Having trouble keeping up with those journals that are piling up? Don?óÔé¼Ôäót remember where those email reports are about your committee work? Well?óÔé¼?ª..
You can set up your personal Google Reader which accepts RSS feeds to monitor your favorite journals, keep track of your own publications and get notified when someone cites you, and stay up to date with society/association announcements, and your favorite blogs.
Don?óÔé¼Ôäót know what I just said? You should contact a reference librarian reference@lsuhsc.edu immediately. She will assist you in using these 2.0 technologies. This technology will simplify your life. You can wow your kids at the same time! The drawback? Once you get the hang of 2.0 technologies it will be 3.0 technologies!
As you may remember the Library converted its links to a Delicious Account back in August. In October, we posted about the social bookmarking phenomenon. The Delicious Links continue their dyamic growth with over a dozen new sites added in the last month. My particular favorite? The Virtual Stethoscope Project. from McGill University.
Auscultation is the technical term for listening to the internal sounds of the body, usually using a stethoscope. The links below offer a number of websites that contain heart, lung, and breathing sounds.
Auscultation Assistant
http://www.med.ucla.edu/wilkes/inex.htm
Cardiac Examination / Heart Sounds
http://www.blaufuss.org/tutonline.html#
CardiologySite.com
http://www.cardiologysite.com/index.html
Heart Sounds and Murmurs
http://www.texasheartinstitute.org/Education/CME/explore/events/eventdetail_5469.cfm
Heart Sounds and Murmurs
http://depts.washington.edu/physdx/heart/index.html
We’ve also indexed these on our links page.
Technorati Profile
Move along, just trying to get some web statistics stuff set up here.
What online tools do medical professionals use to network with their peers? Check out these sites, compiled by the MLA’s EMTS section:
Grand Rounds – http://frommedskool.com/grand-rounds/
A blog ?óÔé¼?ôcarnival?óÔé¼?Ø which showcases the weekly best of the medical blogosphere. It is hosted by a different medical blogger each week.
Applequack.com ?óÔé¼ÔÇ£ http://applequack.com/
A blog written by a doctor in Australia, it contains reviews of medical software for the Mac, and hacks for doctors, biomedical researchers and students.
Tech Medicine ?óÔé¼ÔÇ£ http://www.healthline.com/blogs/medical_devices/
A blog written by practicing nephrologist and medical school faculty member, he is interested in medicine and technology
The Efficient MD blog – http://efficientmd.blogspot.com/
Reviews of innovations, “life hacks,” gadgets, techniques, and useful tools designed to improve the professional lives of physicians
The Efficient MD Wiki – http://wiki.efficientmd.com/
Designed to help healthcare professional and medical students discover clinical pearls and useful resources
Sermo ?óÔé¼ÔÇ£ http://www.sermo.com
Social networking for doctors, the current largest, only physicians can join
DoctorNetworking.com – http://doctornetworking.com/
Professional networking site for physicians, only for physicians – must include your state license number as part of registration.
Docsboard.com – http://www.docsboard.com/
Non-commercial physician discussion forum aimed at practicing physicians and residents in training. The site is intended to help physicians exchange ideas and discuss matters concerning the profession. Limited access to just physicians.
Doctors and Med Students on Twitter – http://feeds.feedburner.com/doctorsontwitter
An RSS feed of Twitter feeds mashed together. Twitter is a ‘microblogging’ service similar to text messaging, where users post updates to the question ‘What are you doing’ in 160 characters or less.
What’s your favorite?
The LSUHSC New Orleans Libraries have launched a new Links page using the social bookmarking website, Delicious. The new page features a tag cloud for easy access to the items tagged by LSUHSC Librarians.
The semester is almost over, but some students aren’t planning their summer vacations just yet. If you’re planning to take the USMLE Step 1, 2 or 3 or the NBDE soon, take a look at EXAM MASTER, a medical exam preparation and review resource that is available for FREE to LSUHSC students.
EXAM MASTER FEATURES
- Over 7,700 questions, answers, and explanations covering the USMLE Step 1 Exam.
- 3,100 clinical vignette type questions
- Questions created by physicians and medical educators
- Exam customization – Select questions by integrated outline, medical subjects, keywords, or take a pre-made practice exam
- Images and tables are associated with many questions.
- Scoring feature – track user performance and get the analysis necessary for concentrated study efforts.
More information on Exam Master
Students need to create an Exam Master username & password to use this resource. Off campus access requires log-in with library barcode & PIN, then login with your Exam Master info.
Get a leg up on your classmates and check out www.getbodysmart.com. Created by an anatomy teacher, this website is a great resource for learning about the skeletal system, muscle tissue physiology and the nervous system among other subjects. The animated drawings, diagrams and interactive quizzes will help you ace your next exam.
Here’s nifty tool that can help you stay current on medical news and topics. MedWorm is a web-based program that takes thousands of RSS feeds from medical journals, websites, blogs, and more, and sorts them into categories so you can quickly get up to date news on the topic of your choice.
Whether you want to know the latest on Alzeheimers or need to stay up to date with consumer health news, MedWorm wriggles its way through the internet to bring you a comprehensive and current snapshot. You can even subscribe to it through your RSS reader. Now that’s a parasite I don’t mind having on my computer.
LINKS:
MedWorm: http://www.medworm.com/
Reference Librarian, Molly Knapp has written webpage instructions on how to connect to the LSUHSC wireless system using the Mac OS 10.5, aka Leopard.
Reference Librarian, Molly Knapp has put together an instruction sheet for how to connect to the Library’s wireless connections using Mac OS 10.3/10.4, aka Tiger. Another sheet on the newer OS, Leopard is forthcoming.
The National Library of Medicine has announced the release of its Drug Information Portal. The portal “gives the public, healthcare professionals, and researchers a gateway to current, accurate and understandable drug information from the National Library of Medicine and other key government agencies.” (from the official press release) There are over 12,000 records with links to MedlinePlus, PubMed, etc.
Gearing up for gross anatomy? Check out this free online anatomy tool:
http://www.e-anatomy.org/index.html
e-anatomy is an anatomy e-learning web site. More than 1500 slices from normal CT and MR exams were selected in order to cover the entire sectional anatomy of human body. Images were labeled using Terminologia Anatomica. A user-friendly interface allows to cine through multi-slice image series combined with interactive textual information, 3D models and anatomy drawings.
New from the publishers of the PDR: PDRhealth.com, a free consumer health website.
Thomson Healthcare publishes the Physicians?óÔé¼Ôäó Desk Reference (PDR), a clinical resource on drug and disease monographs. PDRhealth.com is a free consumer health website based on the same information platform as the PDR.
PDRhealth.com offers drug & dietary supplement information, disease info and online health tools like cholesterol calculators and a drug interaction checker, in order to make critical health information accessible to consumers.
Individuals can also sign up to receive electronic newsletters, alerts on new clinical trials, and any new information about prescription drugs. The only thing lacking are pictures of the drugs and supplements, which are always available in the print edition of the PDR (available at our Circ. Desk & in Reference at QV 22 AA1 P56).
Did you know?
U.S.-based MDs, DOs, Dentists, Optometrists, NPs and PAs and U.S. medical students, residents and other select prescribing allied health professionals have FREE online access to the PDR and Thomson Clinical Xpert (registration required).
Did you know?
Thanksgiving is also the fourth annual National Family History Day.
Over the holiday or at other times when families gather, the Surgeon General encourages Americans to talk about, and to write down, the health problems that seem to run in their family. Learning about their family’s health history may help ensure a longer, healthier future together.
My Family Health Portrait, a tool from the US Surgeon General, allows you to create a personalized and printable family health history report from any computer with an Internet connection and an up-to-date Web browser.
https://familyhistory.hhs.gov/
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