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Introduction

This guide is designed to assist you in accessing information relevant to your mentored scholarly activity (MSA).

Please contact Lynne Fox with suggestions or corrections for this page.



Contact one of the MSA program librarians


Clinical Research 
Beth Tweed  (303-724-2142)

Basic Science Research Adelaide.Fletcher (Addie)  (303-724-2146)

Public & Global Health & Epidemiology
Lynne Fox  (303-724-2121)

Arts & Humanities, Bioethics, Law, Education & Social Sciences
Lilian Hoffecker (303-724-2121)
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Introduction

You can always get immediate assistance by visiting the library. (Check our hours) If not, try one of the options below.
Ask a Librarian  Get help from the Health Sciences Library via online chat, email, or phone.
Health Sciences Library Classes  Classes focus on basic skills for searching major resources and on finding full text efficiently.
If you can't attend a scheduled class, individualized instruction is provided.  Request group or individual instruction on a date and time convenient for you!
Health Sciences Library Handouts  Learn more about the resources included in this guide.
Health Sciences Library Orientation 101  Tutorials designed to provide a basic overview of Health Sciences Library services, resources, and the library's webpage. Includes information about your library ID number, remote access to library resources, and how to find electronic journals. Requires Flash browser plugin.
[recommended, new]
Service Desk  Staff at the desk near the library entrance can place holds, renew books, provide reserve readings, and update library records.  They are the central point to answer general questions about the library's resources and services.
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Access Library Resources from Work or Home

When you access library resources from off campus (home, a clinic, private medical office, or hospital) you will be asked to enter your name and Employee ID. Your ID will be verified in a library database and you will be allowed access to the resource. If you cannot access resources off campus, please call the Desk for assistance at 303-724-2152.

Don't know your Employee ID number? To find your 6-digit employee ID number, please refer to your timesheet, paycheck stub, or ask your supervisor to look up your number in PeopleSoft. f you have an HSC email address, you can also lookup your employee ID at MyCU (http://my.cu.edu/ ).

The Health Sciences Library's electronic resources such as full text journals, Ovid and PubMed MEDLINE, and point of care clinical reference tools, are available from any UCH or Anschutz Medical Campus networked computer.
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Books for the SOM Mentored Scholarly Activity

We've created a list of books, both online and print, to help those in the MSA program.
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Humanities and Social Science Resources for the MSA

Academic Search Premier  
[ full text]
Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection  
[ full text]
Defining Gender, 1450-1910  
[ full text]
Denver Public Library Western History and Geneaology Images  Type in a topic and click on "Digital Images" in the "Search For" menu.  Images are available for purchase in a variety of formats.
EBSCO  
[ full text]
Eighteenth Century Journals II  
[ full text]
Empire Online  
[ full text]
Ethnic NewsWatch: A History (ENWH)  
[ full text]
Everyday Life and Women in America 1820-1900  
Expanded Academic ASAP  
[ full text]
Fuente Academica en español Full text EBSCO database of nearly 200 scholarly academic Latin America and Spanish language journals.
HAPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments) (from Ovid)  
[Limited to one concurrent user.]
INFOTRAC  
[ full text]
Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963  
Medical Humanities  This web resource was established in 1994 at New York University School of Medicine,  for scholars, educators, students, patients, and others who are interested in the work of medical humanities.  Medical Humanities is an interdisciplinary field of humanities (literature, philosophy, ethics, history and religion), social science (anthropology, cultural studies, psychology, sociology), and the arts (literature, theater, film, and visual arts) applied to medical education and practice. The humanities and arts provide insight into the human condition, suffering, personhood, our responsibility to each other, and offer a historical perspective on medical practice.
The website includes an index to literature related to the medical humanites and access to an online research community through a Listserv, alerts and news via a weblog, and a clearinghouse listing researchers, syllabi, and programs offering study of the Medical Humanities.
[new]
Medical Humanities Blog  This weblog provides pointers to interesting literature and news, definitions and discussions of the language of the field, and alerts about events related to Medical Humanites.
[new]
Medical Humanities Blog, United Kingdom  A UK based weblog providing news and alerts about events related to the Medical Humanities.
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Oxford English Dictionary  
Web of Science  
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Career Planning Resources

AAMC Career Planning Resources  Links to financial planning resources, and fellowship information
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education  Resources from the organization that supervises residency programs.
ACP Career Resource Center  Information on certification and licensing, self-marketing, compensation, and opening a private practice
How to Prepare Your Curriculum Vitae  Tips, sample, and format for a vita from the Academy of Family Physicians
Job Search Resources  Recruitment and relocation resources, plus employment tips
Physician Compensation and Benefits Worksheet  Analysis tool for evaluating compensation packages
[PDF]
Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Career Services  Employment tips and resources for preparing resumes, vitae, cover letters, and the interview process
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Colorado Multiple Institutional Review Board (COMIRB)

COMIRB is your central access point for information on federal laws & regulations for research involving humans.

COMIRB is a board established to review biomedical and behavioral research involving human subjects conducted at or supported by University of Colorado Health Sciences Center or University of Colorado Hospital.

Forms, instructions, answers to frequently asked questions, and education is available from the website.

COMIRB Education Resources  Learn more about the COMIRB process and how to apply for approval of your research.
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Bibliographic Citation Tools and Styles for Medicine

There are many tools and style guides for citing works in papers and manuscripts.  The following are options for creating bibliographies from citation and reprint management software. 
CiteULike  Stores references and pdf reprints of articles. However, it doesn't have any output feature, so it won't translate a reference into a formatted citation for a bibliography. However, CiteULike does export references for uploading into EndNote, which can be used at Library computers with MS Word to format a paper/bibliography. View a short tutorial on CiteULike.
Citing medicine: the NLM style guide for authors, editors, and publishers. 2nd ed. 2007.  Citing Medicine provides assistance to authors in compiling lists
of references for their publications, to editors in revising such lists, to
publishers in setting reference standards for their authors and editors, and to
librarians and others in formatting bibliographic citations.
[new]
EndNote  EndNote is a software program that lets you save references, pdf
reprints, and works with MS Word to automatically format reference in
your papers in AMA style. This is available at all computers in the
Health Sciences Library. You may also be interested in Organizing an Article Reprint File.
EndNote 30-day trial  
EndNote Handout  
EndNote Handout (Advanced)  
EndNote Support  From Thomson ResearchSoft.
EndNote Training  From Thomson ResearchSoft.
EndNote Tutorial  From UNC Chapel Hill.
EndNote Web  Available via Web of Science. You can sign up for an account, then add references to your EndNote Web library from Web of Science or PubMed

Here's an example of how EndNote Web works with MS Word to create citations and reference lists from your EndNote Web library in your papers and manuscripts.
EndNote Web & CiteULike Handout  
EndNote Web Help Page  
EndNote Web Training  
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Finding a Mentor

Advice from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Finding a Mentor at UCDHSC

Search PubMed for Colorado researchers, then add AND YOURTOPIC to the END of the searchbox to narrow to your area of interest

Change the display to Abstract, then when you find a potential mentor, click on their name in the author list to view all of the articles by them in PubMed.

If contact information is incomplete, try searching in the People directory at HSC, or the directories for the CU system, CSU, Colorado School of Mines, or DU.

Authoratory.com enables you to find the most prolific writers on a topic according to PubMed -- type in a search term and you see a list of authors whose articles cover those topics.

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Finding Full Text

Find Journals  Use this list find the Health Sciences Library's journals by title.
IMPULSE (UCD-HS Library Catalog)  Use the Health Sciences Library's IMPULSE catalog as a secondary resource for linking to full text audio-visual materials and books. Search IMPULSE using the Word or Title option, then look for the titles with the indicator (Online) or [Electronic Resource].
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Firefox Web Browser

Mozilla Firefox is a wonderful alternative to Internet Explorer. It's tabbed browsing and add-on features make it a great research tool. Download Firefox at http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ Once you have downloaded Firefox, you can "add-on" features and functions.
About Firefox Search Engines  These will load in the search box on the upper toolbar (the default is Google). After these are added, you will click on an inverted triangle to open the list and pick a different search engine from the list.
Find Journals Plugin  Searches for online & print journals owned by the Health Sciences Library.
Firefox Handout  
IMPULSE Catalog Plugin  Searches for books & audiovisual items.
Prospector Plugin  Click on the link for Prospector, The Colorado Unified Catalog, to install a search plugin for 25 major Colorado public or academic libraries.  HSC employees and students can request books, dvds, and audio cds from other libraries to be sent to the Health Sciences Library for convenient pickup and checkout. 
PubMed Plugin  Perform keyword searches in PubMed.
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MEDLINE versions

The Health Sciences Library provides access to the MEDLINE databse via Ovid and PubMed. (Ovid or PubMed, What's the difference?)

MEDLINE (from Ovid)  Search for clinical trials or systematic reviews in biomedical journals. MEDLINE includes 16 million journal citations. Use the Limit menu labeled "Clinical Queries" to access high quality clinical trials on specific clinical topics.
Also includes International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, Journals@Ovid, PsycInfo
PubMed (MEDLINE)  After executing a search, change the display from summary to "abstract", then follow the "Article Linker" link find the full text of articles.
[recommended]
PubMed Online Tutorial  From the National Library of Medicine
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Online Survey Resources

Major online survey companies  
Online Survey Design Guide  Design guidelines and principles for Web-based survey instruments, and explicitly deals with design features of the Website, such as colors, sound effects, video clips, screen layouts, navigational issues, etc., due to the special nature of Web-based surveys. Content does not include the traditional components of questionnaire design, such as wording and ordering.
Survey & Questionnaire Design  A thorough tutorial on many aspects of designing and carrying out surveys including the practical logistics and question design.
SurveyMonkey  SurveyMonkey Basic is free and limited to a total of 10 questions and 100 responses per survey. A monthly subscription is $19.95 and can continue for a month, a few months, or longer, depending on your needs. An annual subscription is $200.
Zoomerang  Zoomerang Basic is a limited-feature trial version of Zoomerang zPro. Ask up to 30 questions and collect up to 100 responses per survey. Results expire after 10 days, so save your results to a spreadsheet for later analysis. Ongoing membership is free. Zoomerang ZPro is $99 for three months or $350/year at an educational discount. It offers more extensive question options and results maintenance and output.
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Online Tutorials for Mentored Scholarly Activity

Health Sciences Library Tutorials  
Ovid Online Tutorial  Courtesy of Ovid, Inc. Includes CINAHL, Health and Psychosocial Instruments, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, MEDLINE, PsycINFO.
PubMed Online Tutorial  From the National Library of Medicine
RD Direct  
Research Connections  
Research Methods  
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Other Libraries

Use these resources to obtain materials or access other library catalogs.
Colorado Virtual Library  Link to web pages and library catalogs for hundreds of Colorado Library's to locate materials or to find out library hours. Click on the "Find A Library" link to start.
IMPULSE (UCD-HS Library Catalog)  Check to see if 9 hospital libraries have the journal you need. When viewing results change from the Health Sciences Library to IMPULSE Medical Collections to display information from our partner hospital libraries.
Also note that there is a red Search Prospector button in the IMPULSE Library catalog that automatically searches Prospector.
Interlibrary Loan  Request article copies that can be picked up electronically or at the Circulation Desk.
Prospector  Request books, dvds, or audio cds from 23 public and academic libraries and have them delivered to the Health Sciences Library or PASCAL at Anschutz. Search the catalog and click on "REQUEST THIS ITEM", type in your name and library ID, and pick a delivery point. You will be notified when your item can be picked up.
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PDA Resources for Residents & MSA

A good place to start is the Health Sciences Library's PDA Guide. It provides a variety of links for new and veteran PDA users.
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Handheld Computers (National Guideline Clearinghouse)  Obtain a handheld version of any guideline in the Clearinghouse.
[Practice Guidelines]
Diagnosaurus  Differential diagnosis resource including disease, symptom, or organ system for quick reference.
[Point-of-Care]
Epocrates Rx  A drug information database useful in clinical practice. An enhanced version is available for a fee.
[Drug Reference]
Johns Hopkins POC-IT Antibiotic (ABX) Guide  Concise, clinically useful, and up-to-date information about the evaluation and treatment of infectious diseases in adults.
MedCalc  Medical calculator with formulas and scores from "Absolute Neutrophil Count" to "Winters' Formula." Palm.
mobile MerckMedicus  Merck Manual and other resources. Wired and wireless versions. Must register with Merck. Palm and Pocket PC. Windows PC only, no Mac version.
[Point-of-Care]
NCBI Bookshelf  Download free medical texts for quick reference. This collection of handheld books is growing, keep checking for texts of interest to you.
[Palm or PocketPC]
Pocket Consult  Quick reference clinical decision support. This is the handheld version of the First Consult resource.
POEMS at Essential Evidence Plus  Point-of-care clinical information including Griffith's 5 Minute Clinical Consult, critically appraised PubMed articles, care guidelines, diagnostic tools and risk calculators, and other evidence-based information.
TB Treatment Guidelines  Handheld version of the CDC's Treatment of Tuberculosis guidelines.
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Presentation and PowerPoint Skills

Residents can obtain MS Office (including PowerPoint) for a nominal fee from the UCDHSC Help Desk (x4-HELP or 303-724-4357).
Life After Death By PowerPoint  A funny and educational way to learn PowerPoint Don'ts.
[recommended, new, requires sound.]
PowerPoint FAQ  
PowerPoint Online  
Presenting With Flair: PowerPoint 2003 Presentations  This guide covers the basics of PowerPoint and is helpful for those with no experience who want to learn how to work efficiently using PowerPoint's slide and style templates, different views, and special features such as animation. 
From Sams'  Teach Yourself Microsoft Office 2003 in 24 Hours by Greg M. Perry.
[recommended]
Public Speaking  (or how to enjoy presentations)
Ten Simple Rules for Making Good Oral Presentations  PLoS Computation Biology offers advice on successful presentions from a seasoned veteran of the conference and meeting circuit.
[recommended, new]
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Image Resources

NOTE: Copyrighted images should be used only for limited educational purposes, such as your peer teaching presentation. Even when images are not copyrighted, the source of the image should be included in your slide.
Atlases of the Brain  The atlases include brain and spinal cord images and MRIs of the
brain. Content is freely available for non-profit use by health science
educators. Interactive features allow the user to request an outline
of structures or a quiz on the image content.
BioMed Image Archive  This is a categorized archive of 20,000 images. A search engine facilitates
retrieval of images on specific topics or conditions. Before downloading
full-size images, users must complete a free registration process,
but users can search and browse the archive first without registering.
The creators of the archive allow free use of the images for teaching
and educational purposes.The archive is maintained by the University
of Bristol, UK.
CELLS Alive!  Cells Alive! provides basic cell biology, microbiology, and immunology
videos, micrographs and diagrams. The images are available for use
in lectures and handouts and for other nonprofit, educational use with
some important exceptions.

Using Materials from CELLS Alive!
[http://www.cellsalive.com/permissn.htm]
Clip Art for Health Communication  From Johns Hopkins University
DermAtlas: Dermatology Image Atlas  Dermatlas is made available by Johns Hopkins University. There are
currently over 4,900 images submitted by more than 180 contributors
in the database. Users can search by categories, diagnoses, or body
sites. Images are copyrighted by Dermatlas, but may be used freely
for teaching purposes. Please review restrictions on
use.
eMedicine World Medical Library  Select "emedicine" under the search box. Search your topic, then look for the Multimedia link in the article.
Google Images  Some images are for purchase and download.
Hardin MD Medical Pictures  
HEAL  (Health Education Assests Library)
HON Health on the Net Media Gallery  This media gallery is put together by the Health on the Net Foundation,
an international body that seeks to encourage ethical provision of
online health informationt. The media gallery is indexed by body part
and includes images of medical conditions and procedures.
HONMedia  (Health on the Net Foundation)
Images from the History of Medicine  Produced by the National Library of Medicine, this database contains
nearly 60,000 images from the library's History of Medicine Division.
The works digitized here include prints, lithographs, engravings, etchings,
woodcarvings, and paintings.
Internet Atlas of Histology  The COM-UIUC Atlas of Histology contains over 1000, labeled, histological
images with accompanying functional descriptions. Interactive features
allow the user to change magnification and examine areas of interest
in great detail. Some images include a mouse-over function: when the
mouse pointer is over a labeled object, that object is highlighted,
its name is pronounced, and its identity is given in a drop-down menu.
JayDoc HistoWeb  JayDoc HistoWeb is an online histology atlas. The creators of HistoWeb
allow use of the content for non-profit, educational purposes.
Karolinska Institute Medical Images and Illustrations  
Microsoft Clip Art and Media  
NCI Visuals Online  
Protist Image Data  Protist Image Data is part of the Molecular Evolution and Organelle Genomics
program at the University of Montreal
The Alan E. Lindsay ECG Learning Center in Cyberspace  The ECG Learning Center includes not only the expected ECGs but also
diagrams useful in explaining ECG abnormalities. Use of ECG Learning
Center images is governed by a Creative Commons Copyright which allows
rather liberal non-profit use -- please
review conditions of use.
The Digital Anatomist Project  The interactive, anatomy atlases available at this site have been
produced by the University of Washington, Seattle. Brain, neuroanatomy,
thorcic viscera, and knee atlases are available. The software and images
are available for non-commercial use with some restrictions.
The Visible Human Project  A project of the National Library of Medicine, the Visible Human
Project provides access to cross-sectional images of the human female
and male. Sample images are available free of charge. Access to the
complete sets of images requires a fee payment and completion of a
license agreement.
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PubMed Tips

Use our PubMed Tips to learn how to unleash some of PubMed's greatest features. Tips include personalizing PubMed, saving searches, getting one-click access to our online journals no matter how you access PubMed, and creating customized views of PubMed results.
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Research Skill Guides

Ten Simple Rules Collection  The Public Library of Science (PLoS) offers skill guides for researchers and professionals that include:
  • Ten Simple Rules for Getting Published
  • Ten Simple Rules for Getting Grants
  • Ten Simple Rules for Reviewers
  • Ten Simple Rules for Selecting a Postdoctoral Position
  • Ten Simple Rules for a Successful Collaboration
  • Ten Simple Rules for Making Good Oral Presentations
  • Ten Simple Rules for a Good Poster Presentation
  • Ten Simple Rules for Graduate Students
  • Ten Simple Rules for Doing Your Best Research, According to Hamming
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Responsible Conduct of Research

Office of Research Integrity  ORI supports several programs designed to promote education and training in the responsible conduct of research (RCR) that covers the following nine instructional areas:

    * Data Acquisition, Management, Sharing and Ownership
    * Conflict of Interest and Commitment
    * Human Subjects
    * Animal Welfare
    * Research Misconduct
    * Publication Practices and Responsible Authorship
    * Mentor / Trainee Responsibilities
    * Peer Review
    * Collaborative Science
Responsible Conduct in Research  In response to the ever-changing environment in which research is being conducted, Eastern Michigan University is developing this web-based instructional site as a resource for faculty and staff. The purpose of this site is to foster an intellectual and academic environment in which exemplary scholarship and ethical practice may flourish by making educational resources and instruction available to faculty and staff via the World Wide Web. These modules will provide faculty and staff a basic understanding of the following areas, and provide them with resources that can be incorporated into the classes they teach.
[Tutorial]
Responsible Conduct of Research  Promoting RCR education as a central responsibility for any institution involved in research.
[Online Video, requires RealOne Player]
Responsible Conduct of Research  Adil E. Shamoo and David B. Resnik. Responsible Conduct of Research. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
[Book Location/Number: Library 3rd Floor - W 20.5 S528r 2003]
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Software Resources for Mentored Scholarly Activity

The library provides a variety of general and specialized software which you may find useful. We've compiled a list of software resources we feel may be specifically useful to those in the MSA program. We also have a more general description of computing in the library.
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Statistical Resources

CDC WONDER  Provides a single point of access to a wide variety of reports and numeric public health data.
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Statistics and Research Data  Offers municipal, county, and state statistics on a variety of health topics.
FedStats  Gateway to statistical sources from US Federal and State agency websites. A wide variety of search methods are available at the site.
Health Data Tools and Statistics  Provides links to large collections of health data and statistics from worldwide sources, from Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce.
Pan American Health Organization Health Data  Provides data on 108 indicators for 48 member countries.
Statistical Resources on the Web: Health  List maintained by the University of Michigan Library Documents Center, linking to major health statistics sources and resources by health topic.
WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)  Presents the most comprehensive health data on all of the 193 WHO Member States. Data cover 50 core health indicators organized into six major categories including risk factors, diseases, mortality, and socio-demographic statistics.
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Technology Transfer

The mission of the CU Technology Transfer Office is to aggressively pursue, protect, package, and license to business the intellectual property generated from the research enterprise and to serve faculty, staff, and students seeking to create such intellectual property. Protect your right to your intellectual property by contacting the Technology Transfer office if you create intellectual property of potential commercial value as part of your Mentored Scholarly Activity research.