Medical Internet Videos…

… and other cool toys.
Recent posts on David Rothman’s blog (davidrothman.net), link to some great video resources for medical staff / medical education:
The JAMA Report, a weekly audio/video news service from JAMA, can be downloaded in a variety of formats. It’s also available through blip.tv at http://thejamareport.blip.tv/, where it’s possible to subscribe to an RSS [...]

The Krafty Librarian

I just added The Krafty Librarian to our blogroll. Subtitled “Every medical librarian needs a bag of tricks,” this blog is written by Ohio medical librarian Michele Kraft. Currently under discussion: a search for ways to provide tables of contents electronically to patrons; medical and science Facebook applications; electronic access to hospital libraries.

Medical Blogs

How Web 2.0 is changing medicine (BMJ 2006; 333: 1283-4)  cites Clinical Cases and Images as “one of the best blogs in medicine.” This medical blog is certainly worth a look by those seeking real-world examples to show physicians (and perhaps hospital IT departments) the value of the new social networking tools.
 Recent posts in Clinical Cases & Images [...]

Camtasia Studio & SnagIt

Thinking about recording your own online tutorials?
Well, this is all over the blogosphere – dozens of blogs are pointing to a place to download a free older version of Camtasia Studio (ver. 3.1.2 or 3.1.3) and also SnagIt. Camtasia Studio is a video screencast recording software, and SnagIt is a screen capture software.
Here [...]

Electronic versions withheld?

One of our residency programs wished to use the electronic version of a 2004 article from American Family Physician. The physicians report that when they tried to download, they were blocked by the journal website, with a message indicating that permission for use of the electronic version was not given, and that they should seek out [...]

Social skills tips

In customer service, or responsible for training people in customer service? Check out the Positivity Blog: How to improve your social skills: 8 tips from the last 2500 years. This post quotes the classics (Epictetus, Hemingway, Mae West) to support the “8 tips”:

Listen
Actually be interested in the other person
Don’t listen too much [...]

Medical Spam

Canadian researchers recently conducted a study of medical spam emails, by opening an email box and ordering drugs and herbal remedies they were offered. The original report is open access: Gernburd P, Jadad AR (2007) Will Spam Overwhelm Our Defenses? Evaluating Offerings for Drugs and Natural Health Products. PLoS Med 4(9): e274 doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0040274 [...]

Flash!

When I demo MedlinePlus, one of the features that always gets a positive response is the collection of Flash tutorials.
Now, I’m jazzing up my library webpages by including links to Flash tutorials offered by the various database vendors. The tutorials I’ve found so far don’t require that the user be logged in to the [...]

Systematic Evaluation of EBM Point-of-Care tools

A Systematic Evaluation of Evidence Based Medicine Tools for Point-of-Care
Julie M. Trumble, Margaret J. Anderson, Marlene Caldwell, Felicia Chuang, Stephanie Fulton, Anne Howard, Beatriz Varman
This University of Texas study, referenced by both BMJ Clinical Evidence and Stat!Ref (host of ACP PIER), was presented at the South Central Chapter/MLA meeting in October 2006. [...]

Healia – Health Search Engine

One of the speakers at CIL 2007 mentioned a trend in developing specialized, narrow-focus search engines, and tossed out Healia, a health search site, as an example.
Designed to help consumers find high-quality health information on the web, Healia uses algorithms, a “quality index score,” a health-optimized spellchecker, semantic technology and personalized filters (such as [...]