The Savitt librarians will be offering webinars this spring covering a variety of our resources. Each webinar is only 30 minutes and will highlight key searching tips. Below is a list of topics with dates and times and links to the Zoom meetings.
In this session information on how to browse and search books, how to use the infographics, multimedia, and quick reference options, and how to set up individual accounts to bookmark specific content. Additionally, the other products in this suite of resources will be briefly reviewed: AccessNeurology, AccessOb/Gyn, AccessPediatrics, and AccessSurgery.
Dates:
Zoom link: AccessMedicine Webinar
Presenter: Mary Shultz
Join us for an overview of essential information resources and services available to UNR MED residents.
Dates:
Zoom link: Library Resources Webinar
Meeting ID: 873 8503 2004 Passcode: 586745
Presenter: Alexander Lyubechansky
BoardVitals supports physicians preparing for licensing exams and maintenance of certification (MOC) requirements. It covers multiple specialty areas, providing practice exams in test mode, tutor mode and study/open book mode. It provides a dashboard where you can track your progress.
Dates
Zoom link: BoardVitals Webinar
Presenter: Mary Shultz
This is an online collection of cases from the Case Files books series. The online system provides an interactive approach to addressing case questions. This system is helpful to faculty looking to include clinical cases into their instruction and assignments. In this session, you will learn how to access, set up an account, and login to Case Files. The interactive features will be covered as well as the MyCase Files option.
Dates:
Zoom link: Case Files Collection Webinar
Presenter: Mary Shultz
Join us for a brief review of two important clinical drug information resources: Lexicomp and The Medical Letter.
Lexicomp is a collection of clinical databases and clinical decision support tools providing access to clinical drug resources including: calculators, identifiers, interaction and overdose assessments, and patient education resources.
The Medical Letter provides independent, objective, practical, and timely information on drugs and treatments of common diseases to help readers make the best decisions for their patients—without the influence of the pharmaceutical industry.
Dates:
Zoom link: Lexicomp and Medical Letter Webinar
Meeting ID: 867 1979 1812 Passcode: 907405
Presenter: Alexander Lyubechansky
This 30-minute webinar provides an orientation to the Libraries’ subscription-based video resources. The session provides an overview of where and how to access, search, and utilize video content. We will look at several streaming platforms, such as Films on Demand and Proquest’s Alexander Street. Join me to learn more about this dynamic resource, off-campus access, and how to use videos within your WebCampus Courses.
Dates:
Zoom link: Discover Online Resources Webinar Meeting ID: 897 3658 3115 / Passcode: 942495 Presenter: Lara Katrina Schott
Join us for a thirty-minute review of Embase, a biomedical database focusing on clinical medicine, drugs and pharmacology, and basic sciences relevant to clinical medicine. Embase provides access to bibliographic citations for more than 8,500 biomedical journal articles from over 95 countries. Embase also contains over 3.6 million conference abstracts indexed from more than 11,000 conferences and full-text indexing of drug, disease, and medical device data. Embase allows you to build searches using the PICO framework suitable for systematic reviews or to quickly identify all synonyms for a subject for comprehensive retrieval of all related content.
Dates:
Zoom link: Embase Webinar
Meeting ID: 880 7986 0237 Passcode: 684436
Presenter: Alexander Lyubechansky
EndNote is a bibliographic management tool that allows you to establish your own account, im-port citations from a variety of databases, and organize those citations into different groups. It also links to Microsoft Word where you can insert citations from EndNote and create bibliog-raphies in a variety of styles such as AMA or APA. Join us to learn the major features and functions of EndNote including importing citations from PubMed and CINAHL, using EndNote from within Microsoft Word to automatically format bibli-ographies and in-text citations.
Dates:
Zoom link: EndNote Webinar
Presenter: Michelle Rachal
Mendeley is a free, full-featured citation management tool that helps you easily collect and save PDF files to organize and manage your references. It integrates with your word processor to automatically generate citations within your manuscript and create bibliographies in virtually any formatting style. This webinar will introduce the features and operation of Mendeley as well as compare its strengths and weakness with respect to similar programs.
Dates:
Zoom link: Mendeley Webinar
Presenter: Terry Henner
PubMed is a database produced by the National Library Medicine, that indexes articles from over 5,000 biomedical journals. This is an essential database for searching journal literature in the health sciences.
Join us to review basic searching, and learn how to apply limits by language, date, age, study design, etc. We will also review managing results, using the clipboard, and establishing search alerts.
Dates:
Zoom link: PubMed Intro Webinar
Presenter: Michelle Rachal
VisualDx is a diagnostic clinical decision support system designed to enhance diagnostic accuracy, aid therapeutic decisions, and improve patient safety. Features include:
-World’s best curated medical image library
-Leading skin of color atlas
-Smart search for chief complaints, diagnoses, and drug reactions
-Custom patient-specific differential diagnosis builder
Dates
Zoom link: VisualDx Webinar
Meeting ID: 823 9076 9375
Passcode: 268207
Presenter: Alexander Lyubechansky
MARCH
Friday, March 24, 8 am, EndNote
Monday, March 27, 10 am, PubMed Intro
Monday, March 27, 4 pm, EndNote
Tuesday, March 28, 8:30 am, Lexicomp & Medical Letter
Tuesday, March 28, Noon, EndNote
Tuesday, March 28, 4:30 pm, PubMed Intro
Wednesday, March 29, 8:30 am - Lexicomp & Medical Letter
Wednesday, March 29, Noon, PubMed Intro
Wednesday, March 29, 4 pm, PubMed Proximity Searching
Thursday, March 30, 8:30 am - Lexicomp & Medical Letter
Thursday, March 30, 1 pm, PubMed Proximity Searching
Friday, March 31, 8:30 am, PubMed Proximity Searching
WEEK OF APRIL 3
Monday, April 3, Noon, Embase
Tuesday, April 4, Noon, Embase
Wednesday, April 5, Noon, Embase
Wednesday, April 5, 4 pm, CINAHL
Thursday, April 6, 10 am, Open Access & Predatory Publishing
Thursday, April 6, 2 pm, Open Access & Predatory Publishing
WEEK OF APRIL 10
Monday, April 10, 1:30 pm, CINAHL
Tuesday, April 11, 11:30 am, DynaMed with Isabel
Wednesday, April 12, 11:30 am, DynaMed with Isabel
Wednesday, April 12, 10 am, Mendeley
Thursday, April 13, 11:30 am, DynaMed with Isabel
WEEK OF APRIL 17
Tuesday, April 18, 8 am, BoardVitals
Tuesday, April 18, Noon, ClinicalKey
Tuesday, April 18, 3:00 pm, VisualDx
Wednesday, April 19, 10 am, ClinicalKey
Wednesday, April 19, 3:00 pm, VisualDx
Wednesday, April 19, 4:30 pm, BoardVitals
Thursday, April 20, 1 pm, BoardVitals
Thursday, April 20, 3:00 pm. VisualDx
Thursday, April 20th, 4 pm, ClinicalKey
WEEK OF APRIL 24
Tuesday, April 25, 10 am CINAHL
Tuesday, April 25, 11 am, Mendeley
