Category Archives: Social media

What is integrative medical care? “… Integrative medicine emphasizes relationship-centered care, develops an understanding of the patient’s culture and beliefs to help facilitate the healing response, focuses on the unique characteristics of the individual person based on the interaction of … Continue reading →

The newsletter I compile monthly for faculty on my library advisory. ~Dean UBC BMB Library Newsletter, Feb 2012 View more presentations from Dean Giustini

This term, I am teaching LIBR 534 – Health information sources and services at SLAIS. It was always my intention to teach with a second health librarian, but unfortunately Greg Rowell, Devon Greyson and Sheba Muturi were unavailable. But the … Continue reading →

Social Media Portal for Canadian Health Librarians:  Call for Participation in 2012 Proposal authors Laurie Blanchard, Dean Giustini, Judy Inglis Are you interested in how Canadian health librarians are using social media? Do you find it difficult to stay on … Continue reading →

see the wiki version: http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Top_Ten_Competencies_in_Medical_Reference,_2012 With the rise of search engines and Twitter, information appears to be more findable and accessible in 2012 than any point in history. However, how many times have health librarians heard lately that their users … Continue reading →

The core medical titles listed here (~25 in total) may not always be accessible to consumers in public, hospital and health libraries. However, the principle of answering basic reference questions in health using simple authoritative print tools is important and … Continue reading →

Top fifty (~50) or so web 2.0 services for possible use by academics and scholars. Not necessarily by importance, influence, utility or value (just a ‘start-here’ page). Academia.edu – http://www.academia.edu/ BioCrowd – http://www.biocrowd.com/ BioMedExperts – http://www.biomedexperts.com/ Brainify – http://www.brainify.com/About/ CiteULike … Continue reading →

LIBR 534 Health information sources services 2012 View more presentations from Dean Giustini

Answering health and medical reference questions View more documents from Dean Giustini

The holidays are a time fraught with over-commitment. The holidays should be used for slowing down. As I write this blogpost, I’m taking time to reflect back on the busy fall term (aren’t they all?). I’d like to reaffirm my … Continue reading →