Hardin News

Volume 5#2

PubMed to Replace Ovid Medline on July 1, 2006

PubMed - Recent Enhancements

New Electronic Access to Journals

UpToDate Access Change

Medical Images for the Classroom - AccessMedicine’s Lightbox feature

DynaMed Exercises

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Hardin’s Browsing Collection - Highlights from our collection

Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room
An Anatomical Work of Uncommon Beauty
Bourgery’s Traité complet de l’anatomie de l’homme

Effective July 1, 2006, the Hardin Library will offer Medline exclusively through PubMed, the National Library of Medicine’s free search service that includes over 16 million citations from Medline and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. Although we will continue to offer the Ovid search interface for several specialized databases, the Ovid version of Medline will be discontinued after June 30. Previously we subscribed to Medline through Ovid because we considered its searching interface to be superior. However, within recent years the searching capabilities of PubMed have improved significantly, and are now at the point that they make Ovid Medline an unnecessary duplication. The most important factor in this decision is one of cost and our commitment to be responsible stewards of the limited resources in our collections budget, which is struggling with inflation and the rapid growth and demand for new electronic resources. By making this move, we can be more flexible in acquiring resources that support the educational, research, and patient care missions of the health campus.

Because many Hardin Library users have already begun using PubMed as their Medline entry point we expect this transition to go smoothly. For those users who would like help in making the transition to PubMed, an introductory course is available and will be offered six times during spring and early summer. Please register for one of these courses. Hardin librarians are also happy to come to your department or class for Hardin House Calls - tailored research consultations and instructional sessions. Online PubMed training is also available from the National Library of Medicine.

My NCBI Collections: Save PubMed Search Results
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf06/jf06_collections.html
Save search results indefinitely within PubMed using the new NCBI feature Collections.

PubMed Limits Page Enhanced
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma06/ma06_limits.html
These enhancements include the ability to:

Limit your results by author or journal
Limit your results to full text, free full text, and abstracts
Choose one or more selections under categories (for example, Languages)
and much more…

Alcoholism: clinical and experimental research

American journal of clinical nutrition

American surgeon

Annals of clinical biochemistry

Applied biochemistry and biotechnology

Australian and New Zealand journal of audiology: journal of the Audiological Society of Australia and New Zealand Audiological Society

Aviation space and environmental medicine

Canadian journal of anaesthesia

Clinical nuclear medicine

Dentomaxillofacial radiology

Drug safety

Health progress

Imaging

Journal of Andrology

Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism: official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Journal of computer assisted tomography

Journal of health psychology

Journal of leukocyte biology

Journal of nuclear medicine

Journal of nuclear medicine technology

Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Journal of thoracic imaging

Journal of ultrasound in medicine

PharmacoEconomics

Radiographics a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc.

Radiology

During the recent renewal process for our license to UpToDate, it became necessary to make access changes for this resource. As a result, UpToDate is only accessible from workstations physically on campus or at the 12 UI Family Care clinics. This additionally means that UpToDate is no longer accessible via the remote desktop application.

Please contact Karen Fischer (karen-fischer@uiowa.edu, 335-8781) if you are having trouble accessing UpToDate from your campus workstation or from the UI Family Care clinics.

Use AccessMedicine’s new Lightbox to clip and store a personal collection of up to 100 images from Fitzpatrick’s Dermatology, Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, and dozens of other books. These images can be downloaded to enhance PowerPoint-style presentations and computer-based education materials. You must register for a free My AccessMedicine account to use the Lightbox. Images are not for commercial re-use or re-distribution.

DynaMed is the newest clinical resource available from the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences. It contains over 1800 clinical topic summaries organized in an easy to read format intended for point-of-care use. Check out Dynamed at http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/dynamed (click Login/Enter to enter the database) then answer these questions.

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The Hardin Library Browsing Collection is located on the 3rd floor of the library, west of the main entrance. Below are a few of the many titles available for your reading pleasure.

The doctor’s quotation book: A medical miscellany, Wilkins, Robert (ed), New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1991. Browsing R705 .D63 1992

“This is not a collection for the faint of heart, but touches on the reality of the practice of medicine, both from the providers’ and the patients’ viewpoints.”
Literature Annotations

“Over three hundred quotes - witty, macabre, insightful and ill-considered - on the medical profession, from John Keats, Conan Doyle, Lewis Carroll, Robert Burton, etc. With period illustrations in b/w.”
Bibliopolis

Mould’s medical anecdotes, Mould, Richard F., New York, NY: A. Hilger, 1989. Browsing R705 .M68 1984
More of Mould’s medical anecdotes … suitable for after dinner, recommended as a tonic for the general public, can be taken with alcohol, cures boredom …., Mould, Richard F., New York, NY: A. Hilger, 1989. Browsing R705 .M69 1989

“The bizarre coincidence, the scientific oddity, the edifying and instructive historical anecdote, the quack remedy, the pithy little quote; they’re all in here, collected, apparently, in an utterly random yet charming manner.”
BMJ

Bedside manners : an anthology of medical wit and wisdom, Ballantyne, John (ed), London: Virgin, 1995. Browsing PN6231.M4 B35 1995

“It contains not the conventional wisdom of a medical textbook, but rather the ideas of such diverse contributors as Somerset Maugham, Jeffrey Bernard, Chekhov, P.G. Wodehouse, John Updike, Mel Smith, Gryff Rhys Jones, Spike Milligan, Louis Pasteur and Florence Nightingale.”
Amazon.com UK

“This book gives keen insights into sickness and health from a dazzling parade of writers, scientists & doctors. There are humorous anecdotes, reports from tragic episodes, first hand accounts of medical innovations and discoveries.”
HealthLibrary.com

Aphorisms & quotations for the surgeon, Schein, Moshe (ed), Harley, Shrewsbury, UK : tfm Publishing Ltd., 2003. Browsing RD27.34 .A63 2003

“This book brings a medley of over 1500 aphorisms, quotations, and rules — by surgeons and non-surgeons — about surgery, surgeons and anything which may be relevant to the practice of surgery. It should gratify all potential tastes as the book includes ancient as well as contemporary entries, formal and colloquial, pronounced by surgical giants or anonymous — only guide by the prerequisite that the entry appeals to the surgical soul.”
Gazelle Book Services Limited

An Anatomical Work of Uncommon Beauty

Bourgery, Marc Jean (1797-1849). Traité complet de l’anatomie de l’homme, comprenant la médecine opératoire. 8 vols. Paris, 1831-1854.

Paule Dumaitre in his Histoire de la médecine et du livre medical (Paris, 1978) commented that Bourgery’s work is considered today without question the most beautiful French work of anatomy published in 19th century. It is also without question one of the most beautifully illustrated anatomical and surgical treatises ever published in any language. The 726 hand-colored lithographs were executed after drawings by Nicolas Henri Jacob (1781-1871), a pupil of David. Jacob made his drawings from dissections and other anatomical preparations, some of which were prepared by Claude Bernard (see Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1792 ff.). One of the activities Bernard undertook in 1845, most likely to compensate for income lost when he resigned as Magendie’s student assistant, was to prepare dissections for Jacob. Although he is not recognized as a contributor, drawings made from some of his preparations appear in this first edition. Bourgery studied medicine at Paris where he interned under Laennec and Dupuytren and won gold medals for excellence from the Paris faculty of medicine and hospital administration. After ten years as health officer at Romilly, Bourgery returned to Paris to continue his career in anatomy and surgery. In addition to the present work he prepared an earlier illustrated anatomy and contributed a number of papers to the medical journals of his day. Bourgery divided his treatise into four parts which covered descriptive anatomy, surgical anatomy and techniques, general anatomy, and embryology and microscopic anatomy. Four volumes of the set are devoted to surgical anatomy and cover in detail nearly all the major operations that were performed during the first half of the nineteenth century. The University of Iowa Libraries’ copy lacks Planche 85 in Volume IV (lymphatics of the axilla).

Click here for more images of Bourgery’s Traité complet de l’anatomie de l’homme, comprenant la médecine opératoire