Dr Alfred Roy Awarded For Teaching Excellence by Figure 1
The Chair and Professor of Pathology at UMHS, Alfred Roy, MD, MBBS, has been awarded the
Figure One 2016 Healthcare Educators Award. This award is given in recognition of outstanding teaching excellence and commitment to going above and beyond for their students.
Congratulations Dr Roy!
Since completing basic medicine and residency in Pathology in 1993, Dr Roy has held numerous key positions in medical education and Pathology with such institutions as the University of the West Indies, Melaka University, Manipal University, St. Matthew's University, and the American University of Antigua, before joining the University of Medicine and Health Sciences in May of 2013.
Figure 1 is a growing internet phenomenon which connects the global medical community in the ongoing quest for the patient diagnosis!
"Where do doctors turn when even they don’t know what’s wrong with you? Colleagues? Books? The internet?"
Launched in 2013, the
Figure 1 app was born from the idea that sharing images of what confounds doctors with other doctors across the world can help point them in the direction of the right answer.
Figure 1 is like an Instagram for doctors connecting one million healthcare professionals to view, discuss, and share medical cases. This crowd-sourcing for a diagnosis is effectively a win-win situation with everyone learning and benefiting; including professors, medical students, and patients!
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UMHS Offering New History of Medicine Elective
UMHS will now be offering an elective course called the
History of Medicine [MICM 0991] with Dr Michael Doherty. There will be 5 total lectures, one hour each, held in the campus auditorium beginning at 11:30 on each of the following Tuesdays: May 24, June 14 & 21, July 12 & 19, 2016.
Applying for residency is very competitive; it is important to have extracurricular/volunteer activities on your resume. Those can be club activities, health fairs, elective courses, and so forth. It’s something you all should consider. The
History of Medicine elective is a good choice; it’s relevant, goes on your transcript, and you’re on campus anyway.
Why is this kid from 1958 going to see the butcher for a black eye?...
There is no fee for the course, and the only requirement for receiving credit is by attending all 5 sessions.
If interested, please email Dr Doherty.
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Resources Tour of the UMHS Anne Ross Library
Join me on a tour of the
Anne Ross Library where I will be showcasing the information resources provided by the university for the benefit of the UMHS student body and faculty. I hope you will find time to further explore and utilize these valuable databases, as you probably realize
you can’t memorize it all! Once you are practicing medicine, the key to success will be
your ability to search out the best and most current medical information when and where you need it.
The foundation of evidence-based practice is being able to find, access and evaluate the medical evidence!
The
Anne Ross Library Home page is your jumping off point to all of the library's resources so we will start the tour there
http://lib.umhs-sk.net.
The online
Anne Ross Library Catalogue is the first link in the left-hand side bar. Browse the library’s collection of books, videos, ebooks, etc. and place holds on the items you need that are checked out, or click the link provided in the record to go to the ebook itself. The
LibraryWorld catalogue provides a
mobile interface link or downloadable App for easy access to searching the library’s holdings. The mobile login for the catalogue is USER: AnneRoss Library (notice NO space between ‘Anne’ and ‘Ross’), and the PSW: (blank) – no password is required. Search for ‘ebook’ or ‘electronic resource’ along with your search term, to easily locate in the catalogue records available downloadable ebooks.
The next link is to
MyUMHS which is the UMHS Egnyte file server drive or online ‘M’ drive for remote access to all your course materials. If you can’t recall the login sent to you via email, contact the Library.
Clicking on the links in the second grouping of the left sidebar and you can access the various
EBSCO databases. Do you remember this login? In particular on this list of databases, take time to explore EBSCO’s
DynaMed database
,a topical, point-of-care clinical database. It will be invaluable to you in
ICM and beyond. When you don’t have time to search the journal literature for the latest treatment options, DynaMed gathers this information for you and updates the database
daily.
To access DynaMed on your mobile device go into DynaMed and click on the ‘Mobile’ tab along the top of the screen for the latest step-by-step instructions.
NOTE: Currently we are trialing the new DynaMed Plus database as well. This updated DynaMed platform has expanded and been enhanced in many ways. In fact, this produce has been adopted by the
ACP (American College of Physicians) as their official clinical decision support tool. Make sure you explore it too!
NOTE 2: UMHS is also currently trialing the
GIDEON (Global Infectious Disease and Epidemiology Network) database from EBSCO which is a must for your Microbiology and Epidemiology classes with its extensive microbiology and data on global infectious diseases, and current disease outbreaks.
Next check out the
EBSCO journal databases such as
Academic Search Premier and
Medline Complete. These databases provide you with access to around 6000 journals, approximately 2000 of which are medical journals
with full text! This resource will be very useful to you for researching a medical topic and discovering the latest articles published on that topic. The advantage to these EBSCO journal databases over
PubMed (or
Google &
Google Scholar for that matter) is the instant and comprehensive access to the full text for many of the articles. In fact full text is provided for
34% of the citations found in
PubMed!
You also have the option of performing your literature search in
PubMed itself (using the special link you see on the Library Home page) and being provided the
LinkOut notification
(the UMHS logo will display in the top right corner whenever we have available the full text of an article retrieved by your PubMed search). In order for the LinkOut icon to appear you must also be signed into your personal
MyNCBI account, which you can set up for yourself for free.
The
EBSCO Academic and Clinical ebook collections (containing over 150,000 ebooks, 2000 of which are clinical ebooks) are also accessible using your UMHS EBSCO login. However, you will also need to set up for yourself your own personal
MyEBSCO account. This personal second login will allow you to save your database searches, collect articles in folders, as well as download the ebooks. In addition an
EBSCO ebook App is available for your mobile devices allowing you to search, check out, and download ebooks to your mobile reading device, tablet or phone.
Returning to the
Library Home page next please locate the link for
Access Medicine. This valuable resource provides you with full text access to over 85 medical reference textbooks (including
Harrison’s’!), procedural and instructional videos, clinical cases, practice questions, a drug database, the Diagnosaurus diagnostic tool, etc. Course materials and small group project assignments from your professors may also be available to you via this platform.
Your personal logins are set up and emailed to you soon after your coming to UMHS. If you have trouble accessing your personal space in this database, please contact the library.
Med4 and EBS5 students MUST verify their personal logins before the end of their last St. Kitts semester in order to be able to access their course materials in Maine and during the Clinical Core Rotations!
AccessMedicine also provides an App for your mobile. Set up instructions for your device is on the
Anne Ross Library Blog. The App is designed as a diagnostic tool and contains four key diagnostic resources from McGraw Hill, but not the whole AccessMedicine database, or the Custom Curriculum.
VERY IMPORTANT: In Maine all the course materials for your
ICM 2 course will be assigned through learning modules in
AccessMedicine. Also, when you go out on your
Clinical Core Rotationsa whole curriculum of more than
150 learning modules will be assigned to you for your completion during that time. So it is
very important that you are completely up to speed with using
AccessMedicine, understanding
how to access your modules, and how to
submit them on completion. Look under the
‘Custom Curriculum’ tab for your assigned learning modules.
The practice questions in
USMLE-Easy will help you test your knowledge with USMLE-style questions while preparing for the
USMLE Step 1, 2, and 3. In order to take full advantage of the test bank you must login via the UMHS institutional interface with your personal login that was created for you (an email was previously sent regarding your logins). If you have trouble accessing please contact the Library.
Next I would like to draw your attention to the various internet resource
'Kits', in particular the
Medical Kit , and each of the
semester specific 'kits', such as the
Med5 Kit . I hope you will find some of these recommended websites useful. Please send me feedback and site suggestions so I can continue to improve the 'Kits'.
Finally, the four column section along the bottom is a gathering of links to in-house resources that you will probably need to access frequently, such as our social media sites, ExamSoft exam portal, etc.
Remember to regularly check this blog, the
Anne Ross Library Blog, and
The UMHS Endeavour Blog for interesting news posts and access to a wealth of information pertaining to medical resources and educational programs.
In this bottom section you will also find links to your
Webmail and to the
CAMS Student Portal, etc.
CAMS is where you will find your courses, your attendance record, and some of your grades. Most of your grades are found in your
ExamSoft account, but at least your final course grade, will be posted for your confidential viewing in CAMS. Your CAMS login is provided for you by the IT department.
Keep up to date on
UMHS Research happenings on the
UMHS Research Wiki and be aware of upcoming medical conferences, calls for papers, etc. on the
Research Committee’s Pinterest Board.
Notice the link to the
UMHS Exam Portal right there are well. This is the link to our computer based testing program
ExamSoft. This program is what all of you are using for exam taking and where most of your professors release your scores on quizzes and exams.
Now you can follow the Library on
Twitter and
Pinterest! As you go forward in your career, stay up-to-date on new resource developments by checking the
Library Blog, the
Library Twitter feed, and the
Library Pinterest boards. Further descriptions of the library's resources, links to them, and instructions on how to navigate them, are available via the
Library Blog and the
Library website, particularly in the section
'Navigation Guides' on the
'Medical Kit'.
I hope you all found this library resource tour valuable. Let me know if you need further help accessing and searching any of these resources. Each resource also has
HELP links – so have fun and play around with trying different searches and different resources!
Remember to stay informed by reading the
blogs and subscribing to our
Twitter feed and
Pinterest boards.
Please don’t hesitate to drop by the library or
phone, email or Skype us,
Linda, Doya, Jezelle, Raeeza, or Ann , for further assistance with accessing any information resources.
Your suggestions are always welcome. Have a great semester!
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