Resources for Cardiology/Clinical Path course

The Media Library in Piscataway has a number of resources that students can use for the study of cardiology in the Clinical Pathophysiology course. Many of these provide auditory heart sounds, graphics and animation:
Heart Sounds: Basic Cardiac Auscultation- CD ROM accompanies Bates Guide to Physical Examination (8th ed.)

Clinical Cardiology Made Ridiculously Simple: Heart Sounds and Images (book and CD)

**Listening for the Sounds of Heart Failure: Recognizing Basic Murmurs (vol.1, no.1) CD
**Recognizing Extra Heart Sounds (vol. 1, no. 2) CD
(these are designed to increase and sharpen your cardiac auscultation skills by the use of auditory recognition exercises)

Wilkins Fundamentals of Lung and Heart Sounds with CD-ROM (booklet and CD)

Interactive Electrocardiography ECG-CD based on Stephen Scheidt's book--uses illustrations, animation and graphics; has patient tracings and practice tests.
In addition to textbooks (The Only EKG Book You'll Ever Need and Rapid Interpretation of EKGs), we have copies of a booklet of sample EKGs that can be borrowed overnight.

These 2 websites might also be of interest:
http://www.depts.washington.edu/~physdx click on heart sounds and murmurs
http://openheartsurgery.com/heart_sounds.html (underscore is before the word sounds)

Annual Meeting/Medical History Society of NJ

The Medical History Society of New Jersey will hold their annual Fall meeting on Wednesday, October 15 at the Nassau Club of Princeton (6 Mercer Street) beginning at 4 PM. Cost for students, residents and interns is $20.00 which includes one cocktail/wine and dinner. This will include four short lectures on medical history topics along with the 6th UMDNJ Foundation lecture by Margaret Humphreys entitled "The South's Secret Weapon: Disease, Environment and the Civil War." For more information, see the Media Library's bulletin board outside the library.

RSS Archive Feeds of Audio Lectures

In order to speed the posting process for RSS feeds for audio lectures (MyUMDNJ portal), archive topic files were created for both first and second year audio lectures. Each semester the older lectures will be moved into the archive files which will be available as well as the current lectures. The feed URLs for the current topics remain the same.
The feed URLs of the archive topics are listed below, in case you want to link them to your favorite web news aggregator:

First Year Archived Lectures: http://webservices.umdnj.edu/xrss/xml/rwjm/rwjm_362.xml
Second Year Archived Lectures: http://webservices.umdnj.edu/xrss/xml/rwjm/rwjm_363.xml

Archived audio lectures from 07/08 are also available from iTunesUniversity website.

Free Clinical Support Tool

DiagnosisPro, a diagnosis and clinical decision tool is now available online for free to all medical professionals, students, nurses and PAs. This easy to use clinical database is published by MedTech USA and is edited and authored by a Board certified internist. Just visit www.diagnosispro.com or search DiagnosisPro on Google with or without a query term. The program includes links to other databases such as PubMed or eMedicine.

Medical Spanish Resources

If you are taking the Medical Spanish elective you can now borrow McGraw-Hill's Spanish for Healthcare Professionals package which includes a textbook (Complete Medical Spanish), a test booklet and 3 75 minute audio CDs. You can use it in the library or take it home overnight.
In addition to the new resource, we have several other manuals/textbooks that were used in earlier Medical Spanish elective classes, a booklet/ audio cassette, and a Spanish/English dictionary.
These materials are on the open shelving area across from the check out desk.