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.