100% of psych residents also passed the boards.
Psych director is overjoyed.
Called me personally to thank me for purchasing Beat the Boards.
(Only sold to individuals, so we purchased for each of the fellows.)
#medlibs
#FOAMed
#MedEd
Interesting discussion about individual subscriptions and librarianship over on X
It’s a reasonably civil discussion about the ethics of librarianship between me and @noethematt.bsky.social
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My response to a librarian who wrote into medlibs listserv about buying resources from Oncology Nursing Society for her institution when only a few nurses would actually use them.
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Interesting conversation with @noethematt.bsky.social on X.
In my opinion, a defensive strategy towards technology has never worked.
Best to find a way to differentiate yourself somehow.
Maybe through buying individual subscriptions?
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All internal medicine residents passed their boards this year!
Thanks to us getting individual subscriptions to mksap and uworld.
(And a great program director)
#medlibs #meded
I was in this exact spot — eventually, I just started telling them to come to me if they needed a search.
It was one of the best decisions I’ve made.
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A dramatic and true medical fable. Also posted on medlib listserv
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I suggest medlib-l for job postings. It’s the listserv run by MLA.
And / or metro.org job postings. It’s my-centered, but I’ve seen ads for other places for sure.
#medlibs
I keep thinking of Dr. Semmelweiss, a doctor in the 1850s who discovered that doctors who didn’t wash their hands were inadvertently killing new moms.
Doctors were offended because they thought germs came from the air.
Librarians can be champions of free thinkers.
#medlibs
Great research and article from @andyhickner.bsky.social. Worth your time to read. #medlibs
Wang, S., Scells, H., Koopman, B., & Zuccon, G. (2023). Can ChatGPT write a good boolean query for systematic review literature search?. arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.03495. #medlibs #SystematicReviews #ExpertSearching
I find there’s an unusual amount of freedom in medical library jobs because the people in the administration are not too sure what you can and can’t do.
Opportunity to be “fresh eyes,” someone who is not familiar with the topic at hand and can offer an outsiders’ point of view.
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Question about automated systems to track CME credits …
Posted to medlibs listserv
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Oh, can you share with me too?
This is an image of an email I wrote into medlibs listserv, about having fruit delivered to the library for employees to take.
I wrote about another simple wellness idea for #medlibs listserv!
Interesting. Do you teach them skills so they are independent searchers? Or do they keep coming back to you for at least a bit of coaching on each search?
Are you thinking like Visualdx? Google images — if you pay attention to source, of course.
I don’t know — it’s different for different people I think. Some feel they already know how to search. Some think they can use POC tools. Many don’t have time to devote because patient care is so extensive. Just easier for them to come to me with topics.
FREE webinar from the U-M Taubman Library! Nov 9: Behind the scenes of "Research Reproducibility Activities in Health Sciences Libraries" w/ Sara Samuel (@gracefulhope) and Mark MacEachern. Find out more: guides.lib.umich.edu/TaubmanTalks...
#medlibs #datalibs #reproducibility
I’m a (kind of solo) hospital librarian and after years of a weird type of shame, I gave up on teaching people how to search & just told them to come to me with questions.
Anyone else in the same boat?
#medlibs
Since I originally posted this when this site was pretty quiet (for #medlibs, at least), I'm posting again. The next (free) Taubman Library Talk has been announced!
I have a job that doesn’t really have requirements. I’ve sort of made it my own. It’s not as good as it sounds sometimes.
I sometimes wonder if everything should just be added online as soon as possible and everyone just have at it — just open it up to comments and suggestions and critique.
I like to show [ti] to limit articles that just have those terms in the title.
And also that you can find articles in Google and copy and paste and use Similar Articles and Cited By to find other articles like that.
I think bluesky is a great opportunity for #medlibs. Feels good to get in on the ground floor and there’s real conversation going on here!
How I make free, homemade reusable notebooks —
#medlibs #reusable
Join the next MLA Be Well Webinar! "It's Not Easy Being Green: Preparing Plants for Changing Seasons" Oct 11, 2023 02:00 PM (eastern) #medlibs us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Hey! I like plants too!
More of the indoor variety, I guess.
We purchase emrap subscriptions for emergency medicine physicians
