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No. 329.............................................April 2010
Karen Grigg, Collection Development Services
Unlimited Access
We now have a site license to MD Consult, allowing an unlimited number of users to access this point of care resource. Before now we were only able to accommodate seven simultaneous users, which resulted in reports of frequent lockouts.
MD Consult (http://www.mdconsult.com) offers electronic access to a robust core collection of clinical titles such as Miller’s Anesthesia, Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, Cecil Medicine, and Brenner & Rector’s The Kidney. It also includes medical journal titles and access to many of The Clinics.
We hope this broadened access will be beneficial to our users.
MD Consult Mobile
Access is now available to the new MD Consult Mobile BETA. This product offers free access to the books, journals, clinics, and guidelines in MD Consult through Web-enabled smartphones like the iPhone, Blackberry, Treo, and others.
You will need a personal MD Consult account to access this mobile version. If you don’t already have one, just follow the steps below to get started.
- Access http://www.mdconsult.com from a Duke computer or using the VPN client.
Note: Duke University, Duke Hospital, and Duke Raleigh Hospital have access; Durham Regional Hospital does not. - Click on “Create an Account” on the top right.
- Complete the registration form and create a username and password. Access will require a Duke Medicine ID badge.
- Click “Submit” and log out. You must exit MD Consult on the workstation before logging into your phone.
- Access MD Consult Mobile (http://mobile.mdconsult.com) using your Web-enabled browser.
http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/training/mobiledevices
Brandi Tuttle, Information and Education Services
Is it a BlackBerry, iPhone, or PDA? Do you own a Kindle or an iPod Touch? Whatever your flavor of mobile device, you’ll find something on the Library’s Mobile Devices Website including helpful tips and recommended applications. Learn how you can download DynaMed to your device, access patient educational materials, or search Library resources.
Another project involving handheld communication devices is the GME Education Innovations “Calling for Collaboration” initiative (http://guides.mclibrary.duke.edu/cfc). It is currently underway at Duke University Hospital with the aim of comparing communication devices for enhanced training and quality patient care.
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Anne Powers, Information and Education Services
Researchers exploring the psychosocial, behavioral, and experiential aspects of health and illness may be interested in using qualitative and mixed method research designs. The Library has developed a new Qualitative Research Subject Guide with online resources to aid in conducting, finding, using, synthesizing, or teaching qualitative research.
The new guide includes sections devoted to books and tutorials, glossaries of research terms (qualitative and others), guidance, journals, databases, search strategies and filters, and more. You can access the guide directly at http://guides.mclibrary.duke.edu/qualitative or connect to it from the “Resources by Topic ” page on the Library’s Website at http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/subject.
You may now access SciFinder Scholar via the Web! The proprietary software for SciFinder is no longer supported by Chemical Abstracts Service and will be phased out by the end of the Spring semester.
Registration for an individual user account is required. To set up an account, follow the steps below.
- Connect to http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/databases/#scifinder
from a computer on the Duke network or using the VPN client or EZProxy. - Click on “registration for an individual user account.”
- Set up your account.
(Hint: Your Duke email can serve as your username.) - Respond to the confirmation email once you set up your account.
Megan von Isenburg, Public Services - Information Services
In Fall 2008, Duke University Medical Center Library received funding through a National Network of Libraries of Medicine Express Outreach Project Award to test the Kindle e-book reader in educational primary care settings.
The Amazon Kindle can be loaded with Kindle-formatted electronic books and personal documents and offers rudimentary wireless access, primarily so that users can purchase and download new books at any location within the network area. This unique combination of electronic books, documents, and wireless access positions the Kindle as a potential tool for medical students and health care practitioners working in educational or clinical settings, particularly those located in smaller or rural communities or those that do not have wireless or multiple computers for access.
In 2008/09 the Library’s project put Kindles in the hands of 14 preceptors and 20 second-year medical students during seven family medicine clerkship rotations in off-site primary care clinics. With assistance from Dr. Joyce Copeland, Clerkship Director for Family Medicine, librarians selected, purchased, and converted relevant books and practice guidelines for the devices. They offered training to every student participating in the project and served as technical support to all project participants. At the end of each four-week rotation, participating students and preceptors were asked to complete an online evaluation of the Kindles and their usefulness in clinical and educational settings. Feedback suggests that the Kindle is recommended and shows great promise in medical educational settings; however, it is slow compared to networked computers when used in a direct patient care setting.
Participants rated the Kindle favorably for size, weight, portability, reliability, and usability, but rated it poorly for speed. The most popular features on the Kindle were searching across items and searching the Internet and PubMed. Technical problems were rare, and 90% (19 out of 21) felt comfortable using it in front of colleagues.
Some participants used the Kindle frequently, while others reported not using it at all. The majority of participants used it at least two to three times during the four-week rotation. Use was higher for indirect patient care, educational preparation, and leisure reading than for direct patient care. Not surprisingly, participants’ ratings of the Kindle’s overall ease of use fell along the same lines: higher rankings were given for leisure reading and educational preparation for clinic, followed by indirect patient care within clinics. Fifty percent of participants rated it poorly for direct patient care in clinics.
Because of low ratings for speed and ease of use, a majority of participants did not recommend the Kindle for direct patient care (16 out of 21). However, a majority (18 out of 21) either recommended or strongly recommended the Kindle for use in educational settings.
The results must be viewed in light of the fact that most of the students and preceptors participating in the study had access to other information resources in the clinical setting, and that the Kindle simply couldn’t compete with a networked PC. Future plans are to continue to test the Kindle in educational and clinical settings, with a focus on locations with few networked computer workstations and/or little wireless access.
This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. N01-LM-6-3502 with the University of Maryland Baltimore.
Karen Grigg, Collection Development Services
Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care, Purnell, Larry D. Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Co., 2009
Stacks | W 21 P985g 2009Purnell presents an updated edition of his concise, accessible handbook for healthcare students and practitioners. The text includes an introductory overview of transcultural diversity and the need for culturally competent healthcare, followed by the author’s own “Model for Cultural Competence” and its accompanying organizing framework. Each of the remaining 27 chapters focuses on a specific cultural group and includes general information on the group and culture-specific beliefs and practices.
Decision Making in Medicine: An Algorithmic Approach, Mushlin, Stuart B. and Greene II, Harry L. Philadelphia, PA: Mosby/Elsevier, 2010
Stacks | WB 141 D294 2010This popular reference facilitates diagnostic and therapeutic decision making for a wide range of common and often complex problems faced in outpatient and inpatient medicine. Comprehensive algorithmic decision trees guide you through more than 250 disorders organized by sign, symptom, problem, or laboratory abnormality. The brief text accompanying each algorithm explains the key steps of the decision making process, giving you clear, clinical guidelines needed to successfully manage even your toughest cases. An algorithmic format makes it easy to apply the practical, decision-making approaches used by seasoned clinicians in daily practice.
The Ethics of Consent: Theory and Practice, Miller, Franklin G. and Wertheimer, Alan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010
Stacks | W 20.55.H9 E8395 2010Consent is a basic component of the ethics of human relations, making permissible a wide range of conduct that would otherwise be wrongful. It marks the difference between slavery and employment, permissible sexual relations and rape, borrowing or selling and theft, medical treatment and battery, participation in research and being a human guinea pig. This book assembles the contributions of a distinguished group of scholars concerning the ethics of consent in theory and practice.
Netter’s Gastroenterology, Floch, Martin H. with illustrations by Netter, Frank H. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders/Elsevier, 2010
Stacks | WI 140 N474 2010Floch selected approximately 300 of the esteemed illustrations of Dr. Netter, and, with colleagues, wrote text to expand on the visual presentation. The result is an unconventional text for generalists that is accessible to students and also of interest to gastroenterologists. Organization is in ten sections that correspond to the organs of the system and to special topics within that system. In the second edition, text and illustrations have been updated and modified where necessary.
Ashley Brown, a former Library Assistant, has taken a Library Assistant Senior position in Access Services.
Brandi Tuttle, Information & Education Services Librarian, received an Exhibit Award from the National Library of Medicine to highlight MedlinePlus at the North Carolina Academy of Physician Assistants Winter Conference, held February 21-24 in Durham, NC.
Dawne Howard Lucas, Head, Technical Services, Medical Center Archives, presented during the session, “Yes, You Can Use Them! Customizing Archivists’ Toolkit and Archon for Your Institution,” at the Society of North Carolina Archivists Annual Meeting in Pinehurst, NC, on March 5, 2010.
Jessica Roseberry, Medical Center Archives
The Medical Center Library staff bids a fond farewell to Charlie Lackey, who has worked at the Library since 2001. Charlie was Head of Cataloging when she came to Duke, but her position evolved to Assistant Director of Cataloging and Bibliographic Services in order to reflect the merger between Acquisitions and Collection Development at the Library. In this supervisory role, she has been the Medical Library’s point person for evaluating and selecting ALEPH, the current online catalog accessible by all Duke libraries. Charlie has been professionally active in many library-related organizations and has served on numerous library committees.
Of her time at Duke she says, “Eight years have afforded me the opportunity to grow in my career. It has been a challenge because I came from an academic background to a medical field. I had the opportunity to work with wonderful people and watch the collection transition from paper-based to electronic. I have also observed the Library’s efforts to stay on the cutting edge in technology with the introduction of products like the Kindle.”
The Medical Center Library’s main book drop is located outside the front entrance of the Library on the walkway between Duke Hospital North and the South Clinics. Materials deposited in the 24-hour book drop are picked up twice a day.
Medical Center Library items may also be returned to any Duke library branch.Duke Hospital North
PRT Lobby, Lower Level, near the walkway to Parking Garage II. Pickup: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday ONLY at 9:30 a.m.
Due to construction of the new concourse, the book drop in the Duke Clinic PRT lobby is no longer available. The book drop in the Sands Building has also been removed due to lack of usage.
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.
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