Summer Vacation
Did you know that much of Europe, especially southern Europe, traditionally takes the whole month of August off of work and heads on vacation? Well, we aren't in southern Europe sadly, nor are we on a month-long vacation, but we can dream, right?! In the spirit of this tradition, we're going to take quick break from the newsletter and catch some baseball (we're in America after all). See you in September!
Summer Reading
Craving some light reading on your summer vacation? Check out these articles:
- Do we recover from vacation? Meta-analysis of vacation effects on health and well-being (PubMed)
- Annual, seasonal culture, and vacation patterns in sleep, sedentary behaviour and physical activity: a systematic review and meta-analysis (PubMed)
- A Two-week vacation in the tropics and psychological well-being - an observational follow-up study (Pubmed)
Connect with Us!
Welcome to Fall! It’s been a busy summer at the library. In addition to relaxing with our families, we also got a lot of work done, including meeting with people across the organization to show them how to use our services and resources. This summer alone we met with over 300 nurses, residents, research personnel, urgent care providers, and more! Did you know that we meet with both groups and individuals? We can customize our consultation to whatever you need. Maybe you are diving into a research project or simply need help finding an article or another piece of information – we’re happy to help! We even have an easy way to book a meeting right on our home page. Check out the Request a Librarian Consultation to schedule your next meeting with us. We look forward to hearing from you!
Create a Clinically Relevant Journals filter in PubMed
PubMed, the premier database for biomedical literature, has a personalized option for customizing your experience, called MyNCBI (see Tip of the Month in Library Update 2).
There are many benefits to creating a MyNCBI account , and a major one is you can set up custom filters to apply to your searches. You can limit searches to Review articles, last 5 years, or even a subset of 80 of the most clinically relevant journals, which have been identified by medical librarians who revised the core clinical filter in PubMed (e.g. NEJM, JAMA, Circulation).
To create a custom filter once you have a MyNCBI account, you go to your Dashboard --> Filters --> Manage Filters--> Create Custom Filter and then add the query terms and select a name to save your filter. It should then appear in your filters at the side of your searches ready to be selected.
The query terms (or strategy) for the clinically useful filter can be found here. There is a more detailed description of these instructions at MyNCBI Help. And, of course, you can set up a quick consultation with a Librarian to show you how to do this from the Library’s web page.
Have you ever heard of Health Humanities?
The interdisciplinary field of Health Humanities includes the intersection of the fields of the arts, humanities, and social sciences through the lens of health and healthcare. We have created a LibGuide focusing on two fields of Health Humanities: Graphic Medicine and Narrative Medicine.
Narrative Medicine is a term that encompasses, among other things, the use of story (of either the patient or the provider) to enhance the healthcare experience and ideally to improve outcomes. Here you can learn about various forms of narrative medicine, such as non-fiction, novels, and poetry, including books and articles from our collection, and view videos about the importance of storytelling and healing.
Graphic Medicine refers to any comic or graphic novel that aids in either healthcare communication or storytelling. Here you can learn more about the art form of graphic novels and manga, how to read them and how to create them. You can also explore our curated lists of recommended titles both from our collection and from the Hennepin County Public Library*, as well as webcomics and videos about using graphic medicine to humanize medicine.
*All Hennepin County Public Library books are accessible through your home libraries interlibrary loan system.
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