appalachian collection.
LMU-DCOM OMS Michael “Chad” Cozart’s free glaucoma app for Android devices was released yesterday and is listed in bold for the entry for Google Play within the Android section of the free apps for mobile devices webpage. You may download it here. Congratulations Chad! OMS class of 2012 graduate Dr. Gregory Miller had the idea that has now come to fruition.
Updated the entry for Prognosis on the free apps for mobile devices webpage. There are now three free apps – the main one for all specialties, one for cardiology, and one for diabetes.
The Thieme E-Book Library is now accessible on iPads. Using the free iPublishCentral Reader app available in the iTunes store users can download and read all titles available within our institution’s Thieme E-Book Library collection. New titles will be available for download upon their release.
Added the Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination videos to the Procedures Videos page that indexes all of our subscription videos. Also added live links to the video resources throughout the page.
Added two 2012 Mr. DCOM videos to the entry for Mr. DCOM and other videos within the Reed Health Sciences Library’s Humor Break webpage.
Changes have been made to OSTMED.DR, and it now requires subscriptions. The Reed Health Sciences Library is in the process of becoming an institutional subscriber to OSTMED.DR. Access to the full-text articles within the database will be restored once the process is complete. An announcement will be made here when our full-text access has been restored.
We hope that everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday weekend that is filled with love, laughter, and relaxation.
Photo source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/smilla4/4133790678/
Saturday, November 17, 2012: 10am-5pm
Sunday, November 18, 2012: 2pm-midnight
Monday, November 19, 2012: 8am to midnight
Tuesday, November 20, 2012: 8am to midnight
Wednesday, November 21, 2012: 8am – 4:30 pm
Thursday, November 22, 2012: closed
Friday, November 23, 2012: closed
Saturday, November 24, 2012: closed
Sunday, November 25, 2012: 2pm – midnight
Added ETC animations, Glycolysis animations to the cells subsection of the molecular fundamentals of medicine section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page and the cells subsections of the anatomy and physiology sections of the Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Medical Technology, Nursing, and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages. Thanks to Health Sciences Library Ambassadors, Clare Baamundi and Justin Patel, for recommending these links to me.
We are sorry for any incovenience that was caused by having the heat out in part of the library building during parts of Monday and Tuesday of this week. The heat is now functioning throughout the library building; the Reed Health Sciences Library’s heating system was fully functional throughout Monday – Tuesday since its system is separate from the rest of the library.
Added The Virtual Labs Project to the general subsection of the physiology section of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages. Also added it to the general subsection of the A&P section of the Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Medical Technology, and Nursing Program Resources Web pages. It is a top pick.
The heat is out in part of the library building. The Reed Health Sciences Library on the second floor is unaffected. It is anticipated that a pipe will be repaired and heat restored to both Avery and the affected part of the library by midday on Tuesday, October 30, 2012. We are sorry for any incovenience this may cause.
Added Somebody That I Used to Know (Med School Style) to the Reed Health Science Library’s Humor Break webpage.
The library’s five study rooms will be used by delegates of the 28 countries visiting LMU to participate in World School during the following times:
Monday, October 29, 2012 – 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 – 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 – 8:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
The study rooms are within the Reed Health Sciences Library, which is on the second floor of the Carnegie-Vincent Library. The Carnegie-Vincent Library is within the Harold M. Finley Learning Resources Center, which is YY on the campus map available here.
We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. For more information on World School, please click here. Two remaining events are open to the public. We highly encourage everyone to attend these events. They are the country introductions on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, and the debates on Wednesday, October 31. See the World School website for more information.
Be a Health Sciences Library Ambassador!
I would like to have two students per each class of students to serve as a Health Sciences Library Ambassador. This is a new program to get the word out to other students about helpful library resources. My vision for this is for it to be student-driven. The ambassador can tell me what resource we have that he or she would like to promote, and, if freebies are available for that product, I will call reps and try to get posters, bookmarks, pens, keychains, etc. (whatever goodies they have) to give to that student to distribute to the rest of their class; there is no guarantee that I will be able to get enough items to give one item to each member of a class. As different resources are for different years, not all ambassadors will need to distribute the same materials at the same time. The helpful games and tutorials do not provide freebies so promotion of them and other similar resources will have to be done via other means. I welcome student ideas and look forward to watching the program evolve over time. I will expect the ambassadors to give me a heads up as to what they plan to do in advance just so I’m aware. I want the ambassador to distribute items in a fair manner and to not keep the best items for himself/herself. I can ship items to ambassadors who are off campus. I’d like the ambassador to have me review emails before they are distributed. There are resources for different clubs so ambassadors can make sure that the clubs to which they belong are aware of helpful things for their clubs; for example, the Mango database for learning languages is useful to the international medicine club, and some resources could be promoted at the pediatric health fair and others at the Doggy Dash (there are helpful games and tutorials and such for vet anatomy). Students can put in as little or as much time into the program as they like. Students can ask me to find things for their clubs and interests. I will simply appreciate the help with marketing and promotion of resources. I do not expect ambassadors to answer questions about products and do not want them to feel like they have to do so; they can refer all questions to me. If you are interested in being an ambassador, please emaill me at lisa.travis@lmunet.edu with your name and class by 8am on Monday, October 29. I will choose the 2 ambassadors for each class via drawings of all replies for each class sometime at the end of my work day on Monday, October 29.
I hope your day is going well!
Sincerely,
Lisa Travis
Young men and women from around the world will be meeting here at LMU October 22-November 3, 2012.
Join us for these public events:
Oct. 29 @ 10am: Culture Day/Country Performances (Tex Turner Arena) Oct. 31 @ 1:15pm: Debates (Mars Performing Arts Center) Nov. 1 @ 7pm: Country Performances (Mars Performing Arts Center)
Attention Teachers and Faculty: FREE Educational Workshops on Tuesday, October 30:
(Math and Science Building, Room 208) Workshop 1: Dr. Okie Wolfe presenting “Communication is the Key” from 9:30am to 11:30am Workshop 2: Dr. Jonathon Leo and Dr. Ed Cherry presenting “Brain-Based Learning” from 3:30pm to 5:30 pm.
Register with Kristin Wells at kristin.wells@lmunet.edu or by phone: 423-869-7000
Tiffani Conner, Distance Education Librarian, is now the liaison for the LMU Caylor School of Nursing; she has been added to the medical library homepage. The page with schedules has been updated to provide Tiffani’s schedule and contact information. Please welcome Tiffani to her new role!
After a long time of it not working due to problems Google was having, the chat feature on the medical library homepage is now working. To chat with a librarian, click on the chat button on the left side of the medical library homepage.
Added STAT!Ref Nursing Books for Psychiatric Nursing to the mental health section of the Nursing Program Resources Web page and added STAT!Ref Nursing Books for Nursing Diagnoses and Care Plans to the diagnosis section of the Nursing Program Resources Web page. Updated LibGuides section of the Nursing Program Resources Web page. Added link to Nursing LibGuide to the left side of the medical library homepage.
The database is no longer being updated, but if you want to access Medical Evidence Matters you may access it here.
The free apps for mobile devices webpage is now divided by type of device. Click on Android Apps, Apple Apps, BlackBerry Apps, Palm Apps, or Windows Mobile Apps to see the free apps for your device. Each recommended app is now labeled as a “Top Pick.” Added WebMD Symptom Checker to the diagnosis sections of the Nursing, Osteopathic Medicine, and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages. Moved links to websites for Journal Clubs and Medical Search Engines to the left side of the medical library homepage.
Deleted links to .911 Free Emergency Medicine Resource by Skyscape and to Handheld Computer Resources in the NCBI Bookshelf from the Free Apps for Mobile Devices webpage since the apps are no longer available.
The library will be closed Saturday, September 1, through Monday, September 3, in observance of the Labor Day holiday. The library will reopen Tuesday, September 4, at 8am and resume normal hours.
You can continue to use our periodical databases and online catalog all weekend.
Have a great holiday!
Library staff
UpToDate has added psychiatry to its list of specialties. Here is a blurb from UpToDate’s email announcement about this.
“Our Co-Editor-in-Chiefs of UpToDate in Psychiatry, Dr. Peter P. Roy-Byrne and Dr. Murray B. Stein, worked with a team of leading psychiatrists to build and expand our psychiatry content. Testing with psychiatrists showed that UpToDate answered their clinical questions 90% of the time.*
Content covers all the major areas of psychiatry — including psychotic disorders, depressive disorders, bipolar disorders, anxiety disorders, somatoform disorders, eating disorders, impulse control disorders, substance-use disorders and personality disorders.”
Thieme has added six books to its collection of electronic books. They are Advanced Concepts in Surgical Research (1st edition, July 2012), Essentials of Clinical MR (1st edition, January 2011), Head and Neck Imaging (1st edition, October 2007), Musculoskeletal Imaging (1st edition, April 2008), Spinal Imaging (1st edition, October 2007), and Brain Imaging (1st edition, October 2007). These books bring the total number of books in the collection up to 65.
Removed the sections for Graduation Medical Education and LMU Resources subsections from within the Medical Education section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
Per Dr. Cobb-Snodgrass, added Neuroanatomy through Clinical Cases – Videos to the behavioral neuroscience section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage.
Deleted links to Medical Evidence Matters database since the database is no longer being updated.
Added Medical Letter to the free apps for mobile devices webpage. It is available for iPhones, iPads, and Android devices. Within our subscription to Medical Letter, click on the link for “Mobile Apps.” Complete the registration form. Then you will be taken to a page that provides you with a links and QR codes that will take you to the webpage where you will download the app. The Medical Letter provides “objective, peer-reviewed evaluations of new FDA-approved drugs and new information on previously approved drugs.”
Per Dr. Henderson, added links for the Virtual Cell Animation Collection and Animated Tutorials: Molecular Biology to the cells subsection of the molecular fundamentals of medicine section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page and the cells subsections of the anatomy and physiology sections of the Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Medical Technology, Nursing, and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages.
Removed the links to the Protein Synthesis Animation, the DNA Replication Animation, and Janssen’s MINDSTORM since they were broken.
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Data Center is experiencing difficulties due to the intense storm that hit the Washington, DC, and other local areas Friday night and may be temporarily unable to provide full access to NLM databases and Web sites. NLM staff are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible and appreciate your patience.
The storm, called a derecho, knocked out power to most of Montgomery County, MD, where NLM is located. For more information on derechos, see http://www.spc.noaa.gov/misc/AbtDerechos/derechofacts.htm.
Pubmed.gov is failing, though you may still be able to reach Pubmed via http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?otool=tnlincmlib
Deleted links to Anatomy of the Heart and Radiography Anatomy of the Skeleton since the links are broken and the content does not appear to have been moved elsewhere on the Internet.
Added Procedures Consult to the free apps for mobile devices webpage.
Added Anatomy.tv to the general subsection of the anatomy section and the general subsections of the physiology sections for the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages. Also added it to the general subsections of the anatomy and physiology sections of the Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Medical Technology, and Nursing Program Resources Web pages. Also added it to the A-Z database list as well as the database listings for the athletic training, medical laboratory science, nursing, osteopathic medicine, physician assistant, and physical education and kinesiology programs. Also added it to the databases and electronic resources section of the quick links on the medical library homepage.
Added James Sullivan’s videos to the Mr. DCOM and other videos entry within the Humor Break webpage.
Article links within UpToDate now take users to a screen with a “Lincoln Memorial University PubMed” link to LMU’s record for the article in PubMed; this allows you to click the “Reed Medical and Allied Health Library” button within the PubMed entry to check our full-text holdings for the article.
Added Mango Mobile to the free apps for mobile devices webpage.
LMU’s subscription to UpToDate is integrated with our VisualDx subscription. Search results in UpToDate for conditions with a visual component, such as measles, will include entries for VisualDx images and content. Look for the words “in VisualDx” and the VisualDx logo to access the VisualDx content in UpToDate.
The LMU Carnegie-Vincent Library (CVL) and Reed Health Sciences Library in Harrogate will be closed weekends for the summer beginning the weekend of May 19-20.
The library will be open normal hours through Friday, May 18.
Beginning on Monday, May 21, the library hours will be as follows.
Mondays: 8am – 9pm
Tuesdays: 8am – 9pm
Wednesdays: 8am – 9pm
Thursdays: 8am – 9pm
Fridays: 8am – 4:30pm
Normal hours, including weekend hours and midnight closings, will resume on Monday, July 30.
Within the Humor Break webpage, made the individual videos within the entry for Matt Morrey’s videos into links. Added videos as well. In addition to other videos, the Mr. DCOM and other videos entry on the Humor Break webpage now includes a video tribute to Dr. Osborn and two Northrup Educator of the Year nomination videos for Drs. Seaman and Teitelbaum. Dr. Teitelbaum won the Northrup Educator of the Year award in 2011.
On Saturday, April 21, 2012, Micromedex will be temporarily unavailable due to server maintenance between 9PM & 10PM EDT. All applications will be available by 11PM EDT. Thomson Reuters apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause. Thank you for your patience. Do not use LMU’s subscription to Micromedex in a clinical setting.
The above photo is from a rededication ceremony that was held on April 3, 2012, at 10am. The medical library is now known as the Dr. Lon and Elizabeth Parr Reed Health Sciences Library, which shortens to Reed Health Sciences Library. Plans are underway to make sure that the webpage and internal documents are changed to reflect the name change.
Added Medical Technology LibGuide to the newly created LibGuides of the Medical Technology Program Resources Web page.
Those writing case reports on one, two, or three patients no longer need to seek approval from LMU’s Institutional Review Board (IRB).
The link for Diagnosaurus was removed from the free apps for mobile devices webpage since DiagnosisPro is a much bettter resource.
Change in catalog links
The link to the old Piper Catalog has been removed from the top of the home page. Please use the new WorldCat Catalog to determine if the library has an item (book, video, etc.).
Please note that the new WorldCat Catalog (Beta) includes periodical articles; to restrict items found to books and/or other item type(s), after running the search check the box(es) to the left of “Book,” “eBook” (for electronic books), and/or other item type(s) which are located on the left side of the page within the search results.
The tools for the old Piper catalog have been removed from the middle, lower portion of the medical library homepage.
Other changes
Added links to the Athletic Training Resource Guide to the Librarian’s Corner webpage and to the newly created LibGuides section of the Athletic Training Program Resources webpage.
Added links to the Kinesiology Resource Guide to the Librarian’s Corner webpage and to the newly created LibGuides section of the Kinesiology Program Resources webpage.
Added a link to The Renal System to the urinary system subsections of the anatomy and physiology sections of the Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Medical Technology, Nursing, and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages as well as the urinary section of the physiology section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
Removed the link for Physiology of the Kidney since it is broken. Since the link is broken, deleted the link for Animated explanation of a dihybrid cross.
Removed link to Citation Help webpage on the left side of the page. Look for the Citation Help link to reappear soon.
The “Home” link has been temporarily removed from the top of the page to make room for the additional catalog link.
A search box has been added to the left side of the medical library homepage. It allows users to search by abbreviation, to search by definition (i.e. abbreviation definition), to search a medical dictionary, and to use one box to search associations either by name or abbreviation. Please ignore all ads found in the search results.
Added links to the VET 395 to the Librarian’s Corner webpage and a newly-created section for LibGuides within the Veterinary Technology Program Resources webpage.
All links in the two sections under the heading for “Quick Links” are now arranged alphabetically by name within each section.
McGraw-Hill’s plans for adding new books to AccessMedicine in early 2012 follow.
January: Riordan, Eva Vaughan & Asbury’s General Ophthalmology, 18th edition
January: Lalwani CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, 3rd edition
March: Katzung, Basic and Clinical Pharmacology
Date is unknown: Olson, Poisoning and Drug Overdose, 6th edition
Date is unknown: Murray Harper’s Illustrated Biochemistry, 29th edition
Date is unknown: Greenberg Clinical Neurology, 8th edition
Thieme has recently added 3 new books and 2 new editions to its electronic books platform.
New titles
Pocket Atlas of Tongue Diagnosis by Schnorrenberger, 2nd edition, ISBN 9783131398321
Color Atlas of Dermatology by Roecken, 1st edition, ISBN 9783131323415
Illustrated Handbook of Toxicology by Reichl, 1st edition, ISBN 9783131269218
New editions
Duus’ Topical Diagnosis in Neurology by Baehr and Frotsche, 5th edition, 9783136128053
Color Atlas of Ultrasound Anatomy by Block, 2nd edition, ISBN 9783131390523
Here are the spring break hours for the library at the main campus in Harrogate, TN.
Friday, March 16, 2012: normal schedule of 8am – 4:30pm
Saturday, March 17, 2012: closed
Sunday, March 18, 2012: closed
Monday, March 19, 2012: 10am – 10pm
Tuesday, March 20, 2012: 10am – 10pm
Wednesday, March 21, 2012: 10am – 6pm
Thursday, March 22, 2012: 10am – 6pm
Friday, March 23, 2012: closed
Saturday, March 24, 2012: closed
Sunday, March 25, 2012: 2pm – midnight
If you have not done so already, please welcome our new Health Sciences Librarian, Zach Sharrow, to LMU. He began work on January 3 and is serving LMU’s Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Medical Technology, Social Work, and Veterinary Technology programs. His office is in the technical services area of the Carnegie-Vincent Library, which is housed within the Harold M. Finley Learning Resources Center. Welcome Zach!
Removed The Medical Letter Inc. from the free apps for mobile devices webpage since it no longer appears to offer a free app for Palm operating systems. To access Medical Letter on a mobile device, click on “Full-Text Journals” from the medical library homepage, conduct a search for Medical Letter, and click on the link for “Single Journals” that appears in the records for the Medical Letter entry. Click here for a direct link to the record for the Medical Letter in which you need to click “Single Journals.”
Added links to Nursing LibGuide and Allied Health LibGuides on the left side of the medical library homepage. Added links to a helpful libguides to the Librarian’s Corner webpage. Added a helpful libguide to a newly-created section for Nursing LibGuide within the Nursing Program Resources webpage.
Added links to the Social Work Resource Guide and a LibGuide for Social Work 312 to the Librarian’s Corner webpage and a newly-created section for Social Work LibGuides within the Social Work Program Resources webpage.
Changed Bill’s schedule and contact information on the page for schedules for Bill, Lisa, and Zach.
I am pleased to announce that LMU-DCOM now has access to a newly available collection of electronic books from McGraw-Hill, First Aid books.
Click “Connect” to access the collection of First Aid books. Like logging into other library resources, your username will be firstname.lastname, and your password will usually be the same password as your LMU email account.
This collection includes the First Aid series of books for the following: ABSITE (American Board of Surgery In-Training Exam); anesthesiology boards; basic sciences, general principles; basic sciences, organ systems; COMLEX-USA; emergency medicine boards; emergency medicine clerkship; internal medicine boards; match; medicine clerkship; NBDE part I; NBDE part II; Q&A for the NBDE part I; neurology boards; obstetrics and gynecology clerkship; orthopaedic boards; pediatric boards; pediatrics clerkship; psychiatry boards; psychiatry clerkship; radiology for the wards; surgery clerkship; and wards. Due to a non-compete clause agreement between the authors and the publisher, the collection does not include First Aid books for the USMLE. An unlimited number of users may access the books at any given time.
Links to the collection have been added to the electronic books subsections of the osteopathic medicine and physician assistant sections of the databases page. A link has also been added to the Electronic Books subsection of the Quick Links of the medical library homepage.
Due to lack of heat, the library will be closing at 8pm on Monday, January 9, 2012. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
The library hours will be shortened this week because the heating system is not functioning.
We will be open the following days and hours:
Wednesday, January 4th 8am-4:30pm
Thursday, January 5th 8am-4:30pm
Friday, January 6th 8am – 4:30pm
Saturday, January 7th – Closed
Sunday, January 8th – Closed
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
CLIPP will be unavailable on December 27 and December 28 while iInTime completes hardware and software upgrades.
Added Pathoma to the COMLEX-USA Level 1, and USMLE Step 1 subsections of the Licensure Examination Review Materials sections of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage.
- We will be closed Dec. 17 and Dec. 18
- We will be open 8am – 4:30pm Dec. 19 and Dec. 20
- We will be closed from Dec. 20 at 4:30 pm until Jan. 3 at 8:00 am.
Happy Holidays,
The Librarians
DynaMed is updated daily based on a 7-step evidence-based method for systematic literature surveillance. You may see recent updates by clicking “recent updates” in the upper left corner of the DynaMed main page. You may also view recent updates by specialty and view only practice-changing updates within all or selected specialties. Practicing-changing updates are those most relevant for changing clinical practice. You may also set up alerts to be notified when updates that meet customized criteria occur. Click here to learn how to set up an alert.
Monday, November 21 8am to midnight
Tuesday, November 22 8am to midnight
Wednesday, November 23 8am – 4:30 pm
Thursday, November 24 closed
Friday, November 25 closed
Saturday, November 26 closed
Sunday, November 27 2pm – midnight
Added Mr. DCOM and other videos to the Humor Break webpage.
Skyscape now supports the installation of DynaMed on up to up to five mobile devices of the same operating system. For example, if you have registered DynaMed on your iPhone, you can install it to your iPad using the same serial number. When you install Skyscape/DynaMed on the iPad, all of the resources that were registered to your iPhone are automatically installed. This behavior will also apply to the Android and BlackBerry platforms.
The eBook Collection from EBSCOHost now allows one to download its electronic books. The books may be found in the library’s Piper online catalog or by searching the eBook Collection. The collection provides access to digital versions of books from a broad range of subject areas. Licensure review materials are included for COMLEX-USA and USMLE. Click here to see eBook Collection instructions for downloading books.
The library has a new vendor for the library catalog. The new WorldCat Catalog (Beta) lets you search only the holdings of the LMU Carnegie-Vincent Library, which includes the Reed Medical and Allied Health Library’s holdings, or search the holdings of libraries worldwide. Records for journal articles from selected databases are being incorporated into the catalog; these include ArticleFirst, EBSCO databases, and ProQuest. The catalog will treat all search terms put in the keyword, title, or author field as if they are connected with the Boolean operator AND. To limit results to electronic books, within the results, check the box beside eBook on the left side of the page. If you have any questions about the changes, please email Lisa at lisa.travis@lmunet.edu.
Added Northwestern Medical Review to the COMLEX-USA Level 1, COMLEX-USA Level 2, COMLEX-USA Level 3, USMLE Step 1, USMLE Step 2, and USMLE Step 3 subsections of the Licensure Examination Review Materials sections of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage.
Added Doctors in Training and USMLE Weapon to the COMLEX-USA Level 1, COMLEX-USA Level 2, USMLE Step 1, and USMLE Step 2 subsections of the Licensure Examination Review Materials sections of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage.
Added three sources of Radiology cases to the pathophysiology section of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources webpage. They are Case in Point, LearningRadiology.com’s Case of the Week Archives, and AuntMinnie.com’s Case of the Day. Thanks to Liz Hills for the links!
Added Lab Tests Online to the diagnosis section of the Nursing, Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources webpages. Also added it to the newly created lab tests section of the Medical Technology Program Resources webpage.
Added Embryo App to the Free Apps for Mobile Devices webpage.
Added an entry for Android Market that includes a listing of free helpful apps to the Free Apps for Mobile Devices webpage.
UpToDate now allows users to limit searches to graphics, all topics, adult topics, pediatric topics, and patient topics. To impose a limit, use the pull-down box between the new search box and the search button.
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LMU now has a subscription to Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database, which provides evidence-based information on natural and alternative medicines and therapies. The following information is provided for each natural medicine ingredient: full monograph, safety, effectiveness, adverse reactions, dosage/administration, mechanisms of action, interactions with drugs, interactions with herbs, interactions with food, interactions with lab tests, interactions with diseases, also known as, people use this for, editor’s comments, references, patient handout (English), and patient handout (Spanish). Users may also click a link to be shown all products that contain the ingredient. The database also includes the Clinical Management Series with CE/CME entries and quizzes on complementary therapies for common conditions.
Added Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database to the A-Z database list as well as the database listings for the nursing, physician assistant, and osteopathic medicine programs. Also added it to the pharmacology sections of the Nursing, Osteopathic Medicine, and Physician Assistant Program Resources webpages. Also added it to the databases and electronic resources section of the quick links on the medical library homepage.
The library will be closed on the following days in observance of the Labor Day holiday:
Saturday, September 3 (closed)
Sunday, September 4 (closed)
Monday, September 5 (closed)
The library will resume normal hours on Tuesday, September 6th, opening at 8am. Thank you and have a safe and enjoyable holiday.
Added AccessMedicine to the databases pages for the medical technology, nursing, osteopathic medicine, and physician assistant programs. Also added it to the pharmacology sections of the Athletic Training, Nursing, Osteopathic Medicine, and Physician Assistant Program Resources webpages. There is a limit of five concurrent users at any given time.
Removed links to American Botanical Council since LMU no longer subscribes to this resource.
Added Score95.com to the COMLEX-USA Level 1, COMLEX-USA Level 2, COMLEX-USA Level 3, USMLE Step 1, USMLE Step 2, and USMLE Step 3 subsections of the licensure examination and specialty boards review materials section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage.
Added Surgery Videos: MedlinePlus to the surgery section of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources webpages.
Added The Cardiac Exam: Auscultation to the auscultation subsection of the physical assessment section of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources webpages.
Added Pediatric Oncology Education Materials: Interactive Cases and Pediatric Radiology to the pediatics section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage.
Added A Primer on Reading Chest Radiographs to the pathophysiology section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage. Also added it to the EPC III subsection of the EPC section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage.
Added Cardiovascular Pathology to the pathology section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage.
Added Medical Histology to the histology section of the molecular fundamentals section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web pages. Thanks to LMU-DCOM’s Dr. James Foster for the link.
Added Blaufuss Heart Sounds and Cardiac Arrhythmias to the cardiovascular section of the physiology section and the ausculation section of the physical assessment section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web pages. Thanks to Shan Khan for the link.
Added Anatomy Guy to the dissection section of the anatomy section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web pages. Thanks to LMU-DCOM’s Dr. Natalie Shirley for the link.
The Reed Medical and Allied Health library has numerous procedures videos you can watch to prepare students for doing procedures during rotations. A table has been created that includes an alphabetical list of videos by topic that details where the videos can be found in AccessMedicine, the New England Journal of Medicine site license, and Procedures Consult. A new webpage has been created for this table and can be found by clicking “Procedures Videos” in the quick links section for databases and electronic resources on the right side of the medical library homepage.
Added PAs Are Here To Stay to the Humor Break webpage.
The updated readings for the 4th-year emergency medicine rotation are posted in Blackboard.
Thanks for letting me know about the following offer, Heather Rattenbury!
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Added MyPACS.net to the pathophysiology section of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages. Thanks for the link, Michael Douglas!
Added Heather Rattenbury’s recommendations for iPhone apps to the iTunes entry on the webpage for free apps for mobile devices. Thanks for the recommendations, Heather!
Removed all links to Primal Anatomy since LMU-DCOM no longer has a subscription to it.
Lisa’s name on the medical library homepage is now a link to her curriculum vitae.
Changed the name of the link on the medical library homepage for Free PDA Software to Free Apps for Mobile Devices. The url to the page has not changed and continues to be http://library.lmunet.edu/medlib/free-pda-software.
We will maintain our regular operating hours until June 3, 2011. The regular operating hours can be seen on the Carnegie-Vincent homepage and the Reed Medical and Allied Health Library homepage.
June 4, 2011 – June 12, 2011
Saturday, June 4, 2011: Closed.
Sunday, June 5, 2011: Closed.
Monday, June 6, 2011 – Thursday, June 9, 2011: 8am-9pm.
Friday, June 10, 2011: 8am-4:30pm.
Saturday, June 11, 2011: 12pm-6pm.
Sunday, June 12, 2011: 12pm-6pm.
June 13, 2011 – July 29, 2011
Mondays – Thursdays, June 13, 2011 – July 28, 2011: 8am-9pm.
Fridays, June 17, 2011 – July 29, 2011: 8am-4:30pm.
Saturdays, June 18 – July 23: Closed.
Sundays, June 19 – July 24: Closed.
The library will resume normal operating hours on Saturday, July 30, 2011. The regular operating hours can be seen on the Carnegie-Vincent homepage and the Reed Medical and Allied Health Library homepage.
Today is the final day to participate in the survey offered by the LMU library. The survey will take 5 to 10 minutes and will help us understand your perceptions and expectations of the library. Please complete the survey linked below:
http://www.libqual.org/survey/RWSRDQ82NUL53VCY
Please be assured that your answers are confidential. No identifying links between responses and the individual responding will be retained and only aggregated data will be reported. If you have any difficulty using the survey, please let us know by using the email link at the end of the survey.
Sincerely,
Gabriel Morley
Director of Library Services
Added webpages devoted to Journal Clubs and Search Engines for Science and Medicine. The links to these webpages, Journal Clubs and Medical Search Engines, are in the middle of the medical library homepage below the latest two news entries.
The Brooks Reading Room, a beautiful room in the middle of the second floor of the Carnegie-Vincent Library, now has power outlets in the floor under the conference table.
VisualDx is now available as a free download for Android devices. Click here for the instructions and link for getting it.
Deleted outdated PubMed tutorial and replaced it with a newly-created one that incorporates audio with a live screen-capture video. It is within the librarian-created tutorials section of the Tutorials page. Here’s the entry for the demo:
Please click here to see a demo of how to conduct a PubMed search that combines two MeSH terms and also uses the title/abstract command ([tiab]). Note that there never is a space between the search word(s) and the brackets (i.e. “Manipulation, Osteopathic”[Mesh], osteopath*[tiab]).
Added Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Electronic Preventive Services Selector (EPSS), iTriage, and iTranslate to the Free PDA Software webpage. Did not add Kidometer since it is free only for thirty days.
Changed the name of the Board Review section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage to Licensure Examination and Specialty Boards Review Materials.
Deleted all entries for individual print and electronic books from the Licensure Examination and Specialty Boards Review Materials section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage since many entries are now outdated; please use the Piper catalog and the eBook Collection (formerly NetLibrary) to find print and electronic COMLEX-USA and USMLE books.
The Reed Medical and Allied Health Library has two copies of numerous licensure examination review books on the shelves. One copy, the reference copy, may not be checked out. One copy, the circulating copy, may be checked out for two weeks.
Added Like an M-4, A G-6 Parody to the Humor Break webpage.
Deleted link for 25 sample questions for COMLEX-USA from the Licensure Examination and Specialty Boards Review Materials section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage since the link is broken.
Titles in STAT!Ref Medical and STAT!Ref Nursing have been combined into one platform. These titles are also combined with three titles that we purchased separately for LMU-DCOM. Below is the list of titles in STAT!Ref Medical, Nursing as of April 17, 2011. Following each title is a note that provides the number of allowed concurrent users and information on which collection it had been listed.
AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing (2006) – Nursing (20 concurrent users)
AAFP Conditions A TO Z (2010) – Medical (10 concurrent users
ACP Medicine - Medical (10 concurrent users)
ACP PIER & AHFS DI® Essentials™ - Medical (10 concurrent users)
ACS Surgery: Principles & Practice - Medical (10 concurrent users)
AHFS Drug Information® (2011) – Medical (10 concurrent users)
Clinical Infectious Disease (2008) – Medical (10 concurrent users)
Ingenix® CPT with RVUs Data File (2011) – Medical (10 concurrent users)
Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses – 12th Ed. (2011) – Nursing (20 concurrent users)
Delmar’s Guide to Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests – 2nd Ed. (2010) – Medical (10 concurrent users) and Nursing (20 concurrent users)
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – 4th Ed. (DSM-IV-TR™, 2000) – Medical (10 concurrent users)
Diseases and Disorders: A Nursing Therapeutics Manual – 4th Ed. (2011) – Nursing (20 concurrent users)
Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide – 6th Ed. (2004) Separate; 5 concurrent users for 6th edition; will have 4 concurrent users for 7th edition when it is purchased during the 2011-2012 fiscal year which begins in July 2011
Foundations of Nursing Research – 5th Ed (2008) – Nursing (20 concurrent users)
Fundamentals & Advanced Nursing Skills – 3rd Ed. (2010) – Nursing (20 concurrent users)
Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care – 2nd Ed. (2009) – Nursing (20 concurrent users)
Holland-Frei Cancer Medicine – 8th Ed. (2010) – Medical (10 concurrent users)
ICD-9-CM – Volumes 1, 2 & 3 (2011) – Medical (10 concurrent users)
Internal Medicine, Stein – 5th Ed. (1998) – Medical (10 concurrent users)
Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures with Nursing Diagnoses – 7th Ed. (2008) – Nursing (20 concurrent users)
Manual of Molecular and Clinical Laboratory Immunology – 7th Ed. (2006) – Medical (10 concurrent users)
Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking in Client Care – 4th Ed. (2008) – Nursing (20 concurrent users)
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy- 18th Ed. (2006) – Medical (10 concurrent users)
Nurse’s Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions, and Rationales – 12th Ed. (2010) – Nursing (20 concurrent users)
Nursing Diagnoses in Psychiatric Nursing – 7th Ed. (2008) – Nursing (20 concurrent users)
Sparks and Taylor’s Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual - 8th Ed. (2011) – Nursing (20 concurrent users)
Olds’ Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women’s Health across the Lifespan – 8th Ed. (2008) – Nursing (20 concurrent users)
Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine – 4th Ed. (2010) - Medical (10 concurrent users)
The Patient History: Evidenced-Based Approach (2005) Separate subscription; limited number of concurrent users
Pediatric Nursing: Caring for Children and Their Families – 2nd Ed. (2007) – Nursing (20 concurrent users)
Red Book®: 2009 Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases – 28th Ed. (2009) – Medical (10 concurrent users)
Reichel’s Care of the Elderly: Clinical Aspects of Aging – 6th Ed. (2009) – Medical (10 concurrent users)
The Review of Natural Products (2011) – Medical (10 concurrent users)
Rook’s Textbook of Dermatology – 8th Ed. (2010) – Medical (10 concurrent users)
Textbook of Family Medicine – 3rd Ed. (2009) – Medical (10 concurrent users)
Textbook of Pediatric Care (2009) – Medical (10 concurrent users)
Our STAT!Ref Medical Collection of electronic books that we purchase as part of a consortia, Tenn-Share, was just renewed.
STAT!Ref has lost the right to distribute McGraw-Hill books, and many of the books in the current collection have been dropped from STAT!Ref Medical. To retain access to the McGraw-Hill books, we have a trial to a package called Access Medicine and will be purchasing Access Medicine. The trial will last 30 days; we have requested to extend the trial an additional 30 days. We will lose access to Access Medicine sometime in early June but will have access once again when we have our subscription activated when we purchase it after the fiscal year begins in July.
I encourage you to use the trial of Access Medicine. LMU-DCOM is going to purchase Access Medicine. A link to the Access Medicine trial is on the right side of the medical library homepage at http://library.lmunet.edu/medlib. Access Medicine includes electronic books, videos, audio files, licensure review practice questions, drug information, updates, diagnostic tests, differential diagnoses, guidelines, quick answers, case files, patient education, & clerkship materials. Each of the aforementioned sections is within its own tab along the top of the main page.
Items recently dropped from STAT!Ref Medical follow. McGraw-Hill books are noted as such. Other items have been dropped for other reasons. Please see the separate list of items we renewed and added.
Basic & Clinical Pharmacology (McGraw-Hill; required textbook for classes of 2013 and 2014 in spring 2011; use Access Medicine trial)
Current Critical Care Diagnosis & Treatment (McGraw-Hill; use Access Medicine trial)
Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Cardiology (McGraw-Hill; use Access Medicine trial)
Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endoscopy (McGraw-Hill; required textbook for class of 2013 in spring 2011; use Access Medicine trial)
Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Orthopedics (McGraw-Hill; use Access Medicine trial)
Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Pediatrics (McGraw-Hill, use Access Medicine trial; see similar book we added below, Textbook of Pediatric Care)
Current Diagnosis & Treatment Obstetrics & Gynecology (McGraw-Hill; use Access Medicine trial)
Current Diagnosis & Treatment Surgery (McGraw-Hill; use Access Medicine trial)
Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment (McGraw-Hill; use Access Medicine trial)
DeGowin’s Diagnostic Examination (McGraw-Hill; use Access Medicine trial)
Detailed Drug Information for the Consumer (use DynaMed, Micromedex, or UpToDate)
DrugPoints System (use AHFS DI Essentials (an addition to STAT!Ref Medical), DynaMed, Micromedex, or UpToDate)
Family Medicine: Principles & Practice (6th edition, 2003; see similar book we added below, Textbook of Family Medicine)
Fitzpatrick’s Color Atlas & Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology (McGraw-Hill; use Access Medicine trial; see similar book we added below, Rook’s Textbook of Dermatology)
Geriatric Medicine: An Evidence-Based Approach (see similar book we added below, Reichel’s Care of the Elderly: Clinical Aspects of Aging)
Goldfrank’s Toxicologic Emergencies (McGraw-Hill; use Access Medicine trial)
Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine (McGraw-Hill; use Access Medicine trial)
Review of Medical Physiology (McGraw-Hill; use Access Medicine trial)
Rudolph’s Pediatrics (McGraw-Hill; use Access Medicine trial)
Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery (McGraw-Hill; use Access Medicine trial; see similar book we added below, ACS Surgery)
Smith’s General Urology (McGraw-Hill; use Access Medicine trial)
Williams Obstetrics (McGraw-Hill; use Access Medicine trial)
Items we added and renewed include the following.
ACP Medicine (renewal)
ACP PIER & AHFS DI Essentials (addition; evidence-based resource from the American College of Physicians)
ACS Surgery: Principles & Practice (addition, B.C. Decker, 2011)
AHFS Drug Information (renewal)
Clinical Infectious Disease (addition, Cambridge University Press, 2008)
CPT with RVUs Data File, Ingenix (renewal)
Delmar’s Guide to Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests (addition, Cengage Delmar Learning, 2010)
DSM-IV-TR, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (renewal)
Holland-Frei Cancer Medicine (addition, People’s Medical Publishing House, 8th edition, 2010)
ICD-9-CM Volumes 1, 2 & 3 for Hospitals (renewal)
Internal Medicine by Stein, 1998 (renewal; out of print; The University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis insisted on having it)
Manual of Molecular and Clinical Laboratory Immunology (renewal)
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy (renewal)
Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine (addition, 2010)
Red Book: 2009 Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases (renewal)
Reichel’s Care of the Elderly: Clinical Aspects of Aging (addition, Cambridge University Press, 6th edition, 2009)
Review of Natural Products (renewal)
Rook’s Textbook of Dermatology (addition, Wiley-Blackwell, 8th edition, 2009)
Textbook of Family Medicine (addition, Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, 2009)
Textbook of Pediatric Care (addition, American Academy of Pediatrics, 2009)
STAT!Ref will continue to have the free resources (Stedman’s Medical Dictionary, MedCalc, RSS feeds, Evidence Alerts, etc.).
You can view the STAT!Ref collection at http://ezproxy.lmunet.edu/login?url=http://online.statref.com//Default.aspx?grpalias=TennShare.
If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know.
All the best,
Lisa
To all LMU students, faculty, and staff,
It is important for us to understand your perceptions and expectations of the libraries on campus.
Please consider completing the survey linked below. It should take 5 to 10 minutes.
http://www.libqual.org/survey/RWSRDQ82NUL53VCY
The survey will be available from March 30, 2011, to April 26, 2011.
Please be assured that your answers are confidential. No identifying links between responses and the individual responding will be retained and only aggregated data will be reported. If you have any difficulty using the survey, please let us know by using the email link at the end of the survey.
Thank you for your participation.
Gabriel Morley
Director of Library Services
Lincoln Memorial University
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Added Animated Tutorials: Neurobiology/Biopsychology to the nervous system subsections of the anatomy and physiology sections of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources webpages and the nervous system sections of the anatomy and physiology sections of the Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Medical Technology, and Nursing Program Resources webpages. Thanks for the link, Nathanael Murphy!
Added link to Prognosis: Your Diagnosis to the diagnosis section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage.
Added Health Literacy online course that is required for EPC IV to the EPC IV subsection of the EPC section and the health literacy section of the patient information section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage.
Removed several links. Removed link to Zoology 225 Video Dissection Guide from the cats section of the anatomy section of the Veterinary Technology Program Resources Web page since the link is broken. Removed link to YouTube videos chosen by Dr. Nielsen from the neuroscience section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage since the link is broken. Removed link to Human Embryology Chapters from the embryology section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage since the page includes several broken links. Removed the link for the Association of Technical Opticians from the EPC IV subsection of the EPC section, the neuroscience section, the pathophysiology section, and the eyes subsection of the anatomy and physiology sections of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage since the link is broken.
UpToDate now has a feature entitled “Practice changing UpDates.” “This section highlights specific new recommendations and/or updates that we anticipate may change usual clinical practice. These concepts, reflecting changes to UpToDate over the past six to eight months, are discussed in in greater detail in the identified topic reviews.” The UpDates are broken down by specialty.
Thieme recently added the following five books. You can access them by using links to Thieme on the medical library homepage and the databases webpages. Here is a direct link to the collection: http://www.thieme.com.ezproxy.lmunet.edu/dyn/ebooklibrary/index.php.
Color Atlas of Anatomy – Volume 1: Locomotor System, revised 6th edition, 2009
Color Atlas of Anatomy – Volume 2: Internal Organs, 5th edition, 2008
Color Atlas of Anatomy – Volume 3: Nervous System and Sensory Organs, revised 6th edition, 2010
Color Atlas of Pathophysiology, 2nd edition, 2010
Color Atlas of ENT Diagnosis, 5th edition, 2010
Added PubMed for Handhelds to the webpage for free PDA software. Removed link for Painless Pain Management Simulation from the sections for pharmacology and games, simulations, and tutorials within the Nursing Program Resources webpage since the link is broken. Removed links for the basic tutorial for library research at LMU and the guide to nursing research at LMU from the games, simulations, and tutorials within the Nursing Program Resources webpage since the links are broken.
Want to be published? BMJ Case Reports provides a new opportunity
LMU-DCOM has a subscription to a new journal from the British Medical Journal (BMJ), BMJ Case Reports. With its purchase of an institutional subscription to the journal, LMU is a fellow of the journal; only fellows are allowed to publish articles in the journal. The instructions for authors are available at http://casereports.bmj.com.ezproxy.lmunet.edu/site/about/guidelines.xhtml (to view this page, one must login with firstname.lastname as your username and your LMU email password as your password). A signed informed consent from the patient must be obtained, and page with instructions for authors provides a link to the consent form to use. When conducting research involving humans, one must submit an application to the LMU Institutional Review Board (IRB). The LMU IRB application and exempt checklist can be found at http://www.lmunet.edu/curstudents/ORGSP/IRB/forms.shtml. To view a sample case within BMJ Case Reports, click on “Full-Text Journals” on the medical library homepage, conduct a search for BMJ Case Reports, click the link for “BMJ Journals,” click the link for “Last 7 days,” and click “Full text” or “PDF” for an article of interest. Feel free to consult Dr. Teitelbaum, the IRB Chair, or Lisa Travis, Medical Librarian, for assistance with this process.
Mango has added ten language modules
The language learning program, Mango, has added learning modules for the following languages: Cantonese Chinese, Croatian, Danish, ESL Mandarin Chinese, Finnish, Haitian Creole, Irish, Levantine Arabic, Norwegian, and Urdu. Mango can be found by clicking “Databases” on the medical library homepage, choosing Reference Tools, and then choosing Mango and logging in.
New way to receive library training
If you need assistance searching library resources, Lisa has a new method with which to help you. She can conduct a one-on-one online webinar in which she shares her computer screen with you and walks you through what to do or has you share your computer screen with her while she walks you through what to do. To receive training in this format, call or email Lisa and let her know convenient times for you. She will then send you an email invitation to the webinar that will include a link to use.
For OMS-III and OMS-IV students, most library announcements will only be in Rotations Linc newsletter
Except in rare cases in which library announcements cannot wait to be distributed via the newsletter, library announcements will only be distributed via the Rotations Linc newsletter instead of via email for OMS-III and OMS-IV students.
Here are the medical library hours for the remainder of the year:
Open 8am-4:30pm December 15-17.
Closed December 18-19.
Note: the Cedar Bluff Library in Knoxville will be open December 18.
Open 8am-4:30pm December 20-21.
Closed from noon on December 22, 2010, to 8am on January 3, 2011.
Please note: The library hours during the holidays are subject to change due to weather conditions. Please continue to check this page since updates will be posted here as soon as possible. Thank you and have a great holiday.
Added Geriatrics Cultural Navigator to the webpage for free PDA software. Removed Geriatrics at Your Fingertips (GAYF) from the webpage for free PDA software since it is no longer free.
We’d like to invite you to like the medical library’s new Facebook page. There is also a chat feature in which you can ask Lisa questions when she is in the chat room.
The library will be open the following hours during the Thanksgiving holiday.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010: 8am – 5pm
Thursday, November 25 – Saturday, November 27, 2010: closed
Sunday, November 28, 2010: 2pm – midnight
Added links for mobile access to LMU’s STAT!Ref Medical and STAT!Ref Nursing collections to the webpage for free PDA software.
Here are new procedures for getting articles that LMU does not have.
Here’s a reminder about how to find out if LMU has full-text access to an article you need. Remember that while you are searching library databases you can click the “Find it at Carnegie-Vincent Library” or “Reed Medical and Allied Health Library” buttons to determine if LMU has full-text access to the item. Another method to use to check to see if we have full-text access to an item is to search for the journal in our full-text journals portals. To do this, click on “Full-Text Journals” on the medical library homepage at http://library.lmunet.edu/medlib and then type the journal name in the search box and click “search.” If we have access to the journal, you will see a record for the journal that provides information on what years are accessible and links to the content; items labeled as “traditional titles” and “medical library periodicals” are print, not electronic, journals kept in the library.
Here are the new procedures. If you anticipate that you will need articles we don’t have, please register and create an account with our new interlibrary loan software, ILLiad. To do this, click “Interlibrary Loan” on the medical library homepage at http://library.lmunet.edu/medlib. The direct link to the interlibrary loan registration page is http://lmunet.illiad.oclc.org/illiad/TNF/logon.html. Click “first time users.” On the next page, click “first time users click here.” Fill out the new registration form; you will need to choose your own username and password for ILLiad. You will need to choose options for whether to hold books at the library or mail them to you. You may change these options at any time.
After you click on the library button in a database, if we do not have full-text access to an item, the page that appears will include the message, “Sorry, no holdings were found.” Click on “Request via Interlibrary loan.” In order for the interlibrary loan form to remember the information about the article, you will have had to have registered for an ILLiad account first (see the previous paragraph). Log into your ILLiad account. The article request form will have the information for the article you need. Fill in any additional needed information and click “Submit Request.” If you did not find the article you need in a database, you may click on the Interlibrary Loan link on the medical library homepage, log in, and fill out the form with information on the needed article, and click “Submit Request.”
If you have any questions about an existing interlibrary loan request, please email ill@lmunet.edu. If you have any questions about anything in this email, please let me know.
Thieme has added the following five new books. You can access them by using links to Thieme on the medical library homepage and the databases webpages. Here is a direct link to the collection: http://www.thieme.com.ezproxy.lmunet.edu/dyn/ebooklibrary/index.php
Color Atlas of Ophthalmology, 2nd edition, by A. Agarwal and S. Jacob, 2009
Ear, Nose, and Throat Diseases, 3rd edition, by H. Behrboom, O. Kaschke, T. Nawka, and A. Swift, 2009
A Guide to the Primary Care of Neurological Disorders, 2nd edition, by A. J. Popp and E. M. Deshaies, 2007
Neuro-Ophthalmology Illustrated, 1st edition, by V. Biousse and N. J. Newman, 2009
The Retina in Systemic Disease, 1st edition, by H. Tabandeh and M. F. Goldberg, 2009
Here is the full list of books in Thieme by topic.
Anatomy
Color Atlas and Textbook of Human Anatomy, Vol.3, Nervous System and Sensory Organs, 5th edition, by W. Kahle and M. Frotscher, 2002
The Human Body, 1st edition, by A. Faller and M. Schuenke, 2004
Pocket Atlas of Human Anatomy, 5th edition, by H. Feneis and W. Dauber, 2007
Basic Sciences
Basic Otorhinolaryngology, 1st edition, by R. Probst, G. Grevers, and H. Iro, 2005
Color Atlas of Biochemistry, 2nd edition, by J. Koolman and K. H. Roehm, 2004
Color Atlas of Cytology, Histology, and Microscopic Anatomy; 4th edition; by W. Kuehnel; 2003
Color Atlas of Genetics, 3rd edition, by E. Passarge, 2006
Color Atlas of Immunology, 1st edition, by G. K. Burmester and A. Pezzutto, 2002
Color Atlas of Neuroscience, 1st edition, by B. Greenstein and A. Greenstein, 2000
Color Atlas of Pathology, 1st edition, by U. – N. Riede and M. Werner, 2004
Color Atlas of Pathophysiology, 1st edition, by S. Silbernagl and F. Lang, 2000
Color Atlas of Pharmacology, 3rd edition, by H. Luellmann, K. Mohr, L. Hein, and D. Bieger, 2005
Color Atlas of Physiology, 6th edition, by A. Despopoulos and S. Silbernagl, 2003
Fundamentals of Neurology, 1st edition, by M. Mumenthaler and H. Mattle, 2006
Medical Microbiology, 1st edition, by F. H. Kayser, K. A. Bienz, J. Eckert, and R. M. Zinkernagel, 2004
Pocket Atlas of Nutrition, 1st edition, by H. K. Biessalski and P. Grimm, 2005
Pocket Atlas of Ophthalmology, 1st edition, by T. Schlote, J. Rohrbach, M. Grueb, and J. Mielke, 2006
Clinical Sciences
Clinical Tests for the Musculoskeletal System, 2nd edition, by K. Buckup, 2004
Color Atlas of ENT Diagnosis, 4th edition, by T. R. Bull, 2003
Color Atlas of Hematology, 2nd edition, by H. Theml, H. Diem, and T. Haferlach, 2004
Color Atlas of Neurology, 1st edition, by R. Rohkamm, 2004
Color Atlas of Ophthalmology, 2nd edition, by A. Agarwal and S. Jacob, 2009
Differential Diagnosis in Internal Medicine, 1st edition, by W. Siegenthaler, 2007
Differential Diagnosis in Neurology and Neurosurgery, 1st edition, by S. A. Tsementzis, 2000
Duus’ Topical Diagnosis in Neurology, 4th edition, by M. Baehr and M. Frotscher, 2005
Ear, Nose, and Throat Diseases, 3rd edition, by H. Behrboom, O. Kaschke, T. Nawka, and A. Swift, 2009
A Guide to the Primary Care of Neurological Disorders, 2nd edition, by A. J. Popp and E. M. Deshaies, 2007
Neurology, 4th edition, by M. Mumenthaler, H. Mattle, and E. Taub, 2003
Neuro-Ophthalmology Illustrated, 1st edition, by V. Biousse and N. J. Newman, 2009
Ophthalmology, 2nd edition, by G. K. Lang, 2007
Ophtho Notes, 1st edition, by R. L. Goodman, 2003
Pocket Atlas of Echocardiography, 1st edition, by T. Boehmeke and R. Doliva, 2005
Pocket Atlas of Endodontics, 1st edition, by R. Beer, M. A. Baumann, and A. M. Kielbassa, 2006
Pocket Atlas of Oral Diseases, 2nd edition, by G. Laskaris, 2005
A Pocket Guide to the Ear, 1st edition, by A. L. Menner, 2003
The Retina in Systemic Disease, 1st edition, by H. Tabandeh and M. F. Goldberg, 2009
Thieme Clinical Companions Dermatology, 1st edition, by W. Sterry, R. Paus, and W. Burgdorf, 2006
Radiology
Color Atlas of Ultrasound Anatomy, 1st edition, by B. Block, 2004
Essential Radiology, 2nd edition, by R. B. Gundermann, 2006
Getting Started in Clinical Radiology, 1st edition, by G. W. Eastman, C. Wald, and J. Crossin, 2005
MRI Parameters and Positioning, 1st edition, by T. B. Moeller and E. Reif, 2003
Normal Findings in CT and MRI, 1st edition, by T. B. Moeller and E. Reif, 2000
Pocket Atlas of Dental Radiology, 1st edition, by F. Pasler and H. Visser, 2007
Pocket Atlas of Radiographic Anatomy, 2nd edition, by T. B. Moeller and E. Reif, 2000
Pocket Atlas of Sectional Anatomy – Vol. I: Head and Neck, 3rd edition, by T. B. Moeller and E. Reif, 2007
Pocket Atlas of Sectional Anatomy – Vol. II: Thorax, Heart, Abdomen, and Pelvis, 3rd edition, by T. B. Moeller, 2007
Pocket Atlas of Sectional Anatomy – Vol. III: Spine, Extremities, Joints T. B. Moeller, 3rd edition, by E. Reif, 2007
Thieme Clinical Companions Ultrasound, 1st edition, by G. Schmidt, 2007
The online collection development and interlibrary loan forms are temporarily not working.
For interlibrary loan requests, please email Kay Davis at kay.davis@lmunet.edu.
For collection development requests, please email gabriel.morley@lmunet.edu.
I am very pleased to announce that LMU’s subscription to Mango is now activated and free for all students, faculty, and staff to use. To access Mango, click on “databases” on the medical library homepage. Then click “DCOM.” Then click “Other useful databases” and click the connect button in the entry for Mango.
Here is a direct link to Mango that you can bookmark: http://ezproxy.lmunet.edu/login?url=http://libraries.mangolanguages.com/lmu/start. Your login username is firstname.lastname, and your password is the same as your LMU email password.
Within Mango, you can create a profile to monitor your progress by typing in your email address and whatever password you would like to use for Mango in the area for “create a profile.” You will then need to click the activation link that will be sent to the email address you provided. For subsequent logins, you may input your email address and Mango password in the area for “log in.” Upon logging in, Mango tells you the overall number of hours you have spent learning languages in Mango and the number of languages studied.
There are two types of language modules, basic and complete. Basic is for those who only want to use the basics; there are about 9 lessons in the basic modules. The complete module contains 100 lessons and is far more comprehensive. Within the complete modules, there are main lessons, condensed lessons, a vocabulary review, and a phrasebook review; you may enjoy the condensed lessons more than the main lessons since, with the exception of the first couple of lessons, they proceed at a much faster pace.
Slides often ask you to speak the language so you will need a microphone for this. On these slides, you can click “show the answer” and then click the microphone icon to be able to record your voice and listen to a voice comparison of your voice with the actor’s voice.
The following Mango lesson levels are available for the following languages:
Arabic (Levantine) – basic
Chinese (Mandarin) – basic, complete
Dari – basic
Farsi (Persian) – basic
French – basic, complete
German – basic, complete
Greek – basic, complete
Hebrew – basic
Hindi – basic
Irish – basic
Italian – basic, complete
Japanese – basic, complete
Korean – basic
Pashto – basic
Portuguese (Brazil) – basic, complete
Russian – basic, complete
Spanish (Latin America) – basic, complete
Tagalog – basic
Thai – basic
Turkish – basic
Urdu – basic
Vietnamese – basic
Mango also offers English modules for speakers of the following languages: Arabic (Egyptian) (basic), Chinese (Cantonese) (basic), Chinese (Mandarin) (basic), French (basic), German (basic), Greek (basic), Italian (basic), Japanese (basic), Korean (basic), Polish (basic, complete), Portuguese (Brazil) (basic, complete), Russian (basic, complete), Spanish (Latin America) (basic, complete), and Vietnamese (basic).
mobileMicromedex is now available for iPad and Android devices; it is also available for iPhone and BlackBerry devices. Once you have logged into Micromedex, click on “MICROMEDEX 1.0 (Healthcare Series).” On the page that appears, click on “Handheld PDA.” The page that appears provides instructions on how to accessing Micromedex on your mobile device. Feel free to leave a comment on this resource or view comments here.
Micromedex’s patient education materials, CareNotes®, have always been available in English and Spanish, and now a core set of CareNotes and DrugNotes is available in the following new languages:
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A one-year, free subscription to Epocrates Essentials for mobile devices is available to medical students who register and sign up before August 31, 2010, here. Current subscriptions can be extended with this offer. Epocrates Essentials is available for iPhone/iPod touch, BlackBerry, Palm, and Windows Mobile devices and provides medical news and information on drugs, diseases, and labs.
Procedures Consult has added four new video modules to our internal medicine subscription. The four new modules are for digital nerve block, irrigation of the eye, urethral catheterization: female, and urethral catheterization: male. Links to Procedures Consult are provided on the lower right corner of the medical library homepage and within the databases webpage.
Added a link to the DynaMed to the pharmacology sections of the Nursing, Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources webpages.
Since the link is broken, deleted the link to Overlayer from Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Academic Computing Services from the pathophysiology section of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources webpages as well as the histology section of the molecular fundamentals of medicine section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage.
Since the link is broken, deleted the link for Teaching Materials for Pathology from the pathophysiology section of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages as well as the molecular fundamentals of medicine section’s histology section within the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
Added a link to Search Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 21 Database - Includes Section 182 for Substances Generally Regarded as Safe (GRAS) to the pharmacology section of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages. Dr. Mary Beth Babos refers to GRAS in lectures.
In March, the library added full-text electronic access to the New England Journal of Medicine’s articles to the present (our previous electronic access only covered up to 3 months ago). We also have access to the website; it includes procedures videos, interactive modules, podcasts, interviews and discussions, and more.
To access the website, click on “Full-Text Journals” from the medical library home page and conduct a search for New England Journal of Medicine (or NEJM instead). Choose “Single Journals” in the entry. Here’s what the entry looks like.
New England journal of medicine (0028-4793)
from 1980 to 2009 in Medical Library Periodicals
from 1993 to present in Single Journals (use this link)
from 06/20/1996 to 3 months ago in ProQuest Health & Medical Comp
To see the videos and interactive modules, after clicking on “Single Journals” scroll down and look for the links for “more procedures videos” and “more interactive modules” on the right side of the page.
Added Neurological Exam: Neurologic Examination Videos and Descriptions…an Anatomical Approach to the kinesiology sections of the Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Osteopathic Medicine, and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages. Also added it to the neuroscience and psychiatry sections of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages. You must have your pop-up blocker disabled in your Internet browser to view the videos and quizzes. This website must be viewed in its entirety by LMU-DCOM osteopathic medical students completing their required behavioral health and neuropsychiatry rotation; it has been added to the rotation documents section of Blackboard for the course.
Added links for DynaMed, WebMD Mobile for Apple iPhone, Medscape Mobile for iPhone and iPod touch, and OMM Guide: Osteopathic Quick Reference for iPhone to the webpage for free PDA software.
Added the following to the “featured resource” box at the bottom of the medical library homepage.
25% Discount on Skyscape PDA Software
Skyscape is offering LMU students, staff, and faculty a 25% discount on their mobile software. Skyscape supports the following platforms: iPhone and iPod-Touch, BlackBerry, Google Android based Smart-Phones, Nokia Symbian, Windows Mobile/Pocket PC, and Palm OS (PC Desktop). Two license options are available, standard and subscription, and information on the options are available on the website. Click products to view information on the products for sale.
I am very pleased to announce that LMU-DCOM now has access to DynaMed. Links to DynaMed are in the fast links section for databases and electronic resources on the medical library homepage, in the A-Z listing of databases, and in the database sections for the DCOM, nursing, and physician assistant programs.
The product provides free PDA access. Please let Lisa Travis know at lisa.travis@lmunet.edu if you want to be sent a serial number to download it to a PDA and use it for one year; you can renew your PDA access after a year if you are still affiliated with LMU-DCOM.
Here’s information on DynaMed. It includes clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,000 topics that are in an outline form that can be used efficiently in clinical settings. DynaMed is updated daily. DynaMed monitors the content of over 500 medical journals and systematic evidence review databases directly and indirectly by using many journal review services. Each publication is reviewed cover-to-cover, and each article is evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity. The new evidence is then integrated with existing content, and overall conclusions are changed as appropriate representing a synthesis of the best available evidence. Through this process of systematic literature surveillance, the best available evidence determines the content of DynaMed. You can click on recently updated to see the entries that have been modified today and learn what was changed.
You may wish to click on “Weekly Update” periodically to read the latest update or sign up for the free weekly email. Prepared by the clinician members of the DynaMed Editorial Team, DynaMed Weekly Update is a compilation of blurbs about one to five articles selected from DynaMed’s Systematic Literature Surveillance as articles most likely to change clinical practice. This source will be helpful for finding articles for the journal club.
Dr. Miller received an award for excellence in clinical education from the students; the students noted that he uses current evidence in creating his lectures. Of note is that one of the tools that Dr. Miller uses heavily is DynaMed, and I greatly admire his hard work to ensure that his lectures include the latest evidence.
Tutorials for using DynaMed on the Internet, a Blackberry, and an iPhone are available in the alphabetical list on the right side of this page: http://support.ebsco.com/training/tutorials.php
Regular hours will last through May 21st. Regular hours follow.
Sundays, 2pm-midnight
Mondays – Thursdays, 8am-midnight
Fridays, 8am-4:30pm
Saturdays, 10am-5pm
The library will be closed Saturday and Sunday, May 22nd and May 23rd.
Library hours for the summer begin May 24th. Summer library hours are as follows.
Sundays, closed*
Mondays – Thursdays, 8am-9pm
Fridays, 8am-4:30pm
Saturdays, closed*
*There are weekends when the library will be open for EdD students. These follow.
Saturday, June 12, 10am-4pm
Sunday, June 13, 2-10pm
Saturday, June 19, 10am-4pm
Sunday, June 20, 2-10pm
Saturday, July 10, 10am-4pm
Sunday, July 11, 2-10pm
Saturday, July 17, 10am-4pm
Sunday, July 18, 2-10pm
Added link for VisualDx to the EPC IV section of the EPC section of the Osteopathic Medicine webpage.
Added link for Basic Knot Tying and Suturing to the EPC IV section of the EPC section of the Osteopathic Medicine webpage.
Added VisualDx to the A-Z database list as well as the database listings for the nursing, physician, and osteopathic medicine programs. Also added it to the dermatology sections of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources webpages. Also added it to the databases and electronic resources section of the quick links on the medical library homepage.
VisualDx includes an interactive tool for finding differential diagnoses based on visual findings. Includes information on conditions within visual findings. Also includes components for international travel, child abuse recognition, terrorism recognition, oral mucosa, drug eruptions, external eye visual findings, fever and rash, smallpox vaccination, CA-MRSA, pressure ulcer staging, marine exposures, cellulitis differential diagnosis, female anogenital visual findings, male anogenital visual findings, immunocompromised conditions, nail and distal digit visual finding; and bites, stings, and infestations.
Removed the link for VisualDx Health from the dermatology sections of the Nursing, Osteopathic Medicine, and Physician Assistant Program Resources webpages since we now have the full version of the product, VisualDx.
Added mobileMicromedex to the webpage for free PDA software.
Deleted all existing links within the graduate medical education subsection of the medical education section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage. Added a link to the LMU-DCOM Residency Application Guide and Resources to the graduate medical education subsection of the medical education section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage.
Added link to freely-available University of Virginia School of Medicine boards preparation questions to the COMLEX-USA Level 1 and USMLE Step 1 subsections of the licensure examination and specialty boards review materials section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage.
Added link to freely-available University of Virginia School of Medicine family medicine USMLE-style questions to the COMLEX-USA Level 2, USMLE Step 2 subsections ofthe licensure examination and specialty boards review materials section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage.
Added link to University of Virginia School of Medicine’s excellent radiology website, Introduction to Radiology, which includes a section on chest x-rays that includes a post test; the link is listed in the radiologic anatomy subsections of the anatomy sections of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources webpages and the radiologic anatomy sections of the anatomy and physiology sections of the Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Medical Technology, and Nursing Program Resources webpages. Also added it to the pathophysiology section of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources webpages.
Removed the Cardiovascular Physiology Tutorial link and Harvard’s Module One: Chest Radiology link since the links were broken; the tutorials are no longer available online. Fixed the link for The Plastinated Brain since it was broken.
LMU’s spring break is March 15-19.
Here are the library’s spring break hours for March 12-March 21.
Friday, March 12, 2010, 8am-4:30pm
Saturday, March 13, 2010, closed
Sunday, March 14, 2010, closed
Monday, March 15, 2010 – Friday, March 19, 2010, 8am-4:30pm
Saturday, March 20, 2010, closed
Sunday, March 21, 2010, 2pm – 12am
Added Science and health news from NewsBank Inc. and World health news from NewsBank Inc. to the current events and news sections of the general medical resources sections of the Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Medical Technology, Osteopathic Medicine, Nursing, Physician Assistant, and Social Work Program Resources Web pages.
Added links to two freely-avialable resources, COMLEX Amnesia Cure sample questions with discussions and 25 sample COMLEX-USA questions, to the COMLEX-USA Level 1 and USMLE Step 1 subsections of the licensure examination and specialty boards review materials section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage.
Added link to the freely-available USMLE Orientation and Practice Materials to the COMLEX-USA Level 1, COMLEX-USA Level 2, COMLEX-USA Level 3, USMLE Step 1, USMLE Step 2, and USMLE Step 3 subsections of the licensure examination and specialty boards review materials section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage.
Added Boards Boot Camp, a subscription service, to the COMLEX-USA Level 1, COMLEX-USA Level 2, USMLE Step 1, and USMLE Step 2 subsections of the licensure examination and specialty boards review materials section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage.
Added link for freely-available sample Kaplan materials to the Kaplan link in the COMLEX-USA Level 1, COMLEX-USA Level 2, COMLEX-USA Level 3, USMLE Step 1, USMLE Step 2, and USMLE Step 3 subsections of the licensure examination and specialty boards review materials section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage.
Added links to USMLEasy and USMLERx subscription services to the COMLEX-USA Level 1, COMLEX-USA Level 2, COMLEX-USA Level 3, USMLE Step 1, USMLE Step 2, and USMLE Step 3 subsections of the licensure examination and specialty boards review materials section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage. Within USMLEasy sample USMLE-format exams of three questions apiece for Step 1, Step 2 CK, and Step 3 are available here. Within USMLERx sample exams of twenty questions apiece are available for Step 1, Step 2 CK, and Step 3.
Added link to USMLEQuickPrep, a subscription service, to the COMLEX-USA Level 1 and USMLE Step 1 subsections of the licensure examination and specialty boards review materials section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage. Within USMLEQuickPrep a free sample quiz of ten questions is available here after one completes free registration with email verification.
Added Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Self-Assessment (COMSAE), which includes self assessments for purchase and ten sample questions, to the COMLEX-USA Level 1, COMLEX-USA Level 2, COMLEX-USA Level 3, USMLE Step 1, USMLE Step 2, and USMLE Step 3 subsections of the licensure examination and specialty boards review materials section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage. After you view the first nine pages of a tutorial on test features here, click “end” to see ten sample questions.
Want to play a game? Added a link to Diagnosis Life (DxLife): A Medical Adventure Game to the diagnosis section of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources webpages.
Added Medical Spanish for Health Professionals to the international resources section of the medical education section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage.
Added a link for study cases to the microbiology and immunology section of the molecular fundamentals of medicine section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage. Also added the link for study cases to the microbiology and immunology section of the Physician Assistant Program Resources webpage.
Here are video resources for this semester’s ISAs for first-year medical students.
Central and peripheral IV access – see Procedures Consult (a link for it is on the right side of the medical library homepage)
Suturing – see the basic knot typing videos on a website in the surgery section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage
Sterile technique – see scrubbing videos on a website in the surgery section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage
Added links for board review materials. Added link to COMBANK, a subscription service, to the COMLEX-USA Level 1, COMLEX-USA Level 2, and COMLEX-USA Level 3 subsections of the licensure examination and specialty boards review materials section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage. Added link to COMQUEST, a subscription service, to the COMLEX-USA Level 2 and COMLEX-USA Level 3 subsections of the licensure examination and specialty boards review materials section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage. Added links to USMLEWorld and USMLE Consult, subscription services, to the COMLEX-USA Level 1, COMLEX-USA Level 2, COMLEX-USA Level 3, USMLE Step 1, USMLE Step 2, and USMLE Step 3 subsections of the licensure examination and specialty boards review materials section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage.
Within USMLE Consult free week-long trials are available to Robbins Pathology Test Bank, Step 1 Question Bank, Step 2 CK Question Bank, Step 3 CCS Interactive, and the Step 3 Question Bank here; one must register for free to access the free trials. To maximize usage of the trials, it is recommended that one sign up for only one free trial per week.
Within COMBANK three questions with answer explanations are available in the demo here; pause the demo on each question and explanation to read them.
Added link to Scrubbing in the O.R. videos to the surgery section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage.
Added a link to Radiopaedia.org to the radiologic anatomy subsections of the anatomy section of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources webpages and the radiologic anatomy sections of the anatomy and physiology sections of the Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Medical Technology, and Nursing Program Resources webpages. Also added it to the pathophysiology section of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources webpages. Thanks for the link, Jennifer Ralston!
Added a link to MedWatch to the pharmacology sections of the Nursing, Osteopathic Medicine, and Physician Assistant Program Resources webpages. Thanks for the link, Chris Perry!
Added link to the Bulletin of Information, 2009-2010, by the NBOME to the COMLEX-USA Level 1, COMLEX-USA Level 2, and COMLEX-USA Level 3 subsections of the licensure examination and specialty boards review materials section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage.
Added link to Skull Anatomy Tutorial to the skeletal section of the anatomy section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage as well as the skeletal sections of the anatomy and physiology sections of the Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Medical Technology, Nursing, and Physician Assistant Program Resources webpages. Thanks for the link, Kari Jones!
Added a link to Drugs.com, which has a pill identifier with pictures in the results list, to the pharmacology sections of the Nursing, Osteopathic Medicine, and Physician Assistant Program Resources webpages.
We have cancelled our separate subscription to Lexi-Comp since UpToDate includes information on drugs and drug interactions that are supplied by Lexi-Comp. Use UpToDate, Epocrates, or Micromedex for information on drugs and drug interactions. A pill identifier is in Micromedex. Our institutional site license to The Medical Letter Inc. also provides access to an adverse drug interactions program; you can access Medical Letter from the full-text journals portal.
Added links to tutorials for Epocrates and Micromedex to the provider-created tutorials section of the tutorials page.
Added a tutorial for how to conduct a PubMed search that combines two MeSH terms and includes limit; it is in the librarian-created tutorials section of the tutorials page.
Added a new section, now called Licensure Examination and Specialty Boards Review Materials, to the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources webpage. It includes entries within subsections for COMLEX-USA Level 1, COMLEX-USA Level 2, COMLEX-USA Level 3, Specialty Boards, USMLE Step 1, USMLE Step 2, and USMLE Step 3.
All entries allow one to post and view comments. To skip to a subsection within Board Review, click on “Jump to” and choose the section of interest. One can click “Scroll to top” in the bottom right corner of the page to return to the top of the page.
Added Interactive Neuroanatomy Atlas to the nervous system subsections of the anatomy sections of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources webpages and the nervous system subsections of the anatomy and physiology sections of the Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Medical Technology, and Nursing Program Resources webpages. Thanks for the link, Sean Kelly!
Added Unbound MEDLINE to the webpage for free PDA software. Added Android (Google) – free Skyscape applications to the webpage for free PDA software.
Open regular hours through Tuesday, November 24.
Open 8am-12pm Wednesday, November 25!
Closed November 26-28 (Thanksgiving Break)
Sunday – November 29 – 2pm-11pm
Monday, November 30 through Tuesday, December 15: open until midnight Sundays – Thursdays
(Open 8am-4:30pm on Fridays, 10am-5pm on Saturdays)
Open 8am-4:30pm December 16-18
December 19 – LMU administrative offices and library close for Holiday Break
January 4 – library reopens at 8am
Added the online FITNE video series, Nursing Theorists: Portraits of Excellence Volumes 1 and 2, to the theorists section of the Nursing Program Resources Web page. Volume one includes videos on Virginia Henderson, Dorothy Johnson, Imogene King, Madeleine Leininger, Myra Levine, Betty Neuman, Margaret Newman, Florence Nightingale, Dorothea Orem, Rosemarie Parse, Ida Orlando Pelletier, Hildegard Peplau, Martha Rogers, Sister Callista Roy, Reva Rubin, and Jean Watson. Volume two includes videos on Patricia Benner, Helen Erickson, Afaf Meleis, Merle Mishel, Nola Pender, and Pamela Reed.
Added Overlayer from Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Academic Computing Services to the histology section of the molecular fundamentals of medicine section of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages; also added it to the pathophysiology section of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages. Thanks for the link, Phil Singer!
PubMed is now available only in a redesigned format. Please see the article which describes changes to PubMed here. A new article describes changes not announced previously here. If you have any questions, please check with a librarian.
Take a breather and look at the new page of fun links here.
The library now has a site license to The Medical Letter Inc. It includes Medical Letter Inc.’s well-regarded newsletters, CME/CE, an adverse drug interactions program, and a handbook of antimicrobial therapy. There is a link to a demo on the bottom left of the main page. The institutional access does include free downloads for PDAs with Palm OS.
To access The Medical Letter Inc., click on “Full Text Journals” on the medical library homepage. In the box to the right of “Title begins with” type in medical letter and then click search. You will want to clink the link for “Single Journals” within the entry for “Medical letter on drugs and therapeutics (English ed.).”
If you have any questions, I’d be glad to answer them.
Added The Medical Letter Inc. to the webpage for free PDA software. It is listed under M for Medical in the alphabetical list.
Added link to demo to institutional site license demo for The Medical Letter Inc. to the provider-created tutorials section of the tutorials page.
Combined Bill’s and Lisa’s schedules into one page; click on the link for “Schedules for Bill and Lisa” on the homepage to see them. Renamed Lisa’s Blog as Reed Medical and Allied Health Library’s Blog. Click on “Library News” on the homepage to see the blog; the lastest two blog entries are always visible on the library homepage.
The library now has access to American Botanic Council. It includes informative articles, reviews, monographs, a magazine, and a newsletter on herbs. HerbalGram Online allows one to access the archives back to 1990 of the peer-reviewed journal of the American Botanical Council. HerbClip Online provides summaries and critical reviews of seminal articles on herbal medicine from popular and scientific literature around the world. Healthy Ingredients provides consumer information for herbs used in cosmetics, aromatherapy, and dietary supplements. Commission E Monographs includes 380 monographs of the Complete German Commission E Monographs, which has approved uses, dosage, contraindications, side effects, drug interactions, and other therapeutic information. Expanded Commission E Monographs updates and expands 107 of the Commission E Monographs. HerbMedPro allows one to access the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health; a simple search by common or Latin herb name lists results by evidence of efficacy, warnings, methods of preparation, formulas/blends, and activity as well as short summaries of clinical studies that permit users to make easy selections.
You can find it within the databases and electronic resources on the right side of the medical library home page. It is also listed in the A-Z, Athletic Training, Medical Technology, Nursing, Osteopathic Medicine, and Physician Assistant listings of databases. Click here to access it. You log in like you do for other library resources with firstname.lastname as your user name and your LMU email password as your password.
You can also find it within the consumer health section of the patient information section as well as the pharmacology section of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages.
Added links to Human Embryology Chapters, Embryology Images Online, The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Embryology – Human Embryology Movies, and Development of Human Embryology to the embryology section of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages. Thanks for the links, Magdalena Farbisz!
Added link to SonoWorld: Cases to the pathophysiology sections of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages.
Here are solutions to printer messages on the first-floor printer in LMU-DCOM.
If the LMU-DCOM first-floor printer beeps and flashes the message “Add MP Paper,” you will have to flip down the bypass tray on the right and add paper. Add the paper with the long side against the machine.
If the LMU-DCOM first-floor printer beeps and has the message “Load MP Tray Statement” on the screen, click the down button once. The message “Use alternative? Letter” will appear. Click okay.
If you need help with a jam or anything with the printer in LMU-DCOM, Lisa Travis or someone in Medical Information Services will be glad to help.
Added link to Human Embryology Animations to the embryology sections of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages. Thanks for the link, Liz Hills!
October is National Medical Librarians Month
The library now has access to Medical Evidence Matters, an easy-to-use evidence-based medicine tool that helps you find the best therapy options for patients with a confirmed diagnosis. Results are organized into summary graphs and tables.
You can find Medical Evidence Matters within the databases and electronic resources on the right side of the medical library home page. It is also listed in the A-Z, Osteopathic Medicine, and Physician Assistant listings of databases. Here’s the link: http://ezproxy.lmunet.edu/login?url=http://www.umi.com/pqdauto. You log in like you do for other library resources with firstname.lastname as your user name and your LMU email password as your password.
If you haven’t done so already, please welcome Gabriel Morley, Director of Library Services, to LMU. He began work on September 21, and his office is on the second floor of the library. Welcome Gabriel!
Added Chest X-ray Atlas to the pathophysiology sections of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages. Thanks for the link, Matt Tipton!
Added LUMEN Histology and JayDoc HistoWeb to the histology section of the molecular fundamentals of medicine section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page. Thanks for the links, Stacy Bullock!
Added The Anatomy Lesson to the general subsections of the anatomy sections of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages and the general subsections of the anatomy and physiology sections of the Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Medical Technology, Nursing, and Veterinary Technology Program Resources Web pages. Thanks to Kari Jones for the link!
The wireless access points in the library have been fixed.
Currently there are a few wireless access points (AP’s) that are out of service at the LMU library and are causing dead spots in the wireless signal. The LMU Help Desk is aware of the issue and have scheduled the repair. If you are planning on studying at the library you may want to take along your Ethernet cord to insure reliable connectivity until the wireless is repaired.
A new version of the library catalog is up and running. If you have any questions, we’d be glad to answer them.
Fixed link for Harvard’s Whole Brain Atlas since the link had been broken.
Added Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (JB&JS) to the surgery section of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages.
Added Spot the Fake Smile to the mental health section of the Nursing and Social Work Program Resources Web pages as well as the psychiatry section of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages.
Added Micromedex to the pharmacology and pathophysiology sections of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page; also added it to the consumer health section within the patient information section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page. Added Micromedex to the pharmacology and pathophysiology sections of the Physician Assistant Program Resources Web page; also added it to the consumer health section within the general medical resources section of the Physician Assistant Program Resources Web page. Added Micromedex to the pharmacology and pathophysiology sections of the Athletic Training and Nursing Program Resources Web pages.
The medical library Web site redesign is up and running and a work in progress. It is best viewed in Firefox. Please feel free to provide comments and recommendations.
Improvements in the design include:
1. The medical news box on the home page now scrolls and includes more stories
2. The latest “library news” blog entries are shown on the home page
3. The “toggle subjects” button within the program resources allows you to get rid of the categories, thus making the area with the links and descriptions wider
4. Web 2.0 technology (Digg, Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, etc.) is being incorporated into the site (see the blog entries on the home page, for example)
5. Featured resource box on the home page
Thanks to Joshua for his hard work on this. I have compiled a list of bugs and made Joshua aware of them. Please feel free to let me know of any bugs since I may not have found them all.
I’m sorry for any inconvenience that may have been caused by its going live on Thursday; I was not aware it was going to go live that day.
All the best,
Lisa Travis
Medical and Allied Health Librarian
We have redesigned and updated our website. Tell us what you think and please let us know if you spot any bugs!
If you have not done so already, please welcome new Medical and Allied Health Librarian, Bill Stevens, to LMU. He began work on August 3, and his office is in the medical library. He will be the primary liaison for nursing and allied health programs.
Added Blue Histology, a great Web site from The University of Western Australia, to the histology section of the molecular fundamentals of medicine section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page. Thanks for the link, Matt Tipton!
STAT!Ref Medical’s new interface has been giving us trouble, and STAT!Ref is working to resolve the problems. For this reason, the link has been changed back to how it was in the spring. Three new electronic books (Emergency Medicine: Comprehensive Study Guide, The Patient History: Evidence-Based Approach, and Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Emergency Medicine) will be able to be accessed from the Piper online library catalog sometime soon. Thanks for your patience with this.
Added Electronic Fetal Monitoring to the women’s health section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
Added Amputation Videos by Level to the surgery section of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages.
Added HeartScape to the cardiovascular system subsections of the anatomy & physiology sections of the Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Medical Technology, Nursing, Osteopathic Medicine, and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages.
Added Micromedex to the A-Z, athletic training, LMU-DCOM, kinesiology, nursing, and physician assistant lists of databases. Also added it to the medical library home page’s fast links for databases and electronic resources. Micromedex is a comprehensive medical reference on drugs, diseases, acute care, toxicology, alternative medicine, and patient education and care; it is not to be used for clinical decision-making.
Lisa’s office has moved from the medical library to LMU-DCOM room 120.
Added iTunes store applications for iPhones to the webpage for free PDA software.
Added a link within each entry on the webpage for free PDA software that allows users to leave comments or view comments on the resources.
Added tutorials Lisa created for Computer-assisted Learning in Pediatrics Program (CLIPP), Web Initiative for Surgical Education (WISE-MD), and finding full-text journals by title and topic to the librarian-created tutorials section of the tutorials page. Added links to numerous PubMed tutorials and one The Cochrane Library tutorial to the provider-created tutorials section of the tutorials page.
Added Web Initiative for Surgical Education (WISE-MD) to the fast links for databases and electronic resources on the medical library home page as well as the listing of databases for LMU-DCOM.
Deleted the link for an animation for muscles activated during the gait cycle from the kinesiology links since the link is now broken.
Add “Lisa’s pick” notations or images to Web sites that are favorites of the medical librarian and students. Many of Lisa’s picks are useful for assignments.
The links for Primal Anatomy now go through the LMU proxy. To log in, the user name is firstname.lastname, and the password is the same as your LMU email account.
Added Epocrates Online to the fast links for databases and electronic resources on the medical library home page as well as the listings of databases for athletic training, nursing, LMU-DCOM, and physician assistant programs. Also added it to the pharmacology sections of the Athletic Training, Nursing, Osteopathic Medicine, and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages. To use this resource, you must register and create your own login.
Readings for family medicine rotations have changed to be briefer. Required readings are posted in Blackboard. Optional readings are available from a CDC Web site and from within Epocrates Online. The syllabus in Blackboard has been updated to reflect these changes.
Changed the link to STAT!Ref Medical so that it now goes to its new interface, which includes Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide. STAT!Ref Medical no longer allows one to conduct an advanced search to search only certain books. According to STAT!Ref Medical, they are working on restoring this functionality.
Removed fast links for ScienceDirect Health & Life Sciences database and ProQuest Health & Medical Complete database from the medical library home page. Links for these resources remain within the listings of databases.
Lisa’s office in LMU-DCOM has moved from room 129 to 120. Room 120 is near the printer and Jason McConnell’s office.
Some readings for family medicine rotations have been uploaded into Blackboard; the remainder will be posted in Blackboard soon.
A Power Point presentation on how to access and use CLIPP for pediatrics rotations has been emailed to the LMU-DCOM class of 2011, uploaded into Blackboard, and added to the librarian-created tutorials section of the newly-created tutorials page.
Added Wireless Information System Responders (WISER), Radiation Event Medical Management (REMM), and National Library of Medicine Resources for the Mobile Clinician to the webpage for free PDA software, which is a link on the medical library home page. Also added National Library of Medicine Resources for the Mobile Clinician to the international section of the medical education section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
Added MedAlert, MedWatch, Handheld Computer Resources in the NCBI Bookshelf, .911 Free Emergency Management Resource, Pneumonia Severity Index Calculator, QxMD, and PalmEKG to the webpage for free PDA software, which is a link on the medical library home page.
Added a new webpage for free PDA software as a link to the medical library home page. The page currently includes links to Diagnosaurus, EBM Calculator, Geriatrics At Your Fingertips (GAYF), MedStream by Skyscape, Mobile MerckMedicus, Shots 2009, Archimedes medical calculator, Medical Mnemonics, ABG Pro 2.2, and Epocrates Rx and DocAlert.
Deleted several links and modified a link in the health literacy section of the Nursing, Physician Assistant, and Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web pages per Lynn Nielsen’s request. Added or edited descriptions to all remaining links.
Added PDR.net to the pharmacology section of Osteopathic Medicine and Nursing Program Resources Web pages.
Added A-OPTIC.org to the general medical education resources and graduate medical education opportunities sections of the medical education section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
Added eMedicine to the lists of athletic training, nursing, and osteopathic medicine databases as well as to the fast links for databases and electronic resources on the medical library home page.
Added DiagnosisPro to the diagnosis section of the Nursing Program Resources Web page as well as the newly-created diagnosis sections of the Physician Assistant and Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web pages.
Added The Cochrane Library to the A-Z, Athletic Training, LMU-DCOM, Kinesiology, and Nursing lists of databases. Also added it to the medical library home page’s fast links for databases and electronic resources.
Added FreeForAll: Free Articles to Those in Need to the international resources section of the medical education section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
The Official Osteopathic Thesaurus was added to the medical terminology section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
Temporarily removed A-OPTIC.org from the general medical education resources and graduate medical education opportunities sections of the medical education section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
Added link to Classic Type I-IV Hypersensitivity Reactions in the Skin to the dermatology sections of the Nursing and Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web pages.
Added the Athletic Training Education Journal to a newly-created section for general athletic training resources within the Athletic Training Program Resources Web page.
Added A-OPTIC.org to the general medical education resources and graduate medical education opportunities sections of the medical education section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
Added PediatricEducation.org and PedCases.com: Pediatrics for Medical Students to a new section for pediatrics within the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
Updated my normal work schedule for spring 2009, which is to be used in conjunction with the weekly schedule of Carnegie-Vincent Library reference desk hours and LMU-DCOM office hours. These can be found here.
Added Annual Reviews to the electronic books section of the medical library home page. It is also listed in the A-Z databases list, the LMU-DCOM databases list, and the Natural Sciences databases list.
Reorganized the links in the graduate medical education opportunities section of the medical education section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page into the following categories: applying, matching, and opportunities. Within the graduate medical education opportunities section, added Residency Matching Program for Urology and the San Francisco Matching Program to the matching section, CareerMD and FindAResident to the opportunities section, and a note about the Specialities Matching Service (SMS) to the entry for the National Resident Matching Program in the matching section. Fixed link for ADA Technical Assistance CD-ROM within all of the relevant free resources sections of the program resources pages.
Reorganized the EPC section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page into sections for EPC III and EPC IV. Added four existing links (Association of Technical Opticians, Basic Knot Tying and Suturing, and two Radiological Terrorism links) to the EPC IV section of the EPC section of Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page
Fixed link for Physiology of the Kidney for urinary subsections of the anatomy and physiology sections of the Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Medical Technology, and Nursing Program Resources Web pages as well as the urinary subsections of the physiology sections of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages. Removed link for Interactive Kidney Illustration from the urinary subsections of the physiology section of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages since it is very simplistic.
Added links to ResidentSwap.org, National Matching Services Inc. – AOA Intern/Resident Registration Program; Roadmap to Residency: From Application to Match and Beyond, 2nd edition; and Strolling through the Match, 2008-2009 to the graduate medical education opportunities section of the medical education section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
Added Facial Muscle Action Illustrated to the muscular subsections of the anatomy and physiology sections of the Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Medical Technology, Nursing, Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages.
Added Teaching Materials for Pathology to the pathophysiology section and molecular fundamentals of medicine section’s newly-created histology subsection within the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
Added EPC and women’s health sections to the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page. Added The Global Library of Women’s Medicine to the surgery section and newly-created women’s health sections of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page. Added four existing links (Case Studies: Abnormal Chest X-Rays, HEAL Normal and Abnormal Chest X-Rays, Module One: Chest Radiology, and Procedures Consult) to the newly-created EPC section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
The library hours have been extended to midnight on Monday through Thursday for December 1-4 and Sunday through Thursday for December 7-12.
Hours for Thanksgiving Week
Saturday, November 22, 2008, 10am-5pm
Sunday, November 23, 2008, closed
Monday – Wednesday, November 24-26, 2008, 8am-4:30pm
Thursday – Saturday, November 27-29, 2008, closed
Sunday, November 30, 2008, 2-11pm
Added Edheads to the surgery section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
Added link for cell motility, myosin, and extravasation to the cells section of the molecular fundamentals of medicine section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page and the cells sections of the anatomy and physiology section of the Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Medical Technology, Nursing, and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages.
Added Laboratory Dissections Practice Practical to the dissection images and videos section of the anatomy section of the Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages. Thanks to David Feaker, OMS 1, for the link!
Added The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education to the general section of the anatomy section as well as the pathology section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page and the anatomy and physiology sections of the Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Medical Technology, Nursing, Physician Assistant, and Veterinary Technology Program Resources Web pages.
Added CountryWatch, Health Information in Multiple Languages, Gale Virtual Reference Library, Ethnomed, and a collection of other links for health information in multiple languages to the international resources section of the medical education section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
Added Health Literacy Videos Online to the health literacy section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
Added the Association of Technical Opticians Web site to the the pathophysiology section and the neuroscience section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page; also added it to the eyes section of the anatomy and physiology sections within the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
Removed link for Drug Therapy in Nursing since the link is now broken.
Added Module One: Chest X-Ray to the pathophysiology section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page and the radiologic anatomy section of the anatomy section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
Added descriptions to all of the fast links on the medical library home page. The descriptions appear when a user holds the cursor over the item.
I am happy to announce that LMU-DCOM has obtained access to the internal medicine modules within Procedures Consult.
This subscription provides access to 42 internal medicine procedures with videos and tests. Users can choose to view a quick review or full details for each procedure. Procedures Consult includes defibrillation, general splinting techniques, local anesthesia, lumbar puncture, nasogastric intubation, and much more.
Links to Procedures Consult are now included on the medical library home page, in the A-Z list of databases, and in the list of LMU-DCOM databases.
Added link to the Veterinary Support Personnel Network to the general resources section of the Veterinary Technology Program Resources Web page.
Removed link to the Vision Simulator since the Web site appears to be down.
Removed link to University of Washington’s Normal Distal Thigh Anatomy since the link now redirects to a different Web site.
Added Physician Assistant Program Resources Web page.
Added note from Shannon King to LUMEN Cross-Sectional Tutorial, which is listed in the anatomy section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page as well as the anatomy and physiology section of the Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Medical Technology, Nursing, and Physician Assistant Program Resources Web pages.
Added links to the CIA World Fact Book and to World Health Organization – Countries to a newly-created section for international resources within the medical education section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
Added link to Case Studies: Abnormal Chest X-Rays to the pathophysiology section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page. Added link to HEAL Normal and Abnormal Chest X-Rays to the pathophysiology section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page as well as the radiographic anatomy section of the anatomy sections of the Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Medical Technology, Nursing, and Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web pages.
September 8, 2008
Removed link to Active Learning Centre from pharmacology sections of the Athletic Training, Nursing, and Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web pages since the quizzes are not working. Lisa contacted the Web master to inform him of the problem, and he replied that it would be fixed soon.
August 27, 2008
Added link to VisualDxHealth to newly-created sections for dermatology within the Nursing and Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web pages.
August 26, 2008
Removed link for West Virginia University Professor William A. Beresford’s anatomy Web site from the dissection images and videos sections of the anatomy sections of the Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Medical Technology, Nursing, and Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web pages since the PowerPoint presentations no longer open properly.
August 25, 2008
Added links to animations for normal and abnormal clotting to the blood sections of the anatomy & physiology sections of the Athletic Training, Kinesiology, and Nursing, Program Resources Web pages, the hematology section of the Medical Technology Program Resources Web page, and the hematology section of the molecular fundamentals of medicine section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web pages.
August 18, 2008
Added link to Harvard’s ECG Wave-Maven to the ECGs sections of the Nursing and Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web pages. Added link to University of Michigan’s Medical Gross Anatomy Learning Resources to the general sections and dissection images & videos sections of the anatomy sections of the Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Medical Technology, Nursing, and Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web pages. Also added University of Michigan’s Medical Gross Anatomy Learning Resources to the surgery section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page; thanks to Alex Phillips, OMS 2, for the link.
July 31, 2008
Added link to Janssen’s MINDSTORM to the newly-created psychiatry section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page; also added it to the newly-created mental health sections of the Nursing and Social Work Program Resources Web pages.
July 25, 2008
Added link to WeBSurg World Electronic Book of Surgery to the surgery section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
July 18, 2008
July 10, 2008
Removed the link for Arterial Blood Gases (ABG) Tutorial since the Web site is no longer available.
July 3, 2008
Removed the links for KU Radiographic Anatomy, Arrhythmia Quiz; Exam: Chapter 27: The ECG, Heart Sounds, Pulse; Rhythm Master; Life Cycle Diagrams, Parasitology Lab Quizzes, Parasitology Picture Keys, and Worm Jeopardy since the Web sites are no longer available. Removed link for MODRN Magazine since the magazine has been discontinued.
Added Kansas University School of Medicine’s Physiology of the Kidney Web site to the urinary system section of the physiology section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page and the urinary system section of the anatomy & physiology sections of the Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Medical Technology, and Nursing Program Resources Web pages.
Added the freely-available collection of books, Early American Manual Therapy, to the electronic books fast links on the home page.
Added Primal Anatomy to the home page.
May 27, 2008
Added American Veterinary Medicine Collections to the general resources section of the Veterinary Technology Program Resources Web page.
May 13, 2008
Added Lexi-Comp ONLINE to the pharmacology sections of the Osteopathic Medicine and Nursing Program Resources Web pages.
Added a link to Get Body Smart’s blood and blood cell quizzes to the hematology section of the Medical Technology Program Resources Web page.
Added links to the basic tutorial on library research at LMU and the tutorial on nursing research at LMU to the games, tutorials, and simulations section of the Nursing Program Resources Web page.
Added link to a Web site on basic knot tying and suturing to the games, tutorials, and simulations section of the Nursing Program Resources Web page.
From now until May 1, the library is now open until midnight on Sundays through Thursdays.
Added links to Online Physical Exam Teaching Assistant and Online Physical Exam Teaching Assistant: A Pediatric Companion to the physical assessment section of the Osteopathic Medicine and Nursing Program Resources Web pages.
Added link to the Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) to the medical education section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
Added link to the Family Medicine Digital Library Web site to the medical education section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page per recommendation of OMS I student, Aimee Foster. Thanks for the telling the library about the resource, Aimee!
The library hours for March 21 through March 29 follow.
Good Friday, March 21, closed
Saturday, March 22, closed
Easter Sunday, March 23, closed
Monday, March 24, through Friday, March 28, 8am – 4:30pm
Saturday, March 29, closed
Added link to the Neuronal Migration Disorders Information Page within the neuroscience section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page per Dr. Lynn Nielsen’s request.
Added links to The Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) and the National Resident Matching Program to the medical education section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page. Moved the medical education section from within the general medical resources section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page to its own separate section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
March 3, 2008
Added two links to a newly-created section for blood within the A&P section of the Veterinary Technology Program Resources Web page per student request.
February 21, 2008
Added two links to videos of patients with Broca’s aphasia and Wernicke’s aphasia to the neuroscience section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page per Dr. Nielsen’s request.
Added DIRLINE, a directory of health organizations, to the government resources sections of the general medical resources sections of the Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Medical Technology, Nursing, Osteopathic Medicine, and Social Work Program Resources Web pages. Added an animation on nephron function to the urinary system section of the physiology sections of the Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Medical Technology, Nursing, and Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web pages.
February 20, 2008
The library has activated the drug database, Lexi-Comp ONLINE. Links to the database are on the library home page and the databases Web pages. Lexi-Comp ONLINE includes non-biased information on drugs and natural products as well as medical calculations, a drug ID component, an interactions component, I.V. compatibility information, FDA special alerts, updates on medical safety issues, and more.
Added two searchable databases of graduate medical education programs to the medical education section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
February 15, 2008
Within the A&P section of the Veterinary Technology Program Resources Web page, per students’ requests, Lisa added Get Body Smart to a newly-created section for general A&P resources and added two Web sites to a newly-created section for the cardiovascular system.
Deleted link for Neuroanatomy and Neuropathology on the Internet from the Neuromuscular & Neuroscience section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page since the link is broken.
February 11, 2008
Added link to a Web site on basic knot tying and suturing to a newly-created section for surgery within the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
February 9, 2008
The library has activated a new database – ScienceDirect Health & Life Sciences College Edition. This database includes over 1,000 full-text journals that are useful to biology, nursing, osteopathic medicine, psychology, veterinary technology, and other programs of study. Links to the database are on the medical library home page and the databases Web pages.
The library has all but one of the spring 2008 LMU-DCOM textbooks. We are awaiting arrival of Functional Neuroanatomy and the new 13th edition of Primer on the Rheumatic Diseases (we have the 12th edition, which is the one on the textbook list).
Added hematology, microbiology, and urinalysis links to the Molecular Fundamentals of Medicine section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
January 10, 2008
The library has five study rooms with whiteboards for use by students. There are also study areas in other areas of the library.
Did you know that you may print needed materials in the library? Ask Lisa if you need assistance with printing. She can show you how to add a printer, print handouts, print booklets, change the background color to white within PowerPoint to save toner, and more.
Added MedEd Portal, Blackboard, and Mediasite to the newly-created medical education section within the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
January 7, 2008
Posted Lisa’s Spring 2008 schedule; please check back often for changes. Added link to recommended textbook within the Molecular Fundamentals of Medicine section within the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
January 4, 2008
Happy New Year! Added a link to Nursing Theorists Overview to a new section for Theorists within the Nursing Program Resources Web page.
December 19, 2007
The library will be closed December 22, 2007, through January 1, 2008.
November 15, 2007
See the Thanksgiving break hours here.
Added parasitology and gait sections to the Veterinary Technology Program Resources Web page.
November 13, 2007
Separated anatomy and physiology links within the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page. Consolidated the skull and skeletal system section links, keeping only the skeletal system section, in all of the anatomy and physiology sections for all of the programs. Added a brachial plexus link to the upper extremities section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.
Added a section for breeds within the Veterinary Technology Program Resources Web page. Added links for cells and tissues within the anatomy and physiology section of the Veterinary Technology Program Resources Web page.
October 23, 2007
Added links to Keith Bower’s podcasts and David Lane’s HyperStat Online Statistics Textbook to the statistics section of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page per Dr. Lynn Nielsen’s request.
Added a link to an Evidence-Based Practice government Web page to the general medical resources sections of the Nursing and Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web pages. Added a link to the National Organization for Nurse Practitioner Faculties to the organizations section of the Nursing Program Resources Web page. Added a link to the National Institute of Nursing Research to the research and general nursing sections of the Nursing Program Resources Web page.
Added link to streaming videos of Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination, 4th edition, to the auscultation and newly-created physical assessment sections of the Nursing and Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web pages. Created sections with links for associations, general resources, and pathology to the Veterinary Technology Program Resources Web page.
News items now link to the modified Web pages. Simply choose the appropriate section from the Web page.
Added eMedicine to General Medical Resources sections of the Nursing and Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web pages.
The dedication of the Lon and Elizabeth Parr Reed Medical and Allied Health library occurred over the weekend. Please drop in and look at the wonderful changes that have been made in the library.
New links to YouTube videos chosen by Dr. Nielsen have been added to the Neuroscience and Statistics sections of the Osteopathic Medicine Program Resources Web page.