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The Kristaps J. Keggi Vietnam War service collection, recently donated to the Historical Medical Library, contains the complete correspondence between Dr. Kristaps J. Keggi and his wife, Julie, during his time as a surgeon in the Vietnam War. The materials were all donated by Dr. Keggi, the current Elihu Professor in Orthopedics at Yale School of Medicine. The scope of the collection—personal letters, photographs, teaching materials and war wound images- presents a unique and comprehensive look into the life of a war surgeon. Letters detail stories of MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital), Montagnards plagued with leprosy, ceremonies with local tribes, a visit from a Playboy bunny and, of course, the extensive surgeries performed in a combat zone. A sample of photographs and letters are on display at the Historical Library.

For a list of materials in the collection, see the online finding aid. The finding aid and materials on display were compiled by Julia Hunter.

E24 Lounge, E24A & E24B in the Betsey Cushing Whitney Group Study Center can now be booked through an online reservation system. 

·       Rooms are for the use of two or more persons

·       Book a room for up to FOUR consecutive hours; eight hours total per person per day

·       Book up to EIGHT weeks in advance

Reserve a room in the Group Study Center

Conference Rooms near the library entrance and the Cushing Center Conference Room are also available for use although they can not be reserved through this system.  Please visit our Places to Study and Collaborate page for details on all study spaces and rooms.

AccessMedicine is an innovative online resource that provides students, residents, clinicians, researchers, and health professionals with access to more than 75 medical titles in medicine, thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, time-saving diagnostic and point-of-care tools, a comprehensive search platform, and the ability to view from and download content to a mobile device.

Updated and expanded frequently AccessMedicine provides fast, direct access to textbooks and case files, diagnostic tests and Diagnosaurus, videos and audio selections as well as information for pursuing research, medical education, or self-assessment and board review.

Take a site tour.

This series provided by McGraw Hill Medical also includes Access Anesthesiology, Access Emergency Medicine, Access Pediatrics and Access Surgery. 

The Medical Historical Library’s digital collection includes School of Medicine photographs, portraits of 16th Century anatomist Andreas Vesalius, Harvey Cushing, and others, medical and surgical instruments, prints, posters, and drawings, and much more!  Recently, thousands of medical works from the 19th and early 20th centuries have been added to the Medical Heritage Library, an online resource of free and open historical resources in medicine.  This exhibit, on view in the Medical Library Rotunda, Hallway, and Foyer, showcases a selection from the thousands of items currently available online, and describes the process of digitization, bringing medical history to users throughout the world with a few simple clicks. 

Visit our collections online http://digital.medicine.yale.edu/

On view April 11 to July 5, 2013

After a complete remodeling, the Medical Historical Library's office and new secure reading room is officially open.  Our new public hours will be from 10-noon, and 1-4:30, Monday through Friday.

This project caps a larger Historical Library renovation, beginning several years ago with an overhaul of the Medical Historical locked stacks and work areas.  New environmental controls and security measures, movable stacks, and new work spaces including a preservation lab and photography area, were included in the first portion of the project, allowing the Library to properly store, protect, and work with the collections. The renovation of the Medical Historical Library office and the creation of a new secure reading room next to the office continues this work, with new security and environmental controls and a redesigned office.

The Medical Library wishes to thank the School of Medicine, Christie Day, John Gallagher, former Preservation Librarian Sarah McGlynn, and others that made this a reality.  Please stop in to see our new space!  We welcomed our first user, a graduate student in the History of Medicine program, before the tags were even off the chairs.

 Wayne Seese U.S.A. 1918-1980         

   The Crack Up, c.1946

      Watercolor

Bequest of Clements C. Fry 1955

“Combat Art,” created by designated soldier artists, was widely exhibited during World War II and also illustrated popular publications such as LIFE magazine.   

Clements C. Fry, Yale psychiatrist and collector, purchased this drawing in 1946 after having seen it in an exhibition in  Washington, D.C., where he served on the National Research Council. 

On request, the artist Corporal Wayne Seese provided a description:

     The “Crack Up” came from a scene I witnessed on the island of New Britain, after the Cape Gloucester campaign….One night as we sat in our tent, Bedlam broke out across the street at sick bay.  Rushing over there, we came upon the scene I have put down on paper.

     Yelling, sobbing, and talking, the kid was held down by a couple of his buddies while the doctor prepared a sedative.  The scene was pretty weird with hundreds of fellows drawn by morbid curiosity standing in the darkness….

     The kid was a rugged looking boy about nineteen or twenty, a messman at the time.  He stepped out of his tent and in the darkness ran into a tree and went to pieces.  Rumor was that he had just received a letter that both his mother & father were killed in an accident, but I don’t know.

Wayne Seese served with the First Marine Division in the South Pacific campaign

“The Crack Up” is on view through April 11, 2013.

http://library.medicine.yale.edu/featured/war

Using this exciting new resource you can build a differential and quickly see a visual diagnosis.  Search by symptoms or visual clues, by diagnosis, or by medication-induced diseases or eruptions.  Over 1,200 conditions and 25,000 medical images are included. 

Many serious infectious, genetic, immunologic, nutritional, and metabolic diseases present visually.   VisualDx helps with quick diagnostic assistance, showing an image that closely matches the way a condition is presenting on the patient.

VisualDx is listed under Resources on the Library’s home page.  Try it today!                                

A Great New Resource to Try!

ClinicalKey includes all of this and more:

• Medical and Surgical Clinics of North America
• First Consult point-of-care clinical monographs
• Procedures Consult content and associated videos
• Clinical Pharmacology drug monographs
• More medical and surgical journals and books
• And over 9,000 medical and surgical videos

Here’s how to use it:

• Add your topic in the search box; see the results in the center column.
• Use the left column to sort by study type, e.g. systematic reviews, date, specialty, and content type (journals, books, guideline etc.).
• Use the Clinical Summary (right column) to preview information on the topic.

If you register, you can save your searches, flag articles to read later, and use other special features.

Find ClinicalKey under Resources on the Library’s home page.

In January 2013, the Medical Historical Library acquired a collection of over 2600 international public health and safety posters from 56 countries.  Topics include maternal and child health, anti-drug and tobacco campaigns, breastfeeding, clean water, prevention of diseases such as malaria and polio, and accident prevention and safety.  Kenya, The Netherlands, Oman, France, and Germany are particularly well represented in the collection.  Posters issued by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Pan American Health Organization, and Doctors without Borders are also included.  Please contact Melissa Grafe, melissa.grafe@yale.edu, for more information and for access to the posters.

THE BEAUMONT MEDICAL CLUB Lecture

“Charles McLinn, the Yale College Carpenter: Patriarch and Benefactor to 19th century African Americans of New Haven and Yale”

Forrester Lee, M.D.
Professor of Medicine & Assoc. Dean for Multicultural Affairs
Yale School of Medicine

Friday, March 22, 2013
Historical Library, Yale Medical School
333 Cedar Street

Tea at 4:30 P.M. in the Beaumont Room
Lecture at 5:00 P.M. in the Historical Library

Howard Scott U.S.A. 1902-1983

We Still Have a Big Job to Do! 1943

U.S. Government Printing Office for the U.S. Navy, Industrial Incentive Division

Purchased through the John F. Fulton Fund 2012

During World War II, the Industrial Incentive Division of the U.S. Navy sought to improve morale among workers in U.S. industrial plants by emphasizing the importance of the plant’s products in the overall war effort. The morale initiative, begun in May of 1943, employed audio interviews and other messages piped in through speaker systems in the workplace;  exhibited combat action photographs, specially commissioned posters and combat motion pictures in the workplace; and arranged for returned combat personnel to visit the plants engaged in war production.

This recently acquired poster, created to boost the morale of defense industry workers during World War II, is on view through April 12, 2013

http://library.medicine.yale.edu/featured/war

The latest news from NIH :

For non-competing continuation grant awards with a start date of July 1, 2013 or beyond:

1. NIH will delay processing of an award if publications arising from it are not in compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy (stating that final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts must be submitted to the public digital archive PubMed Central)
2. Investigators will need to use My NCBI’s My Bibliography to complete the publication section in progress reports.

The Library has created a guide and there are tutorials and training materials on the NIH website.

The Library is also poised and ready to support you in the compliance process.  Contact your librarian for personal assistance.  July 1st is only a few months away.

The Medical Library will begin Extended Hours for Study on March 3, 2013 and continue through May 30, 2013.

The schedule will be as follows:

• Monday - Thursday: 8 A.M. - 2 A.M.
• Friday: 8 A.M. - 10 P.M.
• Saturday: 10 A.M. - 10 P.M.
• Sunday: 9:30 A.M. - 2 A.M.

To hear Professor John Lewis Gaddis, Historian and Pulitzer Prize Winner

When: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Lecture: Writing George Kennan’s Biography

Where: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University

John Lewis Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History, Yale University, is a noted historian of the Cold War and the Pulitzer Prize winning author of George F. Kennan: An American Life, a book about the influential 20th Century diplomat and statesman.

We will be upgrading to ILLiad on Thursday, Feb. 28 starting at 3 PM.  We expect it to take between 1 and 2 hours to complete the process.

During this time:

• You will not be able to submit Interlibrary Loans or Scan and Deliver requests or access your requests and/or scans.
• Staff will not be able to process or update requests in ILLIad.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

The Library now has a trial to the Federal Research in Progress, or FEDRIP database until April 15.

The Federal Research In Progress (FEDRIP) Database provides access to information about ongoing federally funded projects in the fields of the physical sciences, engineering, and life sciences. Project descriptions generally include: project title, keywords, start date, estimated completion date, principal investigator, performing and sponsoring organizations, summary, and progress report.

You must be on campus or the VPN to access FEDRIP.

The StatLab workshop schedule for Spring 2013

• 3/01 9-11am                 (Rosenkranz) AMOS
• 3/01 2:30-4:30pm       (CSSSI) Advanced STATA
• 3/08 9-11am                 (Rosenkranz) Writing Papers with Data
• 3/08 2:30-4:30pm       (CSSSI) Designing Webpages with WordPress/HTML
• 3/29 9-11am                 (Rosenkranz) Intro LaTeX
• 3/29 2:30-4:30pm       (CSSSI) Intro R

Rosenkranz Lab – 115 Prospect Street, Room 01

CSSSI – 219 Prospect Street, Kline Biology Tower, Concourse Level

To register, for more classes, and more information, see the StatLab website. 

Superstition Meets Science: The History of Screening for Disease

2012 Rosen Lecture sponsored by the Beaumont Medical Club

Presented by Barron H. Lerner, M.D., Ph.D.,
Professor of Medicine and Associate Director of the Division of Medical Humanities,
New York University Medical Center

Friday, February 22, 2013, 5:00 p.m.

Tea in the Beaumont Room - 4:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Reception following talk

Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

333 Cedar Street

Date:Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Time: 10:30am - 11:30am
Presenter: Melanie Maksin, Kayleigh Bohemier, Gwyneth Crowley, Lori Bronars
Location: 17 Hillhouse - 07
Campus: Science Hill

No one can deny that Google's various search engines are powerful tools for research—but we've all had that experience where we can't find what we want and have no idea how to get the best sources. Whether your searches yield too many results, too few relevant results, or results that might not be the most current scholarship in a discipline, this workshop will demonstrate advanced search techniques for navigating different Google products more effectively and efficiently.

To register, go to Google for Research and click on the title of the workshop you would like to attend. This guide lists several other upcoming Google workshops as well.

Stop in the library to see Together, We Remember, an exhibit to commemorate Black History Month prepared by the Student Medical Association.  This special exhibit examines how slaves became health care workers, covering slave medicine to the established Contraband Hospital:

1. Slave Medicine focuses on how slaves would tend to their own medical issues using many herbal remedies that have influences from many different parts of Africa.
2. The transition to the Contraband Hospital and the creation of the first several houses where "contraband" (i.e. slaves that either escaped or were freed in the chaos of the war) were treated for medical issues. The focus is on the Elisha Miller house in Alexandria which was one of the first such medical places built by the union army to treat the "contraband".
3. The Contraband Hospital and the people that had an important role in the hospital including the various African American surgeons that staffed the hospital.