Body Language

Medical students and others looking for inspiration or just good poetry should check out Body Language: Poems of the Medical Training Experience. This new library book contains poetry by medical students and physicians, chronicling their experiences of medical training and practice. The poems are divided into chapters by phase of training, such as Medical Training, First Year and Resident. Poem titles include "Haiku of Residency" and "Surgery Rotation."

Achieving Excellence in Medical Education

This new book by Richard Gunderman explores the a basic question facing medical educators and learners today: What is our vision of educational excellence, and what can we do to enhance our performance? Achieving Excellence in Medical Education offers theoretical insights and practical suggestions. Among the topics explored are: Educations position as a priority of medical schools, seminal educational insights from non-medical educators, best practices of outstanding educators and learners, promises and pitfalls of new educational technologies, key resources for promoting excellence in medical education, medical educations role in preparing future leaders, leadership roles for medical schools in universities and society.

New Collaborative Medical News Site

Dissect Medicine, a joint initiative of Macmillan Medical Communications and Nature Clinical Practice, is a medical news website that encourages readers to participate. Stories range from general interest articles to basic research. Users of the site may submit news items for review with subject tags and keywords. They are then ranked by the user group. The idea is for the most relevant and influential articles to become headline stories. You may read the stories without registering, but to post links to stories or to vote, you must complete the free registration.

Looking for Medical News Feeds?

Medical Feeds is a directory of RSS feeds for medicine and health. The site has a large number of feeds and includes those for medical professionals and consumers. They are grouped under topics that include the various medical specialties as well as grants and employment. There is also a listing of medical blogs and podcasts.

Biomolecular Object Network Databank (BOND)

The Biomolecular Object Network Databank (BOND) is an online search resource in the fields of genomic, proteomic and metabolomic research. It is the first open access resource to integrate sequence and interaction information.Users may perform cross-database searches of available sequence, interaction, complex and pathway information. BOND integrates a range of component databases including Genbank and BIND, the Biomolecular Interaction Network Database.

The Biology Image Library

The AECOM Library has a trial of the Biology Image Library through December 19, 2007. The library is a collection of images, illustrations, movies, and animations for research and education. Materials can be downloaded for non-commerical purposes, such as for use in lectures or seminars.

The trial is available to all members of the AECOM community through December 19, 2007. Registration is required.

Let us know how you like it. Send feedback to askref@aecom.yu.edu.

MedEd Portal

MedEdPORTAL, provided by The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) was designed to promote collaboration and educational scholarship by facilitating the open exchange of peer-reviewed teaching resources such as tutorials, virtual patients, cases (PBL, SP, OSCE), lab manuals, assessment instruments, faculty development materials, etc. Through this site, faculty can locate information about high-quality, peer-reviewed teaching material in both the basic and clinical sciences.

Registration is FREE and you can customize your MedEdPORTAL as well as submit resources for publication. Click Login from the main menu then click New User to register. You can create a customized home page called MyMedEdPORTAL that allows you to track your submissions and discover recently published items in your area of interest. Features include Search by Keyword and Browse by Discipline. A complex search can be created via the Power Search link. Keep in mind that using numerous fields may result in a narrow search.

New Look, More Features for ClinicalTrials.gov

ClinicalTrials.gov, the National Library of Medicine's web-based registry of approximately 47,000 clinical research studies, now has a new user interface and expanded features. The new interface provides more display options, including sponsor, size and age group. Search terms are now highlighted in results. The new "Studies by Topic" and "Study Topics" features group trials by four main categories: conditions, drug interventions, sponsors and locations. The map of study locations is also enhanced, allowing viewing of the number of registered trials in regions of the world for a specific search or for all studies in the database.

New Book for Medical Students

Hospital Survival: Lessons Learned in Medical Training, written by Grant Cooper, M.D., a resident at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, is now available in the library. It relates a number of amusing and often frightening stories of situations that have occurred during the first year of clinical rotations. The intention is that lessons learned by others, presented as "do's and don'ts" will allow a smoother path for the next generation of students. Take a look.

Human Genome Epidemiology Network (HuGENet)

Human Genome Epidemiology Network, or HuGENet™ is a global collaboration of individuals & organizations committed to the assessment of the impact of human genome variation on population health & how genetic information can be used to improve health & prevent disease. HuGENet™ collaborators come from multiple disciplines such as epidemiology, genetics, clinical medicine, policy, public health, education, and biomedical sciences.

The site offers HuGE Navigator, an integrated, searchable knowledge base of genetic associations and human genome epidemiology, including information on population prevalence of genetic variants, gene-disease associations, gene-gene and gene- environment interactions, and evaluation of genetic tests. Since 2001, HuGENet™ has maintained a database of published, population-based epidemiologic studies of human genes extracted from PubMed. The HuGE Navigator replaces earlier search tools for use with this database and provides additional applications for use by researchers and the public.

In addition, HuGENet provides an e-book, e-journal club, reviews, articles (full-text available if library subscribes), case studies, factsheets, and other publications.