FSU Maguire Medical Library Blog

Google Health beta Launches

Jacqui Cheng writes: “Google Health opened up to the public May 19 after several months of private beta testing. The long-anticipated health records project now allows Google users to manage their doctor records, prescriptions, and test results, as well as find out information about drug interactions and search for new doctors. All you need is a Gmail account and a healthy dose of trust to get started with Google Health, although some are still skeptical about the terms of service.”  Read the compete article at http://tinyurl.com/46e6rf

Watch a cautious C|Net video (3:46) http://news.cnet.com/1606-2_3-50002344.html on the topic.

SuccessTypes in Medical Education: A Program for Improving Academic Performance Now Available Online

John Pelley’s book, SuccessTypes in Medical Education:  A Program for Improving Academic Performance, is now in a free online version at http://www.ttuhsc.edu/SOM/success/successtypes%20in%20medical%20education.pdf.  It may be found by going to the library's "E-Books" page.  Remember, if you are off campus, be sure to click on the "Off-Campus Access (EZProxy)" link first.

In addition to providing a link to the book, Dr. Pelley’s web page http://www.ttuhsc.edu/SOM/success/, provides content related to teaching and other applications of personality type in health professions education.

E-Journal Titles Newly Available from MDConsult

The following e-journals are now available in MDConsult. These new titles may be found by going to the library's "E-Journals" page.  Remember, if you are off campus, be sure to click on the "Off-Campus Access (EZProxy)" link first.

• American Journal of Infection Control, February 2000-present
• American Journal of Opthalmology, 2004-present
• Anesthesia and Analgesia, 2000-present
• Clinical Journal of Pain, March 2000-present
• European Journal of Pain, 2000-present
• Heart Failure Clinics, April 2005-present
• Journal of Hospital Infection, 2000-present
• Journal of Infection, 2000-present
• Journal of Men’s Health, March 2008-present
• Journal of Pain, 2000-present
• Neuromodulation, 2002-present
• Nursing Clinics of North America, March 2002-present
• Paediatric Respiratory Reviews, March 2000-present
• Pain Medicine, March 2002-present
• Pain Practice, March 2002-present
• Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 2000-present
• Perioperative Nursing Clinics, March 2006-present
• PET Clinics, 2006-present
• Pulmonary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, February 2000-present
• Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, 2000-present
• Respiratory Medicine, 2000-present
• Seminars in Anesthesia,  Perioperative Medicine and Pain, March 2000-present
• Sleep Medicine Clinics of North America, March 2006-present
• Sleep Medicine Reviews, February 2000-present
• Techniques in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management, 2000-present
• Thorax, 2000-present
• Tuberculosis, 2001-present
• Ultrasound Clinics, 2006-present
• Urology, 2004-present

MedlinePlus Multilingual Enhancement

  On May 7, 2008, MedlinePlus will debut a multilingual feature, providing access to high quality health information in languages other than English and Spanish. This new service benefits people who prefer to read consumer health information in their native language. It also helps the information professionals and health care providers who serve them. Over the years, many of you have requested this enhancement. Your suggestions helped us to develop this important service.

The new collection contains over 2,500 links to information in more than 40 languages and covers nearly 250 Health Topics. Continuous growth is expected.  The link to the new collection is http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/languages/languages.html

Users can navigate the new collection of health information in multiple languages either by language or by topic. A page listing all of the languages covered will be linked from the MedlinePlus homepage. Users can browse these languages or link to the page listing all of the topics covered. In addition, a languages box will display on the English Health Topic pages. The languages box lists the languages with links on that topic in MedlinePlus. The languages box also links users to the collection of health information in multiple languages. Users can also search the new collection of health information in multiple languages. A new collection called Multiple Languages appears on the MedlinePlus search results pages.  Look for an update to the MedlinePlus Search Tips in the near future.

Finally, an interactive world map teaches users about the number of people who speak nine of the languages in the MedlinePlus collection. The languages - Arabic, Chinese, French, Korean, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog and Vietnamese - are among those most frequently spoken at home in the United States other than English, according to the U.S. census.

Additional OvidSP Tutorials Now Available

The Training team has created 6 additional online OvidSP tutorials. Now there are 7 available on the ovid.com training page as well as on the OvidSP Resource Center.

The tutorials are quick (2-4 minutes in length), end-user friendly learning tools covering everything from the basics of getting started with OvidSP to tips on using each Search Mode to a brief introduction to the Search Tools (requires the flash player):

• Select a Database 
• Search Page Overview 
• Basic Search Overview 
• Advanced Search Overview 
• Search Fields Overview 
• Find Citation Overview 
• Search Tools Overview 

E-Books Newly Available from MDConsult

There are 6 E-Books newly available from MDConsult. These new titles may be found by going to the library's "E-Books" page.  Remember, if you are off campus, be sure to click on the "Off-Campus Access (EZProxy)" link first.

• Brenner & Rector’s The Kidney, 8^th edition, 2007
• Campbell’s Operative Orthopaedics, 11^th edition, 2007
• Current Surgical Therapy, 9^th edition, 2008
• Grainger and Allison’s Diagnostic Radiology:  A Textbook of Medical Imaging, 5^th edition, 2008
• Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 18^th edition, 2008
• Vaccines, 5^th edition, 2008

E-Journal Titles Newly Available from Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins

There are 4 E-Journal titles newly available in the Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins package of Allied Health, Nursing and Medicine journals. These new titles may be found by going to the library's "E-Journals" page.  Remember, if you are off campus, be sure to click on the "Off-Campus Access (EZProxy)" link first.

• Current Sports Medicine Reports  Feb 2002-present
• Journal of Investigative Medicine 2000-present
• Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research Feb 1987-present
• Strength & Conditioning Journal Feb 1999-present

New Editions of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine and Hurst's the Heart for 2008

The 17th edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine Online contains the complete text and illustrations of the print version of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine and adds a variety of new features including:

• Over 40 new chapters
• Frequent medical updates
• Over 800 self-assessment questions
• Extensive image collection
• Harrison’s Grand Rounds Lecture Series—audio and visual presentations covering the latest treatments for common diseases with Category I CME credit.

Hurst's the Heart has added the following to its new 12th edition:

• An image gallery
• New expert-authored chapters
• Updated treatment guidelines
• Self-assessment options
• Information from the COURAGE trial, covering the use and misuse of drug-eluting stents

The latest editions of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine and Hurst’s The Heart can be accessed through  AccessMedicine.

Announcing New Resource -- PEPID and Departure of FirstConsult April 15

After over a year of testing by a number of faculty and student representatives, and with the full support of the Education Directors, the Maguire Medical Library is adopting a new PDA and web-based resource called PEPID.  PEPID will provide a strong resource for students during all of their clerkships and includes a good amount of pediatrics information, an area in which we have had difficulty locating PDA content.  The PEPID web version is available today and the PDA downloads will begin April 15.

At same time, we are ceasing our subscription to FirstConsult which provides only 20-25% of its web content to the PDA compared with PEPID which provides 100% of its web content to the PDA.  Additionally, FirstConsult overlaps with a number of other resources such as ePocrates Essentials, Harrisons’ Practice, ACP Pier and Dynamed.   

The PEPID link is on our home page as an announcement and will be added to a number of menus and hot-linked charts and graphs over the next few days.  Also, here is a direct link if you would like to check it out.

http://www.med.fsu.edu/library/pepid.html 

Neurology E-Books Provided by the University Libraries via New Faculty Development Grants

We now have access to 17 more neurology e-books provided by the University Libraries via New Faculty Development Grants.  They may be found on the library's e-books page.  The page may be sorted by author, title, subject, or provider.  Simply click on the column heading to sort. Remember, if you are off-campus, click on the "Off-Campus Access (EZProxy)" link on the library's main page before going to the e-books page.  Many thanks to the University Libraries for access to:

Bradley, Ronald J.; International Review of Neurobiology, Volume 73; 2006
Bretschneider, Franklin; Introduction to Electrophysiological Methods and Instrumentation; 2006
Buccafusco, Jerry J.; Methods of Behavior Analysis in Neuroscience; 2000
Carlton, Susan Marcy; Methods in Pain Research; 2001
Chin, Hemin R.; Methods in Genomic Neuroscience; 2001
Cummings, Jeffrey; Genotype - Proteotype - Phenotype Relationships in Neurodegenerative Diseases; 2005
Frackowiak, Richard S.J.; Human Brain Function; 2003
Gilman, Sid; Neurobiology of Disease; 2006
Jones, Byron C.; Neurobehavioral Genetics: Methods and Applications, 2nd ed.; 2006
Pitkanen, Alsa; Models of Seizures and Epilepsy; 2005
Scarabino, Tommaso; Atlas of Morphology and Functional Anatomy of the Brain; 2006
Siegel, George J.; Basic Neurochemistry: Molecular, Cellular and Medical Aspects; 2005
Strobel, Gabrielle; Research Funding in Neuroscience: A Profile of the Mcknight Endowment Fund; 2006
Thompson, Edward J.; Proteins of the Cerebrospinal Fluid: Analysis and Interpretation in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Neurological Disease; 2005
Usunoff, Kamen G.; Functional Neuroanatomy of Pain; 2006
Van Drongelen, Wim; Signal Processing for Neuroscientists: An Introduction to the Analysis of Physiological Signals; 2006
Walter, Hendelman; Atlas of Functional Neuroanatomy, 2nd ed.; 2005