Optometry News and Notes

Looking for mobile apps for optometry/ophthalmology?  Take a look at the list compiled by the Association of Vision Science Librarians (AVSL).  The list includes both free and paid apps and is divided into categories for:

• Vision Science Specific
• Vision Tests
• Journals & Reference Searches
• PDF Organizers
• Drug Reference
• Medical Translators
• Anatomy
• General Medicine
• Evidence Based Medicine

We also have an LHL Guide on mobile technology that has core medical apps, calculators, guidelines, and more.  One neat feature of the guide is the index that has a description of all the apps featured on the guide–it even has subtabs for iPhone/iPad and Android.

Questions about any of these apps?  Just Ask a Librarian!

UAB has a trial to DynaMed, a desktop and mobile decision-making  point-of-care tool, to assist health professionals with clinical care.

To download and access DynaMed on your mobile device during the trial, you have to e-mail Liz Lorbeer (lorbeer@uab.edu or 205-934-2460) at LHL to obtain a DynaMed serial number.

The UAB Health System is soliciting anonymous feedback from our health professionals and students on the usefulness of the DynaMed product. If you use DynaMed, please take the time to fill out a short survey on your experience with it. The trial ends Friday, June 8, 2012. The DynaMed mobile application will not work once the trial concludes.

If you have questions regarding the trial to DynaMed, please contact Liz Lorbeer.

Use the Cochrane Library to find Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) reviews and economic impact of treatment modalities.

For the in-person class on March 29, feel free to bring a (non-messy) brown bag lunch if you like; Lister Hill will provide snacks and drinks.  Questions?  Call the HUB at 205-934-2230.

For the online class on April 2, registration is required.  Questions?  Email the instructor.

Learn about iOS and Android mobile medical apps for clinicians, students, and communicating with patients.

For the in-person class on March 15, feel free to bring a (non-messy) brown bag lunch if you like; Lister Hill will provide snacks and drinks.  Questions?  Call the HUB at 205-934-2230.

For the online class on March 26, registration is required.  Questions?  Email the instructor.

“The Charm Was Broken:  Illness and Injury in the Fairy Tales of Mary de Morgan”

Join us for a gallery talk by 4^th year UAB School of Medicine student Valerie Gribben featuring the fascinating new museum exhibit based on her research of Victorian-era author Mary de Morgan (1850-1907). The exhibit, “The Charm Was Broken: Illness and Injury in the Fairy Tales of Mary de Morgan,” will be on display in the Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences through May 31.

Gribben will present her original research on how de Morgan incorporated medical themes in many of her Victorian fairy tales. There will also be a book signing of Gribben’s acclaimed work The Fairytale Trilogy. Inscribed copies of Gribben’s novel will also be available for purchase.  All proceeds benefit the Reynolds Historical Library.  Refreshments will be served.  Hope to see you there!

Thursday, March 15
6:00 — 8:00 pm
Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences
Lister Hill Library, 3rd Floor

We’ve got 2 copies of Part I of The Berkeley Study Guide: Preparation for the Optometry National Boards available in our Test Prep section near the HUB.   Written and edited by the students at UC Berkeley School of Optometry, Part I covers Applied Basic Science.  Study questions and answers are included for each chapter.

Book 1 discusses:

• Optics — Geometrical, Physical, and Physiological
• Ophthalmic Optics/Spectacles
• Contact Lenses
• Low Vision
• Accommodative, Vergence, and Oculomotor Anomolies
• Amblyopia/Strabismus
• Perceptual Function/Color Vision
• Visual and Human Development
• Lids/Lashes/Lacrimal System/Ocular Adnexa/Orbit Anatomy
• Conjuntiva/Cornea/Refractive Surgery
• Lens/Cataract/IOL/Pre- and Post-Operative Care
• Episclera/Sclera/Anterior Uvea
• Vitreous/Retina/Choroid
• Optic Nerve/Neuro-Ophthalmic Pathways
• Pharmacology
• Glaucoma
• Ocular Emergencies and Trauma

Book 2 covers:

• Systemic Health Gross Anatomy
• Systemic Health Neuroanatomy
• Histology
• Biochemistry
• Physiology
• Immunology
• Microbiology
• Pathology
• Pharmacology

Let us know what you think of The Berkeley Guide and if there are other NBEO study resources you need.

Take our short survey on Interlibrary Loan (ILL) and help us improve our services.  We appreciate your feedback!

Questions about ILL or want to talk more about it?  Contact Pat Higginbottom at 205-934-5432 or phiggin@uab.edu.

Join us on March 14 at 12:00 noon in the Ireland Room on the 3rd floor of Lister Hill Library for “The Dawning of the Great Age of Librarians: Breaking the Barriers of Time and Space” by T. Scott Plutchak, Director, Lister Hill Library. Box lunches will be available on a first come, first served basis.

In-person Express Training classes are on Thursdays from noon to 1:00 in the Electronic Classroom on the ground floor.  Online Express Training classes are on Mondays from 3:00 to 4:00 pm.  For the online classes, join us from your office, home,or wherever you are!  Registration with a valid UAB email address is required.  (Don’t have a UAB email address? Just email the instructor for the session or email Nicole.)

In-Person Express Training

March 8 — PubMed

March 15 — Mobile Medical Apps

March 22 — Spring Break  (no class)

March 29 — Cochrane

Online Express Training

March 12 — PubMed

March 19 — Spring Break (no class)

March 26 — Cochrane

See the full calendar on the LHL website or email Nicole for more information.