Martha Kirby, Queen Lane’s Library Coordinator, has created a 3rd Year Medical Student Library Guide. This guide gives students tips on which resources to use for patient care questions, literature searches, managing citations from database searches, and residency information.

Journals formerly available through Blackwell Synergy were successfully moved to the Wiley Interscience platform over the weekend. Links from our catalog and e-journal lists have been updated for these titles, however, Wiley has not yet provided title-level linking, so linking will be only to the Wiley Interscience entry page. At that point, it will be necessary to search or browse for the required journal title, and then to the desired volume and issue.

We expect journal title-level and article-level linking to be back in place within the next two weeks. In the meantime, if you need assistance locating an article, please contact one of the library reference desks for help:

• Hahnemann Library – 215-762-7184
• Queen Lane Library – 215-991-8740
• Hagerty Library – 215-895-2755

Journals currently available through Blackwell Synergy will be moving to the Wiley Interscience platform over the weekend. In order to accomplish this, both systems will be unavailable from 9 pm Friday evening (6/27) through Sunday evening (6/29). On Monday, we will be working as quickly as possible to reactivate all of our Blackwell journal titles on the Wiley platform; we anticipate having all available by Monday afternoon.

The AMA has released two important documents: its first National Health Insurer Report Card and its first ever guidelines on medical tourism. The National Health Insurer Report Card was “created to provide physicians and the public with an objective and reliable source of information on the timeliness, transparency and accuracy of claims processing by the health insurance companies that are responsible for paying medical bills.” The medical tourism guidelines is a nine point outline geared towards “patients, employers, insurers, and third-parties responsible for coordinating travel outside the U.S.”

The MERLOT Health Sciences Portal is a collection of free peer reviewed resources for educators. The portal contains animation, case studies, quizzes/tests, tutorials, and other kinds of material. Each learning resource is reviewed by at least two higher education faculty members who submit a “composite” review which is posted on MERLOT.

See a book in the library that interests you but don’t have a pen or paper to write down the information? Text the info to your phone!

Here’s what you do:

*Do a search in the catalog for the book you are interested in.
*Click on the book’s record.
*Click on the Send via Text Message button at the bottom of the screen.
*Type in your cell phone number and select your cell phone provider.
*Click on Send.

The University of Washington Radiology Department offers
free tutorials that can be used for teaching radiographic anatomy.

The tutorials cover basic radiographic anatomy of the skeleton, radiographic evaluation of hallux valgus, ultrasound of the shoulder, and basic knee anatomy.

Make sure your document has been formatted in the new Write-N-Cite III format.

The following steps will work if your in -text citations were originally created in the previous version of Write-N-Cite:

In Write-N-Cite III, go the Tools menu.
Click on Convert to Write-N-Cite III Document. Your document will be converted to the proper format.
Click on the Create menu then the Create Bibliography. Your bibliography should now be processed with no errors.

If you would like further information or assistance, please contact the Hahnemann Library reference desk at 215-762-7184.

The Physician Assistant Research Guide has been updated with the following additions:

*Databases: Exam Master with PANCE questions
*Descriptions of PA association websites
*Additional ebooks

The CDC has released the first interactive map which displays stroke mortality and hospitalization rates data down to the county level.

Heart disease mortality and hospital data are also available. Data can be broken down by gender and/or ethnicity. In addition to being printed and saved, two maps can be compared at the same time.