Each month, AECOM reference librarians highlight an authoritative web site of interest to the AECOM community, and present brief information helpful in searching the resource. For further information, stop by the Reference Desk in the library, call 718.430.3104, or send an email to askref@aecom.yu.edu.
April 2008 is: CABI Global Health
The Library now has a free trial of CABI Global Health until the end of April 2008. Global Health is a bibliographic database of international public health research and practice. It includes more than a million records from 1973 to the present. The information is taken from serials, books, conference proceedings, patents, theses and other difficult-to-obtain sources. Publications from more than 125 countries in 50 languages are abstracted, and non-English language papers are translated. Reportedly 40% of the material contained in Global Health is unique to the database. Basic and more advanced searching options are available.
The link provided here will take you to a screen asking for a User ID and password. Call the Reference Desk at 718-430-3104 or email us at askref@aecom.yu.edu for this information.
March 2008 is: NLM Drug Information Portal
The NLM Drug Information Portal gives users a gateway to selected drug information from the National Library of Medicine and other key government agencies.
Links to individual resources with potential drug information, including summaries tailored to various audiences are provided at the top of the page. Resources include the NLM search systems useful in searching for a drug, NLM research resources, resources organized by audience and class, and other NIH and government resources such as FDA and CDC.
The search box in the middle of the page allows searching of many of these resources simultaneously. Users can search for a drug’s trade name or generic name and retrieve the same drug record.
The portal covers more than 12,000 drugs from the time they are entered into clinical trials (Clinicaltrials.gov) through their entry in the market place (Drugs@FDA). The PubMed/Medline link provides medical literature describing research, and TOXLINE provides toxicology literature. Resources such as MedlinePlus provide easy to read summaries of the uses and efficacy of a drug.
January/February 2008 is: EPERC
EPERC is the End-of-Life Palliative Education Resource Center. EPERC started in 1999 at the Medical College of Wisconsin through funding by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The purpose of EPERC is to assist physician educators and others in locating high-quality; peer reviewed training materials, publications, conferences and other forums.
EPERC offers access to:
1. "Fast Facts", a collection of one-page summaries of key information on important End-of-Life clinical topics for educators and clinicians. Issues covered include pain management, symptoms management, tube feeding, withdrawal of treatment and other important subjects. Fast Facts can be downloaded to your PDA at http://www.infingo.com
2. “Starter Kits” (i.e., educational guides for medical health educators) to assist in curriculum development.
3. online discussions with other End-of-Life educators
Users can submit educational materials for peer-review and potential inclusion to the site. On-site registration is free and includes monthly E-News updates.
December 2007 is: Biomolecular Object Network Databank (BOND)
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 and offers a range of component databases including Genbank and BIND, the Biomolecular Interaction Network Database. Users may perform cross-database searches of available sequence, interaction, molecular complex, and pathway information.
There are 4 main search interfaces that provide access to BOND data: Browse, Text Search, Identifier Search, and Advanced Field Specific Search. Searches can be further refined by using powerful data-specific filters available under each of the data tabs. Results are displayed in one of two ways: Summary Record View for multiple search results, and Single Record View when a single search result is returned. Each of these views can be displayed in a variety of ways by using a pull-down list located under the tab line at the top right hand corner of the interface.
November 2007: POGOe
POGOe, a partner site of the Association of American Medical Colleges’ MedEdPORTAL, is an online clearinghouse of geriatric educational products. It provides educational materials to be used or adapted for individual learning environments. POGOe users include practicing physicians, clinician educators and physicians in training. Materials are indexed based on content area or learner type, and range from resources to aid in enhancement of patient assessment to pocket cards, web-based modules and virtual patient cases.
POGOe encourages users to submit educational products of their own, and provides a way for authors to gain feedback from end users about their experience.
Use the search field on the toolbar to perform a basic search. For a more specific search, click on "Advanced Search" where you may search by content area, learner type, and format.
POGOe requires that all users register with the site.
October 2007: MedEdPORTAL
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.
September 2007: MedTerms Medical Dictionary
MedTerms Medical Dictionary from MedicineNet.com, an online, healthcare media publishing company, provides easy-to-understand explanations for over 16,000 classical and contemporary medical terms. The medical staff of MedicineNet updates and modifies entries on an ongoing basis. Terms listed include not only standard medical vocabulary but also pertinent scientific items, abbreviations, acronyms, eponyms, symptoms, institutions, projects, and medical history. Users can search keywords or phrases or use the browsing feature to find terms.
August 2007: RefWorks
RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management software program that is freely available to AECOM faculty, students, staff and residents. Using this program, you can create and organize a personal database and import references from a variety of online sources. You can then insert the references into your papers and articles and easily change the formatting according to styles required by publishers. The software also makes it possible to share your research with colleagues from any computer with Internet access (no sofware required).
RefWorks is accessible from the Library’s homepage by clicking on the Databases link. From there you may sign up for an individual account or log in, if you already have one. The Library offers classes in using RefWorks. The class schedule is available here. In addition, Refworks offers online tutorials through its Help menu.
July 2007: NHLBI: Information for Health Professionals
Created by The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, this site assembles a number of interactive tools and online resources that are useful to health care professionals and educators. The site includes such tools as asthma mortality maps of the United States, BMI calculators, and a array of other health assessment tools, such as menu planners and a ten-year heart attack risk calculator. The site also contains slide shows and downloadable slide sets on asthma, cholesterol, and high blood pressure that can be used by health care educators.
You can select any term or disease/condition that you are interested in from the corresponding term anywhere on the page, or you can use the text search box to search for a string of characters appearing anywhere in any field. The text search strategy guarantees that you receive all variations of a term.
June 2007: Revolution Health
RevolutionHealth.com is a free, comprehensive health and medical information site for consumers. Established by Stephen M. Case, the America Online founder, the site offers health information, treatment advice and more than 125 online tools. It also enables consumers to browse and compare health insurance products, then puts them in touch with trusted brokers. RevolutionHealth.com contains more than 45,000 articles on health and healthy living topics from sources such as Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Harvard Health Publications, StayWell, Rodale, Healthwise and other quality health publishers. Up to date health news and information are provided from Reuters and Health Day, as well as blogs, forum postings and interviews from Revolution Health's expert medical team. Users can subscribe to a "premium membership" (for an annual fee) for additional, individualized help, share their experiences on forums and user blogs, create "circles" of people with shared interests, and read user-generated ratings of products, treatments, drugs, doctors, and hospitals.
Physicians can use the site to share their expertise by creating their own blog and print out easy-to-understand information for their patients to help them understand their condition.
May 2007: Unbound Medicine
Unbound Medicine's knowledge management solutions use handheld and Internet technologies to provide healthcare professionals-from trainees to experienced clinicians-immediate, authoritative, and accurate answers to medical questions, wherever and whenever they are needed. The company's management team includes physicians, information scientists, developers of leading healthcare software, and leaders from successful medical publishers and healthcare information companies.
Some Unbound Medicine resources for PDAs and other handheld devices are freely available through the library's 1-year trial. From the Databases list on the library's home page, users can click on Clinical Evidence or the Merck Manual and register for PDA download.
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