Writing for Publication? We Can Help…
We’re pleased to announce a new service designed to support Jefferson authors throughout the writing and publication process. The new Writing Center, in Room 305 Scott, is staffed by an experienced writing consultant who can help you with your work, whether you need motivation getting started on a manuscript, guidance on structure and flow, or feedback on a finished draft.
Jennifer Fisher Wilson spent 12 years as a writer and editor for Annals of Internal Medicine before joining us to help launch the Writing Center.
To schedule an appointment, call the Writing Center at 215-503-0441 or email Jennifer.Wilson@jefferson...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - April 16, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
NCHS Data Online Query System (DOQS): Beta for Review
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is pleased to announce the beta release of our newest statistical tool, the NCHS Data Online Query System (DOQS).
NCHS DOQS gives users the ability to generate and store statistical analyses customized to their specific requirements. The system provides dynamically generated statistical tables, charts, and graphs using NCHS public use data. NCHS DOQS is designed for the general user without knowledge of commercial statistical software packages. Currently, visit data from the Emergency Department component of the 2005-2010 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey are ...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - April 16, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
Primary Care Meets Population Health: 22nd Annual Paul C. Brucker Lecture
On April 11, 2014, the 22nd Annual Paul C. Brucker lecture was presented by Kevin Grumbach, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
A recipient of several academic, industry, and civic awards, Dr. Grumbach has served as an advisor to President Barack Obama and Congress on health policy and reform. He co-authored the best-selling textbook on health policy, Understanding Health Policy — A Clinical Approach, and the book, Improving Primary Care — Strategies and Tools for a Better Practice. Dr. Grumbach is also the Co-Director of the UCSF Center...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - April 11, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
Photography of David Graham: Exhibit at Scott Library, April 7th – May 2nd
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Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - April 8, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
Neurology Video Textbook: New Multimedia Resource from STAT!Ref
Neurology Video Textbook demonstrates classic neurologic presentations organized in broad general categories (vascular neurology, movement disorders, behavioral neurology, epilepsy, etc.) and presented as individual cases with audio and video.
All cases link to thorough descriptive sections that provide clinical and scientific overviews of the major categories of neurologic diseases and disorders.
Neurology Video Textbook features:
More than 300 video clips containing over 14 hours of clinical patient interviews that visually convey the rich and varied spectrum of neurologic disease.
Over 1,400 sequential 3D CT and MRI s...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - April 4, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
Jefferson Digital Commons Quarterly Report, January-March 2014, Now Available
The Jefferson Digital Commons had 184 new deposits this quarter. The end of the quarter brings the total number of assets to 8,811 with a total of 1,765,509 downloads. The most downloaded asset this quarter was: Multi-nutrient supplement improves hormone ratio associated with cancer risk, with 86 downloads registered from Jan 6, 2014 to April 1st. View the full inventory of newly added assets.
We added a new map to our homepage this quarter indicating real time downloads of JDC content by our global viewers:
Read the full quarterly report for announcements, reminders, highlights, and news from the archives. (Source: What's New on JEFFLINE)
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - April 3, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
Troubleshooting Tip: When Write-N-Cite Doesn’t Show Up After Installation
Some users of Windows 7/XP and Microsoft Office 2010 have experienced a problem with RefWorks Write-N-Cite 4 failing to install (not displaying as a tab in Word). If this is the case, the application may be inactive on your computer.
View this Troubleshooting Tip to help you solve the problem. (Source: What's New on JEFFLINE)
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - April 1, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
Undertaking a Systematic Review? Here’s How We Can Help
Systematic reviews play a vital role in synthesizing the proliferation of evidence into usable form. Jeffersonians are authoring systematic reviews and Scott Memorial Library is here to help. Due to the limited size of our group we do not perform searches, but we can consult with you on the following:
Development of an effective research question
Discuss search term selection
Recommend databases to include in the search
Review your search strategies
Provide instruction on advanced database searching techniques
Provide instruction on the use of citation management software (creating RefWorks databases, etc.) for organizing...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - March 31, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
17 E-Books New to JEFFLINE in March
Scott Library added these 17 ebooks in March to the growing collection:
5-minute clinical consult 2014
Capstone coach for nursing excellence (2nd ed.)
Cardiac imaging: case review
Creasy & Resnik’s maternal-fetal medicine: principles and practice
Creative destruction of medicine
Diagnostic imaging: breast (2nd ed.)
Finish your dissertation, don’t let it finish you!
Lippincott manual of nursing practice (10th ed.)
Lippincott’s video series: nursing procedures
Neurology video textbook
Nuclear medicine: case review (2nd ed.)
Pocket handbook of spinal injections
Principles of ICD-10-CM coding (3rd ed.)...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - March 28, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
Learn about Prezi – Online Presentation Alternative to PowerPoint
Attend a Prezi Workshop for Jefferson faculty, staff, and students. You’ll learn how to:
Set up an account
Create and animate a prezi
Save and share a prezi
Other topics covered:
Comparing the desktop, iPad, and online versions of the Prezi software
Adding elements to a prezi frame: sound, text, graphics, video (including YouTube video)
Collaborating with co-presenters
Saving and sharing a prezi
Downloading for offline presentation
Prezi Workshop details:
Date: Thursday, April 17th
Time: 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm
Location: 306 Scott
Instructor: Ivy Tan, MS
Register for this date
Date: Monday, May 5th
Time: 3:00 pm – ...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - March 27, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
Register for RefWorks Workshops in April
Need to brush up on your RefWorks skills, or just want a quick introduction to the software? Sign up now for a webinar tutorial, conducted by RefWorks trainers. Please note that registration is limited and enrollment is required.
Beyond Direct Export: Five Other Ways to Import Information to RefWorks (30 minutes)
Direct export is but one method for adding references; In this webinar we will review these other methods, which are: Importing from a text file; searching online catalogs or databases from within RefWorks; using a web browser tool called RefGrab-It to capture references from a web page; importing records from RSS...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - March 27, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
Yoga Therapy for Irritable Bowl Syndrome: Integrative Medicine Grand Rounds, April 1st
Please join us for Integrative Medicine Grand Rounds on Tuesday, April 1, 2014 in 925 Chestnut Street, 2nd floor conference room from 8:00-9:00 am. Please note the venue for this exciting program. Senthamil R. Selvan, Ph.D.. is presenting and the title of his presentation is: “Yoga Therapy for Irritable Bowl Syndrome: Interim Results of a Randomized Control Study.”
Dr. Selvan is Research Associate Professor and Scientific Member of thee Translational Immunotherapy Program in the Department of Medical Oncology, Thomas Jefferson University. He is a certified Yoga instructor from the Vivekananda Yoga R...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - March 21, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
CDC Public Health Image Library (PHIL)
Created by a Working Group at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Public Health Image Library (PHIL) offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC’s pictures. Public health professionals, the media, laboratory scientists, educators, students, and the worldwide public may use this material for reference, teaching, presentation, and public health messages. The content is organized into hierarchical categories of people, places, and science, and is presented as single images, image sets, and multimedia files.
Most of the images are in the public domain and are free of any copyright re...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - March 20, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
Matchmaker: NIH RePORTER’s Alternative Search
The RePORT (Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools) website provides access to a variety of reporting tools, reports, data, and analyses of NIH research activities. One of the tools available on the RePORT site is the RePORTER (RePORT Expenditures and Results) module. RePORTER is an electronic tool that allows users to search a repository of NIH-funded research projects and access publications and patents resulting from NIH funding.
Matchmaker, the new RePORTER query interface, “mines the terms and concepts in your text, compares those patterns to funded projects, and returns a list of 100 similar projects.”
T...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - March 18, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Researchers Source Type: news
ACP Pier Becomes ACP Smart Medicine
ACP Pier, part of the STAT!Ref online library of electronic resources, has now become ACP Smart Medicine.
ACP Smart Medicine provides access to 500 clinical diagnosis and treatment recommendations covering a wide variety of medical specialties. Features include:
Clinical recommendations including diagnoses, therapies and patient information to support the clinical practice of physicians, internists, residents, nurses and nurse practitioners, medical school faculty and students.
Bulleted, streamlined structure providing immediate access to hundreds of evidence-based recommendations on diagnosis, therapy, prevention, scree...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - March 17, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: lgm002 Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news
