Output of the Librarians’ Writing Group

Every day the Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) Library’s librarians and informationists work with students, faculty, and staff at the WHSC’s schools and divisions on locating, selecting, managing, and using information for teaching and learning, patient care, and research projects. They also engage in other work supporting the missions and goals of these units in Read More …

JAMAevidence: Resource for evidence-based medicine instruction

Do you teach EBM or teach in the clinical setting? JAMAevidence has tools and resources to support EBM instruction. Education Guides provide ready-made slides help you teach everything from basic EBM concepts, such as odds ratios, to processes, such as evaluating and incorporating clinical decision rules into practice or making diagnostic decisions about patients with suspected Read More …

Heart disease: the intersection of environment, genetics, and lifestyle choices

Genetics, lifestyle choices, and the environment all play a role when it comes to the emergence of diverse chronic and terminal diseases. Join Alvaro Alonso, MD, PhD, Associate Professor in the Rollins School of Public Health for a presentation on heart diseases and factors that impact the prevalence of heart disease and how clinical research has Read More …

Writing Science: Recommended Books and eBooks

In Spring Semester 2019 the WHSC Library is highlighting the print and e-book collections around scientific writing and communication.  All print books are available for check out and can be found in the temporary display behind the Information Desk upon entering the library.  A full list of the recommended books and e-books on scientific writing Read More …

Test Yourself with Basic Science and Clinical Rotation Case Files

AccessMedicine’s Case Files Collection allows you to test yourself with cases in anatomy, anesthesiology, biochemistry, cardiology, critical care, emergency medicine, family medicine, geriatrics, gynecologic surgery, high-risk obstetrics, internal medicine, medical ethics and professionalism, microbiology, neurology, neuroscience, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedic surgery, pathology, pediatrics, pharmacology, physiology, psychiatry, and surgery. You may freely register and create a Read More …

Recent accomplishments at the WHSC Library

Kevin Bradford collaborated with clinicians at Grady Hospital to complete “Deprescribing Medications for Chronic Diseases Management in Primary Care Settings: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials” in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.  PMID: 30108032. Kimberly R. Powell collaborated with Jennifer Elder, Woodruff Library, to publish “A bibliometric services workshop for subject Read More …