Congratulations Once again, NYCOM is honoring the class of 2008 by hosting its 28th annual hooding ceremony on Saturday, May 17th in Avery Fisher Hall of Lincoln Center. We congratulate each and every one of you and wish you the best of success. NYCOM Graduation 2007 Lincoln Center, NYC 5/19/2007	Sage Sayings of Dr. Andrew Taylor Still " I would advise all men and women to travel to the tree of knowledge, stop and take a sleep, and leave your burdens of life, for I am sure you will find a label that will tell you what limb has the fruit of success." " The knowing how or the lack of knowing how to re-establish this natural law will make of you either a success or a failure." "This is the tree of knowledge in whose shade all persons have received that instruction that was necessary to each individual's success in life, without which no man ever succeeded." " I don't want to go back to God with less knowledge than when I was born." Thruhlar Robert E. Doctor A.T. Still in the living. Chagrin Falls, Ohio, 1950. p. 72, 73, 74.
Website Review GetBodySmart: An Online Examination of Human Anatomy and Physiology is a fully animated and interactive resource, developed and owned by Scott Sheffield who has taught this material at the university level for over twenty years. The website is designed for students and lecturers, aiming to explain the body's complex physiological interactions and to illustrate its important anatomical landmarks, including diagrams and drawings as well as quizzes and a tutorial. General subject breakdowns are: skeletal system, muscle tissue physiology, muscular system, nervous system, circulatory system, respiratory system, urinary system, and histology. Adobe Flash Player is required to view the animations and can be downloaded without charge by following a link from the site. To visit the site go to GetBodySmart.com .	Did You Know.. StatRef has features that you may not know. You can get information from the National Guideline Clearinghouse, which is a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Also available on StatRef is ACP PIER, which stands for Physicians’ Information and Education Resource. ACP PIER is a evidence-based medicine point of care tool. MedCalc 3000 is a unique computerized medical reference and tool set. MedCalc 3000 encompasses a wide array of pertinent medical formulae, clinical criteria sets and decision tree analysis tools used everyday by healthcare professionals.
BioMed Central has partnered with the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) to add more journals and images to GoldMiner, the ARRS radiology search engine that provides instant access to images published in selected radiology journals. BioMed Central has contributed more than 170 journals, which adds more than 4,200 images to the GoldMiner collection. The collection now includes more than 170,000 images and over 225 journals. To learn more about GoldMiner and how to search for an image, go to goldminer.arrs.org	RIGHTS LINK Copyright Clearance Center The NYCOM Library now has a license with the Copyright Clearance Center through Rightslink, which is available on many of the publishers webpages. If you need copyright clearance, please contact Jeanne Strausman. For your information, if you need to use your own published work in some other publication, it will generally be free but if you borrow someone else’s work, there will be a charge which could be substantial.
Are you looking for a free citation Manager? Zotero is a free, open source extension for the Firefox web browser that gathers, organizes and edits references, and creates formatted bibliographies. It is produced by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Once installed, a Zotero button will appear a the bottom of Firefox window as well as in the Tools menu. When activated, Zotero covers the lower third of the Firefox window, but can be resized to show as much or as little of Zotero as needed. To learn more about Zotero click here. There is also an online tutorial available at the same page called Ztour.	Digital Collection of Prominent Scientists Profiles in Science is an online archive, with access to digital representations of the papers of famous scientists like Oswald T. Avery, Rosalind Franklin, Linus Pauling and many more developed by National Library of Medicine. Profiles in Science promotes the use of the internet for research and teaching in the history of biomedical science and it's a wonderful resource for the researchers or to introduce students to the work of scientific and medical researches.
"Here the Frailest leaves": The National Library of Medicine Bathtub Collections The History of Medicine Division of the NLM is excited to announce the new website called "the Bathtub collection".The Bathtub collection consists of fragments found in the old and rare bindings of the NLM’s rare book collection when items were rebound and conserved in the 1940s and 1950s. It is called the “Bathtub Collection” because then-curator Dorothy Schullian took the leftovers of conservation work home and soaked them in her bathtub to retrieve the often interesting bits and pieces of medieval manuscripts and early printed ephemera she found. To view the site click here.	Internet Addiction An article in American Journal of Psychiatry states that excessive gaming and e-mail/text messaging should be added to psychiatry's official guidebook of mental disorders. According to vnunet.com, the article outlines distinct symptoms displayed by sufferers, including withdrawal and a sense of anger or depression when users can not reach a computer, a constant perceived need for better computer hardware, and feelings of social isolation and fatigue.
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