Thank you,Book Drive Donors!

Drum roll please! The name of our raffle prize winner was drawn by Ana Poveda, Director of Human Resources.

Congratulaons go out to Janelle Fernandez, the Congratulaons go out to Janelle Fernandez, the winner of the Harry and David Gi Basket, generously donated by Diane M. Campagnes on behalf of OVID

Technologies. Again, thank you for making our first annual FIU Medical Library Book Drive in honor of Naonal

Medical Librarian’s Month a success!

On behalf of the librarians and children at Miami Children’s Hospital, we would like to send out a hearelt thank you to all of our book drive donors:

To the joy of many children, 157 books were deliv-ered to Miami Children’s Hospital Library on November 10th.

Camilo Mohar, David Boilard, Heather Miller, Laura E. Boudon, Janelle Fernandez, Jasmine Jas, Jerica Duverge, Luda Dolinsky, Maria Melssen, Sandy Allen, Stephanie Schmidt, Suzanne Minor, Ursula Schleider, and all anonymous donors.

Medical Library Newsleer is published four mes a year by the Medical Library of Florida Internaonal University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. hp://medlib.fiu.edu.WINTER 2010

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• Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth.

• 2 out of 3 adults in the United States have hemorrhoids.

• 25% of your bones are located in your feet.

• A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks.

•• A person infected with the SARS virus, has a 95-98% chance of recovery.

• A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.

• A toothbrush within 6 feet of a toilet can get airborne bacteria from flushing.

• About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.

•• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

• Children are poisoned most frequently by eang harmful plants.

Fun Medical Facts

The following resources have been added to our online collecon:

iInTIME-Med-U: Three virtual paent cases in internal medicine, pediatrics, and surgery have been added to the already available family medicine module:

Stahl’s OnlineStahl’s Online is a resource based on Dr. Stephen M. Stahl’s two books Essenal Psychopharmacology and The Prescriber’s Guide , which have been considered the definive source of informaon on psychopharmacology and the art of prescribing psychotropic medicaons.

R2 - online books colleconR2 - online books collecon provides access to more than 60 books.

Elsevier Doody Collecon provides access to 13 highly rated medical texts.

We are also working on adding more online books from CamWe are also working on adding more online books from Cam-bridge University Press.

- SIMPLE: Simulated Internal Medicine Paent Learning Experience- CLIPP: Computer-assisted Learning in Pediatrics Program- WISEMD: Web Iniave for Surgical Educaon of Medical Doctors

E-Resources Update“All good things must come to an end” (English Proverb). For the Medical Library, it means the break-up of our fabulous First Team. This is the team that prepared and opened the doors to the COM’s inaugural Class of 2013 in the summer of 2009. It was a trein the summer of 2009. It was a tre-mendous effort to create a library service where none had been before, and the First Team did it superbly. Now, other opportunies have beckoned.

Gricel Dominguez, Library Assistant, has taken a library job at St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens. Janelle Fernandez, Library Assistant, is now a Program Assis-tant in Clinical Affairs in the FIU College of Medicine. Alberto Lazo, Student Assistant, has also moved Student Assistant, has also moved on. Good luck to all of them!

To our great fortune, we have been able to recruit new staff members with the same kind of talent and energy. We are pleased to have Ileana Perdomo as our first full-me Office Assistant. We also welcome Duke Ingram, Library Assistant; and Chrisan Forment, Yaunek Murray, Chrisan Forment, Yaunek Murray, and Vamsi Krishna Punna as Student Assistants. Finally, Jose Garcia has been promoted from Student Assistant to Library Assis-tant. Jose was the medical library’s first staffer and we are especially happy to have him join us as a per-manent member of the Team.

David BoilardMedical Library Director

Director’s Corner

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Medical Apps on iPhone and iPod TouchMar. 30, 2011 10:30 AM AHC 2 693

Do you have a smartphone such as an iPhone or a PDA like an iPod Touch? Come join our workshop to find out what medical apps are available for your study and research. This workshop will also show you how to access the Medical Library’s subscripon databases such as Dynamed and VisualDX on your smartphone or PDA device. Bring your own device and get useful medical apps installed at the workshop!

PubMed Pro: advanced features and searchingFeb. 9, 2011 10:30 AM AHC 2 693

In this workshop, we will go over searching MeSH and liming your search; however, we will cover such advanced PubMed features as prinng/emailing/downloading your search results, using Single Citaon matcher and the Journal’s Database, and how to create a MyNCBI account. (Intro to PubMed not required.)

Intro to PubMed: an introducon to searchingJan. 12, 2011 10:30 AM AHC 2 693

Are you a frequent PubMed user baffled by the new look of PubMed? Or do you want to learn more about this powerful resource? Come learn how to search for arcles using the MeSH Database and the Limits feature as well as how to view and store your search results.

Upcoming Library Workshops for Research

FIU Medical Library Toolbarhttp://libx.org/editions/download.php?edition=EEA9C109Does your web browser have numerous favorites and bookmarks saved for many different library data-bases, journal arcles, and other library resources in addion to the links that you use for research and study? But the more bookmarks you save, the more difficult it becomes to locate what you need. And somemes those bookmarks and favorites expire!

The Medical Library offers The Medical Library offers the Medical Library Toolbar customized to meet the research needs of FIU College of Medicine faculty, students, and staff. Simply click the URL above to donwload and install the library toolbar on either Internet Explorer or FireFox. The toolbar sits right on top of your web browser and lets you jump to the library’s databases, e-journals, and other useful resources such as the library catalog, Interlibrary Loan, Ask a Librarian, and Refworks. Within the library toolbar, you can also search the library catalog, e-journals, PubMed, and Google Scholar with one click without going to a different place.

Contact Contact medlib@fiu.edu if you need any help or have any quesons!

Recommendation by Zeke

Dudring the course of the year, the United States Government and other organizaons have designated various months as Naonal Health Observances. The purpose of such months is to raise awareness of various topics related to health and wellbeing. During this me we would like to highlight the Naonal Health Awareness for the winter months.

You can learn more about Naonal Health Observances and how you can raise awareness in HealthFinder: hp://www.healthfinder.gov/nho/

January - Cervical Health Awareness MonthFebruary - American Heart Month March -National Nutrition Month

Health Month

Please welcome our four new staff members to the library team: Duke Ingram, Chrisan Forment, Yaunek Murray, and Vamsi Krishna Punna.

Duke, Chrisan, and Yaunek will be working at the Medical Duke, Chrisan, and Yaunek will be working at the Medical Library Help Desk. Duke is a graduate of Mississippi State University and joined the College of Medicine as a Library Technical Assistant. He is originally from Yazoo City, MS, and served as a Library Technical Assistant at Hinds Com-munity College for 7 years. Chrisan is a 4th year Biomedi-cal Engineering student and his goal is to further his educaon and go into medical school. Yaunek is a philosoeducaon and go into medical school. Yaunek is a philoso-phy major originally from Tampa, FL.

Vamsi has joined the library as a Student Assistant. He is a student in the graduate program of Computer Science and Engineering at FIU. Vamsi will be working on scanning materials for the Medical Library’s Digizaion project funded by the Express Digizaion Grant Award from the Naonal Network of Libraries of Medicine.

Photos: Yaunek, Duke, Vamsi, Chrisan ( From the le top clockwise)

New Student Assistants at the Library Help Desk and for the Express Digitization Grant project

Library News & Staff Updates The Medical Library has received the 2010/2011 FIU Tech Fee Award of $4,550. The award will be used to to purchase and install five addional copies of a suite of human anatomy soware - VH Dissector Pro, Cadaver Dissecon Guide, and Surface Palpaon Guide on library computers in order to enhance the learning and teaching acvies of FlU College of Medicine students and faculty. See the complete list of 2010/2011 FIU Tech Fee Award recipients: hp://it.fiu.edu/techfee/recstatus.html.

Medical Library receives “2010/2011 FIU Technology Fee Award”!

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