MD Consult asks, “Do you know as much medical vocabulary as you think you do?” Try MD Consult’s “Stretch Your Brain” Challenge. This multi-level test keeps track of how long you take to respond to each question, and of course, how many you get correct.
P.S. There is an option to turn off the sound.
As of May 25, 2008, NIH applications, proposals, and progress reports must include the PubMed Central reference number when citing a paper that falls under the policy and is authored or co-authored by the investigator, or arose from the investigator’s NIH award. This policy includes applications submitted to the NIH for the May 25, 2008 due date and subsequent due dates.
This recently updated web site about Health Literacy and Cultural Competency from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality includes links to Consumer/Patient Resources, AHRQ funding opportunities, articles of interest alerts, resource links, and pathfinders.
Getting too many irrelevant results in PubMed? Try a new approach. eTBLAST is a text similarity engine that lets you input paragraphs of text or upload a text file. Then, it finds abstracts that are similar to that text.
Developed at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, it is available free on the web–and no registration is required! Read more about it and try it!
In addition to MEDLINE, eTBLAST also gives the option to search NASA, Institute of Physics, or NIH’s Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects (CRISP). More databases are slated to be added to its search capabilities.
Librarians at the Fordham Health Sciences Library are available for office visits to faculty and staff, both on-campus and off. This is a service we are pleased to provide, as it is an opportunity for us to show you some tips on navigating the library’s website. There are numerous resources available to you through OhioLINK and the Fordham Library. Let us help you learn about all the ones pertinent to you!
Need images? Need statistics? Need drug information? We have specific resources that can help you with these types of questions and much, much, more. Make an appointment today for a “Librarian2Go” visit!
Start by identifying your “subject librarian.” Then just call or email them to arrange a convenient time.
PubMed Central recently announced the addition of two new titles. Coverage is current with no embargo from their publishers.
International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications
Journal of Cell Communication and Signalling
To place a request for OhioLINK or Interlibrary Loan materials, your library account must be in good standing. Overdue materials or fines above $4.99 block your ability to make requests.
Overdue notices, fine notices, and pickup notices are sent to your Wright State email account. If you don’t use your WSU email account, forward messages to an account you do use!
Here are directions on how to forward your email.
http://www.wright.edu/cats/info/email/emailoptions.html
Here is a sampling of new journals recently added to the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center (EJC):
BMC Medical Physics
Brain Structure and Function
CVD Prevention and Control
Foot & Ankle Specialist
Hand
Innate Immunity
International Archives of Medicine
International Emergency Nursing
International Journal of Pancreatology
Intervention in School and Clinic
Journal of Cardiology
Journal of Diversity in Higher Education
Journal of Media Psychology: Theories, Methods, and Applications
Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
Journal of Tissue Viability
Molecular Cytogenetics
Nutrition in Clinical Practice
Please know that the Fordham Library welcomed a new librarian earlier in April. Terese DeSimio graduated from Wright State with a biomedical engineering degree and from Kent State with her library science degree. She is the liaison librarian for the Departments of Pharmacology & Toxicology and Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology here on campus and several clinical departments off campus.
Feel free to stop in and say hello!
Health Information Translations provides the equivalents of English language patient education materials in 16 different languages, from Arabic to Vietnamese. “A collaborative initiative to improve health education for limited English proficiency patients,” the site may be searched by keywords or browsed by language or health topic. In addition to a wide variety of translations on specific health topics, translations of hospital signs and disaster preparedness materials are available too. Health Information Translations is a collaborative effort of health education professionals at The Ohio State University Medical Center, Mount Carmel Health System, OhioHealth, and Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Try it at: http://www.healthinfotranslations.com/ .