New Books

We have two new books in the Library, one requested by a staff member and one donated.

The first is Primary Care Tools for Clinicians : A Compendium of Forms, Questionnaires, and Rating Scales for Everyday Practice (2005) by Lorraine Loretz. The book cover describes the content as "a unique collection of forms, inventories, rating scales, and measures for primary care providers to use or adapt". An accompanying CD-ROM contains over 200 of the forms in electronic format.

The call number is:

WB
290
L869p
2005

The second book is entitled Overdo$ed America (2004) by John Abramson, M. D. The author is a former family physician on the clinical faculty of Harvard Medical School, where he teaches primary care. A review in Publishers Weekly says that Abramson debunks the myth that new technologies and drugs mean "better health care" and that he "makes a powerful and coherent case that American medicine has gone badly astray and needs a new paradigm-one untainted by profits".

The call number is:

W
84
AA1
A161o
2004

Happy Reading

Audio-Digest now available MP3's for download

Audio-Digest - now available to all of us via downloadable MP3's....

As an institutional subscriber to Audio Digest, we can now download MP3 format of issues within our subscribed specialties: Emergency Medicine, Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics/Gynecology, and Pediatrics. Note that only issues with a publication date after April 2006 are available.

Go to www.audiodigest.org and identify the volume and issue of a presentation from our specialties that you want to hear.

Sign in with: User Name = degnanPassword = library Click on MP3 Casts and enter the volume and issue number. Click on the title.

You can also download the printed material associated with the issue, but can't take pre-tests or post-tests online. This is a great way to pick up those issues that are missing or checked out.

Thanks to Carol Raymond for making these available.

New Books

We have two new staff-requested books in the Medical Library. The first is:

Ratings Scales in Mental Health (2nd. edition - 2003)
Authors: Martha Sajatovic, M.D. and Luis Ramirez, M.D.

A cover blurb describes it as a "overview of 100+ recommended rating scales for mental health assessment...Rating scales are presented in monograph format and include an overview of the scale, general applications, psychometric properties, references, copyright information, a representative scale-based study, and a sample of the scale."

The call number is:

WM
34
S158R
2003

The second book is:

Management of the Addicted Patient in Primary Care (2007)
Authors: Heidi Pomm, PhD. and Raymond Pomm, M.D.

The cover description says that the book "assists primary care physicians in managing patients with addictive illness." It presents "addiction basics" and helps providers "develop practical skills that can be readily implemented".

The call number is:

WM
270
P787m
2007

Lastest Medical News + Full Text

You can use one of the library's databases, MDConsult, to get the latest clinical medical news and read the full text of the articles referred to in the news clips. Simply sign up for their email news letter at http://www.mdconsult.com/php/about/107377658-6/pm_newsletter.html

Or, go to http://www.mdconsult.com/php/107377658-6/homepage to subscribe to MDConsult's RSS feed of current medical news.

If you're on campus, you can just click on the news item to go to the full text. Off-campus, you'll need to enter your user name and password. If you don't have a user name/password, contact the Medical Librarian:

Carol Raymond
Voice 925 370-5530
Fax 925 370-5911
Email craymond@hsd.cccounty.us

DynaMed Training

Here's a notice about free online training for one of our databases, DynaMed:

"Dear EBSCO customer

Did you know that EBSCO Publishing offers free online, one hour training sessions several times each month, on the use of our medical point-of-care products? We know that training reinforces product knowledge and stimulates interest, helping you to get the most out of your EBSCO databases, while meeting the needs of medical professionals throughout your organization. DynaMed training will be held on the following dates, for about one hour per session:
November 3 at 12 noon, Eastern Time (ET)
November 21 at 12 noon, ET
December 5 at 2:00 p.m., ET
December 22 at 2:00 p.m., ET
January 9 at 1:00 p.m., ET
January 26, 2009 at 3:00 p.m., ET

To register, go here (http://training.ebsco.com/training_request.asp), select the desired class from the Which service? drop-down list, and complete the form. Please visit EBSCO's Support Site (http://support.ebsco.com) to learn about all of EBSCO's products, search among thousands of FAQs, or download Flash tutorials, Help Sheets or User Guides."

Evidence-Based Medicine Book

We have a new EBM resource (Book + CD-ROM) in the library, Information Mastery: Evidence-Based Family Medicine, 2nd edition. The authors are: Drs Walter Rosser, David Slawson, and Allen Shaughnessy.

You can find it at:
WB
110
R828i
2004

A review in SciTech Book News (March 2006) says:

"This resource for residents and practitioners of family medicine describes a practical approach to obtaining the high-quality information needed in order to provide the best care to patients. The focus is on improving information's relevance and validity while minimizing the effort expended in finding it. Sample topics include evaluating qualitative research, using handheld computers, and dealing with pharmaceutical company representatives. The CD-ROM contains the complete text and illustrations, along with 11 bonus chapters describing some methods for teaching the approach to learners of all levels."

Another New Book - Prevention Effectiveness

We have another new book in the Library. This one was recommended by Nishant Shah M.D. and is entitled:

Prevention Effectiveness : A Guide to Decision Analysis and Economic Evaluation (2003).

The editors are Anne Haddix, Steven Teutsch, and Phaedra Corso. The book "introduces the reader to the concepts of decision and economic analysis" and "applies these methods to public health situations".

It's located in our Public Health section and the call number is:

WA
108
P9614
2003

New Book -- Culture & Clinical Care

Our patient population is culturally diverse. Here's a new resource that will help you provide care that is responsive to that diversity. It's a book recommended by Dr. Jon Stanger:

Culture & Clinical Care
Edited by Juliene Lipson and Suzanne Dibble
2005
UCSF Nursing Press

This new edition has been updated and expanded to appeal to "all clinicians and healthcare providers". It features information on 35 ethnic groups and includes reference lists for further reading.

You'll find it in our Public Health section. The call number is:

WA
30
L57
2005

PDA's 5/08

PDA's - Our alum Jonathan Scheffer has an excellent site for free and non-free PDA medical information programs. It serves as a repository for others from around the country. www.meistermed.com. For many of the programs, one needs to have ISilo software on their PDA. Here is a link to his free/non-free programs:

http://meistermed.com/isilodepot/isilo_depot_index_subj.htm

Jonathan teaches a class on how to create PDA files (that one can pass around). We are looking into options to share providers' PDA files and make them available for download to all of our providers. Other paid sites include: www.handheldmed.com and www.pdamd.com

Dynamed Access

To access Dynamed at work or Home, the best link is:
http://search.ebscohost.com

From Home, use:
User ID: contra
Password: dynamed
Or from www.myhq.com/public/c/c/ccrmc/ site, pick Dynamed under CCRMC resources.

To get Dynamed Weekly Updates (1-5 synthesis of articles that should change your practice), do 20 second sign-up at:
http://www.ebsconewsletter.com/dmweeklyupdate/e_article000696166.cfm?x=b11,0,w
I've been hearing great things from others and been finding a lot of value in this program.

A few great highlights are the Patient Handouts (gives choices from different sources, English and Spanish), straightforward very useful practice info usable while seeing patients, links to Guidelines and Articles, and the weekly updates. We can also give you a code to be able to download to your PDA - just send Carol Raymond or me an email.

CME Corner/Blog 7/7/08

1) Our CME Program got a 2 year Re-Accreditation!!!

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this huge application/site visit - especially David Pepper, Jeremy Fish, Melinda Coby, Heather Wong, Joseph Chase, Nikeya Smith, Danielle Brodus-Zamora, John Lee, Keith White, Jeff Smith, Steve Tremain, Melinda Cody, and our excellent Medical Education Committee. The Institute for Medical Quality have increased the standards substantially in the last few years and we are very happy with this outcome. They were impressed by the breadth of our program, the availability of Distance Conferences, and our movement towards improving evaluation and planning based on the needs of our learners. They are striving for practice/performance improvement as their model for CME - and we will be adjusting our programming in these ways, while also responding to input from the residency and residents for their education. While some of the needs are different, I believe we can serve both the residents and our staff well. To create space for different conferences, we will be making changes to our present programming.

New conferences, ongoing or planned:
Challenging Outpatient Cases (Pepper/Lee)
Performance Improvement (Rael/Pepper)
Resident Journal Club (Carey/Siegel/Pepper/Tzieveli)
Multi-disciplinary conferences (Michele Madlock, Ed & Training)
Case-based (Saffier)

2) Tai Roe and I are starting to work with the IT dept. on developing an ISite area (CCHS intranet http://cchs/) for medical providers and residency information. We will be sending out a survey to get input - but please send your ideas at any time to either one of us for what information you would like to have there. We are trying to make it as easy as possible to get to that information.

CME Corner - Primary Care Procedures DVD in Library

CME Corner

The Library has a new DVD product: Multimedia Primary Care Procedures (2006). This DVD (plus booklet) was created by Drs. Michael Tuggy, Jorge Garcia, and Gary Newkirk.

It covers procedures in:
Anesthesia
Biopsy
Sutures & Dressings
Needle Aspiration
Dermatology
ENT
Orthopedics
Gastroenterology
Ob/Gyn
Inpatient Medicine

Reproductive Medicine- Male & Female
Urinary

There are two DVDs with the same content. Both can be used on a PC or Mac; one is a high-resolution DVD that can also be used on a television. There is online access with the DVDs, but there is currently no license available for institutional access and the disks specify that they are for "single" users. Dr. Forman will be donating another copy of the DVD to the library, so we will have one more to circulate. If it proves to be a useful resource, we may be able to order additional copies.

MP3 Format for Audio-Digest

For Audio-Digest Listeners:

As an institutional subscriber to Audio Digest, we can now download MP3 format of issues within our subscribed specialties: Emergency Medicine, Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics/Gynecology, and Pediatrics.

Note that only issues with a publication date after April 2006 are available.

Go to www.audiodigest.org and identify the volume and issue of a presentation from our specialties that you want to hear.

Sign in with:

User Name = degnan
Password = library

Click on MP3 Casts and enter the volume and issue number. Click on the title. You can also download the printed material associated with the issue, but can’t take pre-tests or post-tests online.

This is a great way to pick up those issues that are missing or checked out.

Family Practice Newsletter

Remember the Family Practice Newsletter? It was a print newsletter produced by Colin P. Kopes-Kerr, M.D. , who's currently part of the Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency program. He has a certain evidence-based, no-nonsense approach to family medicine and is fervent about incorporating relevant research into practice. When we were providing current awareness services through "Project Alert", many staff members asked for copies of the newsletter.

Several years ago Dr Kopes-Kerr switched to an electronic format that he emails to interested people. The library gets a copy which we print and put on our current journals shelf. If you want to read the publication again, you can get it by following these directions:

TO ORDER FP REVOLUTION just send an e-mail to cpkerr@nni.com with "SIGN UP" in the subject line.

If you're not familiar with the publication and want to get an idea of what it's like, check out back issues at:

http://kopes-etichealth.icontact.com/archives/kopes-etichealth

Writing a Journal Article?

Are you preparing an article for submission to a medical journal? Check out two updated editions in the Medical Library:

AMA Manual of Style : A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th ed. - 2007)
Call Number - WZ 345 A511 2007

The Clinician's Guide to Medical Writing (2005) by Robert Taylor
Call Number - WZ 345 T245c 2005

These books will help you polish your publication.

New Book

The library has a donated copy of Shannon Brownlee's Overtreated : Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer.

From the book jacket:

"Using vivid examples of real patients and physicians, Overtreated debunks the idea that most of medicine is based on sound science, and shows how our health care system delivers huge amounts of unnecessary care that is not only expensive and wasteful but can actually imperial the health of patients"

Editorial review from Booklist:

"Award-winning health and medicine writer Brownlee notes that Americans spend between one-fifth and one-third of health-care dollars on unnecessary treatments, medications, devices, and tests. What's worse, there are an estimated 30,000 deaths per annum caused by this unnecessary care. The reason for what amounts to a national delusion that more care is better care is rooted, she says, in a build-it-and-they-will-come paradigm that rewards doctors and hospitals for how much care they deliver rather than how effective it is. In a step-by-step deconstruction of America's improvident health-care system, Brownlee sheds light on events, attitudes, and legislation in the twentieth century's latter half that led to this economic nightmare. With the skill of a crack prosecuting attorney, she cites specific cases of physician and hospital fiscal abuse. Her aim is broad but not scattershot as she hits not just docs and hospitals but private insurers, Medicare, patients, medical device manufacturers, and pharmaceutical companies by, for instance, quoting a pharmaceutical salesperson who confesses financing a physician's swimming pool to get the doc to write more prescriptions. She is not all bad news, though, for she posits models that could be adapted to create a nationwide health-care system that conceivably could staunch the current fiscal hemorrhaging"

Check it out (literally!)

MKSAP!!

The MKSAP (Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program) 14 is here.

We've changed format from print to CD-ROM. You can access it from any of the computers in the library or the CD-ROM can be checked out.

Because this is an institutional purchase, you can't get CME credit for the tests you take. Still, it's a great study tool.

March 17, 2008

Happy Saint Pat's Day

The Library will now have a blog to keep patrons in touch with new resources and upcoming events in the Degnan Medical Library

Carol Raymond
Medical Librarian