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Good Teachers Are Desperately Needed
New York Traveler.net | December 18th 2009 by Mrs. Mecomber
Good Teachers Are Desperately NeededThis post is from read more
Instruction, Information Seeking Behaviors, Clinical Evidence: Te…
EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC | December 16th 2009 by creaky
This has been a busy month. The final first-year PBL class will be wrapping up, as the semester ends on Friday, Dec 18 2009. On Monday, I taught an evidence-based medicine class for 28 third-year medical students (which I’ve done since 2001). read more
News, Global Health, Public Health: Today is World AIDS Day
EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC | December 1st 2009 by creaky
Today is World AIDS Day 2009 33.4 million people in the world are living with AIDS Image Credit: http://UNAIDS.org – All rights reserved – Copyright 2009 _____________________________________ Following is a brief list of statistical read more
News, Public Health, Public Service: H1N1 Fact Page from Ebsco
EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC | November 24th 2009 by creaky
This year, Ebsco Publishing has created an evidence-based medicine source for current factual diagnostic or treatment information for H1N1 influenza virus, written for clinicians, nurses and the general public. This site is open to anyone in the worl read more
News, Public Health, Epidemiology, Tobacco: Great American Smokeo…
EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC | November 19th 2009 by creaky
Today, Nov 19 2009 is designated by the American Cancer Society as… The Great American Smokeout Image credit: Courtesy of American Cancer Society – All rights reserved – Copyright 2009 _____________________________________________ read more
News, Public Health, Epidemiology: Nutrition versus Food: Too Muc…
EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC | November 18th 2009 by creaky
This world is divided in many ways:Â people who grew up around snow, people who have never even seen snow… left-handed knitters with curly hair versus balding right-handed crocheters, those who love the NY Yankees versus the Boston Red Sox, bl read more
LeapFrog Blogger Party AND GIVEAWAY
Dancing Hotdogs Present Movies and More | November 2nd 2009 by Eddy
By Divina Recently, I had the pleasure of attending LeapFrog East Coast blogger party at the fabulous Four Seasons Hotel . I spent a wonderful afternoon catching up with old friends like Esti and Carol and making new ones like Lisa , Cori , Amy and read more
News, Public Service Announcements, Public Health: Hands Symphony…
EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC | November 2nd 2009 by creaky
Here’s a wonderful public service announcement from American Heart Association Hands Symphony Image Source: http://handsonlycpr.org/symphony/ - All rights reserved – Copyright 2009 __________________________________ This is an interactiv read more
News, Open Access, Scholarly Communications, Academic Publishing:…
EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC | October 19th 2009 by creaky
October 19 through 23 is… Photo credit – Courtesy of http://www.openaccessweek.org/ – All rights reserved – Copyright 2009 SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Research Consortium) is the organizer of Open Access Week. Informat read more
Visualization, PBL: Visit with Wordle Occasionally
EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC | October 14th 2009 by creaky
One aspect of participating in problem-based learning is that by the end of the semester, every student in the group has taken their turn at the group tasks involved, which are: The Reader narrates the case as it is made available online. The wri read more
Medical Literature, Data Architecture & Organization: Idioms,…
EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC | October 8th 2009 by creaky
Image Credit/Source: http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/pithy – All rights reserved – Copyright 2009 Try as I might, I couldn’t make this post pithy. Sorry. Based on some in-depth questions I’ve heard at the Reference read more
News, Global Public Health, Health Disparities: 2009 Human Develo…
EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC | October 6th 2009 by creaky
” Despite progress in many areas over the last 25 years, the disparities in people’s well-being in rich and poor countries continue to be unacceptably wide, according to the Human Development Index (HDI) released today as part of the United N read more
Search Engines, Genomics, Medical Literature: Tag Clouds come to…
EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC | September 29th 2009 by creaky
“… LigerCat is a search tool for NCBI’s PubMed that uses tag clouds to provide an overview of important concepts and trends. LigerCat aggregates multiple articles in PubMed, summing their MeSH descriptors and presenting them in a c read more
News, E-Books, Scientific Research, Tools: The AMA Manual of Styl…
EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC | September 22nd 2009 by creaky
As the new and returning medical, dental, MPH and PhD students get settled into their academic routines, including researching learning issues for PBL, there is a new E-book subscription from UCHC Library which may help them: The AMA Manual of Style: read more
Influenza, Public Health, Preventive Medicine: Vote today for you…
EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC | September 16th 2009 by creaky
Did you know that the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services has its own site on YouTube.com? You betcha! Go to http://www.youtube.com/USGOVHHS Image Source: http://www.flu.gov/psa/psacontest1.html – All rights reserved – Copyright read more
Public Health, News, Epidemiology: H1N1 News and a Feed from CDC
EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC | September 9th 2009 by creaky
Image – H1N1 Influenza Virus Photo/Image Credit: Courtesy of http://www.microbiologystudents.com/gallery_image.php?image_id=4 ____________________________ Last week, in anticipation of the beginning of ‘regular’ flu season in the No read more
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Computer And Technology Blog | September 8th 2009 by kon5518
computer has become an almost inseparable part of our lives. Today even the children are getting introduced to computer at a very young age. But as they do not know what is right and what is wrong they often become the victim of cyber crime. Therefor read more
News, Students and the Class of 2013: The Mindset List from Beloi…
EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC | August 18th 2009 by creaky
Welcome, Class of 2013 ! As we in the library begin to see the newest groups of medical, dental and doctoral students arriving at UCHC, it may be beneficial and educational to read the 11th edition of the Mindset List, published in August 2009, by a read more
Online Search Tools: Stump the Librarian? Maybe Not
EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC | August 4th 2009 by creaky
Scientists: do you lay awake at night, thinking up how to Stump a Librarian with your latest inscrutable search queries? Recently I had a reference question about a patient with NASH, and I thought:Â “Uh…Â Nash…. a stubby car pro read more
News, Scientific Literature, Bioinformatics, Search Technologies:…
EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC | July 28th 2009 by creaky
Anyone who works with geneticists and biomedical researchers already knows that learning the language of their science is daunting for a non-scientist to understand. This international community has developed dozens of highly specific databases, data read more
News, Announcements: Welcome, a new Library Blog for UConn
EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC | July 24th 2009 by creaky
The EBM & Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC blog just got a brand-new “relative”, with the introduction this week of our LibraryNews@UCHC Blog (also on WordPress): . Image credit: http://www.wordpress.com – All rights reserved &# read more
News, Scientific Literature, Visualization: Cell Press and Elsevi…
EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC | July 20th 2009 by creaky
STM publishers Cell Press and Elsevier ratcheted up the technological ante this month with their announcement on Monday, Jul 20 2009, of a shared project called Article of the Future, which they are funding to provide: “… an on-going coll read more
The Friday Post #35: Renaissance Medicine at NLM, Harry Potter an…
EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC | July 17th 2009 by creaky
So excited about going to see the fifth movie based on J.K. Rowling’s work, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which was released in the U.S. on July 15th at midnight. I’ve read every book in the series at least twice. A timely exh read more
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