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RCSI Library blog: July 2015

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Monday, July 27, 2015. World Head and Neck Cancer Day. Today is World Head and Neck Cancer Day. RCSI is hosting a Head and Neck symposium on the day that aims to raise awareness of Head and Neck Cancer as well as highlighting its risks and promoting early detection and prevention of such cancers. The symposium, which is open to RCSI staff, will take place in the Albert Lecture Theatre of the College at 123 St. Stephen's Green at 6:30 pm. The National Cancer Institute, at the U.S. National Institu...RCSI ...

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RCSI Library blog: November 2014

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Monday, November 17, 2014. Has subscribed to Science Translational Medicine. The focus of the journal is original, peer-reviewed, science-based research that successfully advances clinical medicine toward the goal of improving patients' lives. Examples of content in the journal include:. Research and commentary on models of human disease with significant implications for disease treatment. Investigative studies of human biology with an emphasis on disease, including small clinical trials. RCSI Library on...

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RCSI Library blog: World Breastfeeding Week 2015

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Tuesday, August 4, 2015. World Breastfeeding Week 2015. Is the resource for breastfeeding in Ireland. It contains links to resources and publications as well as guidelines for mothers. The Cochrane Library has a special collection of Cochrane reviews dedicated to the topic of breastfeeding; you can access it here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). RCSI Library B log. Posts by the RCSI Library team keeping you updated on Health News, Library News, new resources and more! Feedback always welcome to.

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RCSI Library blog: February 2015

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Monday, February 23, 2015. Updated PubMed Search Filter Strategies. PubMed has recently updated a number of their subject filter strategies. The following are the strategies updated. Subject-based search filters assist searching by offering validated search strategies. Example: survivors AND cancer [sb]. Example: excercise hypertension AND systematic [sb]. You can find out more about PubMed subject filter search strategies at. Http:/ www,nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed subsets.html. Wednesday, February 4, 2015.

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RCSI Library blog: Men's Health Week 2015

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Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Men's Health Week 2015. This week (15th-21st June) is International Men's Health Week. Men's Health Week aims to heighten awareness of preventable health problems for males of all ages. Each year, individual countries focus upon a specific theme. The theme for 2015 in Ireland is: 'Creating culture change - it's time for a new script'. Men die, on average, four and a half years younger than women do. Males have higher death rates than women for all of the leading causes of death.

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RCSI Library blog: January 2015

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015. RCSI Library now has full access to the OVID LWW Current Opinion. The collection consists of 24 journals spanning 26 specialities. In each of the 24 journals you'll find:. Full coverage of a complete medical discipline in a concise format so that you can efficiently review all important developments that affect your work. Revealing insight and expert commentary from the leading authorities in each relevant speciality. Access the collection through the e-journal portal. Through ...

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RCSI Library blog: April 2015

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Friday, April 10, 2015. World Parkinson's Day 2015. Tomorrow, April 11th, is World Parkinson's Day, a day to bring awareness, promote research and unite those who have been affected by Parkinson's disease. Parkinson's is a progressive neurological condition resulting from a shortage of Dopamine, a chemical that helps instructions from the brain to cross from one nerve cell to the next, in a part of the brain called the substantia nigra, which has to do with controlling movement. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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RCSI Library blog: Clinical Medicine Resources

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Tuesday, July 21, 2015. With medical students beginning their intern year this is a good time to look at a selection of clinical resources available from RCSI library. RCSI library has access to a number of resources which will be useful during your intern year. All of these resources can be accessed through the library website at www.rcsi.ie/library. ClinicalKey also includes over 9,000 procedural videos; to view these search for your topic and limit the source type to video. The standard in internal me...

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RCSI Library blog: October 2014

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Thursday, October 30, 2014. RCSI library has a new video tutorial on our YouTube channel;. PubMed - advanced search techniques. This tutorial looks at searching the PubMed database and covers areas such as using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), methods of broadening and narrowing results, setting up alerts and more. RCSI Library has a number of other video tutorials on YouTube; these can all be viewed through our YouTube Channel. Thursday, October 23, 2014. Is supplied by Ebsco. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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RCSI Library blog: August 2015

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Thursday, August 20, 2015. Reference rot: an emerging problem in academia. Newly published research by RCSI library staff has highlighted the emerging problem of reference rot. 1 Link rot - the article or webpage resource identified by the URL no longer exists or has moved to another site, resulting in the ubiquitous '404 not found' error message. 2 Content drift - where the resource identified changes over time and may evolve into a resource that bears no resemblance to the content originally referenced.