Exam Master, our personalized USMLE, NBDE and Board preparation tool, is changing the way you log in. Starting Monday, November 16 users will need to use the email address they signed up with instead of a user name to log in. Your password will remain the same.
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Interested in emergency medicine? The Clerkship Directors in Emergency Medicine (CDEM) group put together an EM Clerkship Primer addressing the unique aspects of EM for the medical student. You can access this free guide to your EM clerkship at http://www.saem.org/saemdnn/Portals/0/NTForums_Attach/ED%20Primer.pdf
Via Academic Life in Emergency Medicine
Image courtesy of the NIH
The Satcher Healthcare Leadership Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine will be holding a Community Mental Health Forum featuring Dr. David Satcher this Wednesday, October 28 in New Orleans. Entitled
“Essentials to Rebuilding Our Communities: Healthy Minds and Healthy Bodies,” the event features a keynote address by former US Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher, as well as a panel discussion and reception.
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The Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Moorehouse School of Medicine presents:
Essentials to Rebuilding Our Communities: Healthy Minds and Healthy Bodies
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
David Satcher, MD, PhD
Director, Satcher Health Leadership Institute
Poussaint-Satcher-Cosby Chair in Mental Health
16th Surgeon General of the United States
LOCATION:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Charter School for Science and Technology
1617 Caffin Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70117
Map
Reception: 6:00 p.m.- 7:00 p.m.
Discussion: 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Moderator: Ayanna Buckner, MD, MPH
Panelists:
– Ms. Pam Dashiell – Community Activist
– Rev. Earnest Dison – Pastor, St. Paul Church of God in Christ
– Corey Hebert, MD – Pediatrician and Medical Correspondent
– Ms. Laura Danna – Assistant Clinical Director, Project Fleur-de-Lis
– Ms. Josie White – Licensed Family Counselor
Entertainment:
– The Stooges Brass Band
– The Black Feathers Mardi Gras Indians
Cochrane Library Reviews are now available for purchase on your iPhone. $29.95 gets you selected evidence-based medicine reviews by subject area. More info at: www.skyscape.com/cochrane
The library subscribes to the online version of the Cochrane Library, which is available for free to LSUHSC members with their library barcode and PIN.
Not to be missed is tomorrow’s 3rd Annual LSUHSC Health & Wellness Event, hosted by the Department of Physical Therapy and the DPT Class of 2011.
Join them Friday, October 23rd in Seminar Room 4 on the third floor of the Medical Education Building (across from the cafeteria) for a number of health and wellness activities. I attended last year and discovered my flexibility range, BMI, and other health information, and got advice on posture exercises and how to lift a heavy box properly.
If you plan to attend there’s also a LSUHSC Health & Wellness Event 2009 Demographic Survey. See you tomorrow!
With over 1,544 medical apps in the iTunes App Store, it can be difficult to decide which is worth the money. Luckily, Houston Neal over at Software Advice has done the work for you. Head over to their site to check out The Best Medical iPhone Apps for Doctors and Med Students.
Nurses & Dentists are not forgotten in this long list, and they’ve even included study guides and games. Here’s a couple that I’d not yet heard of:
BoardReview ÔÇô Free ÔÇô Busy students can prep for their board exams by reviewing electronic drug information on their iPhone or iPod Touch. nursing students can study electronic nursing review cards to prep for the NCLEX-RN, on their iPhone or iPod Touch so they can test their nursing knowledge anytime, anyplace.
Speed Bones Lite ÔÇô Free ÔÇô A must have game if you are tackling anatomy for high school, university or medical school. It is more captivating than flashcards and practice mode allows you to learn specific regions without doing all the previous levels. Review mode lets you replay all the mistakes youÔÇÖ made in the last game to facilitate learning.
Orasphere ÔÇô Free ÔÇô Using Orasphere dental educational videos saves you time, reduces liability and increases patient case acceptance for your dental practice. Easily view Orasphere dental videos on your iPod or iPhone and start educating your patients.
Come learn about how to manage and write bibliographies with RefWorks today from 1-2pm in the Isché Library’s computer classroom 405. Drop ins welcome. Email Molly Knapp at mknapp@lsuhsc.edu or call 568-6100 for more information
Today’s the last day to vote for the US Dept. of Health and Human Services 2009 Flu Prevention PSA contest. Who could resist the swine flu rap, by Dr. Clarke?
Spoonful of Medicine also points out a swine flu rap done by cute little pigs. It’s in Chinese but there are subtitles.
Speaking of being prepared, seasonal flu shots will be available September 23, 24 and 25 (next Weds. – Fri.) from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. at the School of Nursing, 1900 Gravier Street, 5th floor IV lab. Free for students and $10 for Faculty & Staff payable by cash or check.
~EDIT~ Shots were cancelled due to a shortage of vaccine. edited 9/21/09 @ 8:44 a.m.
LSUHSC has also created a H1N1 info portal, with updated swine flu information. Our campus is also applying to become a point of distribution for the H1N1 vaccine when it becomes available. The H1N1 flu vaccine will be distributed in accordance with the CDC?óÔé¼Ôäós priority group vaccination recommendations.
The archaic days of checking out a key to turn on a computer are behind us!
Beginning today, the computer lab on the fourth floor of the library is keyless. All you need to use it are a valid LSUHSC user ID and password. Stopping at the Circulation desk for a key is unnecessary if you plan to work in the lab.
The 8 computers outside the lab will continue to use key access for those patrons who either do not have a LSUHSC logins, or are having difficulty with their logins. To check out a computer key for those computers, you will still need a LSUHSC ID.
TIPS:
DO NOT save work to the computer. Use a flash drive or save to your personal drive on the network.
Computers are automatically erased every day. Anything left on the computer will not remain there the next day.
Computer lab use is expected to comply with the acceptable use policies as set forth under CM-42 – Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure. Failure to comply with these rules can result in revoked computer privleges. So keep it clean and work/school related, folks!
Four years later, a memorandum of understanding is signed for a new public-private teaching hospital.
Julie Schiavo, reference librarian at the LSU Dental School, has just been awarded an Express Outreach Grant for over $3,000 from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region. Julie’s grant, entitled “Outreach to the LSUHSC-NO School of Dentistry Clinic: Providing Quality Consumer Health Information to Dental Patients,” will provide consumer health computer stations to patients at the Dental clinic.
Congratulations Julie! We are very proud of you!
With all this talk about immunization in the second year medicine groups and flu season just around the corner, here’s a timely iPhone app.
ShotRecs is a rapid reference guide to the 2009 Childhood, Adolescent and Adult Immunization Schedules as provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It’s available from the App Store on iTunes.
It features:
– 2009 Childhood, Adolescent and Adult Immunization Schedules
– 2009 Childhood and Adolescent Catch-up Immunization Schedules
– 2009 Vaccine schedule for adults based on medical and other indications
more info & screenshots
Interestingly enough, ShotRecs was designed by a medical student (now an intern in Family Medicine) at Georgetown University. Any Tigers out there designing iPhone apps?
Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (a new favorite blog of mine) has a nice review on a recent article from the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine by Langdorf & Hayden called “Turning your abstract into a paper: academic writing made simpler.” Lots of good tips (& a link to the free full text of the article) if you are considering turning a research abstract into a paper.
APA style was developed by social and behavioral scientists to standardize scientific writing. Here at LSU, the School of Nursing and some departments in the School of Allied Health use APA style to cite references in their papers.
Why is standardized scientific writing necessary, anyway? A big reason is to enable others who read your paper to find the references that you used. Scientific research is built upon the ideas and experimentation of others, and it is critical to credit the shoulders of giants on which you stand.
APA style can be confusing if you’ve never written a paper before. Luckily, there is a great tutorial on http://www.apastyle.org/ that is the perfect introduction to citing books and journals, both in a paper and on your reference page.
If you don’t have time to view the 20 minute tutorial, check out these slide numbers for quick reference:
Link to APA style tutorial: http://flash1r.apa.org/apastyle/basics/index.htm
Slides 14, 15, 16: Citing references in text
Slide 15 includes a handy table of in-text citation styles depending on the number of authors
Slide 18: Components of a citation
Slide 21: Formatting references to journal articles
Slide 22: Formatting a reference to an entire journal issue
Slide 23: Formatting a reference to a book chapter in an edited book
Slide 24: Formatting a reference to an entire book
There’s also a tutorial on What’s new in APA style, 6th edition, if you’re used to using the 5th.
Happy citing!
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