Monthly Archives: January 2016

New BMJ Case Reports subscription provides report submission opportunities for publication

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BMJ Case Reports

By popular request, UT Southwestern now has an new Institutional Fellowship to BMJ Case Reports, and all individual fees are waived for all campus affiliates. Other benefits of the Fellowship, which supports the publication goals of students, postdocs, faculty and staff, include:

  • Unlimited case report submissions—averages 70% acceptance rate
  • Access to all published reports—more than 7,000 cases
  • Permission to reuse material for personal use and educational purposes
  • Interactive capabilities—rate and comment on other cases
  • Updates when new content is published
  • Links to related content across BMJ products
  • Promotion of your case through Medline/PubMed indexing

BMJ Case Reports delivers a focused, peer-reviewed, valuable collection of cases in all disciplines so that healthcare professionals, researchers, and others can easily find clinically important information on common and rare conditions. This is the largest single collection of case reports online with more than 11,000 articles from over 70 countries.

Pardon our progress: construction projects begin on E2 and E4 this month

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The E4 Emergency Medicine Office Renovation Project begins this week.  The former study and stacks area of E4 will be transformed into the new offices for Emergency Medicine.  The estimated duration of the construction project on E4 will be from Monday, January 11, 2016, through Wednesday, May 18, 2016.  Since the project is taking place right above the Team-Based Learning (TBL) Center, there will be some designated quiet times when TBL sessions are scheduled.  Additionally, the west elevators (i.e. the public elevators near the restrooms) have been locked, and only the construction crew will be using this to travel from E1 to E4.

The E2 Library and Headmaster Renovation Project will begin on January 25, 2016.  The offices behind the student computers area on E2 will be transformed into the new offices for the Headmaster.  The Individual study cubicle area and group study space across from the coffee machine will be enclosed in glass to establish a formal quiet zone.  Also included in this project is renovation of the E2 restrooms.  The estimated duration of the construction project on E2 is estimated to be 4-6 weeks; specific project plan information will be forthcoming.

When we have specific dates on the closure of the E2 restrooms, we will communicate this promptly, along with alternative restroom locations in the E building.  The construction crew will be using the freight elevator for this project, bringing in materials from the loading dock to E2.

Message about UpToDate and DynaMed Plus resources from Kelly Gonzalez, AVP for Library Services

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Kelly GonzalezThank you for the time and effort put into testing, reviewing, and providing feedback on UpToDate and DynaMed Plus. The usage and survey responses are critical to the Library’s role of providing resources that promote the highest quality education and patient care at UT Southwestern.

The Clinical Library Resources Advisory Subcommittee reviewed all the survey data, comments received from the survey, and physician emails. We discussed subscribing to both UpToDate and DynaMed Plus, but because UpToDate is highly used in clinical practice and the majority of the feedback was highly favorable of UpToDate, we decided that it was not fiscally responsible at that time to subscribe to both resources.

However, when the Library communicated with the DynaMed Plus vendor, EBSCO, about this decision, they were able to offer full access to DynaMed Plus for 2016 at a rate that was fiscally responsible. As a result, both UpToDate and DynaMed Plus are available in UT Southwestern’s EPIC and from the “Popular Links” section of the Library’s website.

We will continue to monitor usage on these resources, as well as welcome feedback throughout the year on these or any of the resources through the Library’s Feedback Form.

Kelly Gonzalez, M.S.I.S., M.B.A., A.H.I.P
Assistant Vice President for Library Services
Health Sciences Digital Library and Learning Center

 

Mosby's Nursing Consult upgraded to ClinicalKey for Nursing

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CKN-snag-300x134Mosby’s Nursing Consult has retired as of December 31, 2015, and customers have been upgraded to the new ClinicalKey for Nursing platform. ClinicalKey for Nursing provides nursing professionals with clinically relevant answers from Elsevier’s content, including evidence-based nursing monographs, books, journals, practice guidelines, and core measures with nursing recommendations. This valuable resource is now available to the campus community thanks to a successful collaboration with the Health Sciences Digital Library and Learning Center and the Clements University Hospital.

 

January Open House Event at the South Campus (main) Library: "Medical Eponyms"

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The Health Sciences Digital Library & Learning Center will offer a monthly series of open house events to the UT Southwestern community that feature different topics of interest from the Library’s special and digital collections. The first event entitled “Who Named It?: Medical Eponyms in the Collections” will be held in the Rare Book Room (E3.314D) from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. on Tuesday, January 12.

Medical eponyms offer a fascinating window into medical history. They can also be contentious, controversial, or inaccurate. Despite these drawbacks, medical eponyms are sometimes catchy, easy to remember, and can prove remarkably enduring, long outliving their namesakes. Not all are biographical. Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS), Mozart ear, and Henry V sign are a few from literature and music.

Drop by the open house event on January 12 and explore the connections between medical eponyms and their namesakes. Items by or about Baron Guillaume Dupuytren, Moriz Kaposi, William Osler, and many more will be on display from the special collections. Staff will also be available to also show relevant highlights in the digital collections.

Need more information about this particular event or others in this monthly series? Contact archives@utsouthwestern.edu.

 

New NLM Poster Exhibit focuses on medical contributions of African Americans during the American Civil War

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promo imageMany histories have been written about medical care during the American Civil War, but the participation and contributions of African Americans as nurses, surgeons, and hospital workers has often been overlooked.

The National Library of Medicine’s traveling poster and online exhibit entitled Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine looks at the men and women who served as medical providers and how their service challenged the prescribed notions of race and gender and pushed the boundaries of the role of African Americans in America.

Through historical images and period documents, the exhibit explores the life and experiences of surgeons Alexander T. Augusta and Anderson R. Abbott, as well as nurses Susie King Taylor and Ann Stokes, as they provided medical care to soldiers and civilians while participating in the fight for freedom. “Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries opens the door to this rarely studied part of history and brings a voice to those that have remained silent for nearly 150 years,” says Curator Jill L. Newmark.

This exhibit will be on display at the UT Southwestern Health Sciences Digital Library & Learning Center’s South Campus location (E2) from December 22, 2015, through January 30, 2016. It was developed and produced by the National Library of Medicine with research assistance from The Historical Society of Washington, D.C.