Need to know what's an allowable blood loss? Trying to identify whether your patient is at increased risk for diabetes? Screening for anthrax exposure? MedCalc 3000 can help you answer these and many other point-of-care questions with a suite of more than 520 calculators, clinical criteria sets and decision trees.
Part of the Library's STAT!Ref subscription, MedCalc 3000 is available for your iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry or Android device. Click here for full installation instructions.
A new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, otherwise known as DSM-5, has just been released and we can connect you to it right now.
A standard reference for the past 60 years, the DSM is "intended to serve as a practical, functional, and flexible guide for organizing information that can aid in the accurate diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. It is a tool for clinicians, an essential educational resource for students and practitioners, and a reference for researchers in the field."
Previous editions are also available online in the DSM Library.
Thanks to all those who attended one of our Library workshops from January to May this year. We look forward to presenting a new round of free classes starting in September. While there will be no scheduled classes over the summer, you can still take advantage of Library learning by registering for an individual or group consultation at a time and place convenient to you.
Do you want to become a better searcher? Explore evidence-based practice? Manage your bibliographic references? On these and similar topics, we can customize a tutorial to meet your information needs. Submit your consultation request online or call (646) 962-2562.
A combined 190 years of New York Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College history are now available in a new digital collection from the Medical Center Archives.
The annual reports of the hospital and announcements of the medical college are part of the Medical Heritage Library, a body of curated digital materials focusing on the history of medicine, from libraries and archives around the world, hosted by the Internet Archive.
Read more about details of the current collection and future additions.
Ellen R. Cohn will present the final Heberden Society Lecture of the 2012-13 academic year at 4:30pm on Tuesday, May 14, in the Uris Faculty Room (A-126). Light refreshments will be served at 4:15pm.
Her talk is entitled "Benjamin Franklin's Contributions to Medicine" and will include his work with William Heberden, Sr., on inoculation, his invention of medical devices, his observations on the causes of disease and the efficacy of remedies, his role in founding America's first hospital, and his work as head of the French royal commission that investigated the medical claims of Anton Mesmer.
Ms. Cohn is the Editor of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin, a comprehensive, annotated edition based at Yale University and co-sponsored by Yale and the American Philosophical Society.
Read more about the speaker and her topic or the Heberden Society lectures.
A valuable text, Bate's Pocket Guide to Physical Examination, has joined the roster of clinical titles available on Unbound Medicine. Of particular interest to medical students, Bate's 7th edition
If you've already registered, just sync your device to download this new title. Otherwise, register now and choose your platform: iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod), Android, Blackberry, Palm, or Windows. Initial registration and download must occur while you are on campus but later use is independent of the network.
Join us in celebrating National Library Week by treating yourself to the sounds of the Amphion String Quartet with special guest clarinetist, David Shifrin, at 12:00pm in the Caspary Auditorium at Rockefeller University on Friday, April 19.
We are helping to sponsor this week's concert which will feature Wolf's Italian Serenade in G Major, Janacek's String Quartet No. 2, and Mozart's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, K. 581.
On April 18, swing by the reference desk from 10-11 to learn about the medical center's archives and 3-4 to learn about the Patient Resources Center!
We're happy to give you a choice from a menu of 69, full-color Thieme medical atlases and other basic textbooks. Just download the free iPublishCentral Reader app. Whet your appetite with such titles as:
Browse the full list here. Full installation, download, and use instructions are available here.
On the verge of unveiling our newly renovated spaces, we invite you to take a stroll down memory lane as we celebrate 50 years of service to our users.
