Medicine and Health Sciences Commons^™

Understanding Medical Students' Beliefs On Abortion And Sexual Reproduction, Maria Jarkowiec, Seema Kakar, Julia B. Frank, Gisela Butera

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

BACKGROUND: As a controversial topic in American society, abortion occupies a precarious place in medical school curricula. Although medical students believe abortion is a valid and acceptable topic, fewer than 20% of U.S. medical schools offer formal abortion education in either the pre-clinical or clinical years. Only 40% provide abortion lectures during clerkships. According to the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics, student learning objectives, abortion education should be included at a minimum in the third year core clerkship. In the absence of published curricula, health professional schools must develop their own methods to teach the medical aspects of …

All Hands On Deck: A Team Approach To System Migration, Jolinda Thompson, Christopher D. Cook, Steven W. Brown, Catherine M. Sluder, Alicia Pinkney, Laura E. Abate, Meaghan Corbett

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

Purpose: To determine if a team approach to a complex integrated library system (ILS) migration would result in a timely and successful outcome.

Brief Description: Changing needs and an aging integrated library system server platform prompted Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library to migrate to a new ILS. After considering several options, Himmelfarb decided to join with the George Washington University's Jacob Burns Law Library in their move to a hosted instance of Innovative Interface's Sierra ILS and Encore OPAC.

Though some separation of data and functionality could be achieved, there were several functions that would be shared between the two libraries' …

You Can Do That In A Library? Building Sound Minds And Healthy Bodies, Alexandra Gomes, Gisela Butera, Laura E. Abate

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

Recognizing that while medical students are learning to care for others, they are often taking poor care of themselves, librarians at the George Washington University's Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library developed a three-pronged Healthy Living initiative, launched in the fall 2012 semester. Focusing on diet/nutrition, exercise, and stress reduction, the initiative included new collections and multiple activities with partners from both on and off-campus.

The Himmelfarb Library Annual Art Show: Celebrating The Creative Abilities Of Faculty, Staff, And Students, Christopher D. Cook, Kelly Knight, Elaine Sullo

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library at the George Washington University has held an annual art show since 1987. Students, staff, faculty, and clinicians from the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, the School of Public Health and Health Services, the School of Nursing, the GW Hospital, and Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library are invited to submit artwork to be displayed throughout the first floor of the library in a month-long display. The talent of the artists is celebrated at an opening reception where light refreshments are served and students, staff, and faculty mingle and view the art.

Library art shows serve as …

Past, Present, And Future: Create A Library Video To Promote Outreach And Marketing!, Gisela Butera, Alicia Pinkney, Alexandra Gomes

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

In the fall of 2011, the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library Marketing Committee was tasked with creating a video on the history of the library. As the project developed, a broader scope was outlined to capture not only our past but our current staff, services, and programs with a goal of using it for outreach. The final video project was completed in Spring 2012.

Smartphone Apps For Disasters: Workshop Lesson Plan, Paul Levett

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

This instruction was designed to be delivered to a Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) or a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT).

Instructional Goal #1: Using a personal smartphone connected to the internet, learners will download medical information apps, before deployment to a disaster environment.

Instructional Goal #2: Recalling real and simulated patient care situations that required additional medical information, learners will identify and search smartphone apps for relevant, current, authoritative, medical information that could be applied to the care of individual patients in disasters.

The Impact Of Interventions To Reduce Length Of Stay In The Emergency Department: A Systematic Review, Jameel Abualenain, Taibah Alabdrabalnabi, Irit R. Rasooly, Paul Levett, Jesse M. Pines

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

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Social Media And Medical Students: What Are They Thinking?, Alexandra Gomes, Gisela Butera, Terry Kind, Katherine C. Chretien

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

This poster provides a review of interim results from a qualitative study on first year medical students' attitudes and perceptions of their definition of medical professionalism in social media. Included in the study is an evaluation of changes in perspective since becoming a medical student and after participating in an E-Professionalism and Social Media instructional session.

Expanding Our Roles: Embedded In Curriculum Design, Gisela Butera, Alexandra Gomes, Thomas Harrod, Seema Kakar, Julia B. Frank, Jennifer Owens

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

Objectives To describe how librarians became involved in helping to design curriculum for Problem- Based Learning (PBL) Course for first- and second-year medical students. Librarians became part of a team collaborating with medical faculty to revise the PBL curriculum, incorporating innovative teaching techniques and creating effective simulated patient case scenarios.

Methods In August 2010, the PBL Director contacted the Library to help revise 10 cases for second-year problem-based learning course. Two librarians joined the PBL multi-disciplinary curriculum team meeting bi-weekly to create and revise medical tutor and student guides, and case modules. The cases successfully evolved from paper handouts to …

A New E-Professionalism/Social Media Course: Student Reflections And Impact, Gisela Butera, Alexandra Gomes, Katherine C. Chretien, Terry Kind

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

This poster provides a review of interim results from a qualitative study on first-year medical students' attitudes and perceptions of their definition of medical professionalism in social media. Included in the study is an evaluation of changes in perspective since becoming a medical student and after participating in an E-Professionalism and Social Media instructional session.