Treadwell @MGH

New Resources for 2012!

2011-12-30T15:13:00.002-05:00

Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers: developments in technology, the application of testing to decision making, and the ethical, legal, social and economic aspects of testing for researchers, clinicians, medical geneticists and genetic counselors. Peer-reviewed, monthly, impact factor: 1.645.

From Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery:
JBJS Case Connector: case reports, connections and trends in orthopaedic surgery.
JBJS Essential Surgery Techniques: evolving practices in orthopaedic surgery.

Joint Commission: The Source: combines Benchmark and Perspectives on Patient Safety to make Joint Commission accreditation requirments, performance measurement and patient safety information available in one publication.

Journal of Visualized Experiments: biological, medical, chemical and physical research published in video format. Treadwell now subscribes to JoVE General and the sections listed below. Peer-reviewed, articles published online as accepted.
Journal of Visualized Experiments - Bioengineering
Journal of Visualized Experiments - Clinical and Translational Medicine
Journal of Visualized Experiments - Immunology and Infection
Journal of Visualized Experiments - Neuroscience

Pancreatology (available Jan. 2012): original articles, case reports, guidelines and reviews of basic, translational and clinical pancreatic research in gastroenterology, oncology, surgery, pharmacology, cellular and molecular biology, endocrinology, immunology and epidemiology. Six issues per year, impact factor: 2.128.

Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice: data-based study, policy analysis and discussion of relevant policy issues exploring the relationships between nursing and health policy. Peer-reviewed, quarterly.

PsycTESTS (searchable via Ovid Jan. 2012): database providing access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys and other assessments, as well as information on test development and administration.

Science Express: electronic publication of selected Science papers ahead of print.

Because of cost increase and low usage, we have also dropped the following titles, but may maintain access to backfiles as well as links to their availability elsewhere:
Allergy
American Journal of Medical Genetics
ANZ Journal of Surgery
BioEssays
Clinical and Experimental Immunology
Current Opinion in Biotechnology
FEBS Journal
FEBS Letters
Gene Expression Patterns
Genomics
Human Gene Therapy
Journal of Surgical Oncology
Laboratory Investigation
Mechanisms of Development
Nursing Inquiry
Oncogene
Prostate
Proteonomics

New ebooks in Medicine, Neurology, Orthopedics, Psychiatry, Reference and Urology

2011-09-13T14:43:00.000-04:00

Medicine
The Ethics of Consent: Theory and Practice
Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction

Neurology
The Central Nervous System: Structure and Function
Neurology: A Clinician's Approach

Orthopedics
Head and Neck Pathology

Psychiatry
Self-Management of Depression: A Manual for Mental Health and Primary Care Professionals

Reference
HTML, XML &CSS for Dummies

Urology
Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy

As always, if you have questions about these or any other Treadwell resources, please ask us!

Medical Infographics

2011-09-08T16:25:00.001-04:00

An infographic is a visual representation of information, usually data or facts that are easier to absorb in a format more appealing than a list or spreadsheet. Infographics have become a popular way to disseminate information about everything from pop culture timelines to government data. GE has a data visualization project with a branch focusing on consumer health - Healthymagination - which has actually taken 2009 Joint Commission data on evidence-based practice in hospitals and turned it into an interactive infographic:

Users can navigate to their state to see how their local hospitals perform and scroll over each square to learn more about how they're measured. MGH performs at or above average in every criteria:

Healthymagination also provides infographics on relationships between medical conditions, how Clinical Decision Support System has been implemented, and even an iPad app that explores health statistics across the U.S.

Here are some other medical infographics out there that may be helpful, or at least interesting (the last one inspired me to put together a standing desk!):

Journal Donations

2011-09-07T09:02:00.005-04:00

Fall is near, and whether or not you're in academia, this time of year often represents a renewal, a kind of fresh start. It's around this time of year that people consider cleaning out their offices, maybe even moving from a collection of older print journals to a reliance on electronic archives - we certainly understand that!

While we do appreciate an interest in donating materials to Treadwell, we generally accept very few donations, and almost never donations of print journals. We do have a list of organizations that do sometimes accept donations of this kind, although Unclutterer recently provided some good advice that may be more useful:

Right after college, I went to work for a small publication called the Kansas Government Journal ... I would often field calls from teachers, librarians, and individuals looking for back issues. I never, however, received offers from people wanting to give us these back issues. It would have been nice had someone offered to give us their back copies since we had a limited supply.

Since older medical materials might have been superceded by new information, routing them back to the publishers may be the best way to make sure that the material is used in a way that puts it in context. The comments section of this article provides many other helpful suggestions as well:

The National Library of Medicine's journal donation program
Operation Medical Libraries
Contact the Medical Library Association for donation information

Again, since medicine is a field that constantly changes, it's best to find a program or organization that will be able to put the information in your resources in context. I'm sure they will thank you for putting your resources to good use!

New ebooks in Cardiology, Medicine, Nursing, Orthopedics and Reference

2011-09-01T14:47:00.000-04:00

Cardiology
Echocardiography in Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Medicine
Critical Care Handbook of the Massachusetts General Hospital
Global Health Disparities: Closing the Gap through Good Governance
Handbook of Signs & Symptoms
Medical Malpractice Survival Handbook

Nursing
Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses
Midwifery & Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Certification Review Guide

And as always, if you have questions about these or any other Treadwell resources, please get in touch!

Orthopedics
Spine Imaging: Case Review

Pediatrics
Spanish for Pediatric Medicine: a Practical Communication Guide

Reference
Successful Online Learning: Managing the Online Learning Environment Efficiently and Effectively

New ebooks in Cardiology, Geriatrics, Medicine, Radiology, Science and Statistics

2011-08-01T14:15:00.000-04:00

Cardiology

Clinical Guide to Primary Angioplasty

Geriatrics

Handbook of the Psychology of Aging

Medicine

Interactive Case Studies in Health Communication

Radiology

Patient's Guide to Medical Imaging

Science

Handbook of Biomarkers

Statistics

Encyclopaedic Companion to Medical Statistics

And as always, if you want to see a list of all Treadwell's ebooks, head to our ebooks page; they're sorted alphabetically by default, but you can also see them sorted by subject. And if you have any questions about these or other resources, please ask!

Spotlight: Some Lesser-Known Resources

2011-07-13T13:59:00.000-04:00

We're preparing our journal lists for next year's renewal, which gives us the chance first to simply go over the list of journals we subscribe and provide access to - as you can imagine, it's grown significantly in the last few years! - and take a look at how, and how often, those titles are being used.

While we do provide access to a number of high-impact journals that get a lot of use - Lancet, BMJ, JAMA, NEJM and AIM, to name a few - there are some very fascinating and useful resources out there that aren't as well known but are still worth exploring, and we'd like to take this opportunity to spotlight a few of those for you. All of the following titles are available online via Treadwell's ejournal list.

FACT: Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies
Published by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, this quarterly aims to publish "articles and key papers in all fields of CAM research." If you're interested in evidence-based commentary and research on complementary and alternative therapies, this journal would be a good place to look for an overview of what's current in the field.

Health and Social Work
This is a professional journal published by the National Association of Social Workers; its purpose is to "improv[e] social work practice and expand knowledge in health care" through articles that address both policy and practice and which have relevance to readers in the physical and mental health sciences as well as social workers.

Joint Commission Publications
The Joint Commission is a non-profit organization that accredits over 19,000 health care organizations and programs in the U.S., including MGH. Treadwell subscribes to a number of Joint Commission publications, including Joint Commission Benchmark, which is aimed at "the performance measurement/improvement professional who wants to keep up-to-date on the latest performance measurement and improvement trends and activities" - or anyone interested in what it means to be accredited.

Research in Nursing and Health
This journal publishes "a wide range of research and theory that will inform the practice of nursing and other health disciplines," geared toward NPs, medical educators, administrators, and other readers in the health sciences interested in in-depth research.

Scientific Studies of Reading
The Official Journal of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, this journal publishes a fascinating range of information about the study of reading, from discoveries about the neurology of word recognition to studies about the response to literature.

As always, if you have any questions about any of these resources, please get in touch with us here at Treadwell!

New ebooks in Medicine, Neurology, Nursing, Oncology, Psychiatry and Surgery!

2011-06-21T08:47:00.003-04:00

Medicine:
Characteristics of Compassion: Portraits of Exemplary Physicians

Neurology:
Brain Repair after Stroke
Stroke Diaries: a Guide for Survivors and Their Families

Nursing:
Contemporary Issues in Lung Cancer: a Nursing Perspective

Oncology:
Handbook of Evidence-Based Radiation Oncology

Psychiatry:
Trauma Recovery Group: a Guide for Practitioners

Surgery:
Anesthesia Outside of the Operating Room
Consciousness, Awareness, and Anesthesia

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CINAHL titles on ejournals list and in Ovid

2011-06-16T13:17:00.004-04:00

We here at Treadwell recently finished adding links to over 200 titles we have access to through EBSCO's CINAHL database. Many are nursing-focused, so we hope these links are useful to users over at the MGH Institute of Health Professions!

While we're excited for these titles to be more readily available to users, since they're accessible through a database they are a little different to navigate than many of the other titles on the list, which mostly go straight to the publisher's archives. We've put together this short video (using Jing!) that we hope will shed light on the process.

This video shows:
1. Navigating to an ejournal
2. Looking for an embargo on Treadwell's ejournal page
3. Looking for an embargo on the CINAHL title page
4. Navigating to articles, then reading and saving them.

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(This video does require the latest version of Flash, which you can download here.)

These titles are also now all searchable and accessible via Ovid. We are still adding a few titles here and there - mostly duplicates that expand the date range we can offer - and working out some bugs, so if you don't find something you think you should be able to find, please let us know!

new eBooks at Treadwell

2011-06-01T10:46:00.004-04:00

Adverse drug interactions, a handbook for prescribers. c2010

Asthma, a clinician's guide. c2011

Dx/Rx: melanoma. c2011

Dx/Rx: sexual dysfunction in men and women. c2012

Handbook for health care research. 2nd ed., c2011

Handbook of respiratory care. 3d ed., c2011

Jefferson headache manual. c2011

Neonatal respiratory care handbook. c2011

Philosophy of science for nursing practice. c2011

The prevention and treatment of missing data in clinical trials. c2010

Statistics demystified. 2nd ed., c2011

Therapeutic modalities in rehabilitation. 4th ed., c2011

Treadwell's education resources

2011-05-18T11:37:00.004-04:00

Yesterday, Treadwell representatives attended MGH's seventh annual College Fair to tell attendees about how the library can make going back to school easier for students at any level.

First, the library holds a number of resources on choosing a career in the health sciences. In terms of getting into school, we have TOEFL guides, an electronic GRE handbook, and multiple resources focusing on getting into (and surviving) medical school, many of which include information about the MCAT.

In addition to computer and internet access, a quiet study space and research support, we offer many resources to help students get through school. We have a number of writing guides, ranging from grammar for ESL students to guides to publishing in the health sciences; we also have a number of resources on presenting, a skill very highly valued in continuing education.

We also learned about other resources the hospital provides to employees looking to continue their education, particularly those associated with MGH's Training and Workforce Development program, who organized the fair; they offer ESL classes, courses to improve skills important in the workplace, educational grants and more.

Many of these resources continue to be useful to build skills useful beyond the classroom, and we hope you find them to be. As always, if you have questions about any of these materials or anything else the library can do for you, please get in touch!

Web Apps: Teaching Tools

2011-05-18T11:35:00.001-04:00

Here at Treadwell, we're exploring a few new tools that we think will be really useful for teaching, training, presenting and online collaboration and may find roles in the hospital, other libraries or really anywhere these things happen. We wanted to share them with you, and tell you a little bit about how we envision using them, so that you might be inclined to check them out for yourself!

Jing
Jing is a dynamic alternative to a standard screen shot; take just a quick picture of a screen or window (especially useful if you're using a version of Windows that doesn't do screen grabs), or make a more in-depth video of yourself performing an action - can even include audio! Perfect for sharing something you're trying to troubleshoot or to serve as a guide for hard-to-explain tasks.

Prezi
An elegant alternative to PowerPoint. Use this intuitive web app to create engaging, visually-driven presentations; get rid of those texty slides, incorporate images and impress your audience! I used this in a final presentation, and not only did the entire class asked me how I made it, I actually had fun doing it!

Sketchcast
A little like Jing, except this app creates a video of what you sketch, draw or write. Can also include audio. Great for working collaboratively to solve problems and brainstorm.

TodaysMeet
This online platform is perfect for harnessing the potential of the backchannel created by live tweeting, blogging and otherwise sharing content and questions at meetings, conferences and conventions. It pulls in relevant hashtags from Twitter and provides a chat-like experience for anyone who wants to participate in the conversation. As we've mentioned before, social networking is becoming a larger part of the conference experience - including medical conferences - and this app provides a great way to embrace that.

VoiceThread
Medical publications are increasingly available online, which has led to a much broader range of media in which information is presented. BMJ and NEJM, just two name two of the biggest, offer access to videos as part of an online subscription. VoiceThread offers the capability to share and mark up different kinds of media - I think this is especially neat for video - with multimedia comments, including voice, video and doodling. Great for brainstorming and working collaboratively, especially on presentations.

Wiziq
This online platform creates digital spaces that can be used as venues for cooperative learning. In a whitepaper on Wiziq as a virtual classroom, Wiziq describes itself as a "teaching environment that delivers media-rich content while removing geographical barriers." This is a full-featured, easy-to-use solution for distance learning, collaborative work, and tutoring.

All in all, there are a lot of really neat teaching tools cropping up, all of which emphasize sharing and collaborating on easily accessible, multimedia content. We'll be experimenting with some of these tools to help users with our resources, so keep your eyes out!

GoPubMed: the knowledge-based PubMed search

2011-05-09T10:24:00.001-04:00

GoPubMed is a search engine that provides PubMed results "sorted into meaningful categories," as well as the ability to narrow those results in ways that are meaningful to the searcher, providing relevant citations without the need to comb through an overwhelming results list.

GoPubMed uses the Gene Ontology (GO) and the National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) as knowledge structures to determine how to sort these results, and claims that the result categories will "in many cases ... already represent the answer to your question," which is certainly a different way of discovering information in PubMed's enormous - again, sometimes overwhelming - database.

The example GoPubMed provides on the FAQ page is a search for the protein Rab5, which turns up a list of top related terms as well as categories this term appears in in the Knowledge Base, both of which might lead to a more expansive perspective on the original search question. As promised, navigating through the drop-down menus below each category does provide a wealth of information, which might both answer the question that prompted the initial search as well as provide new terms with which to build a more in-depth search. The ability to narrow from here - to include specific resulting terms in a narrower search, or to exclude ones that are way off - leads to a custom-built results set.

As you might expect, search results can also be narrowed by location, publication or publication date; unfortunately, they can't yet be narrowed by what a particular institution has access to, so if you're searching GoPubMed from MGH for articles rather than the answer to a basic question, the best option would be to find citations via this search engine and then click over to our website and search them from our link to PubMed, which can be limited to resources we provide access to.

If you were previously a MeshPubMed user, this service has now been integrated into GoPubMed.

New ebooks in Neurology, Nursing, Oncology and Psychiatry!

2011-05-04T12:57:00.002-04:00

Neurology:
Handbook of Pain Assessment

Nursing:
Curriculum Development and Evaluation in Nursing
Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health
Nursing Research and Evidence-based Practice: Ten Steps to Success
We work hard to support evidence-based practice is here at MGH, so we really hope you find this one useful!

Oncology:
Children with Cancer: a Reference Guide for Parents

Psychiatry:
Clinician's Guide to Violence Risk Assessment

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MGH Learning Laboratory at Treadwell Library

2011-04-26T15:31:00.001-04:00

If you've visited the library recently, you may have noticed that the second floor is completely clear of books; we've replaced the stacks with an open space for computer terminals, study carrels, group work tables and two study rooms with monitors for presentations (or just seeing Facebook really close up).

In addition to these study spaces, Treadwell's second floor is now also home to the MGH Learning Laboratory, "a collaborative institutional effort designed to unify simulation-based training and research across an MGH community of practice." The Learning Lab is an exciting new resource at MGH, and Treadwell is proud to be part of this effort. Last night, Treadwell Library and Learning Lab hosted the lab's official ribbon cutting!

Beth Schneider, our director, and Jim Gordon, the Learning Lab's program lead, both spoke about the partnership between Treadwell and the Learning Lab; they explained that the lab's location in the library is not a coincidence, and that it will - and already has - fostered a closer relationship between the librarians here at Treadwell and the simulated medicine community at MGH. MGH President Peter Slavin also spoke about this partnership and the role it will play in furthering a culture of education at the hospital.

Below are a few of our own photos from last night's event; we at Treadwell would like to thank everyone who attended, and express again our enthusiasm to be working with and alongside the Learning Lab team!

Kevin Synott, the lab's Program Manager, welcoming everyone to the Learning Lab!

A peek inside the lab, where attendees admire the mannequin patients!

Huffington Post mentions MGH's use of CAM

2011-04-18T15:49:00.000-04:00

Today a Huffington Post blogger writing about alternative and complementary therapies (ACTs) mentioned the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital's use of acupuncture in the treatment of cancer. As the blog states, the National Cancer Institute maintains a library of publicly available information on complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) is another resource for primarily patient-centric CAM resources. Much of the information available through the NCI and NCCAM is useful for individuals and families looking for information about cancer and the risks and potential benefits associated with various alternative therapies.

While both the NCI and NCCAM provide some resources for healthcare providers (NCCAM has a dedicated page, as well as providing directed searches in PubMed), the best resource is always going to be a library, which is able to provide access to current research unavailable to the wider public as well as expert search strategies. We here at Treadwell have a wealth of resources on complementary therapies:

a large number of books on the topic
access to Consumerlab, Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database, and Natural Standard, databases that focus on complementary therapies and medicines (also accessible via our database page)
a curated list of resources on CAM, licensed to the MGH community

We have these resources to support the MGH providers using acupuncture and other alternative therapies, so if you have any questions about them or how to find more information on this topic, come to us!

Current Awareness: Using RSS

2011-04-13T13:17:00.001-04:00

Yesterday, we wrote about NIH's clinical alerts and how to subscribe using RSS. Today, I'd like to touch on the possibilities RSS presents for maintaining current awareness in the health sciences.

Subscribing to RSS feeds requires an RSS reader; Google reader and Bloglines are popular, easy-to-use services, and there are a number of free apps (Abilon, Feed Reader) that show you your feeds on your desktop or mobile device. Whatever your choice in terms of how you interact with your newsfeeds, what is ultimately useful in terms of current awareness is the ability to customize what you read; if you're interested in a specific journal, but only the articles it publishes on certain topics, you can subscribe to the journal's RSS feed but customize the reader to alert you only when those articles containing those terms are published. Or, if you're interested in hearing about breaking news on certain specific topics, that's easy too; you can even create your own feed in PubMed that will alert you whenever a term that's important to you shows up in Medline. RSS feeds are much more specific than the tables of contents distributed by journals and publishers, and can be read in a separate, customizable interface without overloading your inbox (although if you'd like feeds emailed to you, that's a possibility too!).

RSS Readers offer other important functionalities for organizing information - starring items to be read later, or tagging to allow for later searching - and for finding articles. Article information that appears in an RSS reader will be more complete than what appears in a table of contents, as well, allowing for easier navigation to the article. If you're interested in using an RSS reader to maintain current awareness, it's worthwhile to check out both RSS 4 Medics, which extols the virtues of RSS in a health sciences environment as well as curating a number of feeds, and David Rothman's post on the subject (more of a librarian-oriented perspective, but a great argument for RSS!). And, of course, feel free to contact us at Treadwell - we're more than happy to help you learn how to use this technology!

NIH Clinical Alert: Angioplasty + Stenting

2011-04-12T14:09:00.000-04:00

The National Institute of Health has just issued a clinical alert stating that The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) has stopped a clinical trial examining the effects of intracranial angioplasty combined with stenting and aggressive therapy in the treatment of symptomatic intracranial arterial stenosis. The study's Data Safety Monitoring Board found that 14% of the patients treated with angioplasty and stenting had a stroke or died within 30 days of beginning the trial, as compared to 5.8% experiencing a stroke or dying in the group treated with aggressive medical therapy alone.

NIH's clinical alerts "are provided to expedite the release of findings from the NIH-funded clinical trials where such release could significantly affect morbidity and mortality." This is the first clinical alert issued since July, 2009.

The clinical alerts page also gives instructions on subscribing to the alerts via RSS. NIH makes available multiple newsfeeds on various topics, including AIDS info, MedLine, and MedLine in Spanish, as well as both podcasts and webcasts.

Twitter advanced search

2011-04-07T11:18:00.000-04:00

On Monday, Twitter announced a more nuanced accounts search, which proves very useful when looking for people in your field to follow - with, say, a search for oncology or radiology, which turn up popular and prominent accounts in those fields. To use this search function, enter terms in the search box above your feed:

and then navigate to the "People" tab of your search results, on the right. Alternatively, you can go directly to the Who to Follow page and search there.

They also announced an advanced content search for searching for current information, which is much closer to the search functions you're used to using to find library resources but includes some social media-specific options, like the users involved and even an emoticon-oriented search!

We at Treadwell have written on both Twitter and medical libraries and Twitter's role at medical conferences, and are interested in social media's role in both health care and libraries. Feel free to follow us on Twitter or get in touch with your thoughts!

New ebooks!

2011-04-06T09:23:00.001-04:00

Well, one new one:
Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology (2011)

And four new editions:
Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology - Devita (2008)
Clinical Anesthesia (2009)
Merritt's Neurology (2010)
Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics
(2010)

Remember, our ebooks list is sortable by both title and subject; the ebooks above are in Anatomy, Oncology, Anesthesiology, Neurology and Medicine respectively.

Userscript: Ovid to PDF, and other useful resources

2011-04-05T10:48:00.001-04:00

There's a userscript for Firefox and Chrome users that opens an Ovid PDF in its own window instead of within Ovid. Check out this video to see how it works!

What Userscripts Are
A userscript, according to a BMC Bioinformatics article titled "Userscripts for the life sciences", is "a small program written in JavaScript that is automatically run within a web browser (often by a plugin or add-on)... allowing [the user] to customise web pages exactly the way she wishes." Different browsers require different extensions for these userscripts to work - Greasemonkey for Firefox and Internet Explorer, GreaseKit for Safari (no extension needed for Chrome) - but once they are installed, userscripts provide a personally tailored web experience.

Userscript Resources
The main repository for userscripts is userscripts.org. The article mentioned above points out some good resources, like the userscripts.org tagging system that highlights userscripts useful for biology or chemistry research; in addition, you can search userscripts.org for terms like PubMed, Ovid or PDF and see if there's anything that would make your research easier. In terms of making your life in general easier, LifeHacker compiled a list of their ten favorite userscripts for improving workflow and browsing experience.

David Rothman, a medical librarian blogger, originally posted about the userscript that led to this post; his blog is a great resource for medical research-related technology.

Open Access Electronic Resources

2011-04-04T13:55:00.000-04:00

Just in time for a rainy day!

The Merck Manuals (Diagnosis and Therapy, Home Edition and Veterinary) are now available free online - downloads and physical copies are available for purchase, but Merck states that "as part of its commitment to ensuring that all who need and want medical information can get it, Merck provides the content of these Merck Manuals on the web for free. Registration is not required, and use is unlimited. The web publications are continually updated to ensure that the information is as up-to-date as possible" (via their commitment statement).

We've also added several open access ejournals to our ejournals list:
British Columbia Medical Journal
Canadian Family Physician
Canadian Journal of Public Health
Disability Studies Quarterly
Health and Human Rights
International Journal of Biological Chemistry
Issues in Science and Technology
Journal of the National Medical Association
Neoplasia: an International Journal for Oncology Research
Research Journal of Environmental Toxicology
Research Journal of Microbiology
Sleep
Yale Journal of Biology & Medicine

And some library-oriented ones for ourselves!:
Information Management
International Journal of Library and Information Science
Library Leadership and Management

Grant Writing Resources

2011-03-08T11:10:00.001-05:00

If you're applying for funding, we at Treadwell would just like to remind you that we have a number of grant writing resources, as well as other materials to support your research, including the Grant Application Writer's Handbook which is available as an ebook. Good luck!

New Resource: Natural Standard

2011-03-04T17:10:00.002-05:00

Treadwell Library has just subscribed to Natural Standard, a research collaboration that focuses on providing "high-quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies." Natural Standard includes multiple databases containing information on Food, Herbs and Supplements, Health and Wellness, and the effectiveness of different forms of complementary and alternative therapies. All information in these databases is subjected to an exhaustive research process, and graded on the effectiveness current research has found significant evidence to support.

If you're interested in complementary and alternative medicine resources, Treadwell also subscribes to both ConsumerLab and Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database, as well as holding a number of materials on the subject. Should you have any questions about these resources, please ask - we are happy to help!

New ebooks!

2011-03-03T08:51:00.002-05:00

Check out our new ebooks!

Addiction: A Disorder of Choice (Psychiatry)
Case Studies in Emergency Medicine (Emergency Medicine)
Clinical Data Mining for Physician Decision Making (Medicine)
Clinical Electrophysiology: A Handbook for Neurologists (Neurology)
Case files. Gynecologic surgery (Obstetrics & Gynecology)
Introduction to Proteomics: Principles and Applications (Science)
Oncology Nursing Drug Handbook 2011 (Nursing)

Happy 200th Birthday, MGH!

2011-02-25T13:16:00.001-05:00

Today, Massachusetts General Hospital celebrates its 200th anniversary with a number of on-campus events.

Martha Stone, a Treadwell librarian with an avid interest in MGH history, will be staffing today's preview of the Paul S. Russell, MD, Museum of Medical History and Innovation, which will open in December 2011. Models, plans for the museum and artifacts from the hospital’s historic collections - including a replica of the ether inhaler, surgical kits, and a 19th century quack medicine device! - will be on display in the White Corridor.

Medical Librarians: Your Ultimate Search Engine

2011-02-24T10:08:00.000-05:00

Treadwell's Associate Director, Carolyn Paul, MSLS, AHIP, submitted the winning idea for the theme of the Medical Library Association's 2011 National Medical Librarians Month!

Carolyn's aim was to emphasize that medical librarians are the best resource in a search for health information. Her theme will be featured on the 2011 National Medical Librarians Month poster and the May issue of MLA News!

Patients find plenty of health information on line

2011-02-23T10:35:00.001-05:00

From the Washington Post:

Patients find plenty of health information on line,
but not all of it is reliable.

Videos in clinical medicine

2011-02-18T17:20:00.002-05:00

Free with our subscription to the
New England Journal of Medicine.

Click here for videos in clinical medicine.

QUOSA Problems Resolved

2011-02-17T12:52:00.002-05:00

QUOSA has responded to and fixed the problems we've been experiencing with retrieving articles using the PubMed Treadwell channel, but it requires a software update to resolve.

If you're a QUOSA for PC user, check to see that you're on version 8.07.035 (go to Help > About QUOSA Information Manager). If not, leave QUOSA open and it will update automatically (usually within 15 minutes). If you wish to force the update, go to http://quosa.com/downloads and re-download the software (it will simply replace your old version without affecting any of your files/folders).

I believe this affected only PC users, but if you're a QUOSA for Mac user and you're having similar issues, please email me at dmccloskey@partners.org.

Also, please let me know if you have any questions or need further assistance with this or any other QUOSA issues.

Medical Students and Mobile Devices

2011-02-10T15:34:00.008-05:00

In a Jan. 2011 article from MLA News (a members-only newsletter from the Medical Library Association), "Millennial Medical Students and Mobile Learning: The University of Central Florida Health Sciences Library Mobile Learning Project", a survey revealed that "77.0% of M2 students and 89.1% of M1 students responded that if the library made more resources available for their mobile device, they would access library resources more often."

Would you use a mobile version of the Treadwell site with links to mobile versions of your favorite resources that we offer? Please send feedback in the comments or via email to dmccloskey@partners.org.

And in case you want to see more about those lucky UCF med students, here are a couple of links:

http://today.ucf.edu/new-hand-held-devices-give-medical-students-information-at-their-fingertips/

http://today.ucf.edu/benefactors-gift-ipads-for-all-100-m-d-students/

BMJ: Open to New Technology

2011-02-10T11:08:00.001-05:00

The British Medical Journal is one of Treadwell's most heavily used electronic resources, and is making moves to be even more accessible to its readers.

BMJ Open, the BMJ Group's new open access, online-only medical journal "dedicated to publishing medical research from all disciplines and therapeutic areas" is an example of just such a move. Like many of the journals the BMJ Group publishes - Rheumatic Diseases, Archives of Disease in Childhood, BMJ itself - the articles published in BMJ Open will be subjected to BMJ's open peer review process, in which the identity of the reviewer is public in an effort to maintain high standards of accountability and transparency. Also like many of BMJ's other electronic resources, BMJ Open will follow a continuous publishing model, which means that articles are available online as soon as BMJ decides to publish them rather than at regular issue intervals. But mostly what "open" means in this case is both open to the public - free, no subscription required - and, in a more abstract sense, open-minded in terms of the disciplines it covers. The journal is currently accepting submissions and all articles will be available on PubMed Central.

In addition to this step in the direction of fluid information sharing, BMJ has announced its own iPad app, in which readers will be able to purchase single issues or a subscription. As we have tweeted about before, many medical publications are starting to offer more interactive and multimedia content, but BMJ is the first journal to offer its own app! Check out BMJ's journals on our newly searchable ejournals page or keep up with BMJ and BMJ Open on twitter, @bmj_latest and @BMJ_Open.

New ebooks!

2011-02-04T13:38:00.002-05:00

Check out our new ebooks, just added to the ebooks list in the following subjects:
Cardiology
Neurology
Nursing
Oncology
Psychology

Happy reading!

QUOSA Classes at Treadwell

2011-02-04T11:47:00.000-05:00

I've been teaching a monthly QUOSA class at Treadwell Library for about six months now. QUOSA seems to have become a fairly popular tool for easy full-text retrieval of PDFs and for organizing your articles into a searchable personal library.

Along the way, I've been able to identify what it is class attendees are looking to learn, beyond the basic functions at the core of what QUOSA does, and I've tried to tailor the classes accordingly. To that end, while the hour-long session will continue to focus on searching, retrieving and saving results; getting your existing data into QUOSA; and exporting references to your preferred citation manager, I'm adding an (optional) extra half-hour to the class.

The additional half hour will focus on data management. That is, everyone seems interested in figuring out how to set up QUOSA so that the data you see on your Partners workstation is the same data you'll see on your laptop, or whatever else your second computer is. There are a few different ways of managing this functionality, and I'll be going over these in the optional half hour.

The next QUOSA class is Thursday, February 10 from 10-11am, in the Treadwell Library Conference Room. For those interested, the data management portion will run from 11-11:30. For additional information and to register, please check out Treadwell's Class Schedule.

upcoming ACLS course

2011-02-02T14:44:00.002-05:00

Get a jump start with this review.

need more help with Microsoft software?

2011-01-28T11:13:00.002-05:00

Treadwell Library has these to offer.

it snowed again; we're open

2011-01-27T09:52:00.002-05:00

Treadwell's open regular hours (7 am-8 pm) today
and
all systems are up & running.

Come on over. Or use our resources remotely.

New eBook titles!

2011-01-19T11:57:00.004-05:00

Check out our new ebook titles in the following subjects:
Cardiology
Dermatology
Medicine
Neurology
Nursing
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Orthopedics
Pharmacology

Returning home from Iraq & Afghanistan

2011-01-18T11:09:00.003-05:00

Returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan : preliminary assessment of readjustment needs of veterans, service members, and their families / Institute of Medicine of the National academies.

log on to this new Treadwell eBook
with your Partners username & password

Breast imaging

2011-01-12T09:28:00.002-05:00

Dr. Kopans' book

Breast imaging.--3d ed.--Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2007

is now available as an eBook
and may be accessed with your Partners username & password.

Or stop by Treadwell Library to use the print edition. We're
open until 8 pm tonight.

New eBook titles!

2011-01-11T13:27:00.002-05:00

Check out our new ebooks in the following subjects:
Cardiology
Emergency Medicine
Nursing
Radiology
Reference
Surgery

Seeing patients

2011-01-07T12:50:00.004-05:00

New at Treadwell

Seeing patients : unconscious bias in health care / Augustus A. White III, with David Chanoff.--Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, c2011.

Visit us in the Bartlett Hall Extension to request this book.

New eBook titles!

2011-01-03T15:52:00.002-05:00

Check out our new ebooks in the following subjects:
Anesthesiology
Medicine
Neurology
Nursing
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Psychiatry
Radiology
Science
Statistics

Essential medical statistics

2011-01-03T10:38:00.003-05:00

One of Treadwell's paperback champions,

Essential medical statistics / Betty R. Kirkwood, Jonathan A.C. Sterne.--2nd ed.--Malden, MA : Blackwell Scientific, c2003,

in near-continual use since its purchase,
is now available as an eBook.

Access this title using your partners username & password.

Treadwell Library will reopen January 3d at 7 am

2010-12-30T15:54:00.006-05:00

Have a wonderful holiday!

And if your New Year's Resolutions include
finding a new job
or becoming a citizen
or acing the Boards or the NCLEX
or updating your CV

Treadwell has resources that can help.

Treadwell will reopen Monday December 27th at 7 am

2010-12-23T16:18:00.003-05:00

Hope you're having a wonderful weekend.

If you find yourself eager to hit the books while we're closed,
don't forget we have eBooks available all the time.

Maybe spend a fruitful hour with one of our Board Reviews?

Twitter and Medical Conferences

2010-12-15T12:28:00.003-05:00

In doing some research on Twitter's potential for medical libraries, I found quite a bit of chatter about the role of the social networking site at conferences. Twitter is making it possible to monitor conference events remotely, even to "attend" two presentations at once, one in person and one by searching for and following the hashtag terms, which function as keywords, suggested by the moderator.

For example, here is a transcript of one conference attendee's writeup, including a transcript of tweets with the hashtag "#pmc10," from the 6th annual Partners Conference on Personalized Medicine. While hashtagged terms are only searchable in Twitter for two weeks after posting, they can be valuable for people who want to follow a conference's proceedings in real time, and saved transcripts like the one shown here can preserve attendees' notes, reactions and statements for further use.

New Titles added to EJournals List

2010-12-10T16:05:00.003-05:00

The following titles have been added to the eJournals list, thanks to the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners:
Australian Nursing Journal (2001-)
Contemporary Nurse (4/2005-)
Journal of School Health (1989-5/2009)
Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair (2005-9/2008)
Nursing Older People (2003-)

Check them out!

Citizenship resources at Treadwell

2010-12-10T12:58:00.001-05:00

Find these books at Treadwell Library
on the lower level (turn right at the bottom of the stairs).

Twitter and Medical Libraries

2010-12-03T16:48:00.003-05:00

A colleague and I recently attended a webinar on Twitter in Hospitals. It provided a good background on the service itself, but we both came away with the sense that while the social network has flourished in terms of personal use, its role in institutions is not yet entirely clear. Some public institutions, including a number of both hospitals and libraries, use it to broadcast messages and disseminate information they think will be useful to their followers – upcoming events, breaking news, new materials or research findings. In institutions with a very specific focus, however, like medical libraries, Twitter’s usefulness is even less clearly defined.

There is a possibility that with the Library of Congress' decision to archive the entirety of Twitter's content, Twitter will become the purview of libraries. Treadwell does have its own twitter, which you can find here; so far, we primarily use it to broadcast upcoming classes and changes to electronic journal access. We do have a few topic-oriented lists set up (in neurology and cardiology, two of our most heavily researched fields), and we also plan on following many hospitals, libraries, and medical librarians in an effort to keep track of the role of Twitter as it pertains to us, our colleagues and our patrons.

If you're interested in Twitter in hospitals, libraries, or medical libraries, please feel free to get in touch. Also, follow us on Twitter, where you can subscribe to any of the lists we've set up.

New eBook titles!

2010-12-02T10:01:00.004-05:00

Check out the following subjects for recently added resources:
Biology
Cardiology
Health Services Administration
Medicine
Nursing
Pharmacology
Reference

And don't forget to follow us on twitter for more announcements!

You've got to start somewhere

2010-12-01T13:40:00.002-05:00

Genetics for dummies / by Tara Rodden Robinson.--2nd ed.--
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley Pub., c2010.

What do I do now? series

2010-11-26T14:04:00.001-05:00

Pediatric neurology (what do I do now?) / Gregory Holmes.--New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Becoming a healthcare professional

2010-11-19T11:20:00.005-05:00

Becoming a healthcare professional.--LearningExpress, c2010

Treadwell has much information on Vocational guidance
and Career choice.

Call 6-8601 to request any of them.

November is Pulmonary Hypertension month

2010-11-17T09:42:00.005-05:00

Visit the information table in the White corridor.
And ...
Learn more at Treadwell Library.

Cancer nursing

2010-11-15T10:58:00.002-05:00

Cancer nursing : principles and practice / edited by Connie Henke Yarbro, Debra Wujcik, Barbara Holes Gobel.--7th ed.--Sudbury, Mass : Jones & Bartlett Publishers, c2011.

Happy Perioperative Nurses Week

2010-11-09T13:20:00.005-05:00

Celebrate Perioperative Nurse Week 2010

Treadwell has resources here

Surviving dreaded conversations

2010-11-03T17:36:00.003-04:00

Surviving dreaded conversations : talk through any difficult
situation at work / Donna Flagg.

When prompted,
use your Partners username & password
to access.

HAPPY ETHER DAY !!!

2010-10-14T16:45:00.004-04:00

Here are some of Treadwell's holdings on Ether Day

and we have a large collection of MGH historical material

Six Treadwellians are being honored
for a combined total of 100 years of service
today.

Treadwell celebrates Case Management Week

2010-10-12T12:40:00.005-04:00

Case management at Treadwell Library.

New leadership challenge : creating the future of nursing

2010-10-05T13:08:00.003-04:00

The new leadership challenge : creating the future of nursing / Sheila Grossman.

Available at Treadwell Library
and online
with your Partners username & password.

Zebrafish

2010-09-30T14:49:00.003-04:00

Zebrafish : methods and protocols / edited by Graham J. Lieschke, Andrew C. Oates, and Koichi Kawakami, c2010 (Methods in molecular biology ; v. 546)

Call 6-8601 to have this title held for you
at Treadwell Library.

Pharmacotherapeutics for nurse practitioner prescribers

2010-09-17T10:41:00.002-04:00

Pharmacotherapeutics for nurse practitioner prescribers / Anita Lee Wynne, Teri Moser Woo, Ali J. Olyaei.--2nd ed.--F.A. Davis, c2007.

Accessible with your Partners username & password.

Essentials of genomic and personalized medicine

2010-09-14T16:45:00.004-04:00

Essentials of genomic and personalized medicine / edited by Geoffrey S. Ginsburg and Huntington F. Willard.--Elsevier & Academic Press, c2010.

To access, use your
Partners username & password.

Ovid export to RefWorks

2010-09-10T10:38:00.003-04:00

You now need to be signed in to Ovid
to export citations from Ovid to RefWorks.

For an Ovid username & password, choose
Get your MGH Ovid ID/password now
on this page.

Doctors heed call for books

2010-08-31T10:35:00.005-04:00

If you're weeding a department library
(or your own personal collection):

click here for one idea
and contact information.

Where are my Saved Searches?

2010-08-06T12:42:00.004-04:00

Ovid has reconfigured its website.

Click on the My Workspace tab
to view your Saved searches and Autoalerts.

The View Saved tab on the Ovid search page
will display your saved searches, also.

Exploring careers?

2010-07-23T10:12:00.005-04:00

Whether you're building your career
or contemplating an upgrade,
Treadwell Library has resources for you.

Click here for some of our career info.

Microsoft Office 2007 rollout

2010-07-14T16:51:00.003-04:00

Help is here.

Use your partners username & password
to access the eBooks.

Preparing for the Boards?

2010-07-06T15:29:00.004-04:00

Access Treadwell Library's USMLE study guides online
with your Partners username & password.

new eBooks at Treadwell

2010-06-25T10:25:00.002-04:00

AHA guidelines and statements handbook / Valentin Fuster, c2009.

Clinical neurology, 7th ed., c2009.

Harper's illustrated biochemistry, 28th ed., c2009.

Practical teaching in emergency medicine, an overview based on AHA/ASH guidelines, c2009.

Living in Sim

2010-06-23T09:50:00.003-04:00

A colleague sent a link.

Living in Sim

Living in Sim is an experimental mixed reality artwork that includes a website, online social media, photography and video to explore the complexities present in the current health care environment and online social media. Medical mannequins – typically used as patient simulators to train medical staff – act as surrogates to present intricate relationships between our sense of identity, culture and health care in a technologically advanced society.

In each episode the all mannequin cast of characters respond to a given scenario and work through issues that arise in health care including ethics, insurance, medical error and patient confidentiality. The germ of each episode is a medical or health care incident in the media or popular culture that is worth debating like mass multiple births or radical surgery.

Why medical mannequins?They are virtual patients with real outcomes.

Got mice?

2010-06-02T15:40:00.004-04:00

We've got the

UFAW handbook on the care and management of laboratory and other research animals.

And
(with your partners username & password)
so do you.

Windows 7 is coming! Windows 7 is coming!

2010-05-05T11:24:00.003-04:00

Windows 7 Bible

Windows 7 inside out

Windows 7 step-by-step

more new eTitles

2010-04-30T13:02:00.001-04:00

Pulmonary function tests in clinical practice, c2009.

Schaum's outlines : biochemistry, c2009.

Trauma & orthopedic surgery in clinical practice, c2009.

new eBooks from Treadwell

2010-04-26T15:37:00.004-04:00

Neonatal emergencies / edited by Richard M. Cantor, P. David Sadowitz, c2010.

Current diagnosis & treatment in cardiology.

An introduction to Spanish for health care workers : communication & culture, 3d ed., 2010.

Karch's pathology of drug abuse, 4th ed., 2009.

New insights into functional mapping in cerebral tumor surgery, c2009.

Changes at Treadwell Library in 2010

2010-04-02T11:00:00.000-04:00

Here is a brief update for our virtual library users who have not seen the changes happening at Treadwell.

•All of our bound journals are now on the 3d floor
•The 2d floor journal stacks have been removed to make room for a simulation center and individual and collaborative work spaces for library users

The renovated space will offer a rich and unique learning environment in one location.
•Hands-on and reflective learning opportunities
•Online and print knowledge resources
•The expertise of Treadwell librarians and faculty from departments across MGH

The construction will take place over the next few months and we will keep you updated. Follow this link for more information.

new from Jean Watson

2010-02-26T15:47:00.001-05:00

Nursing, the philosophy and science of caring

studying for boards?

2010-02-24T11:35:00.002-05:00

Lange Q&A pediatrics

spring fever?

2010-02-23T13:33:00.002-05:00

Maybe it's time to move ...

Resumes for science careers
might be of some assistance.

new eBooks at Treadwell

2010-02-12T09:58:00.002-05:00

Disorders of hemoglobin : genetics, pathophysiology, and clinical management / by Martin H. Steinberg ... [et al.]

Endocrinopathy after childhood cancer treatment / W.H.B. Wallace and C.J.H. Kelnar, editors.

Musculoskeletal examination / Jeffrey M. Gross, Joseph Fetto, Elaine Rosen.

Reviewing research evidence for nursing practice : systematic reviews / edited by Christine Webb and Brenda Roe.

more new eBooks at Treadwell

2010-02-05T09:54:00.002-05:00

Basics of oncology
by Frederick O. Stephens, Karl R. Aigner.

Essentials of clinical research
Stephen P. Glasser, editor.

Emergency ultrasound
by O. John Ma, James R. Mateer, Michael Blaivas.

new eBooks at Treadwell

2010-01-29T11:38:00.003-05:00

Current diagnosis & treatment. Gastroenterology, hepatology & endoscopy

Current pediatric diagnosis & treatment

Radiology (McGraw Hill specialty board review)

Rating scales in psychiatry

new eBooks at Treadwell

2010-01-06T11:58:00.005-05:00

The American Psychiatric Publishing board review guide for psychiatry

Competencies for advanced nursing practice

Essentials of nursing research, appraising evidence for nursing practice

First aid for the orthopaedic boards

A Pocket manual of differential diagnosis

Research : successful approaches

Schwartz's clinical handbook of pediatrics

Treadwell Library Classes: January and February

2009-12-30T17:11:00.000-05:00

Check out these upcoming classes at Treadwell. We are happy to schedule specific times and dates for individual or group instruction, if none of the listed times are convenient.

All of these classes are held in the Treadwell Library Conference Room, located in Bartlett Hall Extension, first floor. To register, call x6-8601.

Searching Ovid Medline
Learn to use the easy Ovid interface to search the biomedical and nursing literature. Learn how to link to Treadwell's electronic journals from your Medline search.

Thursday, Jan 7
10 to 11 am

Friday Jan 22
11 to noon

Thursday, Feb 11
10 to 11 am

Wednesday, Feb 24
11 to noon

Ref Works: A Web-based citation manager
Learn how to save the results of your Ovid and PubMed searches, organize your references and access your files from home. See how to create CVs and bibliographies in minutes.

Monday, Jan. 25
11 am to noon

Friday, Feb. 19
11 am to noon

On Site, On Your Desktop: Learn How to Use Treadwell Library
Save time. Work smart. See how to access electronic journals. Learn how to find out if Treadwell owns a book or journal. Learn how to request a book or journal article not at Treadwell Library.

Friday, Jan. 8
12 noon to 1 pm

Tuesday, Feb. 9
12 noon to 1 pm

CINAHL: the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health
Learn how to search the literature of nursing, social work, PT, OT and other allied health disciplines. For an individual or group consultation, please call 617-726-8601.

Learn How to Search PsycINFO
Find articles on psychology, social work, human services, sociology and behavioral sciences. For an individual or group consultation, please call 617-726-8601.

New Year's resolution:

2009-12-09T11:25:00.005-05:00

Transfer to a better job?

Resumes for health and medical careers.
Resumes for nursing careers.

or click here for more Treadwell Library resources.

New nursing eBooks

2009-11-23T15:58:00.003-05:00

Advanced practice nursing : essentials for role development / edited by Lucille A. Joel.

Mastering the teaching role : a guide for nurse educators / edited by Barbara K. Penn.

Studying over the Thanksgiving holiday?

2009-11-11T13:42:00.003-05:00

Treadwell eBooks are accessible from home or anywhere
(with your Partners username & password)

Emergency medicine Q&A

First aid for the ABSITE

Case files: Obstetrics & gynecology

Case files: Pediatrics

Psychiatry board review

Urology board review

Chaos and organization in health care

2009-11-04T14:33:00.004-05:00

Dr. Lee and Dr. Mongan have donated
a copy of their new book
Chaos and organization in health care
to Treadwell Library.

Stop by and read a chapter or two.

PubMed Redesign

2009-10-30T09:49:00.005-04:00

PubMed has a new look. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has redesigned its interface with the goal of making it easier to use while continuing to promote scientific discovery. For more information on what's different, please read the latest NLM Technical Bulletin.

We've also added new functionality that you will benefit from when you access PubMed from the library web site. When you perform a search, you will now be able to see a link to filtered results for MGH Treadwell Library in the upper right corner of the results screen. Clicking on this link will show you the results of your search that can be obtained—online and in print—from Treadwell Library. When viewing individual results, you'll still see the Treadwell Library Online and Treadwell Library Print Collection icons (shown below) that tell you in what format these can be obtained.

To take advantage of this feature, be sure to access PubMed from the link on the library's home page or databases page.

Please let us know if you have questions or comments.

Science Translational Medicine online

2009-10-15T14:54:00.005-04:00

We have a two month trial ending Dec. 2009 for Science Translational Medicine
Take a look -- search it and let us know if you find it useful.

Williams Obstetrics is back

2009-10-01T13:10:00.001-04:00

One of Treadwell's most popular titles is available again electronically.

free eBooks with an interesting URL

2009-09-30T14:46:00.001-04:00

http://www.freebooks4doctors.com

Treadwell's Selected New Titles list is now available for Jun-Aug

2009-09-14T10:09:00.002-04:00

Please check out the newest "Selected New Titles" list at the following link: http://magic.mgh.harvard.edu/screens/new_acq_list.html . This list is created and updated throughout the year by our own Martha Stone. Entries contain summaries of the titles, quotes from the item or from book reviews, a list of the chapters, and a link to the title in our catalog to let you know if the book is on our shelves or is currently on loan.

Let us know what you think!

Preparing for the Internal Medicine boards?

2009-08-25T10:11:00.002-04:00

First aid for the Internal medicine boards, c2008.

Harrison's principles of internal medicine: self-assessment
and board review, c2008.

Lange Q&A: Internal medicine, c2007.

Mayo Clinic internal medicine review, c2008.

All available online with your Partners username & password.

Netter illustrations

2009-08-07T09:10:00.004-04:00

We've had a question about the availability of the Netter series.

Treadwell keeps a large collection of his books.

And they're available online (registration is required).

Treadwell also subscribes to a database of images
that can be downloaded and used in presentations.

Health Care Administration bookshelf

2009-07-17T13:59:00.005-04:00

Cost-effectiveness analysis in health, a practical approach, Jossey-Bass, c2008.

Decision analysis for healthcare mangers, AUPHA, c2007.

Financial management of hospitals and healthcare organizations, Health Administration Press, c2008.

Health insurance, Health Administration Press, c2008.

Healthcare finance, an introduction to accounting and financial management, Health Administration Press, c2008.

Law of healthcare administration, Health Administration Press, c2008.

Pearls for leaders in academic medicine, Springer, c2008.

Reinventing the patient experience, strategies for hospital leaders, ACHE Management series, c2007.

Are you thinking of going to nursing school?

2009-07-16T12:52:00.004-04:00

Try some "Practice entrance exams"

new board reviews at Treadwell

2009-06-29T11:37:00.003-04:00

ACLS (ADVANCED CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT) REVIEW / EDITORS, MICHAEL ZEVITZ, SCOTT H. PLANTZ, WILLIAM GOSSMAN.

EMERGENCY MEDICINE ORAL BOARD REVIEW / EDITORS, WILLIAM G. GOSSMAN, SCOTT H. PLANTZ.

OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY BOARD REVIEW / [EDITOR] STEPHEN G. SOMKUTI.

new nursing eBooks at Treadwell

2009-06-29T11:29:00.003-04:00

MIDDLE RANGE THEORY FOR NURSING / MARY JANE SMITH AND PATRICIA R. LIEHR, EDITORS.

NURSING KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT AND CLINICAL PRACTICE / EDITORS, SISTER CALLISTA ROY, DOROTHY A. JONES.

QUALITY CARING IN NURSING : APPLYING THEORY TO CLINICAL PRACTICE, EDUCATION, AND LEADERSHIP / JOANNE R. DUFFY.

TRANSFORMING NURSING THROUGH REFLECTIVE PRACTICE / EDITED BY CHRISTOPHER JOHNS AND DAWN FRESHWATER.