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If the Medical Center Library is to remain successful in supporting and anticipating your information needs, then your input into resources, services, and our facility is critical. When the Library is considering expensive new electronic resources, your thoughts and comments are especially valuable. WE NEED YOUR COMMENTS NOW!
The Library has several trials of new electronic resources underway, and we need to hear from you about how useful they are. Do they meet your information needs? Are they easy to use? Do you love them or dislike them? Should we continue to support them? Tell us your experiences in using these new tools.
Scopus – A single interface to citations in the biomedical literature that offers new ways to look at search results.Anesthesia Central – A suite of Web and PDA tools for anesthesia and critical care.
Images.MD – A database of medical images that can be used for lectures, presentations, and online tutorials.
In addition to your input regarding our electronic resources, we also need feedback about our services and our facility.
Services – Tell us whether our services are meeting your needs. What are we doing well? What could we do better? What's missing?Library Facility – We are embarking on a study of our building in order to design the information and education center of the future. We will need volunteers for focus groups to tell us how we can support faculty, students and staff in the future. Be sure to visit our Website (http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu) to see what we want to learn from you. If you are interested in participating, please contact me.
Tell us your thoughts and concerns so we can stay vital and responsive to the Duke community. Watch for online surveys! Participate in focus groups! Drop off suggestions to staff or in our suggestion box. Call or email me! (919-660-1150; thibo001@mc.duke.edu) You may also send suggestions and comments via mclref@mc.duke.edu or just chat with our staff. They will pass your ideas on to me.
We want to know what you want! Please connect to our Website at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/temp/libsurvey.html and submit your answers to the following questions:
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Onesimus, an enslaved African, describes to Cotton Mather the African method of inoculation against smallpox.1837
Dr. James McCune Smith graduates from the University of Glasgow, becoming the first African American to earn a medical degree.1862
Freedmen's Hospital is established in Washington, D.C., and is the only federally-funded health care facility for Negroes in the nation.1862
Susie Baker (who later became known as Susie King Taylor) is the first African-American U.S. Army nurse during the Civil War.1864
Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the first Negro female to earn a medical degree, graduates from New England Female Medical College, Boston.1867
Robert Tanner Freeman is one of the first six graduates in dental medicine from Harvard University, thus becoming the first African American to receive an education in dentistry and a dental degree from an American medical school. (Freeman was born in 1847 to slave parents in North Carolina.)1868
Washington, D.C.: Howard University, established for the purpose of educating Negro doctors, opens to both Negro and White students, including women.1878
Dr. James Francis Shober earns his M.D. from Howard University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C., and later becomes the first known Negro physician with a medical degree to practice in North Carolina.1879
Mary Eliza Mahoney becomes the first African-American professional nurse, graduating from the New England Hospital for Women and Children (Now Dimock Community Health Center), Boston.1881
Atlanta, GA: The first school of record for Negro student nurses is established at Spelman College.1891
Chicago, IL: Dr. Daniel Hale Williams establishes the Provident Hospital and Training School for Nurses, the first Black-owned and first interracial hospital in the United States. Dr. Austin Maurice Curtis, Sr. (a Raleigh, North Carolina native) becomes the hospital's first intern.1893
Chicago, IL: Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performs the first successful operation on a human heart.1895
Atlanta, GA: The National Medical Association is founded, since Negroes are barred from other established medical groups.1895
Philadelphia, PA: Dr. Nathan Francis Mossell founds the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School for Nurses.1900
Washington, D.C.: The Washington Society of Colored Dentists, the first organization of black dentists, is founded.1901
Durham, N.C.: Dr. Aaron McDuffie Moore convinces Washington Duke to donate money for the construction of Lincoln Hospital.1904
Alois Alzheimer selects five foreign visiting students at the Royal Psychiatric Hospital, University of Munich, as his graduate research assistants, including African American Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller. After leaving Germany in 1906, Fuller continued his research on degenerative disorders of the brain and was a widely published pioneer in Alzheimer's disease research.1908
The National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN) is established. (NACGN was dissolved in 1951, when its members voted to merge with the American Nurses Association.)1912
Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller, recognized by the American Psychiatric Association as the country's first black psychiatrist, publishes the first comprehensive clinical review of all Alzheimer's cases that have been reported up to this time.1915
The NAACP awards Dr. Ernest E. Just the first Springarn Medal for his pioneering research on fertilization and cell division.1917
Camp Upton, N.Y.: Dr. Louis T. Wright develops a better technique (intradermal injection) for vaccinating soldiers against smallpox.1927
Boston, MA: Dr. William Augustus Hinton develops the Hinton Test for diagnosing syphilis. (He later developed an improved version, the Hinton-Davies Test, in 1931.)1936
Dr. William Augustus Hinton's book, Syphilis and Its Treatment, is the first medical textbook written by an African American to be published.1938
Sara Delaney's article entitled "Bibliotherapy in a Hospital" is published in the February issue of Opportunity magazine. (Delaney, chief librarian at the U.S. Veteran's Administration Hospital in Tuskegee, Alabama, was a pioneer in the use of selected reading to aid in the treatment of patients.)1940
Dr. Charles R. Drew presents his thesis, "Banked Blood," at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York. The thesis covers two years of blood research, including the discovery that plasma could replace whole blood transfusions.1945
Dr. Helen O. Dickens becomes the first African-American female to be board certified in obstetrics and gynecology.1954
Dr. Peter Murray Marshall is installed as the President of the New York County Medical Society, becoming the first African American to lead a unit of the American Medical Association.1967
Dr. Jane C. Wright, pioneer in chemotherapy research and daughter of Dr. Louis T. Wright, is appointed an Associate Dean and Professor of Surgery at New York Medical College. At the time, this was the highest post ever attained by an African-American woman in medical administration.1978
Dr. LaSalle D. Leffall becomes the first African-American President of the American Cancer Society.1987
Baltimore, MD: Dr. Ben Carson, neurosurgeon, leads a seventy-member surgical team at Johns Hopkins Hospital in separating Siamese twins joined at the cranium.1992
Dr. Mae C. Jemison, the first Black female astronaut in NASA history, becomes the first Black woman in space, as part of SPACELAB J, a successful joint U.S. and Japanese science mission.1993
Dr. Barbara Ross-Lee is the first African-American woman to be appointed dean of a U.S. medical school (Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine).1993
Dr. Joycelyn Elders is the first African American to be appointed as U.S. Surgeon General.1997
Des Moines, IA: Drs. Paula Mahone and Karen Drake are members of a team of forty specialists involved in the delivery of the McCaughey septuplets at Iowa Methodist Medical Center.1998
Dr. David Satcher is sworn in as both the Assistant Secretary for Health and U.S. Surgeon General.2002
Dr. Roselyn Payne Epps is the first African-American woman to serve as President of the American Medical Women's Association.
Please be sure to visit our Exhibit in the Library or take a virtual tour at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/hom/exhibits/blkhist/.
Fast, online access to drug information is important to the Duke medical community. While multiple drug information resources are available via DUMCL Online, MICROMEDEX and Clinical Pharmacology are the most popular and comprehensive. These tools allow clinicians, students, and other patrons to quickly locate vital information on drugs, including potential interactions, contraindications, and more. Connect to these resources directly or from the Medical Center Library's "Databases" page at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/databases. Handheld versions of both resources are available for free download from their Websites.
In this issue of the newsletter, we will focus on Clinical Pharmacology. Access to this resource is limited to Duke faculty, staff, and students using Duke computers or Virtual Private Network (VPN) accounts.
Clinical Pharmacology provides monographs for US drugs (generic and brand name), nutritional products, herbal and dietary supplements and investigational products. Patient education handouts for drugs are also available, and about 97% are in both English and Spanish. You may search by full or partial names of drugs or conditions. A few letters will bring up a list of possible matches and suggestions (e.g., entering "hepat" will bring up multiple liver conditions). Special features include the ability to create reports to screen for potential interactions and adverse reactions among drugs, and compare similar products to determine the "drug of choice" based on multiple criteria. Clinical Pharmacology can also be used to identify a pill based on its physical characteristics, such as color, shape, markings, etc. A frequent task menu on the homepage simplifies navigation.
To search for generic, brand name, nutritional, herbal, or investigational drugs by name
Under the Drug Information tab, select "Monographs."To search for drugs by indications, contraindications, adverse reactions,
classifications, or monitoring parameters
Under the Drug Information tab, select "Index Search."To search for drugs that contain or do not contain any combination of indications,
contraindications, adverse reactions, and interactions
Under the Drug Information tab, select "Advanced Search."To get an overview of a drug class
Under the Drug Information tab, select "Overviews."To identify unknown pills/drugs by marking, color, shape, etc.
Under the Drug Products tab, select "Product Identification."To compare multiple drugs by select characteristics
Under the Drug Products tab, select "Product Comparison."To find patent information for FDA approved drugs
Under the Drug Products tab, select "Drug Patents."To identify interactions in a patient's therapeutic regimen
Under the Clinical Tools tab, select "Drug Interactions."To find drug information (in English and often Spanish) to give to a patient
Under the Patient Education tab, select "Drug Info Handouts."
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Named the Josiah Charles Trent Associate Professor of Medical Humanities in 2002, Dr. Humphreys' major research interest is the history of disease in America, particularly in the South. In addition to numerous articles on the history of medicine, her recent book publications include Malaria: Poverty, Race and Public Health in the United States and Yellow Fever and the South. Humphreys has given several lectureships including the Rosen Lecture at Yale, the Reynolds Lecture at the University of Alabama Birmingham, the Hudson Lecture at the University of Kansas Medical Center, and the Sally and Bruce Kantar Lecture at the University of Minnesota. At Duke she serves as Professor, Dept. of History and Associate Clinical Professor, Dept. of Medicine. |
Marcos Rodriguez, a former Medical Center Library employee, has returned to the Library as Information Services Specialist for Applications and Web Services. Marcos previously worked at Duke's Vesic Library for Engineering, Mathematics and Physics.
Brandi Tuttle has joined the staff as an Information and Education Services Librarian. Before coming to Duke, Brandi worked as a Reference and Adult Services Librarian in a public library and has held positions in personnel, systems, and special collections at North Carolina State University Libraries.
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Four 32 inch LCD (liquid crystal display) monitors are available in the Medical Center Library to enhance collaborative group projects. The large display for text, graphs, and images fosters a dynamic learning and working environment. So think big with your study group, committee, or task force.These monitors are available on a first come, first serve basis in rooms 301, 302, 409, and 410. All you need to bring is a laptop computer. Instructions are posted in each room.
Duke Medical Center students, faculty, and staff have priority use of all group rooms in the Medical Center Library. Other University and community groups may use the rooms as space is available.
Book Drop Locations and Schedules
To avoid overdue fines, please pay particular attention to the pickup schedules, or return all journals, books, and interlibrary loan items directly to the Library. Audiovisuals should be returned to the Library Service Desk to avoid damaging them.Duke South Clinics
Personal Rapid Transit Lobby. Pickup: Monday through Friday at 9:30 a.m.
PRT Lobby, Lower Level near the walkway to Parking Garage II. Pickup: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday ONLY at 9:30 a.m.
Sands Building, on the Jones Building side near the rear exit door. Pickup: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday ONLY at 9:30 a.m.
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Library Educational Offerings |
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To arrange for a session, please contact the librarian listed under your topic of interest.
MEDLINE: PubMed
Megan von Isenburg
919-660-1131
MEDLINE: Ovid
Anne Powers
919-660-1128
Library Orientation (drop-in session)
First Tuesday of Every Month
12:15-12:45 pm
Megan von Isenburg
919-660-1131
Evidence-Based Medicine
Connie Schardt
919-660-1124
Cumulative Index to Nursing and
Allied Health Literature (CINAHL)
Anne Powers
919-660-1128
EndNote: Saving and Importing Citations
Ginger Carden
919-660-1184
Reference Manager: Saving and Importing Citations
Ginger Carden
919-660-1184
Grants Information on the Web
Community of Science and Other Resources
Anne Powers
919-660-1128
Clinical Tools
Connie Schardt
919-660-1124
Introduction to Sources for Health Statistics
Hattie Vines
919-660-1125
Self-Instruction
For self-paced learning, online tutorials for many of the Library’s resources can be found on the Tutorials and Training page of the Library’s Website at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/training.Featured Tutorial for February: Ovid MEDLINE- http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/training/ovid/
Customized Training
If you would like to schedule a customized training session for your department on specific resources or topics, please contact Connie Schardt, Education Coordinator, at 660-1124 to make arrangements. Sessions can be scheduled in the Medical Library Education Center (Room 104; Lower Level of the Library) or at a location within your department.
For more information about these offerings, connect to the Library's Website at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/training |
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