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Resource Spotlight: Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination

Welcome to Resource Spotlight! The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library provides access to an incredible array of databases, e-book collections, software and more. In this series of posts, we’ll be showcasing highlights from our collection. In this edition of Resource Spotlight, we’ll be looking at Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination. An online complement to the classic textbook, Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination offers users head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination instructional videos. The fifth edition of the Guide offers more than eight hours of high-quality video divided into 18 ‘chapters’. Each chapter is themed (e.g. “Head-to-Toe Assessment: Infant” “Cardiovascular System”, “Nervous System: Cranial Nerves & Motor System”) and the videos within each chapter range from bite-size, animated anatomy review to extended examination demonstrations. In addition to the general knowledge presented in the Guide, it also features a section of OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examinations) Clinical Skills Videos. These videos allow you to test your clinical reasoning skills by observing a clinical encounter and then being given an opportunity to develop an assessment or differential diagnosis, and provide a diagnostic workup. Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination is available to Yale affiliates through the VPN, YNHH affiliates through the proxy server and everybody on the YaleSecure WiFi network. Start exploring the Guide today. For questions on how to best use Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination, feel free to contact us.

New Resource Alert: Try BMJ Learning free until Feb. 16th!

The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library is always searching for the newest and most useful resources to license for our users. We're considering subscribing to BMJ Learning and would love your input -- sign up for an account today and let us know how you like it! BMJ Learning offers evidence-based continuing medical education resources for everyone in the healthcare community from undergraduate medical students to attending physicians. The platform is composed of hundreds of peer-reviewed learning modules in text, video, and audio formats on topics ranging from foundational competencies to advanced surgical skills. Most modules take about an hour to complete, but you can work through them at your own pace in multiple sessions through your personalized homepage. After you successfully complete a module, you can print a certificate and the completion details populate in your BMJ Portfolio. Examples of modules you will encounter on the platform include: The “hospital presentation” series, which allows you to learn about a topic through a specific case scenario The 10-minute “quick tips” series, brief modules on topics ranging from treating patients with excessive ear wax to head lice to how scarlet fever presents The progressive “practical skills” series, with basic and advanced levels across most specialties The “medical education” series, which offers modules on topics like dealing with conflict, communication skills, public speaking, writing a CV, and interviewing skills To get started, head to BMJ Learning’s homepage and click register. To register, you’ll need to be connected to Yale Secure, the YNHH network, or the VPN. After you register, you’ll be able to access the platform from anywhere. The trial runs through February 16th. Let us know how you like it! Contact Andy Hickner with feedback.

New year, new classes! Check out our new PubMed and EndNote workshops

We’ve offered PubMed and EndNote classes for years, but this year we’re trying something new to make our workshops as efficient and productive as possible! PubMed We realize that our different user groups use the same products in very different ways. Residents and attending physicians may need quick answers to clinical questions whereas students writing their theses may need a more comprehensive search of the literature. We also realize everybody is very busy and 60 minutes are hard to find. To meet these needs, we’ve created two new 30 minute PubMed classes: PubMed for Clinicians and PubMed for Research. Both classes are followed by an optional half-hour hands-on session where attendees can work through their own questions or provided examples. EndNote Despite offering the same functionality, EndNote looks very different on Apple computers and PCs. To address these discrepancies and make learning basic EndNote tasks easier, we’ve split the introductory class into two: EndNote for Mac and EndNote for PC. Attendees can bring their own computers to become familiar with the interface and create a functioning, organized library by the end of the class. For advanced users, we’ve created a retooled Advanced EndNote class where attendees will fill out a survey prior to the class that lets the instructors cater each session to the needs and questions of the people in the room. No two sessions will be alike! Check out the class calendar for upcoming workshops. Are you interested in attending a library workshop and can’t make it to 333 Cedar St.? Let us know, and we can schedule something for your group at your location.

Resource Spotlight: Pharmaprojects

Welcome to Resource Spotlight! The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library provides access to an incredible array of databases, e-book collections, software and more. In this series of posts, we’ll be showcasing highlights from our collection. In this edition of Resource Spotlight, we’ll be looking at Pharmaprojects. Pharmaprojects is a web-based database of drugs developed worldwide since 1980 and monitoring information on new drugs currently in research and development. Pharmaprojects offers a wide range of information and services to researchers at Yale, including: Information and updates about new drugs as they progress through the commercial pharmaceutical research and development process Tracking information as new drugs are tested in clinical trials Multiple ways to explore drug development such as by therapeutic class status, disease, company, country, mechanism of action, biological target, delivery route, or chemical structure Highly customizable automated alerts to follow the status of an individual drugs or diseases Exportable data to manipulate and analyze Individualized research help with the “Ask the Analyst” feature Pharmaprojects is available to Yale affiliates through the VPN, YNHH affiliates through the proxy server and everybody on the YaleSecure WiFi network. The first time you visit the resource, you’ll need to create an account with your Yale credentials. For questions on how to best use Pharmaprojects, feel free to contact Biomedical Sciences Research Support Librarian Rolando Garcia-Milian.

Resource Spotlight: AccessMedicine

Welcome to our new series, Resource Spotlight! The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library provides access to an incredible array of databases, e-book collections, software and more. In this series of posts, we’ll be showcasing highlights from our collection. In this edition of Resource Spotlight, we’ll be looking at AccessMedicine. Produced by publisher McGraw-Hill, AccessMedicine is part of a robust family of resources including AccessAnesthesiology, AccessEmergency, AccessPediatrics, and AccessSurgery. AccessMedicine is a great tool for students, residents, and faculty alike: Online access to more than 80 medical textbooks, such as Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, The Color Atlas of Family Medicine, and Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine Multimedia library with examination videos, patient safety modules, procedural videos, and more Exam preparation tools for board certification and Step 3 including Graber and Wilbur’s Family Medicine Examination & Board Review and large question banks with detailed answers Tools to help your practice such as the Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, the differential diagnosis tool Diagnosaurus, and an integrated drug database in English and Spanish Patient education resources on thousands of topics in many languages AccessMedicine is available to Yale affiliates through the VPN, YNHH affiliates through the proxy server, and everybody on the YaleSecure WiFi network. For questions on how to best use AccessMedicine, feel free to contact Clinical Librarian Alexandria "Lexi" Brackett.

New Video: Bioinformatics at Yale

You probably know that the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library offers support for bioinformatics projects, but do you know exactly where we fit into the high-throughput omics research data cycle? In this new video produced by CWML staff, you can see a sampling of the tools and services we offer throughout the process. Highlighted resources include: Qlucore Omics Explorer, a tool that facilitates a dynamic analysis of omics data, applicable to various phases of a discovery cycle. Qlucore helps you visualize, QC, apply statistics, and create publication-ready graphics, such as 3D Principal Component Analysis, heat maps, and various 2D plots. Partek Flow software, a program that is used for the analysis of next-generation sequencing data including RNA, small RNA, and DNA sequencing. Partek Flow provides a graphical user interface that allows building your own custom analysis pipelines for alignment, quantification, quality control, statistics, and visualization. Ingenuity Pathway Analysis, a web-based software application for the analysis, integration, and interpretation of the data derived from omics experiments, ranging from microarrays and metabolomics to smaller scale experiments that generate gene and chemical lists. And, finally, MetaCore, a systems biology analysis suite containing information that can be used to perform pathway enrichment, network building, target discovery, and more. For more information on Bioinformatics at Yale, contact Rolando Garcia-Milian.