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I was so excited to see my recent Expert Searching column in the June/July MLA News that I forgot to mention it here!
Rothman D. A selection of useful third-party PubMed tools. MLA News 2007 Jun-Jul; 397:12,24
If you’re an MLA member, click here and log in with your MLA user ID and password.

These […]

[EDIT] I’m out of invites- but do check out Freebase when you get a chance! [/EDIT]
So I’m in on the alpha of Freebase.com and have a couple of invitations to give away.

It would be interesting for any Web enthusiast to check out, but would be especially exciting if you’re a developer who likes to play […]

Just stumbled across another Online Dx Tool, the About.com Symptom Checker, which seems to have been created by Harvard Medical School.
Like a couple of others, this tool can be be navigated by clicking on a map of the human body:

My playing around with it resulted in a message that was funny to someone as easily […]

Kind of unusual for this blog, but I’m not posting any screen captures for this site.
The site, created by the Department of Anatomy at the University of Wisconsin - Madison Medical School, contains cadaver dissection images and videos which, although not a problem for some readers, might disturb others.
Here’s the URL: http://www.anatomy.wisc.edu/courses/gross/

These icons […]

Yep. The Joint Commission has a Wiki. This brings the List of Medical Wikis up to a count of 50.

WikiHealthCare is The Joint Commission’s interactive forum for health care professionals. It is designed to enable and encourage discussion and collaboration among all users for the purpose of improving health care quality. While The […]

It seems as if everything I’ve tried to write in the last couple of weeks is an exercise in contrariness. I apologize in advance.
Eugene Barsky and Allan Cho have an article in the current issue of the Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, Introducing Web 2.0: social search for health librarians.
It’s great that […]

The New England Journal of Medicine’s new social feature, Clinical Decisions, has closed its call for feedback and posted the results.

You can also view the results by country with this interactive map.
White coat Notes (a Boston Globe blog) notes that Journal voters stray from the evidence.
Readers were given three choices to […]

Last week I asked that readers take a minute to anonymously answer a single survey question because I was curious about the makeup of this blog’s readership. The survey has been up since 6/15/07 and has perhaps received votes from enough participants (154) to indicate some general trends about the readership of this […]

Provided by the Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries, Dartmouth College and the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale School of Medicine, the EBM Page Generator looks like a wonderful tool to help a medical library create an EBM page on its intranet, even without extensive Web development skills.
Welcome to the EBM Page Generator!
Let us help you create your own […]

LibWorm can help with that.

This query should show all blog posts about ALA 2007: +(ALA2007 “ALA 2007″ ALA07 “ALA 07″)
Even easier, you can subscribe to a feed for this search and have new posts delivered to you as LibWorm indexes them.

These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web […]

Women’s Health News, written by medical librarian Rachel Walden, MLIS, is now accredited by the Health On the Net Foundation.
Women’s Health News has received accreditation from the Health on the Net Foundation, which certifies that the site complies with a set of standards for trustworthy health information on the web. You’ll see the “HONCode” logo […]

Check out this page from McMaster University’s Health Information Research Unit
For each purpose category (therapy, diagnosis, prognosis, reviews, clinical prediction guides, qualitative, causation (etiology), costs, economics), the following data are shown: the single term with the highest sensitivity while keeping specificity at ³ 50%; the single term with the highest specificity while keeping the sensitivity […]

Created by Dr. Henry Wei, Admitt.com is another “Digg for Medical Literature” which, like Medinews, is built with the Pligg content management system.
Dr. Wei tells me via email that he’s hoping to cultivate a “digg-like irreverent attitude,” which sounds like it would be fun.
Related Posts

DoctorWorld.net (Digg for Medical Literature, Part VIII)
BioInfoBank Library (Digg for Medical […]

LibWorm Booked
My copy of Phil Bradley’s How to Use Web 2.0 in Your Library arrived recently and it was loads of fun to find LibWorm in the index, mentioned on pages 36-37 and page 201.

Above: Scan from the top of page 37 (Chapter Three: Weblogs). I figure that Phil won’t mind my reproducing the […]

Interesting slides from Mary Moore, PhD:

These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.

The brand-new AltSearchEngines blog is off to a great start and I absolutely encourage libraryfolk to subscribe to it.
One of the problems with writing about a specialized kind of search engine is that to do so requires specialized knowledge. AltSearchEngines faces this challenge every day.
A recent post at AltSearchEngines seeks to overcome this problem […]

Ratcatcher’s del.icio.us favorites point out this great item from WIRED:
The AMA recently suggested that perhaps gaming addiction should be considered as a sub-category of internet addiction. This is a step in the right direction. Clearly “internet addiction” doesn’t begin to cover the realm of bizarre and pathological behaviors the internet inspires. Herewith a list of […]

CNN article: Cashing in on doctors’ thinking
The company is already pulling in about $500,000 in revenue a month — in a most unusual fashion. It doesn’t get a penny from advertising, job listings, or membership fees. Rather, it makes its money by charging institutional investors for the opportunity to listen in as doctors chat among […]

Doctors.net.uk

Doctors.net.uk is the largest, most active medical network in the UK. Created by doctors for doctors, it is now the most popular, trusted medical channel enabling communication to and between 144,369 doctors, all day every day

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Previous posts about Social Networks for Clinicians

MedicSpeak: Another Social Network for Health Professionals

Even More Social Networks for Clinicians

Sermo becomes official […]

Some hospital libraries have to fight pretty hard to make upper management see the value of “Web 2.0″ tools like blogs.
Well, it took very little convincing before Tom Quinn, President and CEO of Community General Hospital (my place of work), decided he should start one.
I’m very pleased to announce Tom’s blog: More Than Medicine
Feed URL: […]