After stumbling across a couple of new blogs that mentioned finding RSS feeds for medical journals and setting up RSS feeds for a PubMed search, I found one that linked back to the MLA Learning 2.0 CE Blog Course Web 2.0 101: Introduction to Second Generation Web Tools. The course is still in its first [...]
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National Public Radio’s Morning Edition today featured a story about blogging by doctors. This brief report touches on various types of blogging by physicians – from case reports to management problems like malpractice suits to venting about problem patients difficult cases. One interviewee — a psychiatrist — suggests that doctors who use blogs [...]
Filed under: Internet, Medical, Web 2.0 tools | Tagged: blogs, confidentiality, doctors, medical blogs, Morning Edition, NPR, physicians, privacy, public radio | 1 Comment »
ReadWriteWeb offers an article Comparing Six Ways to Identify Top Blogs in Any Niche.The 6 methods, and their top finds for the “medical libraries” niche:
Technorati (search “medical libraries”)
DavidRothman.net
Health, Sciences & Libraries (from University of Michigan)
Newswise Medical News
Musings of a Medical Librarian Maven (Alexia’s blog)
Another 60-some under “Medical Library” or “Health Sciences Library”, including the MDMLG [...]
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From book reviews to new tech to urban legends, LISNews offers this list of RSS feeds for “news you can use”:
Boing Boing (Feed)
The Bookslut Blog (Feed)
The Consumerist (Feed)
Lifehacker (Feed)
Open Access News (Feed)
Post Secret (Feed)
Read Write Web (Feed)
Seth Godin (Feed)
Slashdot (Feed)
Snopes – What’s New (Feed)
Check out the LISNews post for descriptions and runners-up: 10 Non-Librarian Blogs to [...]
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Blizzard conditions here in west Michigan make it a good day to catch up on blogwatching –
David Rothman is compiling a list of wikis for health librarians. He also points us to a Mayo press release touting their collaboration with Microsoft to develop consumer health products: Mayo Clinic, Microsoft Announce Strategic Agreement To Develop [...]
Filed under: Consumer Health, Future of Libraries, Health Sciences Libraries, Internet Resources, Patient Education, Productivity, medical education | Tagged: blogs, medical education, Public Health, Productivity, wikis, health librarians, information literacy, virtual surgery, emerging technologies, Sirsi Dynix, Firefox | 3 Comments »
Marcus Banks is conducting a survey of readers of health sciences librarian’s blogs for a paper to be presented at a Las Vegas joint chapter meeting.
Read the abstract of the paper, titled “Delving into the Health Sciences Biblioblogosphere: How Has it Changed our Professional Practice?”, at Marcus’ World: http://mbanks.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/01/survey-of-healt.html
As a reader of this health sciences librarians’ blog, [...]
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… 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 [...]
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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.
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