Educational Tutorials
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Have you had the chance to check out the right side of the library's homepage?
If you have not yet had the chance to explore it, you may be missing out on some great information resources. Not only is it a good place to find a link to this blog, but it also features a collection of 50 helpful Educational Tutorials.
If you want a quick overview of a database you are not familiar with, check out this list for tutorials on resources ranging from PubMed and Mesh to RefWorks and PowerPoint. You are always heartily welcomed to contact the library reference staff at , but if you're stuck on a project over the weekend or maybe you learn best with audiovisual materials, make sure to make this your go-to resource.
Postcards from the Health Fairs: Jack and Jill
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Dear Reader,
On Saturday, March 13th, five Calder Library faculty and staff members headed up to Fort Lauderdale to help out at the Jack and Jill DOCS Health Fair.
As we have in the past eight DOCS health fairs this academic year for the second year in a row, we partnered with the medical students to promote MedlinePlus to the health fair attendees. We hand distributed 133 MedlinePlus pamphlets in English, Spanish, and Creole. We provided ten computer demos to patients interested in particular health topics.
We entertained the younger attendees by showcasing ToxMystery and ToxTown - always big hits!
We collected eleven surveys from health fair patients and four from fellow health information/education providers.
We enjoy the opportunity talk to other health care providers and share information about MedlinePlus. We hope they will pass on information about that great resource to their patients and community members.
Responses from community members included: "I was very well informed." and even "I'll use it tonight!" We look forward to these opportunities to meet with patients throughout South Florida and talk about what great health information resources are available to them. Thanks to all who made it a successful health fair!
Until next time,
The Caring Calder Librarians
Outreach to UMH Nurses
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For the past two and a half months, four of the Calder librarians have been braving early morning metro rides and 7 am traffic to visit the daily nursing "huddles" at the University of Miami Hospital. The "huddles" are the time where the night staff is leaving and the morning staff is coming in. In each unit the nurses take the time to share any updates on patients or protocol. And for the past two and a half months, they have been taking the time to listen to us share information about the kinds of resources that are available to them.
A Calder librarian was assigned to each of the 26 huddles. We visited each huddle once and demonstrated Citrix, the library home page, the nursing portal, and DynaMed. The location of the huddle depended on the unit - some of them were held in small labs, some in break rooms behind the desk, and some in the middle of all the action. The busier the area, the more challenging the environment was for teaching. In total, we spoke to more than 250 nursing staff members. We received many different kinds of questions, such as: "How do I find this article?" "Why is CINAHL so hard?" "What is the Mallory-Weiss Syndrome?" "What year was Superman created?" We tried to answer every question to the best of our ability!
We've received great feedback, including:
- “I appreciate your time and flexibility. The staff enjoyed it."
- “Thanks”
- “Thanks a lot.”
- “Thank you for the In-Service. They mentioned that it was very useful information. I would be happy to distribute the handout for you.”
- “… WE ARE HAPPY TO SEE STAFF THAT ARE EDUCATING US WITH OUR SYSTEM, ONCE AGAIN THANKS FOR YOUR TIME, EFFORT AND AVAILABILITY TO TEACH [OUR] STAFF.”
We are continuing the outreach for the next two months. We are each visiting our assigned huddles and promoting the consumer health education website MedlinePlus. Based on what we heard during the first round of huddles, the nursing staff is interested in information they can share with the patients. We look forward to continuing the adventures!
So Many Resources, So Little Time?
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We know your time is valuable. We know the amount of information available through the Calder Library can be overwhelming. We have a solution!
We have created new collections or Portals for different user groups (you can find them on our homepage). In addition to the portals for students, EBM practitioners, grants, researchers, and the like, we have new portals for nurses, drug information, and collaboration and mentoring.
Are you a nurse looking for articles in the nursing literature or point-of-care information for the bedside? Check out our Nursing Portal:
Are you looking to collaborate with other faculty members? Are you looking for a mentor to help guide you? Not sure where to start? Start with our UM-specific Collaboration/Mentoring Portal:
Do you need drug information quickly and don't have the time to search through multiple databases? Come to the Drug Information Portal where all of the information is gathered in one place:
We hope these Portals will provide you with a quick and easy way to find the information that is most relevant to you. If you have suggestions for resources that can be added or for a new portal all together, please leave a comment or send an email to
Rapid Research Notes
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The National Library of Medicine has created a new resource, Rapid Research Notes, for researchers interested in scientific, scholarly communication. The initial content for Rapid Research Notes comes from PLoS Currents: Influenza, an open access journal. These articles are moderated, rather than peer-reviewed, to enable the quickest access possible to cutting edge research. You can currently access Rapid Research Notes through PubMed Central, PubMed's open access archive. What do you think will be the latest, cutting edge topic to be covered in Rapid Research Notes?
Calder Receives Grant for Safety Fair
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The library recently received an Express Community Day Award from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine to partner with the public librarians of the Miami Dade Public Library System to promote safety awareness. We will be working together to organize a large all-day community safety awareness and emergency preparedness fair. The fair, entitled “Safety Fair: Keep your Family Safe – Emergency Preparedness at Home and Away,” will promote National Library of Medline resources in areas such as:
-Home safety (ToxMystery, Household Products Database)
-Senior safety (NIH Senior Health)
-Child safety (ToxMystery, ToxTown)
-Food safety (Lact Med)
-Emergency preparedness (DIMRC, MedlinePlus, WISER)
We will also be distributing and promoting the Family Disaster Preparedness Plan written by the University of Miami Center for Disaster and Extreme Event Preparedness. We are looking forward to continuing to build connections with the public library and with the greater Miami-Dade community. Mark your calendars for June 17, 2010. See you there!
Postcards from the Health Fairs: on the Pompano Beach Front
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Dear Reader,
This past weekend, the library promoted MedlinePlus at the 8th DOCS fair of the year at Pompano Beach. There were 187 patients in attendance at the fair which was located at a local elementary school.
The library's table was located in the school cafeteria. At this fair we had a new "Health Information" sign, so that we were better integrated with the other DOCS health stations.
We handed out more than 100 pamphlets in English, Spanish, and Creole and provided computer demonstrations of the kind of information available on MedlinePlus.
We also received 15 surveys from patients and 7 surveys from other health information educators. This is valuable information for us, as it lets us know what we're doing well and what we can improve upon for next year.
This was a smaller fair than most, but we felt the exchanges we had with the patients and with those working the fair were of the highest quality. There is nothing better than providing the right health information and the right time. Thanks to all who made it such a great success!
Until next time,
The Caring Calder Librarians
The Library in Your Pocket
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More and more of our users are using their handheld devices (like their iPhone, Blackberry, or Android) to find information. With a new feature added this week, the library is making it easier for you to find out which library tools are available on your handheld device. By scrolling through our A-Z Databases list, you will now see icons which show which resources are accessible and on which platforms.
This new feature will make it easier for you to study, research, and provide patient care on the go! Let us know what else the library can do to make your information seeking easier. Happy handheld hunting!
Postcards from the Health Fairs: the Keys Edition
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Dear Reader,
This weekend ten members of the faculty and staff of the Calder Library made the annual trip down to the Keys to take part in the DOCS Health Fairs program. A tradition that goes back over three decades, the Department of Community Services holds three health fairs in the Lower Keys - all in the same day! Marathon, Big Pine Key, and Key West were the three communities served on Saturday, January 23, and the Calder Library is proud to be a part of that outreach.
Suzy, Erica, and Steve promoted MedlinePlus at the Marathon Health Fair at the Fisherman Hospital.
They passed out 156 MedlinePlus brochures - the most of any of the three fairs!
Brenda, Vedana, Tanya, and David divided time between two churches for the Big Pine Key Health Fair. They even were able to work hand-in-hand with area librarians to promote health literacy.
They also provided one-on-one patient consultations, showing patrons where and how to search for health information on MedlinePlus.
And last (but not least!) Ed, Geddy, and Emily staffed the library booth at the Key West Health Fair.
We even had the opportunity to reach out to some of the Key's youngest locals.
The fairs were a great success! We distributed over 430 MedlinePlus pamphlets in English, Spanish, and Creole. We provided 30 one-on-one computer demos and administered more than 60 surveys. Thanks for all the staff and especially the patrons who made it such a great weekend.
See you next year!
-The Caring Calder Librarians
Help for Haiti
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Like millions of people across the globe, we here at the Calder Library have watched news reports of the devastation in Haiti. We have wondered what we could do that would be of help to our neighbors in Haiti. We recently learned that the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine is continuing its plans to set up a 300-bed hospital in Port-au-Prince to continue its decades-long tradition of outreach to that nation. As a library we have taken this opportunity to donate boxes of the most frequently asked for textbooks and handbooks in emergency situations.
In addition, we are offering 24-hour reference assistance to all UM physicians and faculty working round-the-clock to assist the hundreds of thousands of people needing medical attention. We have also created a webpage, which gathers the most relevant resources. Please visit our page at: https://www.library.miami.edu/calder/index.html
If you have any suggestions for how the library could help, please leave a comment in this blog post or contact me, Emily Vardell, at evardell @ med.miami.edu. We will continue to keep you updated on the library's outreach efforts to Haiti.
Updates on UpToDate
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Are you one of the many on campus that considers yourself an UpToDate aficionado? Then you'll want to know about these new features in Version 17.3 of...
First, there's a new specialty, Adult and Pediatric Emergency Medicine. According to UpToDate, over 95% of emergency medicine professionals who use UpToDate find that it improves the quality of care they provide. Be sure to check out the new specialty!
Version 17.3 of UpToDate also offers a new feature that will keep you abreast of the latest information. "What's New" summarizes the most important medical findings from the latest UpToDate release. Go to "What's New," select a specialty or click on "Practice Changing UpDates," click "email" in the upper right hand corner, enter your email address, and then click send. Voila! You're now UpToDate!
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