Mariana Lapidus,Irena Bond
Mariana Lapidus
Virtual chat services represent an exciting way to provide patrons of medical libraries with instant reference help in an academic environment. The purpose of this article is to examine the implementation, marketing process, use, and develo...
Virtual Information for Patient Care-VIP care: an electronic collection to promote learning among third-year medical students [0.03%]
用于患者护理的虚拟信息-VIP护理：一个促进三年级医学生学习的电子资料库
Jane Ichord
Jane Ichord
Virtual Information for Patient Care (VIP Care) is an electronic collection of materials assembled to promote learning among Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) clinical clerks. Materials in the collection are selected on the basis o...
Feeding the fledgling repository: starting an institutional repository at an academic health sciences library [0.03%]
雏鸟成长中的饲料：在学术健康科学图书馆启动机构知识库
Ann Koopman,Dan Kipnis
Ann Koopman
In 2005, the Scott Memorial Library at Thomas Jefferson University started an institutional repository (IR), the Jefferson Digital Commons (JDC) . Originally intended as a showcase for faculty scholarship, it has evolved to serve also as a ...
Katherine A Prentice,Julie K Gaines,Linda S Levy
Katherine A Prentice
The objective of the Starting Points Web page series at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT HSC) Libraries is to provide specialized information resources in an organized online format. Highlighted resources inc...
Moving a hospital library [0.03%]
医院图书馆搬迁工程
Jane Bridges
Jane Bridges
Many hospital libraries suffer from being poorly housed. This article describes a successful effort to find better space for a hospital library. Issues of planning, staff participation, and implementation are discussed, including constraint...
Health care professions: career information on the internet for students [0.03%]
医疗卫生专业：因特网上面向学生的就业信息
Rose Guerrieri
Rose Guerrieri
The United States is currently experiencing a nursing shortage, and it is expected to worsen in the next ten years. Physician shortages are also projected. Some allied health professions are also experiencing personnel shortages. Health sci...
Roberta Bronson Fitzpatrick
Roberta Bronson Fitzpatrick
TIMELIT is a database covering the topic of medical education. Entries in this resource cover a range of topics from professional education to both health and patient education. This column will provide an overview of the database and its c...
Doing without: serving allied health programs at universities without medical schools [0.03%]
无医 School 的大学如何开展 allied health 项目
Robin B Devin
Robin B Devin
This article compares libraries in the United States that serve allied health programs at universities without medical schools. Although these university libraries all serve a similar array of health sciences programs, the organization of t...
Does instruction in the use of personal digital assistants increase medical students' comfort and skill level? [0.03%]
使用个人数字助手的学习能否提高医学生的舒适度和技能水平？
Rose Guerrieri,Margarita Kokinova
Rose Guerrieri
Reference librarians developed an assessment tool to determine if formal classroom instruction on the use of PDAs benefits medical students. The questionnaire on PDA concepts and skills, designed to assess both comfort level and self-descri...
Laura Cobus
Laura Cobus
Blogs and wikis are examples of Web 2.0 technology that facilitate collaboration in the online world. In the health sciences, the emergence of these social tools potentially increases the risk of generating harmful or biased information. Th...