Ready for the New Academic Year

The library would like to thank all students who participated in the Medical Library Questionnaire which was distributed in the 2nd semester - last year. Your feedback was highly appreciated and we are doing our best to fulfill your needs.
As per your requests, the Medical Library has acquired 2 new network printers and a scanner in addition to the available ones. They are connected to the public access computers in the Medical Library. New computers will be received soon.
Students who would like to view the questionnaire results are welcome to stop by the medical library.

YouTube and Tutorials

YouTube is the leader in online video, and the premier destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. YouTube allows people to easily upload and share video clips on www.YouTube.com and across the Internet through websites, mobile devices, blogs, and email.

YouTube can be used also in medical education by viewing some of the posted videos as tutorials. For example, I searched for Cataract or Phaco , retrieved a valuable videos.

I also tried (Clinical or medical) examination , which is an interesting subject for 1st and 2nd year medical students, and found good resources, as well.
Search and enjoy viewing !!!

Welcome from UOS Medical Library

The Medical Library would like to welcome back returning faculty, students and staff, and to extend a special welcome to our new students and faculty who are joining the Medical & Health colleges this year.
We are pleased to provide you with services that support and fulfill your information and research needs, including reference services, books loan, library orientation and instruction sessions, in addition to online catalog, database and Internet searching.
If you have any inquiries, please feel free to call the Medical library, ext. 7161 / 7176 / 7163, or send an e-mail to nadia@sharjah.ac.ae, or stop by the library for assistance.
I encourage you to visit and bookmark the library Website for quick access to library information, resources and services.
Wish you all a successful, productive and happy new academic year.

Practice of Medicine

The following sites explain aspects of history-taking and physical examination.
Practice of Medicine
Practical Guide to Clinical Medicine

Interactive Health Tutorials

The tutorials listed on this U. S. National Library of Medicine site are interactive health education resources. They explain diseases and case conditions by using animated graphics and easy-to-read language. You can also listen to the tutorial
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials.html

Medical Podcasts

Podcasts are audio or video shows that you can subscribe to via the Internet and listen to or watch on your own time on your computer, portable MP3 player or other web-connected device. People who listen to podcasts love the way they can access an amazing array of content — from language lessons to comedy shows to NPR news — on their own time and on their own devices. Almost all podcasts are free of charge, and very few include commercial or sponsor messages. You can often fast-forward, rewind or pause the podcast, making it a similar experience to watching a DVD or playing back a TV show on a digital video recorder (DVR ).
Ref: Your Guide to Podcasts, by Mark Glaser,
Podcast is used by medical and health institutions to present healthcare news and the latest medical research. Some of the medical podcast sites are listed below, hope you enjoy listening to them
Medpeek.com
Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcast
Medicine Net

Using the Internet in Educating Science & Medicine

The Virtual Labs Series produced by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute were recognized as the best multimedia products designed to use the Internet to educate about science and technology. Below are links to the labs


The Cardiology Lab
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/vlabs/index.html
The focus of this lab is on heritable diseases of the heart. You are cast here as a virtual intern to accompany a doctor examining three different patients. Each patient is examined using more than one diagnostic tool, and at each stage, the doctor will invite you to examine the patient yourself and ask for your opinion.

The Neurophysiology Lab
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/vlabs/index.html
Record electrical activities of individual neurons while you deliver mechanical stimulus to the attached skin. Inject fluorescent dyes into the neurons to visualize their morphology. Identify the neurons based on the morphology and the response to stimuli, comparing them to previously published results.

The Immunology Lab
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/vlabs/index.html
Components of the immune system called antibodies are found in the liquid portion of blood and help protect the body from harm. Antibodies can also be used outside the body in a laboratory-based assay to help diagnose disease caused by malfunctions of the immune system or by infections. This virtual laboratory will demonstrate how such a test, termed an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), is carried out and show some of the key experimental problems that may be encountered.

The "Open Access and the Developing World" portal

BioMed Central, the world's largest publisher of open access scientific research, announced a new information portal calling attention to the developing world's need for open access to the scientific and medical literature. The "Open Access and the Developing World" portal highlights the most relevant peer-reviewed research from BioMed Central's open access journals.
As part of the launch of the portal, BioMed Central is inviting researchers and others working in developing countries to share their stories about how open access to the online research literature is changing their work.

New Search Engine for FAQs

Got a question? Find an answer. In fact, find lots of answers. QueryCAT, at http://www.querycat.com/, allows you to search a database of over four million questions and answers.

DrugDigest

DrugDigest is a non-commercial, evidence-based, consumer health and drug information site dedicated to empowering consumers to make informed choices about drugs and treatment options.

Journal of Oral Health and Community Dentistry

Journal of Oral Health and Community Dentistry is an open access journal provide clinical research, interesting case reports, new techniques and tips to dentists arounf the world

"e-medicine.com" learning and resources centers

emedicine.com comprises the largest and most updated clinical and medical information. Through its professional learning and resources centers, you can view free interactive courses and study cases. Free registration is required to receive the study cases by e-mail in your inbox.