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May 16, 2011, 4:11 pm
Congratulations to every graduate in the University of Connecticut Health Center Class of 2011
You did it!
Ceremonies were held in Hartford on Sunday, May 15 2011
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May 12, 2011, 8:57 am
As accident re-enactments go, this one is pretty Riveting
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The focus and calm of U.S. Airways Captain Chesley Sullenberger can be appreciated by listening to the audio portion of this re-enactment, as he made criti... Comment - Like
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Apr 13, 2011, 4:15 pm
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If you are an American who reads news articles or listens daily to TV, then the budgetary skirmishes being played out between the two governing parties in Washington this month is enough to keep you up at nig... Comment - Like
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Mar 29, 2011, 2:08 pm
Spring has finally arrived. At this time of year - March Madness – it is so easy to get caught up in the hoopla and excitement surrounding men and womens’ College Basketball. In 2011, this is made easier by the fact that both the UConn women and the men are doing very well in tournament play... Comment - Like
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Mar 22, 2011, 1:24 pm
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Life-changing events continue hard for the citizens of Japan, as the world watches them cope with multiple environmental disasters after surviving a 9.0 magnitude earthquake (a Big One) that hit near... Comment - Like
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Feb 25, 2011, 1:59 pm
Here’s the Friday Post #54 for Feb 25 2011.
A recent opinion piece published in the online edition of the Wall Street Journal (Feb 17 2011), posed the question: “Is Your Job an Endangered Species“? Author Andy Kessler describes a world in which whole classes of jobs become defunct due to ad... Comment - Like
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Feb 7, 2011, 3:00 pm
Returning from a blogging-break, I found several links in my email account to a variety of newly-published library-related reports or scholarly articles. Two that I enjoyed reading are referenced below.
So wrote Dan Hazen, associate librarian of collection management at Harvard College, in his 2010... Comment - Like
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Jan 4, 2011, 2:44 pm
First: Best wishes for a Happy and Healthy New Year 2011 to everyone!
Since I have been writing this blog (which began in July 2007), I have yet to assemble a list of “favorite posts” from the backlist. The first week of a brand New Year seems like a good time to offer up this collecti... Comment - Like
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Nov 23, 2010, 12:29 pm
Here’s some good news! On Nov 6 2010, Elsevier Health, producer of the MD Consult/FirstConsult database, announced their free FirstConsult app for iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad .
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Nov 18, 2010, 3:44 pm
Wow… Been away from blogging for so long I’m relieved to remember how it works! *
Health literacy is a key focus for librarians who interact frequently with patients looking for information about their own health issues.
Larger, more universal information-seeking behaviors and lifelong lear... Comment - Like
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Nov 2, 2010, 7:05 am
Whenever WordPress announces that a new theme has been added to their collection of free templates, I test them out. This new theme, zBench, is a winner! Hope you like it. Bear with me while I fidget with the widgets.
Thanks, WordPress.
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Oct 6, 2010, 2:50 pm
October is National Medical Librarians Month in the U.S.
The theme for 2010 is Health Literacy
Here is a screenshot of the poster created by Medical Library Association for this event:
Health science librarians are in a unique position to work with patients and their families who seek curren... Comment - Like
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Oct 1, 2010, 10:16 pm
This is The Friday Post for Oct 1 2010. The fall season is upon us… say goodbye to summer!
First up: New Yorkers are walkers by nature… it’s just that kind of place. Here’s a video which illustrates a wildly different perspective on traveling the streets of New York. It makes one wonder w... Comment - Like
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Sep 21, 2010, 1:22 pm
I apologize for the lack of blog-posts this month… it’s been pretty busy around here.
Today’s post is about metabolic pathways, which the first-year students are deep into studying this month. Here is a link to a pretty illustration which was found on Wikipedia:
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Sep 1, 2010, 1:31 pm
Wow! For those of us who use information resources produced by Elsevier on a daily basis, it’s been a bit of a shock to tune into Scopus®, SciTopics® or ScienceDirect® this week to see how different they now look. (Or as a corny analogy, that figurative, proverbial 800-pound gorilla sitting... Comment - Like
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Aug 27, 2010, 1:55 pm
Welcome back, everyone! This is the Friday Post #52 for Aug 27, 2010.
The area in the pink box (below) has been the focus of instructional activities this week:
August is a challenging month for academic reference librarians. This week at UCHC, an interactive instructional session for first y... Comment - Like
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Aug 19, 2010, 9:53 am
As those of us in the library begin to meet our newest Class of 2014 medical, dental and doctoral students who have arrived at UCHC this week (and who were likely born in 1988), I am reminded of the Beloit College Mindset List, just published this month. Read it here: http://www.beloit.edu/mindse... Comment - Like
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Aug 17, 2010, 8:06 am
Imagine my surprise to return from vacation this Monday to discover that the EBM & Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC blog has been given a new look…. not chosen by me! WordPress has discontinued the former blog-theme Cutline in favor of a theme they introduced in early August, called Coraline... Comment - Like
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Jul 27, 2010, 9:29 am
Today, Tuesday, Jul 27 2010, is the third Blogiversary of the EBM & Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC blog on WordPress.
My question for today is:
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Jul 23, 2010, 12:19 pm
In a next week, those who rely on subscription journals or database content from John Wiley Company – one of the largest sci-tech-medicine international publishers – will notice a major redesign of their website.
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Jul 15, 2010, 1:02 pm
” Clostridium difficile is a gram-positive, anaerobic bacterium that is generally acquired through ingestion. Various strains of the bacteria may produce disease generating enterotoxin A and cytotoxin B, as well as the lesser understood binary toxin. Use of the term CDAD (C. difficile associat... Comment - Like
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Jul 9, 2010, 10:51 am
This is the Friday Post #51 for Jul 9 2010.
In the Northeast, it’s been a scorcher of a week with record-breaking high temperatures. The sports world this week stood transfixed by the media spectacle of LeBron James and a FIFA World Cup final scheduled between Spain and the Netherlands for Su... Comment - Like
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Jun 11, 2010, 8:35 am
This is the June 2010 edition of Medlib’s Round Carnival.
This collection of links have been submitted by a (worldwide) group of dedicated bloggers… veteran medical librarians along with a new health science librarian, physicians and scientists contributing to the mix!
The broad top... Comment - Like
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Jun 3, 2010, 8:20 am
This blog is hosting the June 2010 edition of Medlib’s Round Blog Carnival.
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May 26, 2010, 10:44 am
Ask almost anyone you know about cancer, and they will have stories to relate about parents or family, close friends or co-workers (or themselves) who have received a diagnosis of cancer, or are going through treatments, or who have been declared cancer-free. Living as a cancer survivor has become... Comment - Like
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May 21, 2010, 8:22 am
Here’s the 50th Friday Post!
OK, I have taken the “Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test“. You can too.
Here are my results:
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“Fishing” as “searching” parable
(Apologies to John Steinbeck)
” There are good things so in the t... Comment - Like
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May 16, 2010, 9:41 am
Congratulations to the graduates of UCHC Class of 2010!
Graduation Day is Sunday, May 16, 2010.
You’ve worked hard. Now is the time to celebrate a wonderful accomplishment!
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May 12, 2010, 12:21 pm
Big News!
EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC has been invited to host Medlib’s Round Blog Carnival for the month of June 2010. How does this work? Here is an excerpt from the Blog Carnival FAQ page:
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May 6, 2010, 4:20 pm
May is the time of year when I get to sit in the back of a classroom with my mouth shut, listening (as opposed to standing in the front of a classroom, yakking about searching).
This post, Part 2 of “Show Me the Evidence“, is not about how to search a database better or when to find a s... Comment - Like
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May 3, 2010, 11:08 am
Every year since 2006, a group of medical students from UConn School of Medicine volunteer to ride 4,000 miles on a bicycle over 50+ days to raise money for Lea’s Foundation for Leukemia Research, a Connecticut charity. This event is named Coast to Coast for a Cure.
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Apr 29, 2010, 11:43 am
“Question everything… especially what you read. “
A 2009 quote from Dr. P, PBL facilitator
.One of the many tasks for first-year graduate students in clinical or research areas is building a healthy skepticism about what one reads in the medical literature.
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Apr 22, 2010, 12:07 pm
April 22 2010 is Earth Day
Today marks the 40th Anniversary Celebration of Earth Day
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Matt Harding has visited many different places on this beautiful globe
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Apr 19, 2010, 12:05 pm
It’s a measure of how behind at work I am, that I missed posting the following article during Public Health Week (April 5-11 2010) and – yikes – also forgot that last week was officially National Library Week as declared by the American Library Association. Sorry!
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Apr 7, 2010, 1:23 pm
Today - April 7 – is World Health Day
in addition to
National Public Health Week 2010
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First, two items about international community health projects:
“The Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP) has been working among the rural p... Comment - Like
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Apr 2, 2010, 10:57 am
Here’s the (Good) Friday Post #49 for Apr 2 2010
First: Anyone want to take a stab at pronouncing the name of this city in Iceland, where a volcano erupted this week… ??
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Mar 30, 2010, 12:25 pm
Today, March 30th, is National Doctors’ Day 2010*!
( Link here for a short explanation of the Tradition of the White Coat )
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Mar 25, 2010, 11:50 am
This week, eleven clinical staff from University of Connecticut Health Center are volunteering for a medical humanitarian mission in Port au Prince, Haiti organized by International Medical Corps.
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Mar 23, 2010, 12:37 pm
An important change in the health of current and future generations of Americans is shaping up today – March 23 2010 – as President Barack Obama signed into law the H.R. Bill #4872 “Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation 4 Act of 2010“.
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Mar 19, 2010, 1:34 pm
“That makes no sense and so do I.“
–Attributed to Daffy Duck
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No is a universal word, and a universal concept, however you say it: Nein! Không! नहीं! Non! Kdežeby! Nee! Nyet! ניין! or 不是!
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Mar 16, 2010, 7:37 am
It’s looking more like spring each morning in the Northeast, after a nasty late winter. There are daffodils poking out of the ground. The days are growing longer. This morning I saw a green bagel in the cafeteria because tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day*.
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