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PubMed Change: Filters Sidebar

PubMed has made what for many of us veteran searchers is a big change. They have eliminated the limits page and replaced it with a sidebar called filters. Just click on a filter to apply it to your search. But remember, a filter will remain activated until you clear it. Here's a link to a short introductory video.

Memorial Day Hours

The Library will be open this weekend but with reduced hours on Monday. We'll be open our regular 9am-7:50pm on Saturday and 10am-1:50am on Sunday, then reduced hours of 8am-7:50pm on Monday. Check out the library hours here.

JoVE has a new interface

A popular new resource, JoVE or the Journal of Visualized Experiments, recently got a new look.  JoVE is an indexed academic journal publishing in video format rather than in print, and is particularly well known from the protocol videos.  JoVE content available through the Levy Library includes Neuroscience, Immunology & Infection, Clinical and Translational Medicine, and Bioengineering. 

For access to the videos, go to the Levy Library E-Journals page and search for JoVE, or go to PubMed through the Levy Library homepage for links to full text and videos. 

Commencement: Endings and Beginnings

This week Mount Sinai School of Medicine holds its 43rd commencement ceremony. Think about it: we use the word commencement - which can mean the beginning of something - to mark the end of our academic training.   So, let's look back 40 years to the beginning of the School and the first time Mount Sinai graduated a group that had spent all four years of their training here. 

When the School first opened in 1968, the administration was honored to be able to recruit both a first year and a third year class. This was in recognition of the many years Mount Sinai faculty had spent teaching the medical students from other schools.  Thus the first commencement ceremony was held in 1970, two years after opening, and marked a milestone for the young school.

 

 

Happy parents after the 1972 commencement ceremony; the Class of 1972 reciting the Hippocratic Oath. [Click on the photo to see a larger image]
    


The 1972 graduation of the first ever first year class was also eagerly anticipated.  The students, faculty, and families gathered at the Hunter College Assembly Hall on June 4th. There were 47 students graduating. (Last year Mount Sinai awarded 249 Masters, Ph.D. and MD degrees.)  The ceremony was led by Hans Popper, MD, Ph.D., the Acting Dean and President who had stepped in when Dean George James had died suddenly in March 1972. Gustave L. Levy, the Chairman of the Boards of Trustees, spoke and also awarded the diplomas.  The commencement address was delivered by Thomas S. Szasz, MD, a well known psychiatrist who discussed the ethics involved in medicine and being a physician.  Jeffrey S. Flier spoke as the Student Representative. (Dr. Flier is today the Dean of Harvard's Medical Faculty.)  It was a momentous occasion for all involved and remains a powerful memory for those who were there.

In many ways, the 1972 commencement marked the end of the beginning for the young medical school, just as all commencements represent an ending and a new beginning for the students themselves. Congratulations to the Mount Sinai School of Medicine Class of 2012!

USMLE Study Resources

Step 1 Study season is here and we'd like to remind everyone that the Library provides access to many USMLE Review Resources for Steps 1, 2, and 3, including popular question banks like ExamMaster and USMLEasy, high-yield study ebooks from ebrary and Stat!Ref that can be used on your mobile device, and, of course, print books that are still available in the library. Check out our full USMLE resources guide for more information.

New BMJ Resources at the Levy Library

The Levy Library is pleased to announce access to two new resources from BMJ: BMJ Learning and BMJ Case Reports.

BMJ Learning offers CME/CPD modules through text, video and audio modules. This database will provide recommendations based on your information provided at registration and remember which modules have been completed.

BMJ Case Reports Case Reports is a journal that contains thousands of peer-reviewed cases in many disciplines for reference.  The Mount Sinai subscription also covers fees for submitting cases o be published in this journal.  

These resources are both available by going to the Levy Library databases page and searching for BMJ. 

A Golden Anniversary for Patient Wrist Bands

    The hospital patient ID wrist band is one of those things that everyone recognizes. Show up at any event with one of these on and people immediately know that you have been to the hospital. (And if you are still wearing it out in public, you probably want to share the whole story!)   Although they have certainly evolved and become more high tech over the years, they remain a clearly identifiable object in our society.  But they have not always been a part of hospital life.

    The Mount Sinai Hospital began using the wrist identification on April 2, 1962 - 50 years ago this month. It was such an important change in policy that the Hospital newsletter contained a small blurb about it on the front page: 

Patient ID Bands

Since April 2, all patients admitted to the Hospital are given an identification band, which lists the patient's full name and unit number in the Hospital.  It is put on the patient's right wrist at admission, and assures the proper identication for such procedures as diagnosis, treatments, transportation and transfer.

So, happy birthday to all those plastic bands. Who would have ever guessed that 50 years later they would still be going strong?

New Psychology Databases at the Levy Library

The Levy Library recently added two important resources in the fields of psychology and psychiatry: PsycTESTS and PsycTHERAPY. 

PsycTESTS is a research database that provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive information about the test and its development and administration. The content is primarily unpublished tests, but also includes links to buy commercially available instruments.

PsycTHERAPY is a database of actual videotaped therapy sessions, complete with full, searchable transcripts.  A very unique resource, this database includes individual, couple and family therapy sessions on more than 200 topics. 

Both of these databases can be access through the Levy Library databases page, by searching in the top bar.  Or, browse through our Social and Behavioral Sciences databases to see what other resources are available.

Handbook of Porphyrin Science

The Levy Library has licensed a highly regarded set of ebooks entitled "Handbook of Porphyrin Science: with applications to Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science, Engineering, Biology and Medicine". Edited by leaders in the fields of porphrin research: Karl M Kadish, Kevin M. Smith, and Roger Guilard, the series of volumes aims to "deal in detail with the synthesis, chemistry, physicochemical and medical properties and applications of polypyrrole macrocycles."

Access the Handbook of Porphyrin Science directly here: Volumes 1-5, Volumes 6-10, and Volumes 11-15, and from the Levy Library's Ebooks search page: http://librarycf.mssm.edu/levy/ebooks/

Spring Cleaning for Authors

Citation databases create author profiles where all of that author’s citations are collected. This lets authors see all their works in one place for CV updates and metrics calculations. However, due to changes in affiliation, name format and many other reasons, there are frequently more than one profile for the same author. This is your chance to fix problems like:

• Which name variations should be grouped together in your profile?  Which spelling variation should be used as the primary name under which all documents are listed?
• Are all the articles listed as yours by you?  Are all of your articles listed?

You can help clean up these records and make sure that all of your articles are credited to you under one profile. It’s a good idea to suggest changes to your profile now. That way when it’s time to find every article you’ve published or check your h factor, you’re ready to go.

And, you can do it right from the databases…

Here are instructions for cleaning up author records in Scopus:

1. In Scopus, click on the author search tab and search for yourself.

2. Identify your records. Place a checkmark next to each one. Then click on Request to merge authors.

3. Ensure these are the records you’d like to merge. Then click Start.

4. Select the name you would like to use as the primary name under which all documents will be listed. Then click next.

5. Review the documents listed. If you need to edit the list, click on Edit Documents.

6. Click on the red buttons to exclude articles or the green buttons to include articles. When you're finished click next.

7. Fill in your contact details and any information that may assist the Scopus folks in verifying your submission. Click Submit.

Voila! You’re finished. Pat yourself on the back. It takes about 6-8 weeks for changes to appear in the database.