November 18th, 2009 by Mary Wood
Videos, slides, posters, interactive software, models, and mannequins are all teaching tools used in veterinary medicine education. Vascular access training models and resuscitation models are two life-sized examples of products commonly integrated into the DVM curriculum. A few UK veterinary colleges have recently added the new large-animal palpation-training device, the Haptic Cow.
Haptic Cow, Wired Science, 11/6/09
The Haptic Cow simulator makes it possible for the students to palpate virtual objects, while via the computer monitor, the instructor can see what the student is doing and also help direct the movements.
Additional information on the simulator is available from the inventor, Dr Sarah Baillie. Use the unique and very helpful NORINA database to search for other teaching models, slides, posters, software, simulators, models, and mannequins.
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October 28th, 2009 by Mary Wood
Working on a website for a presentation to VMD400B acted as a reminder of how too few of us in veterinary medicine and animal science make use of valuable and effective databases beyond PubMed. The following chart compares six potentially useful databases on just a few points, but emphasizes the wealth of information to be found in CAB and BIOSIS. There are more than just these six databases to consider: list of Health Sciences databases; lists of databases by subject.
Many databases are proprietary, made available to UC Davis affiliates by UC Davis Library subscription. Free resources that will remain available even after graduation include Agricola and GoogleScholar. (Clicking on the graph will link to a larger image).
About the image:
The original graph was edited using the Picnik editor that is embedded into the free Flickr photo hosting site.
Tags: databases, searching, Veterinary Medicine
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October 19th, 2009 by Mary Wood
PubMed provides references to journal articles in the life sciences, with a concentration on biomedicine. While human clinical medicine remains the primary focus, PubMed does index a limited number of veterinary medicine and animal science journals.
One of several PubMed “Special Queries” is Veterinary Medicine / Animal Health. It retrieves citations to journal literature, combining subject search terms, title words, and veterinary and animal health journal titles. Essentially, it applies a search filter over any search terms you use, limiting the results to veterinary related resources.
PubMed Search and Veterinary Information Resources
The PubMed Search and Veterinary Information Resources page provides links to additional resources and organizations.
Enter PubMed from the Health Sciences Libraries page to ensure access to all of the full-text journals subscribed to by the library. To apply the Veterinary Medicine / Animal Health filter to a search, enter PubMed from the HSL site and type “veterinary[sb]” into the search query; that set can then be combined with any other search term.
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