The National Training Center and Clearinghouse (NTCC) has scheduled an additional PubMed class for January 29, 2009 at New York University School of Medicine Frederick L. Ehrman Medical Library, New York, NY. Sign up soon before this class fills up!

PubMed®  (7.5 MLA CE Hours)
Thursday, January 29, 2009
8:30am to 5:00pm

Class description: Anyone who has used PubMed regularly has noticed some of the
many changes. This PubMed® class is of particular interest to those who
want a review of recent changes to the system, including medical
librarians, researchers, medical editors, and anyone who searches for
biomedical journal article citations.
This full-day class is designed to teach students how to use
PubMed® which includes MEDLINE citations. The class also includes an
overview of the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) and its importance as a
tool to both searchers and indexers.

To register for this class, or to find additional classes, register here.

http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/medsun/

provides a representative profile of reports from healthcare facilities, such as hospitals. MedSun improves understanding of medical device problems so FDA, healthcare facilities, clinicians, and manufacturers can better address safety concerns. Over 350 health care facilities, primarily hospitals, participate in the network. MedSun is unique because it educates health care professionals about the importance of monitoring, being aware of, and reporting device related problems to FDA and the manufacturer.

MedSun also ensures that new safety information is rapidly communicated to the medical community thereby promoting patient safety.

The content that FDA produces is not copyrighted. Stories can be reprinted without permission and copies can be downloaded and displayed free of charge. If you are an editor who wishes to use our material in your publication, we ask only that you acknowledge MedSun as the source and send us copies of your stories for our records.

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Questions may be directed to Tina Powell at 1-800-859-1292 or email at:

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Reminder: Applications are due next Monday, December 15 for two awards, Electronic Access/Document Delivery Access to Health Information and Outreach Training. See below for more information.

Electronic Access/Document Delivery Access to Health Information Awards
For Full Network members to encourage and facilitate access to the biomedical literature by unaffiliated health professionals, including the use of Loansome Doc, development of a web portal, and establishment of partnerships between libraries and unaffiliated health professionals or health professions groups. Three awards up to $10,000 each are available. Deadline is December 15, 2008.

More details: http://nnlm.gov/mar/funding/docdelivery.html

Outreach Training Awards
For Full and Affiliate Network members to train and promote awareness of the products and services of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and NN/LM. Two awards up to $10,000 each are available. Deadline is December 15, 2008.

More details: http://nnlm.gov/mar/funding/outreachtraining.html

In late October, the Gretchen and James Johnson Medical Library at the Matheny Medical and Educational Center added two new patron-access computer workstations to its one existing workstation with funds from an NNLM/MAR grant. These workstations are an important new resource for our hospital’s nurses, therapists, teachers, personal care assistants, and other direct care staff who otherwise might not have easy access to computers. The project’s beneficiaries also include many medical students, residents, nursing students, and therapies interns who are trained at our facility. Aside from providing these individuals with greater access to the hospital’s computing network, the workstations have been an excellent “draw” to bring people into the library, prompting them to consider the library’s other resources. Funds were also used to upgrade a scanner used for a Table of Contents delivery service and interlibrary loans. The Matheny Medical and Educational Center is a special school and hospital in Peapack, New Jersey, serving the healthcare and educational needs of children and adults with developmental disabilities.

Jungwon DeVone- Matheny Medical & Educational Center- Medical Library.  Peapack, NJ

A new report out by Institute of Medicine of the National Academies works within the existing standards established by the  Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education which are an 80 hour week and 30 hour limit, but calls for five hour sleep breaks after 16 hours on the job and more days off.The report also recommends more supervision for first years.

Read more with links to the report on ars technica

National Library of Medicine’s Training for You Locally!
NLM Gateway/ClinicalTrials.gov, PubMed®, and TOXNET and Beyond Training in New York City!

The National Training Center and Clearinghouse (NTCC), in conjunction with the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Middle Atlantic Region (NN/LM MAR) and New York University School of Medicine’s Frederick L. Ehrman Medical Library, is offering three FREE hands-on classes at the Frederick L. Ehrman Medical Library in New York City!

The following three classes will be taught by the staff of the NTCC:

The NLM Gateway and ClinicalTrials.gov  (3.5 MLA CE Hours)
Monday, January 26, 2009
1:00pm to 4:30pm

The NLM Gateway and ClinicalTrials.gov class is of particular
interest to public, consumer health, and medical librarians and all
health information consumers.
The NLM Gateway allows users of NLM services to initiate
searches from one Web interface, providing “one-stop searching” for many
of NLM’s information resources or databases, including: PubMed®,
MedlinePLUS, TOXNET®, Meeting Abstracts, and many more.

PubMed®  (7.5 MLA CE Hours)
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
8:30am to 5:00pm

Anyone who has used PubMed regularly has noticed some of the
many changes. This PubMed® class is of particular interest to those who
want a review of recent changes to the system, including medical
librarians, researchers, medical editors, and anyone who searches for
biomedical journal article citations.
This full-day class is designed to teach students how to use
PubMed® which includes MEDLINE citations. The class also includes an
overview of the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) and its importance as a
tool to both searchers and indexers.

TOXNET® and Beyond (6 MLA CE Hours)
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
9:00am to 4:00pm
This full-day class is designed to convey the basics of
searching NLM’s TOXNET®, a Web-based system of databases in the areas of
toxicology, environmental health, and related subjects. Students learn
the content and structure of files covering toxicology data, toxicology
literature, toxic releases, and chemical searching and nomenclature.
Among the databases highlighted will be TOXLINE®, the Hazardous
Substances Data Bank, the Integrated Risk Information System, the Toxic
Release Inventory, and ChemIDplus.
All the training sessions are FREE and intended for health sciences
library staff, public librarians, health professionals, and anyone
interested in using these free National Library of Medicine (NLM)
databases.

To REGISTER for any or all of these classes, or to look for other class
locations, simply click this registration form link.

If you are not in the New York City area, consider registering for the
PubMed or the NLM Gateway/ClinicalTrials.gov class in Philadelphia at
Thomas Jefferson University in April of 2009! NLM
Gateway/ClinicalTrials.gov will be offered on Monday April 13, 2009 at
1:00pm, and two days of PubMed will be offered on Tuesday April 14, 2009
and Wednesday April 15, 2009, both from 8:30am-5:00pm.

We hope to see you there.