The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society announces the R. Palmer Howard Dinner 6 pm on Friday, April 25, 2014 W. Bruce Fye, Professor of Medicine & Medical History, […]
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The Father of Biomechanics: Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, 1680-1681
Borelli. [Image via wikipedia.org] Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608-1679) was an Italian Renaissance physicist who sought to make mechanical laws applicable to all physiological phenomena. Borelli, who studied at Padua under […]
Learn to use EndNote Basic at Hardin Library’s workshop Monday, April 21
EndNote Basic is a web-based citation management software that is freely available to all UI affiliates. It allows you to import, organize and format citations for papers, articles, etc. EndNote […]
Systematic Reviews Open Workshop
“A systematic review is a comprehensive and unbiased review process that locates, appraises and synthesizes evidence from the scientific studies to obtain a reliable overview” (ebd.ada.org). This class will focus […]
Find Relevant Articles Fast with PubMed Express- Monday April 14
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine’s index to the medical literature and includes over 22 million bibliographic citations in life sciences. This 30-minute session will show you how to […]
An Introduction to Gene Variation Databases
This session provides an overview of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) databases that contain information on gene variations. Learn how to search for short genetic variations, genome structural […]
EndNote Desktop Software: Easy Citation Management
EndNote is a reference management tool that helps you to easily gather, organize, format, and insert your references in the style of your choose. This session will walk you through […]
Carver College of Medicine Presents the Examined Life Conference
The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine will host the annual Examined Life Conference this April. This program seeks to link medicine and the […]
Access Millions of Life Sciences Articles Using PubMed
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine’s index to medical literature and includes over 22 million bibliographic citations in life sciences. This one-hour session will show you how to improve […]
Finding Evidence-Based Resources
This class will focus on creating a clinical question using PICO, the difference between publication types, and the different resources where one can find evidence based information. The class will […]