Search Engines, Genomics, Medical Literature: Tag Clouds come to PubMed via LigerCat

“… 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 cloud, weighted by frequency “. Except from:  http://ligercat.ubio.org/about#contact_us . LigerCat is an abbreviation for Literature and Genomics Resource [...]

News, Innovative Hospital Design, Patient-Centered Care: Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has gotten much press coverage over the past 7 days, due to the G-20 Summit held there on Sept 24-25 2009.   I’ve always been interested in the city because my father was born and raised there.  My oldest child moved there this summer to attend Carnegie Mellon University, and loves the place. Like [...]

News, Medical Students, Social Network Analysis: Digital Histories can’t be Deleted

” The goals of this study were to describe reported incidents of medical students posting unprofessional content online at U.S. medical schools, describe current policies and views of medical school leaders regarding Web 2.0 use by medical students, and assess the relationship between unprofessional incidents and presence of policies. “ Excerpt from an article published [...]

News, E-Books, Scientific Research, Tools: The AMA Manual of Style Online

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: A guide for authors and editors (2009 – E-edition)*.   Editors of this work are [...]

The Friday Post #37: A Cartoon, Visualize your Persona and a Favorite Med Student Video

A timely cartoon from PhDcomics.com called “Brain on a Stick “ Source/Credit: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1126 – All rights reserved – Copyright 2009 _______________________________________ Next: Professors may see you as a brain on a stick, but how does the Internet see you? Personas, a specialized data-mining/visualization software program from designers at MIT, attempts to answer that question by [...]

Influenza, Public Health, Preventive Medicine: Vote today for your favorite Flu PSA

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 2009 Tips for preventing the spread of influenza – by systematic hand-washing, for example, or using an antiseptic hand cleanser – is the [...]

News, American History, Remembrance: Honor these Names

September 11, 2001 is a day – in the memory of many Americans – that is similar to the day that President John F. Kennedy was shot… your mind instantly returns to that moment in time and geography where you first heard this horrific news. Two members of my family survived that day in New [...]

Public Health, News, Epidemiology: H1N1 News and a Feed from CDC

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 Northern hemisphere and the public health concerns over the pandemic spread of H1N1 influenza worldwide, it seemed logical to add a news-feed to the EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC blog from [...]