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.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
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.
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.
Monday, June 23, 2008
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
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
Monday, June 16, 2008
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.
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.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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!)
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!)
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
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.
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.
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