Undercover Boss - Higher Ed (library edition)

It seems that the May 1 season finale of Undercover Boss on CBS will feature the Chancellor of UC Riverside. Chancellor White will go "undercover" as an assistant chemistry professor, track coach, tour guide and a library worker. Here is an article about his experience from the Chronicle of Higher Education.

While I normally don't post recommendations to watch a television program, this one seems worthy. Keep and eye out for it and share your thoughts here after it airs.

National Library Week 2011

Celebrate National Library Week
April 10 – 16

Libraries are places for new beginnings. Whether you are getting your first library card, learning new skills, or starting your research, the library is the place where your story begins. This National Library Week, join our nation’s libraries and librarians and create your own story @ your library.

The Pumerantz Library would like to help you accomplish this by providing ways to enhance your learning and help you to create your future.

We have several programs available during National Library Week.

• Monday, April 11th, 2011 at 5 -6 pm
  EndNote Beyond the Basics: Cite While You Write and Output Styles


• Tuesday, Apr 12th, 2011 at 5:30 – 7 pm
  Study Skills for Health Care Students


• Wednesday, April 13th, 2011 at 5:30 – 7 pm
  Mobile Apps for Medicine


• Thursday, April 14th, 2011 at 5:30 – 7 pm
  How to Write a Better Paper
  
  
• Friday, April 15, 2011
  Fine Free Friday
  Return a currently overdue book to the library on this day and have your fine waived. Sorry, this doesn't apply to previously existing fines.
  

To register for any of these programs click on the link provided or visit the Pumerantz Library Workshop guide and register there.

Academic and special libraries help millions of Americans begin the next chapter in their lives every day. Celebrate today by visiting the Pumerantz Library - in person or online and create your own story @ your library.

New at the Library! Archives of Ophthalmology

Pumerantz Library now has the Archives of Ophthalmology from 1998 to present.  The Archives of Ophthalmology, published by the American Medical Association, is a peer-reviewed ophthalmology and visual science journal.  It aims to be the indispensable source of ophthalmic knowledge for the generalist, subspecialist, and trainee and to publish innovative, clinically relevant research for the vision scientist.  You can find the journal in the Electronic Journal section in the Electronic Resources page of the Harriet K. & Philip Pumerantz Library website. 

Opening Doors Exhibit - Closing Soon

The traveling exhibit from the National Library of Medicine: Opening Doors – Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons will end on March 26, 2011. Be sure to stop by and see the exhibit before it is removed and sent to the next host institution.

Physicians, social media, and professionalism

There was a letter to the editor recently published; Feb. 9, 2011 305(6), 566, in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), about the professionalism of physicians in social media, specifically Twitter.

The authors of the paper; Chretien, Azar, and Kind, wanted to determine the, "characteristics of self-identified physicians on Twitter and how they use Twitter, with a specific focus on professionalism." Their conclusions showed that overall the self-identified physicians sharing of information had a positive effect, but they were concerned with HIPAA complaiance, and unprofessional content.

What are your thoughts on physicians using social media to provide health information in light of the recent AMA Policy Professionalism in the use of Social Media and this article by Chretien, Azar, and Kind?

VisualDx Enhancements

Starting today; March 1, 2011, VisualDx is releasing some new enhancements, a new app, more images, an enhanced search feature, and a team up with another database.

Android users rejoice, VisualDx has finally created an app for the Android platform. You can now enjoy the power of ViusalDx on your Droids, & G2's! Currently enrolled students, faculty and staff may sign up for VisualDx for Android here and click on "Get VisualDx mobile free".

Keyword enhanced search VisualDX has "expanded the Look up a Diagnosis search to include more general key terms we have found users to be entering frequently." You can now search more general terms and retrieve reliable results.

VisualDx and Up To Date have teamed up to offer enhanced services. Now when you perform a search in Up To Date, if the topic you look up has a correlation to topics or images covered in VisualDx you will be provided with an icon to view the diagnosis, treatment options, and images in VisualDx. Follow this link for an example, see the orange icon next to "See images of contact dermatitis in VisualDx".

Opening Doors - Library Exhibit

The Pumerantz Library is currently home to the traveling National Library of Medicine (NLM) exhibition, "Opening Doors: Contemporary African-American Academic Surgeons." This exhibit showcases the achievements of African-Americans in medicine, from the foundations laid by Lt. Colonel Alexander T. Augusta, MD at Freedman Hospital, Howard University College of Medicine to Charles Drew, MD. The display then follows up with information on contemporary pioneers such as Alexa I. Canady, M.D and Claude H. Organ, Jr., M.D. and concludes with African-American surgeons who are following in the footsteps laid by the previous generations and continue push the boundaries of surgery.

The Library has expanded on the theme by featuring displays on the history and pioneers of African-Americans in medicine. As well as the achievements of Western University's African-American Deans.

The Opening Doors exhibit is currently running, now until March 26, 2011. To view pictures of this exhibit please visit the Pumerantz Library Facebook page. For directions and information please contact 909-469-5323 or email reference@westernu.edu.