PubMed Class

Is now full!!!!

It is not too late to sign up for the day-long PubMed class which will be held in the Library’s electronic classroom  on Tuesday, October 20, 2009.  This class will be taught by representatives from the National Library of Medicine who are experts in teaching Medline, PubMed and other NLM databases.  The class will be held 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.  This class is not limited to the Loyola community.  Anyone can sign up.   To register, go to http://nnlm.gov/ntcc/classes/regions.html#Greater%20Midwest.  If you have any questions, please call us at 708-216-9192 or e-mail Research Services at researchservices@lumc.edu.

Ebook news

MD Consult is currently offering complimentary access to over 80 titles in addition to our regular collection.  These include titles in the fields of Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Oncology, Surgery, and many more.  Access to these titles is only available until October 14.

A few titles in our regular MDConsult collection have been updated to new editions : DeLee and Drez’s orthopaedic sports medicine, 3^rd ed, 2009.; Ferri’s clinical advisor, 2010.  A new title has been added as well: Massachusetts general hospital comprehensive clinical psychiatry, 2008.

New titles have also been added to the Henry Stewart talks series as follows:

List of talks available:

1. Copy number variation

Prof. Stephen Scherer – Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Canada

2. Array comparative genomic hybridization to characterize copy number variation in the human genome

Dr. Nigel Carter – The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK

3. CNVs in human genomes

Prof. Chris Ponting – University of Oxford, UK

4. Population genetics of structural variation

Dr. Don Conrad – Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK

5. Genomic disorders: mechanisms for copy number variation and clinical implementation of high-resolution genome analysis

Prof. James Lupski – Baylor College of Medicine, USA

6. Databases for CNV in control and disease populations

Dr. Lars Feuk – Uppsala University, Sweden

7. CNVs and clinical diagnosis

Dr. Brynn Levy – Columbia University Medical Center, USA

8. Quantitative CNV testing in molecular diagnostics

Prof. Martin Somerville – University of Alberta, Canada

9. Williams-Beuren syndrome locus: a model of CNV affecting gene dosage and phenotypes

Dr. Lucy Osborne – University of Toronto, Canada

10. Mendelian CNV mutations

Prof. Joris Vermeesch – Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

11. Copy number variation in mental retardation

Dr. Joris Veltman – Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands

12. The case for offering all women amniocentesis and chromosomal microarray analysis

Prof. Arthur Beaudet – Baylor College of Medicine, USA

13. Structural variants and susceptibility to common human disorders

Prof. Xavier Estivill – Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain

14. Copy number variation in neuropsychiatric disorders

Dr. Christian Marshall – Hospital for Sick Children, Canada

15. Copy number variation in association studies of human disease

Dr. Steven McCarroll – Broad Institute, USA

16. Indels, CNVS and the spectrum of human genome variation

Prof. Samuel Levy – J. Craig Venter Institute, USA

17. The future of CNVs: sequence based resolution and links to human disease

Prof. Evan Eichler – University of Washington, USA

Topical Talks

List of talks available:

1. Risk communication in the post-cox2 era

Dr. Frederic Bouder – King’s College London, UK

2. Molecular biology of viruses

Prof. Andrew Easton – University of Warwick, UK

Non-Clinical Testing for Toxicity of Pharmaceuticals

New talks added:

1. Introduction to toxicogenomics and example case studies

Dr. Cindy Afshari – Amgen Inc., USA

2. Regulatory guidance on toxicity testing of pharmaceuticals: ICH

Dr. John Kapeghian – Preclinical Safety Associates, USA

Click here for access www.hstalks.com/access

DynaMed: Have you tried it yet?

Have you tried the Library’s newest resource, DynaMed.  If you have not tried it, please do so, you might like it.  There is a study that looks at DynaMed in comparison to other e-books like UpToDate and MdConsult.  The conclusion of the authors was that “here was no significant difference in preference for, or usage levels of, the three e-textbooks. During the telephone interview the three texts performed similarly in terms of time to answer and satisfaction with answer.” Check out this article:

Evaluation of e-textbooks. DynaMed, MD Consult and UpToDate.

Goodyear-Smith F. Kerse N. Warren J. Arroll B.

Australian Family Physician. 37(10):878-82, 2008 Oct.

You may also want to look at the following article:

Physicians answer more clinical questions and change clinical decisions more often with synthesized evidence: a randomized trial in primary care.

Alper BS. White DS. Ge B.

Annals of Family Medicine. 3(6):507-13, 2005 Nov-Dec.

The DynaMed editorial process applies the following strict evidence-based protocols:

Systematically identifying the evidence

Systematically selecting the best available evidence from that identified

Systematically evaluating the selected evidence (critical appraisal)

Objectively reporting the relevant findings and quality of the evidence

Synthesizing multiple evidence reports

Deriving overall conclusions and recommendations from the evidence synthesis

Changing the conclusions when new evidence alters the best available evidence

If not, here are a few other things you should know about DynaMed

• DynaMed is updated on a daily basis.
• DynaMed articles are evidence based.
• DynaMed is available off campus.

If you have any questions about DynaMed, please contact one of the reference librarians at 6-9192.

National Library of Medicine – Free Classes

National Training Center and Clearinghouse (NTCC), in conjunction with the Midwest Region (NN/LM GMR) and Loyola University Medical Center, is offering three FREE hands-on classes at the Loyola University Medical Center Health Sciences Library.  These classes are open to all Loyola University students and employees as well as the general public.

To register, go to http://nnlm.gov/ntcc/classes/regions.html#Greater%20Midwest

New PubMed Session has been added!

The following three classes will be taught by the staff of the NTCC:

PubMed (7.5 MLA CE Hours)

Tuesday,  October 20, 2009

8:30am to 5:00pm

Anyone who has used PubMed regularly has noticed some of the many changes. This PubMed® class is of particular interest to those who want a review of recent changes to the system, including medical librarians, researchers, medical editors, and anyone who searches for biomedical journal article citations.  This full-day class is designed to teach students how to use PubMed® which includes MEDLINE citations. The class also includes an overview of the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) and its importance as a tool to both searchers and indexers.

NLM Gateway and NLM Gateway and ClinicalTrials.gov (3.5 MLA CE Hours)

Wednesday, 10/21, 2009

8:30 am – Noon

The NLM Gateway and ClinicalTrials.gov class is of particular interest to public, consumer health, and medical librarians and all health information consumers.  The NLM Gateway allows users of NLM services to initiate searches from one Web interface, providing “one-stop searching” for many of NLM’s information resources or databases, including: PubMed®, MedlinePLUS, TOXNET®, Meeting Abstracts, and many more.

Deselection Lists 9-10

Deselection list 9 – QY Laboratory Medicine

Deselection list 10 – QZ Pathology

Note: We will begin withdrawing these items September 15, 2009.

In order to maintain a vital collection that meets the needs of our users and utilizes the limited space we have in the stack areas, the Health Sciences Library periodically deselects materials from our collection. The Library will begin this process in May and continue through the whole collection. Periodically a list of books slated for de-selection will be posted on this blog.

When a book is de-selected from the collection, it must meet one or several of the following criteria:

• The item no longer meets the mission of either the Health System or University.
• The item contains out-of-date information, has incorrect information, or is being replaced by a newer edition.
• The item is physically redundant as in the case of multiple copies of the same item.
• The item is not used or infrequently used (excluding historically significant or “rare book” material).

Items chosen for de-selection will, at some point, be placed on our “give away” shelf or sent to Better World Books (Better World Books collects and sells books online to fund literacy initiatives worldwide.).

A critical component of any de-selection project is to consult with our users about the books we have identified for de-selection. If you believe an item or items should be reconsidered, please send a response with justifications to Dianne Olson at dolson@lumc.edu.

DynaMed and Nursing Reference Trial

The library is pleased to offer a free trial of DynaMed and Nursing Reference Center, all part of the Ebsco family.  To access this trial:
Log in to Service at http://trial.ebscohost.com/

User ID: hsli

Password: ebsco

DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the ‘point-of-care’. With clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,000 topics, DynaMed is the only evidence-based reference shown to answer most clinical questions during practice. Based on the results of a study published in Annals of Family Medicine (November/December 2005), not only did primary care clinicians answer more clinical questions with access to DynaMed than without DynaMed, but these clinicians also found more answers in DynaMed that changed clinical decisions.

DynaMed is updated daily and 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.

Nursing Reference Center (NRC) provides a user-friendly point-of-care resource intended for staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, nurse faculty, and hospital librarians. It delivers the best available and most recent clinical evidence and knowledge on conditions and diseases via a nursing-specific graphical interface.

NRC is accessible from a patient’s bedside, nursing station, kiosk, office, or home. Clinical care data included in NRC consists of:

• CINAHL Nursing Guide – Over 3,500 evidence-based lessons on procedures, diseases and conditions, legal cases and drugs. This includes:
  • 2,200+ Care Sheets and Lessons
  • 700+ Legal Cases
  • 300+ Research Instruments
  • 100+ Continuing Education Full Text Documents
• Patient Education – Over 4,000 Health Library documents available in both English and Spanish.
• Health Nursing News – HealthDay News with daily FDA, clinical, and drug updates.

Patient care planning and access to detailed drug information is simplified via embedded HTML copies of F.A. Davis’s Laboratory & Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications, F.A. Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses and Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary.

Using NRC, nurses are also able to obtain Continuing Education Unit (CEU) credits on the job via access to over 100 CEU modules. Additional modules are added on a regular basis.

E-Book Survey

Loyola University Health Sciences Library is conducting a survey concerning our current Electronic Books collection. In an effort to promote the E-Book collection, several tutorials have been created to introduce some of the E-Book databases: MDConsult, Books@Ovid, and NCBI Bookshelf (PubMed). These tutorials are to help patrons become familiar with the databases, describe how to perform simple searches, and quickly retrieve useful electronic resources.

If you are unfamiliar with the Health Science’s Library E-Book collection, click here to learn mor.  To see the tutorials:

MDConsult

Books @Ovid

NCBI Bookshelf

And, if you are faculty, staff or student at Loyola University Medical Center and  would like to participate in this survey, please click here: http://www.formsite.com/ABCD/ebooksurvey/index.html

The Health Sciences Library continues to adapt to and adopt current technological trends to help better serve the patrons of Loyola University and the Medical Center. If you have any questions or comments about the survey or the Electronic Book collection, please contact Jean Gudenas.

Thank you for your time

Jean Gudenas, MLIS
Loyola University
Resource Services Librarian & Webmaster
708.216.4368
jgudenas@lumc.edu

Who uses the Library?

Ever wonder, as you sit at one of the Library’s 40 public computers, who all those other people are in the reading room, in the stacks, in the lounge or at the other computers?  No need to wonder any longer.  Last year over 104,000 users came through the doors of the library.   Three times a year, the library does a survey of all users who come into the library and use our facility.  During the week of August 10-16, the library staff surveyed 2,918 library users. Here are the results of that survey.

• Stritch School of Medicine (faculty, staff, students) 1,295 (44%)
• Loyola Medicine (residents, attendings, nurses, etc) 648 (22%)
• University (School of Nursing, undergrad, basic sci students (564 (19%)
• Other (non-affiliated, alumni) 411 (14%)

Below is a comparison of this years survey results with years past.