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Rachel (at Women’s Health News) wrote yesterday about her week-long course in biomedical informatics in a post wonderfully titiled “Dispatches from Nerd Camp.” She writes:
…our PubMed instructor declared, “I’m over the whole MeSH thing,” in the context of explaining that she thinks it’s completely unnecessary to know about and too hard to use.
[snip]
The […]

Slides from this morning’s keynote at CHLA 2007 by Greg Notess (of Search Engine Showdown) are embedded at the bottom of this post.
From the conference blog:
Greg’s talk will examine the rise of Web 2.0. Communication and community are again being promoted on the Web. New search tools, unique databases, and novel approaches appear and add […]

According to the Press Release from Sermo:
The American Medical Association (AMA) and Sermo today announced a collaborative agreement to empower physicians by making their collective voice heard in a way never before possible. By teaming with Sermo, the AMA will be able to address important professional and public health issues in a multi-phase, multi-year […]

The April 2007 issue of Against the Grain has an article worth reading for anyone who does collection development for a medical library:
Rx: eBooks — A Comparison of Functionality of Four Medical eBook Collections
by Annis Lee Adams (E-Resources/Information Services Librarian, Health Sciences Library, University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Against the Grain, Volume 19, Number 2
Compares Access […]

From Using Social Software in Health Libraries By Dean Giustini and Eugene Barsky

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Google VP Adam Bosworth spoke at the 2007 American Medical Association of Informatics (AMIA) Spring Congress on the 23rd about “Putting Health into the Patient’s Hands - Consumerism and Health Care”.
Notes from Bosworth’s speech (PDF)
Previous posts about Bosworth and healthcare.

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Bertalan Meskó points to a number of Wiki Genetics resources.

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ExpertMapper is similar in purpose to Authoratory. It uses bibliometric analysis of MEDLINE data.
ExpertMapper examines all medical publications that are indexed in the National Library of Medicine’s MEDLINE database. We rank the expertise of each author according to the number and type of articles that each expert has authored on the specific condition, disease, […]

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Two of my favorite MedLib bloggers recently added the badge to their blogs.
The Krafty Librarian added the badge to her sidebar:

Rachel at Women’s Health News added the badge to the sidebar at her blog’s new location:

Why is David so into this badgey stuff?
Previously, I’ve noted the following blogs that display the MedLib Blog badge in […]

Okay, it is a little off-topic, but too cool not to mention.
Fritz Bogott is a friend from our days in St. Paul who always impressed me with his intelligence, generousity, sense of humor and creativity. A generally quiet man, he also has great taste in loud music.

Sure, it was cool to watch Jonathan Coulton […]

I’ve previously mentioned Abbreviations.com (particularly its medical abbreviations section) as a resource for looking up medical abbreviations, acronyms, or initialisms and I’ve posted about KMLE - but I’ve encountered a few more lately that appear worth noting:
Stanford Biomedical Abbreviation Server
Used a text-mining approach to create a database dictionary from PubMed/MEDLINE citations.
We have scanned 11,447,996 PubMed […]

Created at the Institute for Computational Biomedicine (Weill Medical College of Cornell University) by Matthew J. Wood, Kevin C. Dorff and Fabien Campagne, Twease is a…
..web-based tool to search Medline at the abstract level (available from http://twease.org). Twease indexes each word of Medline and provides features that can transparently expand your search to help find […]

Including this handful, we’re up to 47 entries now.

Immunology (Wikibooks)
Emergency Medicine (Wikibooks)
WebHealth
MacSurgWiki
Diabetes Wiki
Autism Wiki
Community Huntington’s Disease Community Notebook
Neurodegeneration Research Wiki

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Though not strictly for medical literature, the BioInfoBank Library is similar enough to be included in this series of posts.
About BioInfoBank:
The general objective of BioInfoBank is to promote and boost the development of high-tech initiatives in and around Poland. The main activity of BioInfoBank is collecting information about innovative technologies in Poland and the preparation, […]

Built by diabetics for diabetics, SugarStats provides a simple, completely web-based and clean interface to track, monitor and access your glucose levels and diabetic statistics to spot dangerous trends and better manage your diabetic lifestyle.
You input and access your info via a web browser so no matter where you are you have easy access.
…
With SugarStats […]

Julie Smith (at Nursing Research: Show me the Evidence!) points to a PowerPoint presentation by Dana N. Rutledge, PhD, RN and Victoria Morrison BSN, RN of St. Joseph Hospital (Orange, California) on Evidence Based Practice and Nursing that I am tucking away for the next time someone asks what EBM/EBP is.

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Added to the List of Medical Wikis

Human Physiology (Wikibooks)
Diagnostic Radiology (Wikibooks)
Orthopaedic Surgery (Wikibooks)
Surgery (Wikibooks)
Pharmacology (Wikibooks)
Demystifying Depression (Wikibooks)
Handbook of Genetic Counseling (Wikibooks)
School:Medicine (Wikiversity)

More to come.

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Congratulations to AskDrWiki on posting their new editorial policies. I have noted this in the List of Medical Wikis.
Medical libraryfolk: Please do review this document carefully and DO make suggestions on how they might improve it.
The major thing I see missing is a commitment to have each article reviewed by a subject expert to […]

Okay, Feedgit is a good way of quickly creating search-based feeds from news sources. But if you really want to catch online mentions of a particular topic from a whole ton of sources, check out MonitorThis.
With MonitorThis you can subscribe to 22 different search engine feeds at the same time. Enter a search term […]