Matchmaker, matchmaker make me a match…
In this case, the matchmaker is the National Residency Matching Program. Match Day ceremonies at medical schools across the country begin at noon today.
Last year, exactly half of the 246 graduating students from Louisiana State University’s medical schools in New Orleans and Shreveport stayed in Louisiana, according to a 2008 article from the Times-Picayune.
Good luck to all our medical students, we hope you get your first choice! Whether you do or don’t, you may want to pick up the book Match Day: Young Doctors in Hell for what is in store for you.
From four-leaf clover-shaped quadricusp aortic valves to Clostridium perfringens gastroenteritis associated with corned beef, here’s some St Patrick’s Day biomedical journal articles from PubMed.
Plan to indulge this evening? Check out this Cocktail Content Calculator for exactly how much you’re Irishing up that coffee, as well as tips on pacing yourself. It’s all from the website Rethinking Drinking, from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
And if you do overdo it, please remember to call a cab.
Clinicaltrials.gov offers a searchable database of clinical trials that are occuring world wide; it is provided by the National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine. As of today, 38,757 trials are taking place in the United States and 2,816 of those are in Louisiana according to their searchable map.
It’s that time of year again, when various agencies grade the states on a variety of social issues:
From the National Center on Family Homelessness: Louisiana ranks 46th (up from 48th in 2005) in Child Homelessness; the short report also states that 1 in 28 children in Louisiana do not know where their next meal will come from.
From the National Alliance on Mental Illness: Louisiana gets a D for our mental health care system; of course, the overall grade for the United States was also a D.
From the Pennington Biomedical Research Center: Louisiana received a D in its Louisiana Report Card on Physical Activity and Health for Children and Youth.
The latest issue of the Library?óÔé¼Ôäós Newsletter has been released. Archives of the newsletter are also available from 1998 to the present.
Diagnosaurus, a free differential diagnosis tool featuring content from Current Consult Medicine 2007 is now available for iPhone.
However, it is not exactly free. You have to pay $0.99 to download it from iTunes
Download info: http://www.unboundmedicine.com/register/reg?cmd=diag&style.m=mh
We’re re-arranging the third floor to bring you more study space! There are now several tables available by the copy machine. Now you don’t have to sit on the floor the next time you need to xerox something.
FaceBook recently changed the way that the Libraries’ Pages look. Check out the new look for both the John P. Isché and Dental Libraries. And become a Fan today!
Every March the American Dietetic Association sponsors National Nutrition Month. One fun feature of their website is a fad diet timeline; I don’t think I would have wanted to try Lord Byron‘s vinegar & water diet (1820) or the sleeping beauty diet (1976) which featured heavy sedation for several days.
If you can read this, then access to the Internet may have been restored. All systems came to a halt at around 2 p.m. today. Computer services is working to restore connectivity, but services have been going up and down all afternoon.
~Edit~ All issues were resolved around 7 p.m. The problem was a series of power issues in Baton Rouge.
A new feature in Web of Science debuted recently. The new citation map feature allows first & second generation mapping of citations both backwards and forwards. The resulting map can be customized and edited. (An ActiveX Install was necessary on both computers where I tried this new feature.)
WoS Citation Map captured image
Here’s a first generation both direction example from 1999 written by emeritus professor, Brian Gebhardt. His article cites 37 different articles and has been cited 16 times so far.
The temporary construction walls were removed from within the Isché Library yesterday evening. This morning workers are hanging visquine to replace those walls and drywall work will commence shortly. Be alert as you exit the elevators into the Library Commons lobby and as you walk into the Library; construction is all around.
The Isché Library elevator was put back into service late this afternoon. Come check out its new look.
This is an interesting bridge between medical and dental practice:
Dentists are in such short supply in Maine that primary care doctors who do their medical residency in the state are learning to lance abscesses, pull teeth and perform other basic dental skills through a program that began in 2005.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/us/03dentist.html
One more thing for parents to worry about…
A recent study (link removed), published in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine found that children identified as impulsive by their kindergarten teachers appear more likely to begin gambling behaviors by junior high. View the full article. (Off campus access will require an LSUHSC libraries barcode)
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