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Systematic Reviews: not just for the health sciences

What is a systematic review? Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (Oxford University) defines it as “the application of strategies that limit bias in the assembly, critical appraisal, and synthesis of all relevant studies on a specific topic. Systematic reviews focus on peer-reviewed publications about a specific health problem and use rigorous, standardized methods for selecting and assessing articles.”  But that’s just it… systematic reviews need not only be health related.   There are basically 5 steps in the process: identify all...

Symptom Media: new mental health streaming video library

UDM has purchased a new online library of mental health training videos: Symptom Media. This collection of 50 mental health videos is designed to assist health care providers with symptom recognition.  Videos range between 30 seconds up to 15 minutes long and include DSM 5 and ICD Guided Film Collections as well as Assessment Tools. The videos consist of patient interactions that offer samples of what a particular mental health diagnosis looks like. The following are sample video titles from the collection:...

Nursing Streaming Video Database – MedCom/Trainex

MedCom/Trainex is a resource for streaming videos for nursing. There are over 250 videos to choose from in a variety of subject areas: airway management, anatomy and physiology, gerontology, infection control, and much more. This resource also contains “extra” content: course overviews post tests learning activities suggested readings You must create an account and set up a password, then log in to your account whenever you want to watch a video. Access to the MedCom/Trainex streaming video database can be...

Check out a cool new resource: Anatomy.TV

The UDM Library has a cool new resource: Anatomy.TV. Anatomy TV is an online model of the human body.  Derived from real human data, Anatomy.tv provides over 5,000 interactive 3D anatomical structures, clinical slides, dissections, animations and much more. To supplement the core three-dimensional anatomy data, are clinical videos and text written by some of the world’s leading medical specialists. Finally, the quiz section lets you test your knowledge of anatomy. The database is divided into sections: Regional Anatomy Surgery...