DeBakey and the Education of American Surgeons

"Michael DeBakey came to Houston in 1948 as the new chairman of the Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine." This brief but interesting overview by Dr. Justin Barr in NLM's Circulating Now describes "the state of American surgery in the 1940s and 1950s. In the early 20th century, most surgeons trained by a combination of apprenticeship and post-graduate courses.  This model worked well enough when operations were rare and relatively simple" but as medicine grew more complex, changes were needed. DeBakey began to push residency programs and board certification to improve the training level of Houston surgeons.

Contributor Dr. Barr was a Michael E. DeBakey Fellow in the History of Medicine at the National Library of Medicine in 2017.

Websites Referenced

https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2017/11/29/michael-debakey-and-the-education-of-american-surgeons/

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/get-involved/debakey-fellowship.html

UTSW Orthopaedics Portal - eBooks and eJournals!

An Orthopaedics Portal to electronic books, journals and websites has been created for you by the medical librarian who is the UTSW Library’s liaison to their Orthopaedics Department, Helen Mayo. If you are on staff there and have active login credentials, you can reach those books and journals. 

They have eBooks we do not have, such as Green’s Skeletal Trauma in Children (5^th ed, 2015) and a couple of very new spine surgery books (Spine Surgery, 3^rd ed., 2018, and Benzel’s Spine Surgery, 4^th ed., 2017).

In sports medicine they have a nice list of journal titles plus three sports medicine books (Drez and Drez, 4^th ed., 2015; Nuclear Medicine and Radiologic Imaging in Sports Injuries, 2015; and Surgical Techniques of the Shoulder, Elbow, and Knee in Sports Medicine, 2^nd ed., 2013).  Take a look at the Total Joints section for even more knee books.  

Look at the Portals tab for more lists of resources, including an excellent section on evidence-based medicine. She’s done a great job!

You can find a link to the portal on your OpenAthens home page, bottom of the center panel. If you go to the UTSW Library home page you will also see a Portals tab near the top.  

Websites Referenced

http://library.utsouthwestern.edu/portals/orthopaedic/main.cfm?home

http://library.utsouthwestern.edu/portals/ebpp/main.cfm?home

http://auth.athensams.net/my/

http://library.utsouthwestern.edu/index.cfm

Understand Your Lab Tests with NLM’s MedlinePlus

MedlinePlus from the National Library of Medicine now offers clear, understandable information about your lab tests, such as why it was ordered and what the results mean. Currently 50 topics are included in English and Spanish, with 75 more to be added soon.

Websites Referenced

https://medlineplus.gov/labtests.html

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd17/nd17_medlineplus_lab_tests.html