EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC

A blog for medical students, faculty and librarians about their use of evidence based medicine, clinical literature, Web 2.0, sources and search strategies

Monthly Archives: November 2010

News, Clinical Resources, iPhone Apps: FirstConsult

Here’s some good news!  On Nov 6 2010, Elsevier Health, producer of the MD Consult/FirstConsult database, announced their free FirstConsult app for iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad . UCHC Library is an institutional subscriber to the MD Consult database, which enables any registered library user to access the First Consult database via their mobile device.  [...]

News, Information Seeking Behaviors, Research: Project Information Literacy surveys College Students

Wow…  Been away from blogging for so long I’m relieved to remember how it works! 8) * Health literacy is a key focus for librarians who interact frequently with patients looking for information about their own health issues. Larger, more universal information-seeking behaviors and lifelong learning strategies are topics of ongoing interest to two information [...]

News: Here’s a new look for the Blog

Whenever WordPress announces that a new theme has been added to their collection of free templates, I test them  out.  This new theme, zBench, is a winner! Hope you like it.  Bear with me while I fidget with the widgets. Thanks, WordPress. This week I will get back to blogging after a very active teaching [...]