Pinky and the Brain

Here is some fun to start the new academic year. Learn parts of the brain with Pinky and the Brain.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Li5nMsXg1Lk

Don't forget the brain stem!

Welcome to 2008

Welcome back to everyone who has started studying for the year. Just a reminder that for the next few weeks we still have vacation opening hours. The Library is open 8.30am-6pm Monday to Friday.

The Library will be closed on Monday 28th due to the Australia Day Holiday.

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