It was great to see you today in your orientation to the clerkships.   I hope you will find the information we provided helpful.  Here are the links to the handouts:

• Lister Hill Letter Orientation Issue
• Finding Full Text Articles in PubMed
• Access to the LHL@WP
• Online Resources useful for Clinicians

Let us know if you have other questions or

• check out the rest of the tutorials
• search the library FAQ
• chat in and ask a question

Good luck and enjoy your rotations!

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Hope everyone enjoyed Spring Break and actually had a break.  Back to work today with the Gastrointestinal module.  Here are the books on your list and their availability:

Thomson, A.B.R and Shaffer, E.A., First Principles of Gastroenterology: The Basis of Disease and an Approach to Management. 5th Ed.  Janssen-Ortho.  http://www.cag-acg.org/uploads/firstprinciples/english.html

Crash Course Gastrointestinal System Seidel, E and Long, M. 2nd. Ed Elsevier Mosby 2006.  ON ORDER

Barrett, K.E., Gastrointestinal Physiology (Lange Physiology Series), McGraw Hill Medical, 2005. LHL School Collections WI 102 B275g 2006 and LHL AccessMedicine http://www.lhl.uab.edu/8c/8.cgi?http://www.accessmedicine.com/resourceTOC.aspx?resourceID=77

Recommended Books/Additional Reading:

Textbook of Gastroenterology (2 vols).  Ed, Yamada, T., Alpers, D.H., Kaplowitz, N., Laine, L., Owyang, C., and Powell, D.W. 4th. Edn, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2003.   LHL School Collection WI 100 T314 2009

Heimburger DC, and Ard JD.  Handbook of Clinical Nutrition.  4th ed.  Philadelphia: Mosby Elsevier, 2006.  LHL School Collection WB 39 W4330h 2006

Barnard ND et al. Nutrition Guide for Clinicians. Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine 2007.  ON ORDER

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Images.MD is now SpringerImages.   Through  SpringerImages you can access a collection of about 70,000 medical and life sciences images and tables.  Images can be used for lectures, presentations, ongoing research, and with permission,  publications.  All images can be saved but f you set up an account you can also save images and  build collections.  Give this resource a try and let us know what you think.

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We added two copies of Pulmonary Pathophysiology by West to the SOM textbook collection at LHL.  The books are in-house use only so they will stay available.  The title was no available online.

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Historically we have not collected test prep materials but as a response to your requests we have developed a small collection of materials designed to help you study for tests and boards.  The materials are located on the shelves just past the HUB on the right and are meant to be used in the library.  Please browse through these materials and let us know what you think.

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The books set aside for you at LHL no longer have to be retrieved by staff members.  To make them more accessible to you we’ve created a SOM School Collection and put all your textbooks on the shelves to right after you pass the HUB.  To ensure equal access to the titles, they can’t be taken from the library but you can use them anywhere in the building.  Please return them to the nearby book truck so we can track the usage before we reshelve them.  Use the link above to see the list of titles.  Let us know what you think of this new arrangement.

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Lots of cancellations for 2010.  See the full list on the LHL Collections blog and find out how we plan to get the articles LHL doesn’t have for $3 or less.

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Hope everyone had some time off to rest your brain!  As you come back to new classes, check the link above for information about textbook availability.  If we are missing any books, let me know if the comments.

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The 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2010 is now available online via Books@OVID.  The book’s Preface describes the new edition as including:

• Even more Evidence Based designations highlighted in each topic’s text
• Dedication of our outstanding Associate Editors to oversee content by Specialty
• Updated Health Maintenance section
• An online version of the content which includes:
  • Additional topics not in the book
  • Patient Education handouts
  • Video instruction on physical diagnostic and treatment interventions

I found the search a bit awkward and the navigation too basic but the printing and emailing options are easy to find and use.  It includes more references but I would still like to see additional information given to back up the data.  If you are REALLY pressed for time, look at the Clinical Pearls for each topic.  A sentence or two to remember about most conditions.    If you are off campus and can’t get to UpToDate, give this a try.  It used to be a part of Essential Evidence Plus and I would still go there first if I needed a quick review of the data on a given topic.

Let us know which of these tools you find useful.

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Join us Thursday, November 12th at 10am in the Fletcher Room at Lister Hill Library for training on MD Consult’s new mobile tool. This free tool provides access to MD Consult books, journals, Clinics, and guidelines through web-enabled smartphones like the iPhone, Blackberry, Treo and others.

The session will be lead by an MD Consult trainer via webinar. We hope you can watch the webinar with us but if you would prefer to view it from your own computer, click here to register to watch the webinar at another location (no need to register if you will be watching the webinar at the library).

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