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Traveling Exhibit Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness
Patricia Bradley, Laura J. Hall, and Gale Hannigan
This exhibit, organized by the National Library of Medicine and hosted at UNM, explores the intersections of health, illness, and culture among Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities. Through oral histories, healers, elders, and other key figures recount the impact of epidemics, land loss, and cultural disruption on Native health. The exhibit presents an inspiring narrative of resilience, endurance, and self-determination. Curated locally by Patricia Bradley, Laura J. Hall, and Gale Hannigan, it was displayed at the Domenici Center for Health Sciences Education. April 22, 2015 - October 18, 2015
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Which VIVO Harvester queries best populate the VIVO Database with the most accurate faculty member publications?
JD Eldredge, PJ Kroth, and E Garbin
The National Institutes of Health encourages its research partners to use VIVO (tm) software to enhance research investigator collaboration. VIVO Harvester was created to populate VIVO profiles with authors' article citations from PubMed. Presently, typical VIVO Harvester queries often inaccurately and incompletely populate author citations. This study identified critical design elements for VIVO Harvester queries in PubMed for accurately identifying author citations.
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Are There Disparities in Health Information Access Among New Mexico Practitioners? Results of a Study
Patricia Bradley, Gale G. Hannigan, and Christina M. Getrich
We designed an exploratory study to find out what information resources are available to New Mexico health care practitioners not currently affiliated with the University of New Mexico. We conducted semi-structured interviews of a purposive sample of physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, physician assistants, and pharmacists at the location of their practice in all quadrants of the state, including public health clinics. The interview included nine open-ended questions, which were approved by the UNM Human Research Protections Office. Interviews were recorded on an iPad, transcribed, and coded using nVivo (QSR International), a qualitative data coding software package. Fifty-one practitioners particiipated. Their responses indicate that New Mexico pracitioners not affiliated with UNM: are satisfied with their access to information resources to support clinical decision making; are not satisfied with information resources for their patients; would like access to a wider variety of information resources for both clinical information and for their patients.
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Celebrating 10 years of the BioMISS: a case study and observations about a successful biomedical informatics seminar series
Philip J. Kroth, Shamsi Daneshvari, and Gale G. Hannigan
Abstract OBJECTIVE: This poster describes the experience of organizing and hosting the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library & Informatics Centers (UNM HSLIC) Biomedical Informatics Seminar Series (BioMISS). The BioMISS is a CME-accredited, bimonthly program of one-hour invited presentations, with active participant discussion on current topics in biomedical informatics. The goals of the series are to 1) provide a broad overview of salient topics in the field of Biomedical Informatics, 2) provide a forum that fosters interdisciplinary cross-collaboration for research, and 3) provide a forum for Biomedical Informatics fellows, HSC faculty and others to present Biomedical Informatics-related research. METHODS: A quantitative and qualitative analysis of data collected from nine years of seminars about the presenters, their topics, and participants' evaluations was conducted. The goal of the analysis was to identify key factors associated with the success of the series so colleagues contemplating organizing a similar program might benefit. RESULTS: The series occurred approximately 14 times during each academic year. Speakers came from the host institution as well as from multiple external sites such as Sandia National Labs and the State Office of the Medical Investigator. Topics included myriad informatics subjects. Some key factors of success identified are a well-thought out advertising campaign, a regular day and time, and introductions by all attendees at the start of the seminar. CONCLUSIONS: A health sciences library can be the nidus for a vibrant and sustaining seminar series in biomedical informatics that successfully draws in a diverse and interdisciplinary group of presenters and participants.'
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Curated Exhibit Practice of Compassion: Celebrating UNM School of Medicine’s Fifty Years of Excellence
Laura J. Hall
The Practice of Compassion: Celebrating UNM School of Medicine’s Fifty Years of Excellence exhibit, curated by Laura J. Hall, MFA, commemorated the 50th anniversary of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. The exhibit highlighted the institution's history and its leadership in medical education, research, and compassionate care. Through historical photographs, documents, and stories, it traced the school's significant milestones and its contributions to improving healthcare in New Mexico. The exhibit was on display from August 2014 to June 2015 at the Domenici Center for Health Sciences Education.
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Improving Accuracy of Vital Signs Capture Using Bedside Computerized Reminders for Nurses — Preliminary Results
Philip J. Kroth
The efficient and reliable capture of vital signs and other bedside data in the non-ICU setting has been a challenging problem for the medical informatics community. The problem is compounded by the complexities associated with storage of this data into an electronic medical record system (EMRS). There are a lack of off-the-shelf solutions that satisfy the basic system requirements of bedside data capture, user authentication, data validation prior to storage, error handling, and convenience. With the current state of technology available, we feel the solution to this problem requires the presence of a PC with custom interface software at the bedside. This allows for the successful interface between available vital signs capture devices, existing EMRSs, and the user. This presentation summarizes the alternatives we found and our proposed solution to this important problem.'
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Provider Stress and Electronic Health Records
Philip J. Kroth
While application of Health Information and Communication Technologies (HICT) has demonstrated significant potential to improve health care and reduced costs, the impact of HICT on health care professionals job satisfaction, productivity, and general wellness is largely unknown. Recent studies suggest that the impact of HICT on clinician stress and burnout may be considerable. Dr. Kroth will present on what is known about clinician stress and burnout that is attributable to the HICT design and outline his currently funded, multi-institutional study to look into this area with scientific rigor.'
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The Process of Evaluating a Cloud-Based ILS
Karen R. McElfresh, Jacob L. Nash, Robyn Gleasner, Victoria B. Rodrigues, and Laura J. Hall
OBJECTIVE: To describe the process our library used to evaluate OCLCs WorldShare Management Services (WMS), a new cloud-based Integrated Library System (ILS), as a potential replacement for our current system. METHODS: After forming an ILS Review Committee consisting of the staff from the library's technical services, circulation, and IT departments, we viewed multiple webinars and demonstrations given by OCLC staff. We also searched the literature for articles and case studies about WMS, and viewed several online presentations given by libraries that have already implemented WMS. We also conducted telephone interviews with librarians from two different libraries that are currently using WMS. RESULTS: WMS offers many advantages over our current system. WMS combines traditional catalog functions with an Electronic Resource Manager (ERM), which will eliminate the need to maintain records in two places. WorldCat Local, the discovery layer of WMS, is much more intuitive to use, which will be a tremendous benefit to our users. Our research into the experiences of other libraries was predominantly positive, and all libraries reported that they were happy with WMS. CONCLUSIONS: OCLC's WorldShare Management Services is truly an integrated system that will allow our library to provide a more modern and seamless search experience to users. In addition, WMS will help us to streamline the processes and workflows for our technical services staff. For these reasons, our library made the decision to purchase WMS, and we anticipate going live in January 2015.'
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The Valmora Industrial Sanatorium: A New Mexico Public Health Story
Jacob L. Nash, Laura J. Hall, Zsofia Szoke, and Gale Hannigan
The Valmora Industrial Sanatorium, located in Watrous, Mora County, New Mexico, was one of many Tuberculosis Sanatoria that sprang up in New Mexico around the turn of the century and represented one of the first Public Health efforts to take root in New Mexico. Valmora offered highly patient focused methods of treatment and integrated health education with leading a healthy lifestyle. Founded in 1909 by Dr. William T. Brown, Valmora was reorganized into a non-profit corporation supported by large businesses back east such as Marshall Fields, Sears & Roebuck, and the Chicago Daily News. This created the opportunity for working people to get effective care for TB that in the past was exclusively available to the wealthy. Valmora evolved over the 20th century from a self-sufficient industrial TB Sanatorium to a community clinic for heart and chest patients, in addition to a base of operations for the medical director., Dr. Carl H. Gellenthien, as he practiced old-fashioned' medicine across the better part of northern New Mexico, from delivering babies to stitching up knife wounds.'
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Traveling Exhibit Practice of Compassion: Celebrating UNM School of Medicine’s Fifty Years of Excellence
Laura J. Hall
This traveling exhibit celebrated the 50th anniversary of the UNM School of Medicine, presenting key milestones in its history and contributions to healthcare in New Mexico. Designed and written by Laura J. Hall, MFA, the exhibit featured eight retractable banners and was displayed at community centers, libraries, healthcare clinics, and hospitals across New Mexico during the anniversary year. August 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015
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A Survey of Medical Schools' Disability Curricula
Ingrid C. Hendrix and Richard M. Kimball
It is a well established problem that people with disabilities (PWD), as with many other groups disadvantaged by social inequities, often receive suboptimal care from health care providers. The root cause of this inequity in care can be traced to a lack of training in dealing with PWD for health care providers. Barriers result from issues of communication, knowledge of resources available, access to clinics/hospitals, difficulty using diagnostic equipment (exam tables, scales, mammography, etc) and attitudes towards PWD. Despite numerous reports outlining this issue and calls to action to address deficiencies in the care of PWD, few medical schools currently address the care of patients with disabilities in their curriculum. This poster provides a survey of disability curricula in medical schools and a summary of their content/approach and effectiveness.
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Partners in Research Literacy: Librarians and Educators
Ingrid C. Hendrix and Sarah Knox Morley
PURPOSE Research literacy requires health sciences students to effectively locate, evaluate, use, and manage evidence-based information. Students in these programs are required to participate in assignments resulting in papers, posters, or publications. Library faculty created a medical school elective in 2006 using the scholarly communication cycle as a framework to teach information/research literacy. After successfully teaching the course for seven years, the librarian instructors adapted the course to provide a continuing education workshop for faculty. The intent of these offerings is to frame the research or information process as broadly as possible in order to delve into the world of information creation and dissemination. METHODS A School of Medicine course elective (Information Survival Skills') was developed and taught by two academic health sciences librarians. The elective, consisting of five session totaling 7.5 contact hours, involves interactive instructional methods to teach specific research literacy skills to 2nd and 3rd year medical students. Course content includes question formulation, database searching, evaluation of resources, and managing information using personal file management software. Evaluation methods comprised a pre/post self-assessment questionnaire to gauge students' knowledge and attitudes about information resources and skill set. In addition, anonymous post-course evaluations were collected by the Office of Undergraduate Medical Education. As a result of faculty feedback from presentations at medical education conferences, the elective was redesigned in 2012 as a faculty development workshop. This continuing education offering was abbreviated (3.5 hours) but contains similar content. RESULTS Since 2006, eighty-four 2nd and 3rd year medical students have completed the elective. In 2012, eighteen health sciences faculty attended 2 workshops. Both the elective and the workshop have consistently received high marks. Based upon qualitative evaluation data, learners in both groups reported high satisfaction with the hands-on format, introduction to and practice with unfamiliar resources, and information management. Final evaluations illustrate students realize the value of the elective in relation to their coursework, clinical and research experiences. Faculty workshop feedback echoed the benefit to themselves as clinicians/researchers and in their role as educators. CONCLUSIONS There is a broad misconception that students are facile in information retrieval and capable of critically evaluating that information. Faculty development opportunities allow educators to become more proficient in their ability to guide students to evidence-based information. Working in partnership with librarians, medical educators can avail themselves of knowledgeable practitioners and teaching partners to incorporate research literacy skills in courses throughout the curricula.'
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The Role of Librarians and Informationists in Disaster Response
Laura Banks, Brian Bunnett, and Richard Carr
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) website provides a wealth of resources for disaster planning, deployment and reporting. Librarians can play a valuable role in training responders in use of tools such as WISER, CHEMM and REMM.
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Curated Exhibit 100 Years: Celebrating New Mexico's Health
Laura J. Hall
In celebration of New Mexico's centennial year, the 100 Years: Celebrating New Mexico's Health exhibit documented major health advancements and themes from the state's first century of statehood. Curated by Laura J. Hall, MFA, the exhibit was on display from 2012 to 2013 at the UNM Health Sciences Center. It showcased the evolution of public health in New Mexico, from early challenges such as tuberculosis and high infant mortality rates, to modern advances in epidemiology, maternal care, and biomedical research. Accompanied by films, lectures, and weekly stories from the archives, the exhibit highlighted the contributions of health professionals to the state's well-being. October 3, 2012 - August 31, 2013
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Effects of Service Dogs Partnered with People with Mobility Challenges
Terry K. Crowe, Suzanne Perea-Burns, Jessica Salazar Sedillo, Ingrid C. Hendrix, Melissa Winkle, and Jean Deitz
Poster reporting the findings of a study investigating the functional performance and social interaction of individuals paired with service dogs.
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Curated Exhibit: Artistry of Bookplates
Laura J. Hall
The Artistry of Bookplates exhibit, curated by Laura J. Hall, MFA, explored the history and artistic development of bookplates as markers of ownership in books. From early armorial designs to more modern forms influenced by allegorical figures and printing techniques, bookplates have evolved alongside the history of printing. The exhibit featured examples from the Health Sciences Library's general and special collections, as well as reproductions of medical or health-related bookplates. It highlighted the aesthetic and historical significance of bookplates, demonstrating how they reflect both personal ownership and cultural trends. September 7, 2011 - August 30, 2012
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Curated Exhibit: Civil War Medicine
Laura J. Hall
The Civil War Medicine exhibit, curated by Laura J. Hall, MFA, explored the medical practices and challenges faced during the American Civil War. With more than 620,000 deaths, many from disease rather than battlefield injuries, the war presented unprecedented challenges for medical personnel who were often unprepared for the trauma of battle. The exhibit delved into the history of Civil War medicine, including amputations, disease, and the impact of the war on the evolution of American medical practices. The exhibit was on display from October 2011 to August 2012 at the UNM Domenici Center for Health Sciences Education.
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Curated Exhibit Roadside Crosses and Memorials: Photo Essay by Gerald Moore
Laura J. Hall
The Roadside Crosses and Memorials exhibit, curated by Laura J. Hall, MFA, featured a poignant photo essay by New Mexico artist Gerald Moore. The exhibit captured the memorials placed alongside highways and roads in remembrance of those who lost their lives in vehicular accidents. These "descansos," as they are called in New Mexico, represent the places where individuals were last alive, offering a powerful reflection on life, loss, and remembrance. Through photography, Moore documented the varied forms of these memorials, from simple wooden crosses to intricate handmade tributes, capturing both their artistic expression and their deep emotional resonance. April 28, 2011 – July 5, 2012
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Demonstrating an anthropological application of the Economides orthodontic collection: deciduous and permanent tooth size in European and Hispanic Americans
Heather J.H. Edgar, Michael Haueter, Shamsi Daneshvari, Edward Harris, and Philip J. Kroth
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Ancestry Estimation in a Web-based, Searchable Database of Orthodontic Case Files for Patient Care, Education, and Research
Philip J. Kroth, Heather J.H. Edgar, Edward F. Harris, Summers Kalishman, and Shamsi Daneshvari
In 2005, the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology accepted a donation of orthodontic patient records from an orthodontist who has been practicing in the Albuquerque area since the early 1970s. This collection represents a diversity of patients not often encountered in orthodontic training in the United States. A virtual, de-identified, web-based version of a subset of the collection is now being developed. Users can search for cases with particular characteristics of interest (e.g., patient ancestry, extraction patterns, diagnoses, and cephalometric parameters), then review sequential intra-oral and Xray images to observe treatment outcomes. An innovative feature of the database is that it records multiple ancestry estimations, made at multiple points in time by multiple raters, along with a list of ancestry indicators on which the estimations are made (e.g., skin color, hair form and color, facial shape, name, and locality). This poster describes how the database can be used to overcome the limited diversity in the patient populations available to most orthodontics trainees. When this project concludes, the database will contain approximately 400,000 digitized images from 5650 individual cases.'
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A Web-based, Searchable Database of Orthodontic Case Files for Patient Care, Education, and Research
Philip J. Kroth, Heather J.H. Edgar, Edward F. Harris, and Summers Kalishman
In 2005, the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology accepted a donation of 5650 unique orthodontic patient records (treatment records, dental X-rays, dental casts, intra-oral and full facial photographs) from an orthodontists practice in Albuquerque, New Mexico from 1972 through 1999. This collection includes large samples of Hispanic and Native American populations, two groups not often encountered in orthodontic training in the United States or elsewhere. While investigators can use the collection on site at the Museum for approved research, a Web-based, de-identified version of the collection is being developed with input from orthodontics students and faculty from multiple institutions, so the collection can be freely accessed the world over. The database's unique design allows users to search for cases with particular characteristics of interest (e.g., patient ancestry, extraction patterns, diagnoses, and cephalometric parameters) and then review the sequenced intra-oral and X-ray images to observe variations of outcomes from treatments applied to patients with racial and other factors not often encountered in training or practice before.'
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Curated Exhibit: Absolute Poison
Laura J. Hall
The Absolute Poison exhibit, curated by Laura J. Hall, MFA, delved into the fascinating and deadly world of poisons. From the ancient Sumerian goddess Gula, to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and the infamous cyanide-laced Tylenol case of 1982, poisons have long held a place in our collective imagination. The exhibit explored the history, symbolism, and cultural impact of poisons, featuring materials such as Albrecht Dürer’s Adam and Eve with its skull and crossbones motif symbolizing death. On display from September 2010 to August 2011 at the UNM Domenici Center, the exhibit examined how poisons have shaped narratives of danger and mystery. September 8, 2010 - August 12, 2011
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Integrating Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) knowledge and skills into an undergraduate medical school curriculum
JD Eldredge, T Palley, E Cosgrove, and C Arndell
Medical students at UNM have learned Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) since the 1990s when they experienced an Evidence-Based Medicine Block during their transition to their clinical years. When the block was discontinued in 2002, the same training became integrated throughout the first three years of medical school. This integrated approach produced moderate success mostly because of strong support from curricular leaders and the persistence of a small cadre of faculty members.
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