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PILOTS Database added to the web site

Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008, 12:19 pm by Theresa Norton

PILOTS is an abbreviation for Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress. The PILOTS database is produced by the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs web site, "The goal of the PILOTS database is to include citations to all literature on PTSD and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage."

Subject Coverage

* post-traumatic stress disorder or acute stress disorder (with or without reference to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
* the assessment, description, prevention, or treatment of any psychiatric disorder, especially dissociative identity disorder (formerly called multiple personality disorder), other dissociative disorders, or borderline personality disorder, associated etiologically or epidemiologically with exposure to a traumatic event, or to an event experienced as traumatic by the population under discussion
* the preparation or provision of mental health services to a traumatized population or a population at risk of experiencing traumatic events
* issues of professional ethics, scientific methodology, or public policy relating to traumatized populations.

Dates of Coverage
1871-current

Update Frequency
Monthly.

Medical School for the Public 2008

Posted Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 10:22 am by Theresa Norton

The library has compiled a list of high-quality electronic resources for the 2008 Medical School for the Public, "Drugs and Bugs: Medical Education from Lab to Community". Classes are being held on Tuesday evenings in April from 6:30 - 8:00 pm. and are available both in person and on-line. The web sites provided by the library are intended as sources of further information on the topics covered in the classes. Additional sites will be added as the class progresses.

InfoPOEMS with InfoRetriever now Essential Evidence Plus

Posted Friday, February 1, 2008, 11:25 am by Theresa Norton

InfoPOEMS with InfoRetriever is now available under a new name, Essential Evidence Plus. Essential Evidence Plus will continue to feature InfoPOEMS, the daily content alerting service and the search application formerly known as InfoRetriever. It will also incorporate two new resources - EBM Guidelines and e-Essential Evidence. EBM Guidelines includes a collection of more than 950 Practice Guidelines, more than 3,000 Evidence Summaries, and more than 1,000 images. E-Essential Evidence will be added during the first quarter of 2008. It is a general medical reference with content integrated and hyperlinked to all of the resources in Essential Evidence Plus, including InfoPOEMS summaries and The Cochrane Database of Systematic Review Abstracts.

Medical School for the Public 2007

Posted Friday, March 16, 2007, 9:34 am by Theresa Norton

The library has compiled a list of high-quality electronic resources for Women's Health through the Lifespan, being held on Tuesday evenings from March 20 through April 24 in the Clinical Education Center. These web sites are intended as sources of further information on women's health. Additional sites will be added as the class progresses.

Changes to ILLiad Interlibrary Loan

Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2007, 1:26 pm by Theresa Norton

ILLiad Interlibrary Loan for the Library of the Health Sciences has a new look. The web pages for the Interlibrary Loan service have been redesigned as part of a recent software update. Menu items are now located on the left side of the ILLiad web pages. This change will not affect any outstanding Interlibrary Loan requests or any of your existing full text articles. If you have questions about the redesigned web pages, please contact Webmaster. Other Interlibrary Loan questions should still be directed to the ILL Office.

Full text linking service now available

Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2007, 3:34 pm by Theresa Norton

The Library of the Health Sciences, in conjunction with the other campus libraries, has added a new electronic linking service to help you find full text articles. The new service is called SFX and provides a link from a database citation or bibliographic reference to the full text of the article (if available).

SFX links appear in many of the library's databases as a SFX

button. In other databases it may appear simply as text with the words "Find It" or "Find It@UND". SFX also provides a link to check ODIN, the library's online catalog, for a print version of the journal. If a resource is not available in full text online, you will have an option to request the item through ILLiad, the library's interlibrary loan system. SFX will automatically fill in the necessary citation information on the ILLiad Interlibrary Loan form for you. The ILLiad link will not appear if full text is available online.

The SFX linking service may be used by all University of North Dakota students, staff, residents and faculty (including clinical/community faculty) both on and off campus. You will, however, need to log in to the library's web site using a medicine.nodak.edu e-mail account, a U-Mail account, or remote access account to use the service from off campus. To log in to the library's web site, simply use your full e-mail address as your user name and your e-mail or remote access password as your login password.

More information about SFX is available in the library's FAQ. Please contact the Library of the Health Sciences for help with SFX by calling 701-777-3994 during normal business hours, or by sending an email message to Webmaster or Reference.

InfoPOEMs Registration Instructions

Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006, 1:25 pm by Theresa Norton

For step-by-step directions to register InfoPOEMs refer to the InfoPOEMs Registration Instructions.

EXAM MASTER ONLINE

Posted Wednesday, February 8, 2006, 9:16 am by Theresa Norton

The Library of the Health Sciences has arranged for a trial for *EXAM MASTER ONLINE* through March 15, 2006. EXAM MASTER is a newly updated *USMLE* and board preparation and review tool that provides access to thousands of basic and clinical sciences questions. The completely revised interface allows for quick and easy navigation, and provides students with the ability to create very customized practice exams and study blocks.

In November 2005, EXAM MASTER completely revised the testing interface to closely match what is *actually used on the USMLE exam*. This new test mode interface has excellent navigational tools, and includes other features found on the exam, including the ability to attach notes to each question. This system is in use at over *60 academic health centers and teaching hospitals* not only as a way to prepare for the USMLE, but, more than ever, EXAM MASTER has become an important *curriculum support tool* that students rely on to help them with their course work and in assessing their knowledge base. It assists in identifying and improving areas of weaknesses using detailed score reporting that helps the student target their studies and identify those strong _and_ weak areas.

First time users are required to register with the system and then use a username and password to access the main menu. The username and password are required because the system maintains personal information and examination and study history for each user.

To get started you simply *Click to Start*.

Then, for those who have not registered they click on *Not Registered Yet*.
A password is immediately sent by email. The user can change this password at any time.

Registered users simply provide their username and password to access the system.

Once at the Main Menu, users can select *Create Exams* and use the on-screen help to get started.

A quick guide is available to help you get started.

Please send comments regarding EXAM MASTER and this trial to Judy Rieke.

MDConsult/First Consult is now available campus-wide!

Posted Thursday, November 3, 2005, 10:27 am by Theresa Norton

MD Consult/First Consult is a suite of electronic information resources including books, journal articles, and patient information that meets the clinical content needs of physicians and other health care professionals. The Harley E. French Library of the Health Sciences is able to offer MDConsult/First Consult to the entire University of North Dakota campus thanks to the generous support of the Dr. Karl Christian Wold Endowment for the library.

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