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.

Viewing RSS feeds from news aggregator

You can view the audio lecture feeds and/or the Media Library News feed on your own news aggregator (e.g. MyYahoo or iGoogle)---here's how:
Choose any or all of the topics you wish to subscribe to and copy the link into the aggregator

First Year Audio Lectures: http://my.umdnj.edu/cp/xrss/sdr/portal/xml/umdnj/rwjm/rwjm_334.xml

Second Year Audio Lectures: http://my.umdnj.edu/cp/xrss/sdr/portal/xml/umdnj/rwjm/rwjm_335.xml

Media Library News:
http://my.umdnj.edu/cp/xrss/sdr/portal/xml/umdnj/rwjm/rwjm_336.xml

My presentation in Wales this summer

In July I visited Cardiff, Wales to present
"Digital Audio Lectures: Securing the Library's Future" at the Health Libraries Group Conference sponsored by CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) The conference was held in the City Hall, an elegant Edwardian marble structure built in 1905 where chandeliers and paintings decorated the rooms!
It was a privilege to represent the medical school and our library, and I enjoyed meeting and talking with medical librarians from the UK and from other countries as well. They were perfect hosts and although I was there only a short time, I enjoyed visiting the famous castle, the Bay area and 100 acres of historically preserved buildings that recreated Welsh life in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
The highlight of the trip was a tour of the famous Millenium Stadium (Cardiff is a big sports town!) and a lovely dinner of roast lamb (apparently a Welsh specialty)
Although I paid for the entire trip myself and I was without my luggage for almost 2 days, it was a valuable opportunity to share my expertise with international colleagues and learn from them.