Christmas Break

The Clinical Library will close this Friday (21st December) at 4pm. We will reopen at 8.30am on Wednesday 2nd January.

Any reserve books taken out on Friday will not be due until we reopen on the 2nd so you can have them for an extra long period!

Structure of the Human Body

This site comes from the Stritch School of Medicine at Loyola University Chicago. It is an online resource run by Dr Fredrick Wezeman and Dr John Santaniello. Although parts of the site are password protected for current students of the medical school there is still a lot of handy resources available for you to access.

One example is Learn 'Em in which you can view diagrams of nerves and arteries, click on them and get their names. There is also a cross-sectional tutorial where you can view various parts of the body in image, MRI or CT form.

http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/meded/grossanatomy/index.htm

Medicine and Madison Avenue

This website contains information about medical advances throughout history and how they were supported by advertising. There are advertisements from the 19th and 20th centuries for everything from cold medications to Pfizer pharmaceutical company. It also details a timeline from the 1840s to the 1990s of medical discoveries and the regulation of advertising and drugs.

Some of the ads are fascinating - its worth a look.

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/mma/

October New Books List

The October New Books list is now available on the Clinical library homepage. Check it out at:

http://www.utas.edu.au/library/libs/clin/clin.html

New England Female Medical College

Read all about the first Medical College to offer medical training for Women. It was established in Boston in 1848 by Dr Samuel Gregory.

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/organizations-femalemedcollege.html

Polio Vaccine and the US Government

I have found an interesting website containing information about Dr Jonas Salk and the development of the polio vaccine. It contains press releases from the Government about the vaccine and its distribution. The website is part of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum

Check it out at:

http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/dl/salk/salkdocuments.html

Pathology Slides

The end of semester race will soon be on for our Histopathology slides. This semester we have the added complication of not being able to use our online booking system (as it's not working at the moment). To ensure all students have a fair chance to access the slides for study the following arrangements have been made:

Half the boxes of slides have been placed in the Path Lab at Sandy Bay for the use of the first and second year med students.
The rest of the boxes of slides are available at the Clinical library for the use of the remaining med students and the medical research students. The boxes at the Clinical library may be booked up to 24 hours in advance by contacting us.

The Human Brain

The ABC science website has been conducting a question and answer series on the Brain.

Submitted questions have been answered by academics and researchers from the University of NSW, Macquarie University, the Howard Florey Institute and the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute.

Topics covered include bipolar, dementia, dreams and cloning. Check out the information on how to improve the performance of your brain.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/expert/realexpert/humanbrain/

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The 2007 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine has just been announced.
Mario R Capecchi, Sir Martin J Evans and Oliver Smithies won for developing 'Knock-out' mice. They used stem cells to genetically modify the mice. It is now possible for scientists to insert or remove a single gene and study the effects.

Read more at:
http://nobelprize.org/

Past exam papers

The library has published all previous exam papers we have access to. They may be accessed through the catalogue by doing an All Titles Alphabetical search on the course code. Just a tip though, you need to put a space between the letters and numbers of your search terms (eg. CAM 102).
The exam papers which are in our catalogue are also available on CDs which are available as reserve loans from the Clinical library.

End of Semester

Its not long until the end of semester. If you are busy ploughing through your last assignments for the year and getting ready for exams, remember that Ian and I are available to advise you on finding relevant information efficiently. If you need a refresher on PubMed or EndNote or evaluating information you have found, contact us and make an appointment.

September New Books

A list of the books new to the Clinical Library in the last month can be found at:

http://www.utas.edu.au/library/libs/clin/documents/clin_newbooks_Sept_07.pdf

Titles include Anatomical terms and their derivation: a student handbook, ABC of resuscitation and Keeping a professional journal.

Wellcome Images

The Wellcome Images website is a searchable database of images from the collection of the Wellcome Library in the UK.

It contains high quality images categorised under the subjects Wellcome, War, Wonderful, Witchcraft, Wellness and World. The medical images which I have viewed are of high resolution and offer great detail.

The website can be viewed at:
http://medphoto.wellcome.ac.uk/

Current Print Journals

Our display of Current Print Journals has been relocated.

Current Journals can now be found next to the New Books display opposite the front desk.

We have over 80 current print journal titles. These include core clinical journals such as The Lancet, BMJ and New England Journal of Medicine. Other titles include Clinical Nursing Research, Journal of Orthopaedic Science, Journal of Neurosurgery and the Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

For assistance in locating journals or specific articles please ask at the front desk.

August New Books

Check out our new books for September at:

http://www.utas.edu.au/library/libs/clin/documents/new_books_sept07.pdf

New titles for this month include Toronto Notes, John Murtagh's general practice and The evidence-based practice manual for nurses.

All new boooks are on display for one week (changed on Thursdays), after which they may be borrowed.

Who are we? Where are we?

I thought I should let you know a bit about the Clinical Library team. We are Ian, Irene, Mariola and Katrina and in total the four of us have 76 years of library experience! Ian is the Clinical Librarian and has been so for the last 9 years. Irene has worked in this library the longest (14 years) closely followed by Mariola (13 years). I am the new kid on the block having only been at Clin since February this year. During the evening and at the weekend Trevor, Donna, Beth or Jodi will be able to assist you.

We conduct classes to develop skills to effectively search for information across many platforms including electronic resources, such as databases, evidence based medical resources and the Internet.

If you need help locating a document or navigating your way through an assignment question we have plenty of experience to draw on to assist you.

Our library is available for use by UTAS staff and students, RHH staff including doctors, nurses and allied health professionals and students from other universities within the Libraries Australia Group.

The Albert Baikie Clinical Library is situated on the Ground Floor of the UTAS Clinical School in Collins Street. We are open Monday -Thursday 8.30am - 8pm, Friday 8.30am - 6pm and Saturday and Sunday 1 - 5pm.

Welcome

Hi everyone,

Welcome to our new Clinical Library blog. We have established this blog to keep our library users informed of news from the library and the medical sciences field in general.
We welcome constructive feedback and hope you find the blog useful.

Katrina