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The best moment teaching EBM-searching skills?
When you are a (future) doctor you will obviously need to look for publications at one stage or another. PubMed is the place to look for relevant medical papers. Usually medical students begin to feel...
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BMI bijeenkomst april 2008
Afgelopen vrijdag 18 April was de Landelijke Dag BMI, CCZ, PBZ en WEB&Z. De BMI is afdeling Biomedische Informatie van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Beroepsbeoefenaren (NVB). De andere afkortingen...
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Etiquette-Based Medicine
Every now and than my collegue Heleen provides me with an interesting paper (a nice web 1.0 way of sharing things). Last Friday I found this paper on my desk: “Etiquette-Based medicine” from Michael W...
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Webex meeting Clinical Evidence
After I’ve learned so many new internet communication tools I’m about to discover yet another: webex. As many other information specialists I’ve been invited to participate in a Webex meeting,...
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New OvidSP release (planned August 5th 2008) will allow more flexible searching
Update 2010-08-14: I see many people going to this post because of recent changes to OVID SP. This post is NOT about the 2010 changes. Thus I added 2008 in the title. I wrote before (see here) that...
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WikiMindMap to Organize Wiki Content
Wikipedia, has become a rich and complex source of documents linked to each other. When you’re looking for a subject and you follow several links you easily loose the overview. For instance, when I...
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Google Reader and other free (learning) tools
Lee Le Fever, the founder and principal of the famous Common Craft video’s announced today at Twitter that the Google Reader team had hired Commoncraft to create this one minute introduction to Google...
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Anatomy Lesson 2008: Living in Fear
You may want to play this music while reading this post: Bach: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (BWV 106) The “Anatomy Lesson” has several meanings: A lesson in Anatomy A famous painting of...
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Training: ‘Getting The Best Out Of Search Filters’
Information Specialists, other information professionals and researchers seeking more insight into the usefulness of search filters might be interested in the following training event: YHEC Training...
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What I learned in 2008 (about Web 2.0)
Grand Round is a weekly collection of the best writing in the medical blogosphere. The coming Grand Rounds (February 3rd, 2009), hosted by Not Totally Rad has the following theme: February is the first...
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The 21st Century Librarian
In a previous post “You don’t look like a librarian” I shortly described a book dealing with Librarian stereotypes and what can be done to defeat tired old perceptions and create positive new images… I...
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PeRSSonalized Medicine – and its alternatives
A few posts back I just discussed that Personalized Genetics has not fulfilled its promise yet. But what about PeRSSonalized Medicine, just launched by Bertalan Mesko? Bertalan Meskó is a medical...
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Educational Videos about Library Stuff
Yesterday @alisha alerted me to a post of Sheila Webber at the information-literacy blog about a wonderful series of YouTube videos by Llordllam with hand puppets as actors. The videos are a mix of...
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LOCA Congress for Interns – LOCA co-assistenten congres
Last Sunday I was an invited speaker at a national congress for interns, the LOCA congress. LOCA stands for “Landelijk Overleg Co-Assistenten”. This congress has been initiated to facilitate the...
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Web 2.0 Tools to Inspire … Teachers and others
Judy O’Connell pointed out an interesting Slideshare presentation called “Web 2.0: Tools to inspire”. It contains a lot of suggestions, especially in the field of education, like Brainstorming,...
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Cochrane 2.0 Workshop at the Cochrane Colloquium #CC2009
Today Chris Mavergames and I held a workshop at the Cochrane Colloquium, entitled: Web 2.0 for Cochrane (see previous post and abstract of the workshop) First I gave an introduction into Medicine 2.0...
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Fighting “Powerpoint-Death” by Science, Prezi or…?!
Recently Kevin Clauson [@kevinclauson] made another great presentation, called the “Science behind Engaging Students in Class”. The presentation focuses on the use of “clickers” or an audience response...
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An Educator by Chance
The topic of the oncoming edition of the blog carnival “Medical Information Matters“, hosted by Daniel Hooker, is close to my heart. Daniel at his call for submissions post: I’d love to see posts on...
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An Introduction to the Library for Graduate Students
Below is a presentation I gave at the “World of Science”. This is a 3-day course for graduate students that aims to provide them the fundamental knowledge and skills needed for scientific research, and...
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