The Friday Post #40: Pumpkins, Halloween Art, Medical Student Video and a Calculator

Happy Halloween! Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, which is really fine, it means that party-goers won’t be forced to drag themselves to the lecture hall at 8:00am the next day.  And, even better, October 31 is the start of Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. which means one added hour to sleep in! [...]

News, EBM, Library Resources: JAMA Evidence now available

For those interested in learning strategies for practicing evidence-based medicine, check out the latest digital subscription from UCHC Library: JAMA Evidence Image Credit: http://www.jamaevidence.com/ – All rights reserved – Copyright 2009 . Produced by American Medical Association editors and publisher McGraw Hill, content from the digital textbook is also available for mobile applications. I particularly [...]

News, Open Access, Scholarly Communications, Academic Publishing: This is Open Access Week

October 19 through 23 is… Photo credit – Courtesy of http://www.openaccessweek.org/ – All rights reserved – Copyright 2009 SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Research Consortium) is the organizer of Open Access Week.  Information about SPARC Europe is here. The concept of open-access journals distributed on computer networks worldwide (at no cost to users) when I was [...]

The Friday Post #39: Two Notable Blogs, Chameleons, Guitars and Drunk

Here’s the Friday Post #39 for Oct 16 2009.  It snowed in Connecticut yesterday.  It was a mucho-early start to the cold weather season.  Let’s hope for no more snow for another few weeks. Nice to learn that Graham Walker is still in fine form!  He used to blog as a Medical Student on the [...]

Visualization, PBL: Visit with Wordle Occasionally

One aspect of participating in problem-based learning is that by the end of the semester, every student in the group has taken their turn at the group tasks involved, which are: The Reader narrates the case as it is made available online. The written case with any supporting visual materials such as radiology or histology [...]

Medical Literature, Data Architecture & Organization: Idioms, Lexicons and Acronyms of Medicine? NIH, NCBI, MeSH, PubMed and Entrez

Image Credit/Source: http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/pithy – All rights reserved – Copyright 2009 Try as I might, I couldn’t make this post pithy.  Sorry. Based on some in-depth questions I’ve heard at the Reference Desk this month, this is a short long post on the structure and organization of medical information developed by U.S. agencies which collect, organize, [...]

News, Global Public Health, Health Disparities: 2009 Human Development Report from the United Nations

” Despite progress in many areas over the last 25 years, the disparities in people’s well-being in rich and poor countries continue to be unacceptably wide, according to the Human Development Index (HDI) released today as part of the United Nation’s 2009 Human Development Report (HDR). This year’s HDI, a summary indicator of people’s well-being—combining [...]

The Friday Post #38: Strange Posts, Sleepy Chickens and Strange Sports

This is the Friday Post #38 for October 2 2009. Strange?  Define Strange. As a blog-administrator I get to filter all comments to the page before they are displayed publically.  The majority of the spam is deleted by myself or caught by Askimet, the utility in WordPress that takes care of that function. On Tuesday, [...]