Medscape - WebMD's Free iPhone App

Use Medscape from WebMD's FREE iPhone App to:

Look up DRUG INFORMATION for over 6,000 generics and brands; plus, information on over-the-counter medications, herbals, and supplements,

Adult dosing, pediatric dosing, adverse effects, cautions, brand/cost information, and more,

Check for DRUG INTERACTIONS for up to 30 drugs, herbals, or supplements at once,

Access DIRECTORY LISTINGS for over 450,000 physicians, pharmacies and hospitals,

Listings include directions and a map,

Read the latest medical news in 30 specialty areas to keep up-to-date.

Learn more...

Arkansas Go Local

Arkansas Go Local collects information on health services from all 75 counties in Arkansas. It includes information on organizations, agencies, or groups that provide social, educational, health and human services. Examples include state and local health departments, medical centers and clinics, nursing homes, pharmacies, health care equipment providers, libraries, local voluntary health agency chapters, and support groups by location or type of service. Search the database by location or type of service. Find out more...

Friday@Noon: What's New in Wimba Classroom 6.0?

Friday, October 2, 2009
Noon - 1pm
COPH G230

Presented by Keith Freeman, Office of Educational Development

Many instructors consider live, personal interaction to be the most valuable element of teaching and learning. Wimba Classroom allows educators and students to build relationships by combining interactive technologies with instructional best practices.

Educators and students can engage in verbal and nonverbal communication to increase psychological closeness among learners. Designed exclusively for education, Wimba Classroom focuses attention on the content and speaker, not on the technology.

This session will cover:
--Do More with your MP4 – Easily create and distribute MP4 files to an iPhone, Blackboard, YouTube or even Facebook so students can access content anytime, anyplace.
--Lecture Capture – Capturing classroom activity and making it available for review and reuse strengthens student comprehension. Record the audio, video, chat, whiteboard or simply capture the traditional offline lecture environment.

Brought to you by the Teaching with Technology Committee

ADH Flu Clinic Sites Throughout Arkansas

Just in from the Arkansas Department of Health.
This information might be useful for students and their families.

Seasonal Mass Flu Clinic Sites - PDF (added 09.24.09)
If you do not find the date, location or time for the mass clinic in your county, please keep checking this site. Information will be updated as details become available.

School Clinic Sites - PDF (added 09.24.09)

For more information on flu, call the ADH hotline at 1-800-651-3493

EBM Flu Information

Due to the global outbreak of Pandemic H1N1 Influenza and concerns about the 2009/2010 flu season, EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and our medical and nursing editors, for such resources as DynaMed™, Nursing Reference Center™ and Patient Education Reference Center™, have made the pertinent influenza information from these resources available for free to health care providers worldwide. This site includes more than 50 evidence-based topics including patient education information in 17 languages. It has sections for Clinicians, Nurses and Patients.

http://www.ebscohost.com/flu/

Finding and Evaluating Health Information

Have you ever been curious how medical librarians find and evaluate health information? The Medical Library Association has "A User's Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the Web."

Here is an excerpt...

Introduction

Millions of Americans search for health information on the web every year. Whether the health information is needed for personal reasons or for a loved one, millions of health-related web pages are viewed by millions of consumers. Sometimes the information found is just what was needed. Other searches end in frustration or retrieval of inaccurate, even dangerous, information.

This guide outlines the collective wisdom of medical librarians who surf the web every day to discover quality information in support of clinical and scientific decision making by doctors, scientists, and other health practitioners responsible for the nation's health. This guide is supported by the Medical Library Association (MLA), the library organization whose primary purpose is promoting quality information for improved health and whose members were the first to realize that not all health information on the web is credible, timely, or safe.

The guide is presented in three brief sections. The first section, "Getting Started," provides tips on filtering the millions of health-related web pages through the health subsets of major search engines and using quality electronic finding tools developed by the U.S. government to do an initial screen of websites for further examination. This section is followed by a set of guidelines developed for evaluating the content of health-related websites. The final section provides additional information of interest to consumers searching for health-related information on the web.

Instructional Resources for Freshman Medical Students
Looking for help with Gross Anatomy, Histology, or Biochemistry? The Learning Resource Center is the place to go! Check out these resources available in the LRC
http://www.library.uams.edu/lrc/#R