iPODS and Heart Sounds

Students at the Drexel University College of Medicine are now listening to heart sounds on their iPods.

In a recent study Dr. Barrett demonstrated that students listening to heart sounds on their own time, whenever, and wherever at their convenience helped to improve their skills.

Barrett, MJ, Kuzma, MA, Seto, TC, et al. (2006). The power of repetition in mastering cardiac auscultation. The American journal of medicine, 119(1), 73-5.

These heart sounds are now available for you to practice and refine your skills at: CardioSource.com

“Research demonstrates that practice makes perfect when trying to master cardiac auscultation. Listening to these “Heart Songs” at the computer or iPod can help clinicians at every level refine their auscultation skills.” - Michael J. Barrett, M.D., F.A.C.C.

Looking for a Few Good Testers!

A database producer for the Web of Science is looking for testers at UCSD for their new interface prototype. They would like to include UCSD faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students.

The testing would be held on May 16-18 in Geisel Library. For 60-90 minutes of your time, you would receive a $50 American Express Gift Card and our thanks for helping to give us a better version of the database to use in the future.

Interested? Contact Penny Coppernoll-Blach at pblach@ucsd.edu .

Safari Tech Books online

Looking for computer books? The UCSD Libraries have online access to over 300 books from the popular O’Reilly publishing company via the Safari service.
From eBay to PHP, from Access to XML. Most books are available for one user at a time, so if you are given a “turnaway” message, just try again a little later.
http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/?uicode=ucsd

Enhancing PowerPoint for Radiology - and others

The February 2006 issue of Clinical Radiology features an article on using add-ins to improve PowerPoint’s handling of images and using PowerPoint to create poster presentations. The article focuses on radiological images, but the tips and techniques would be useful for anyone who uses PowerPoint with lots of images. One of the tools recommended by the authors is PowerPoint Add-Ins, a collection of open-source, free add-ins developed by radiologists at UCSD!
Article:
Scarsbrook AF, Graham RN, & Perriss RW. Expanding the use of Microsoft PowerPoint. An overview for radiologists. Clinical Radiology. 2006;61(2):113-23.
Link to full text (UCSD users or journal subscribers only)

Spring Quarter Library Class Schedule Up

Our Spring class schedule is now online. In addition to the usual PubMed, EndNote and Googling classes, the libraries will be teaching a number of classes in RefWorks, our new Web-based citation management service.

BIOSIS Previews

If you’re doing basic science research, you should be using BIOSIS. Includes subjects and types of material that PubMed doesn’t. For example, BIOSIS covers many conference abstract books that PubMed doesn’t cover.

We recommend using the “General Search” option - read more info about BIOSIS.