Test out our proposed new search feature on JEFFLINE and let us know what you think of it.  You could even win a prize . . .  We’re giving a $50 gift certificate to the lucky Jeffersonian who wins our drawing.

New Homepage Search

JEFFLINE’s current interface has been active for just over a year. While it’s [...]

Two scientific publishers have announced special tributes to Charles Darwin, on this 150th anniversary of the publication of his seminal work, On the Origin of Species, and the 200th year of Darwin’s birth.  The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is offering open access to two peer-reviewed articles in BioScience, and Springer is providing limited free [...]

The December 2009 issue of the journal Nursing & Health Sciences has released a special issue devoted to the critical and contemporary topic of disasters and emergencies.  The issue entitled ‘Disasters and Emergencies: Preparing, Managing and Experiencing’, is available to all Jeffersonians via JEFFLINE’s journal subscriptions.
Connect directly to the special issue.

Did you know?
The best way to prevent infection and illness is
Handwashing
Studies between 1994 and 2000 indicated less than 50% adherence to hand hygiene guidelines in health care settings.
Join us in our discussion of how to improve adherence at Jefferson
JSPH Chapter of the IHI Open School Meeting
Monday, November 16th at 5pm
-OR-
Tuesday, November 17th at 12pm
(Choose the [...]

Every month, Psychiatry Online offers Jeffersonians a free e-text from the APPI Bookstore.  For November, the free e-book is Changing American Psychiatry:  A Personal Perspective, by Melvin Sabshin, MD.�
From the publisher’s blurb:
Psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, other mental health workers, behavioral scientists, and university medical and neuroscience professionals will benefit from this articulate insider’s view of post–World War II [...]

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services invites you to comment on the DRAFT set of objectives for Healthy People 2020.
For three decades, Healthy People has provided a set of national 10-year health promotion and disease prevention objectives aimed at improving the health of all Americans.
Visit http://www.healthypeople.gov/HP2020/Comments/  to

View proposed draft objectives for Healthy People [...]

Need to calculate a dose, interpret an abbreviation, apply an equation, or use a decision tree with some test results?  MedCalc 3000 is for you.

You’ll find numerous evidence-based calculations, calculators, decison trees and more when you visit STAT!Ref and select MedCalc from the Resources tab.   If you do a search on any STAT!Ref [...]

Scott Memorial Library is preparing to withdraw almost 50 years of the print version of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), and over 100 years of the Annals of Surgery:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
volume 43, 1957  – volume 103, 2006
Annals of Surgery
volume 3, 1886 – volume 246, 2007
The Library provides access to [...]

The next Jefferson Book Club meeting will discuss the book “Purple Hibiscus: A Novel” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.   About the book:
Fifteen-year-old Kambili’s world is circumscribed by the high walls and frangipani trees of her family compound. Her wealthy Catholic father, under whose shadow Kambili lives, while generous and politically active in the community, is repressive [...]

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), publisher of  Science, has launched a pair of online social networking sites to accompany the journal:

CTSciNet is a community for people pursuing careers in clinical and translational research.
MySciNet supports aspiring scientists from diverse backgrounds.

From the news release:
Both sites are expected to help scientists and students network, find [...]

Arthritis Research and Therapy (AR&T) is celebrating 10 years of publishing with a new collection of reviews.  The collection of 38 articles provides an in-depth overview of the current status of basic and clinical research in rheumatology, and focuses particularly on developments in the past decade, during which there has been an explosion of new [...]

The health care reform debate has been grabbing headlines – here is a opportunity for Jeffersonians to participate in the debate!
FUNCTIONAL (Free UNiversal Care In Our Nation At Last),  AMSA and BLHO present:
“Health Care Reform 2009: The System is Sick, How Do We Fix It?”  –  A Panel Discussion
Thursday, November 5th
6:00 p.m.
Foerderer Hall, College Building
Featuring:
Dr. [...]

From the press release:

BioMed Central is once again publishing the Journal of Medical Case Reports (JMCR) and Cases Journal.   Since their inception both these journals, which currently provide over 2000 freely accessible case reports, have received widespread recognition and high quality submissions from across the medical community.  Through their innovative approach, both these journals make [...]

Registration is now open for the Medical Film Symposium, a four day event that will take place in Philadelphia, PA from January 20th-23rd, 2010.
The symposium will examine the history, aesthetics, ethics and preservation of medical film production and exhibition, with one full day of presentations at the Mutter Museum and four [...]

Well-known publisher Springer has announced the launch of a FREE, multidimensional professional networking site, at TheNeuroNetwork.com.

TheNeuroNetwork is an online community and networking site for all who study neural activities in the brain (invertebrate to human), including brain-like systems and networks.  More than 1,300 individual members and 40 interest groups representing over 70 countries have created [...]