Clinical Reasoning, Mobile Computing, Point of Care Tools: Medical Knowledge in Your Pocket

This month, the second-year medical students at UCHC are in the process of selecting and purchasing their mobile computing devices (PDAs or SmartPhones) in preparation for the beginning of their clinical clerkship year when they’ll be using them to keep a log of patient encounters, check for drug interactions, calculate laboratory test results, look up [...]

The Friday Post #45: Hapless Medical Student, StoryBird and Moonbows

This is the Friday Post #45 for Jan 22 2010. First, thanks to Educational Origami (a favorite blog/wikis for educational and instructional ideas) for the link to StoryBird where you can sign up to create your own story, or collaborate with others to create a shared story.  The artwork is fabulous! http://storybird.com/create/ Very cool _______________________________ [...]

Public Health, Health Infrastructure, Humanitarian Aid: Health Crisis in Haiti

The recent major earthquake in the capital city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Jan 12 2010 has been a catastrophic and life-altering event for those living there.  The death toll climbed this week to an estimated 200,000 people.  For world leaders (and regular citizens), viewing the news reporting and photos from afar, the downtown area resembles [...]

News, Awards: VP and Dean Cato Laurencin honored at the White House

Besides serving as an educational administrator, Dr. Cato Laurencin, Dean of UConn School of Medicine and Vice President for Health Affairs, is also an orthopaedic surgeon, inventor and biomedical engineer, holds a PhD (from MIT) and an MD degree (from Harvard), and has 20 patents registered under his name.  He has been at UCHC since [...]

The Friday Post #44: Cephalopods, Coconuts, Cold Iguanas, Pinched

This is the first Friday Post #44 for 2010 Anyone who reads this blog might recall that I’m fond of cephalopods. Why? They’re smart (if not huggable), beautiful in their alien-marine type of way, their skin reflects their emotional states and there is still so much for humans to discover about their wily Octopus behaviors.  [...]

News, American Healthcare Reform, Legislation: Comparison of US Healthcare Proposals

On their Health Reform website, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation has made available a page listing factual details of two health care reform proposals from the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives. The two bills are titled: “Senate Bill – Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590)” or “House Bill – Affordable [...]

A Research Community, in Context: More on the We and the It (Part 2)

In this first post of 2010, I wish all readers a Happy and Productive New Year! This post continues an earlier thread (Dec 28 2009) about the end of a decade, academic libraries, librarians, scholarly research, open access and thinking about effective ways of handling expected – if uncharted – changes to the manner and [...]