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The library has a new trial of Dynamed Plus! DynaMed Plus is the clinical reference tool for clinicians. Content is written by a world-class team of physicians who synthesize the evidence and provide objective analysis.Check it out for yourself and let us know what you think!

Can't find what you're looking for? Try different terms!

Frozen shoulder, for example, is also called:

adhesive capsulitis of shoulder

pericapsulitis

periarthritis

capsulitis

scapulohumeral periarthritis

periarthrosis humeroscapularis

capsular syndrome

contracted shoulder 

Use a medical dictionary, or Dynamed (MTABC members, log in to access under Databases by title).

Try combining a few of the names using OR. Better yet, use Medline to find the medical subject heading.  

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Image: Rydquist, T. (2007) Binoculars. Retrieved from flickr under a CC BY-NC 2.0

Hi Everyone,

It was really great seeing you all today.  We had fun talking to you and hope you got something out of it.  Below is a summary of some things we went over today.  Make sure to keep up on our website for more videos and tech updates (SMRT.posterous.com)

Who are we?     -A group of 3 students per class that started two years ago.  We help our fellow students out with technological problems and try to come up with ways to better any and every aspect of our education with technology.

What we've done and are doing     - Worked with ETS to get the curricular calendar in .ics format, developed the SMRT Events calendar, helped setup the podcast source for lectures, Set up an annual tech survey of med students to gauge how we are using technology, set up a system to update lectures real-time on sharepoint using dropbox, Donated a new stereo to the BRF Gym, Tons of individual and class wide problem solving, And we are currently working on instructional videos for the iPad.

How the iPad can be used with our curriculum:     -Online test taking: using questionmark on the iPad to take formative and summative exams.  Downloading and setting up the app is demonstrated on our intro video.  You can find it on our website (smrt.posterous.com)     -Lecture Capture: the iPad can be used to listen to lecture capture podcasts on their own, or while going over the lecture pdf files using goodreader     -Calendars: The curricular and events calendars.  You can set these up by following the instructions in our intro video which can be found on our website (smrt.posterous.com)     -Sharepoint: best utilized with GoodReader currently.  Alternatively, iAnnotate PDF can be used, but it's integration with Sharepoint is currently flawed.  GoodReader is $5 and iAnnotate is $10.  With Goodreader, it is possible to directly download a week's worth of lectures straight to your iPad, annotate them, and upload them, with annotations to your Dropbox account to be accessed anywhere by any device with an internet connection.

Other really cool stuff we use on the iPad:     -Epocrates (drug reference), Micromedex (drug reference), Dynamed.  Dynamed is an online database that HSLIC provides for us that you can actually download directly to your iPad, iPhone, android phone, or blackberry to a native application and you can access all the info offline. (You can find the instructions for doing this online on our website ( http://smrt.posterous.com/dynamed-on-your-mobile-device ).     -Kaplan Qbank.  You can download the Kaplan USMLE step 1 qbank app right now, but you wont be able to access the questions until the SOM gets you access to them.     -Flashcards- We like a program called Mnemosyne. ( http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/ )  You can use this program on a windows or mac computer to create your own flash cards.  We have a database of flashcards created for your Neuro and CVPR blocks, but not for HSF&D or G&N blocks yet.  We hope that SMRT 2015 can help us with that.  We will be rolling out our flashcards program once you all start Neuro.  In order to use the flashcards on your iPad, you need to download an app called iSRS HD and use iSRS sync to get the cards onto your iPad.  A video showing how to do that will be made before Neuro, but if you are adventurous, the sync apps are available here: (Windows: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8757382/iSRS%20Sync%201.0%20For%20Windows.zip ) (Mac: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8757382/iSRS%20Sync%201.0%20For%20Mac%20OS%20X.zip )

Why we like the iPad for our med school?     -Currently, no other platform (android or tablet pc) has pdf annotation apps that include all of the functionality that goodreader or iAnnotate have or in a seamless way that GoodReader does.  Also, the iPad learning curve is very small.  We believe that getting to know the iPad now, as med students is beneficial, because it seems that it is the tablet of choice for medicine.  The number of apps out right now for the iPad is almost 100x that for the Android tablets.  In medicine specifically, very large numbers of physicians who carry smartphones or tablets carry an iPhone or iPad.  In fact, in one survey of 550,000 providers, 90% of those that had a smartphone or tablet had an iPhone or iPad.  This means medical apps will come to iOS first.  The future is very exciting.  There are new tools that will integrate with the iPad announced or thought up every day.  There are holter monitors for cardiac events, BP cuffs, insulin readers, you name it coming to these devices.  One that we are particularly excited about is a possible ulstrasound probe that is slated to be released for the iPad in the future and the idea is that if this becomes cheap and widespread, it could replace the stethescope for a physician carrying a tablet.  We are very excited about this device and think it is the best choice for a tablet at our medical school.

Our pledge:     -To provide support to the best of our ability to any of you.  We hold weekly office hours when we are in town (starting mid-August on our return from PIE).  We are always available via email, and everything we do is on our website (smrt.posterous.com if you haven't gotten it yet).

Membership!:

We want three members of your class to become SMRT 2015.  During HSF&D, we will send out an email to the class inviting you to set up an appointment for an interview.  We select only 3 people, but you don't have to have a computer science degree to get in.  We just want people who are excited about technology, and like helping people out with it.

Finally, again, this was not an advertisement for Apple or the iPad.  We just think it is the best fit for our medical school.  There are other devices that can do most of the same things that we have covered and we can help you out with them if you decide to buy something else as well.  In fact, if you have innovative ways of using another device, let us know, we'd love to have the info.

Again, it was great to see you all today and I hope Orientation/Public Health goes well for you.

David/SMRT [email protected] smrt.posterous.com

Hi Everyone,

Short version: We have just published two videos on smrt.posterous.com.  One showing a few office apps on the iPad and one showing how to use access medicine and dynamed like a boss!

Long version: SMRT has released SMRTcasts episodes 5 and 6.  The first video is a intro/review of Pages, Keynote, Quickoffice Pro HD, and Office2 HD on the iPad.  The second video is a tutorial on how to use access medicine and dynamed on the iPad (or any other tablet, iPhone, iPod, or android device).  Dynamed can be used through safari or through the skyscape app and access medicine can be used through safari.

Love,

SMRT

[email protected]

smrt.posterous.com

Episode 5, Office suites on the iPad:

Hello 2016 and welcome to the UNMSOM! Below is a quick intro video to tech at our school.  Enjoy!

Video:

David/SMRT

[email protected]

DynaMed® Rated Higher Than Other Disease Reference Tools in New KLAS Report on Healthcare Clinical Decision Support

~ DynaMed Rated 10 Points Higher Than Other Products in New KLAS Report Surveying Customers of Clinical Decision Support and Reference Systems ~ 

  IPSWICH, Mass. — December 13, 2011 — DynaMed®, a point-of-care clinical reference tool from EBSCO Publishing, has been rated highest in its category by healthcare providers. A new report on clinical decision support resources by KLAS, a research firm that specializes in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare vendors, rated disease reference tools in a number of categories and according to the report, DynaMed was rated, “10 points higher in KLAS than any other disease reference product in the study.”

In the KLAS survey, customers of each resource were surveyed in a variety of areas including credibility, relevance, electronic medical record (EMR) integration and influence on decisions, as well as standardization of care and how well the resource met the overall needs of users. Survey respondents indicated that DynaMed excelled in the credibility of the information it provided and in the relevance of its information and bested the other two resources in 24 of 25 measures. In direct comparison to the other two resources classified as disease reference tools, DynaMed outscored them with a total score of 91.2—10 points higher than the other resources.

Disease references such as DynaMed are used by clinicians at the point of care to access the best available evidence for thousands of clinical topics. DynaMed is updated daily and can be integrated into any EMR system. DynaMed is used by more than half a million clinicians in over 125 countries. More than 4,000 physicians and other healthcare professionals across 60 specialties contribute to the resource and more than 200,000 medical articles are summarized in DynaMed — providing doctors and other healthcare providers with access to the latest clinical evidence. Access to the latest clinical information at the point of care and within EMRs is having an impact on clinical decision support, which was the overall focus of the KLAS report.

Quotes from the report: Clinical Decision Support 2011: Understanding the Impact, 2011. © 2011 KLAS Enterprises, LLC.All rights reserved. www.KLASresearch.com

“DynaMed is absolutely the best point-of-care product out there. And EBSCO has class-one support. It is the best support in the country.” 

“DynaMed provides us with the best evidence on the best research-driven healthcare given to a particular patient issue. It is an excellent clinical information resource.” 

—Collected about DynaMed by KLAS in November 2011 © KLAS Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved. www.KLASresearch.com 

  DynaMed Editor-in-Chief, Brian S. Alper, MD, MPH, says the KLAS report indicates that DynaMed is being used and respected by healthcare providers. “This report shows we have achieved and maintained excellence in our evidence-based processing and currency as well as ease of use. It is also gratifying to know that customers realize that we are able to rapidly respond to their needs.”

DynaMed also came out on top in an October study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) (http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d5856.full). The BMJ study looked at how quickly five point-of-care products updated new evidence. DynaMed was shown to be the most current point-of-care reference tool. The study determined that, “DynaMed clearly dominates the other products.” (BMJ 2011 Sep 23) In the British Medical Journal study, DynaMed was shown to be at least 78% faster and as much as 97% faster at including evidence than the other resources in the study; “DynaMed has an updating process that markedly led the others.” (BMJ 2011 Sep 23)  More information is available at www.DynaMed.ebscohost.com.

  About DynaMed

DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use at the point of care. With clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,200 topics, DynaMed provides the latest content and resources with validity, relevance and convenience, making DynaMed an indispensable resource for answering most clinical questions during practice. Updated daily, DynaMed editors monitor the content of over 500 medical journals on a daily basis. Each article is evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity. The new evidence is then integrated with existing content, and overall conclusions are changed as appropriate, representing a synthesis of the best available evidence. Through this process of Systematic Literature Surveillance, the best available evidence determines the content of DynaMed.

About KLAS

KLAS is a research firm specializing in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare vendors. KLAS’ mission is to improve delivery of healthcare, by independently measuring vendor performance for the benefit of healthcare provider partners, consultants, investors, and vendors by collecting accurate, honest and impartial provider experiences. Working together with executives from over 4,500 hospitals and over 2,500 clinics, KLAS delivers timely reports, trends, and statistics, which provide a solid overview of vendor performance in the industry. KLAS measures performance of software, professional services, medical equipment, and infrastructure vendors. For more information, go to www.KLASresearch.com, email [email protected], or call 1-800-920-4109 to speak with a KLAS representative. Follow KLAS on Twitter at www.twitter.com/KLASresearch.

  About EBSCO Publishing

EBSCO Publishing is the world’s premier database aggregator, offering a suite of more than 350 full-text and secondary research databases. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all medical professionals (doctors, nurses, medical librarians, social workers, hospital administrators, etc.). The company’s product lines include proprietary databases such as CINAHL®, DynaMed™, Nursing Reference Center™, Patient Education Reference Center™, Rehabilitation Reference Center™, Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source™and SocINDEX™ as well as dozens of leading licensed databases such as MEDLINE®, PsycARTICLES® and PsycINFO®. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world. For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing Web site at: www.ebscohost.com, or contact: [email protected].

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