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The Lamar Soutter Library is a cornerstone of the UMass Chan Medical School and UMass Memorial Health systems. The library is an essential partner exercising creative leadership to provide equitable service to all in teaching, learning, and accessing information in support of education, research, and healthcare.at UMass Chan Medical School.
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Acute and Critical Care Nurses' Roles in Mass Shootings: An Integrative ReviewBackground: From 2018 to 2022, mass shooting incidents in the United States increased by 67.7%. Health care-associated shootings also increased. The role of acute and critical care nurses during shootings is not well defined in the literature. Objective: To identify roles of acute and critical care nurses during mass shooting incidents and provide best-practice recommendations for shooting incidents within a hospital. Methods: The methods of Whittemore, Knafl, and Torraco informed this integrative review. Ovid MEDLINE, CINAHL, and Scopus databases were searched for publications related to acute and critical care nurses, mass shooting incidents, and hospital setting. Results: Of 13 589 articles retrieved, 27 were included; 63% were narrative reviews. The highest level of evidence was an expert consensus panel; next highest was a quasi-experimental study that simulated experiences to test mass casualty incident response. Third highest was a qualitative study that analyzed nurses' experiences during a mass casualty experience. Discussion: The evidence revealed 3 themes: prevention and preparedness, response to incident, and recovery phase. Education and training for acute and critical care nurses about mass shooting incidents are central to defining nurses' roles and best practices for these incidents. Nurses must know Stop the Bleed techniques and run-hide-fight protocols. Additionally, acute and critical care nurses need representation on hospital committees to develop and implement policies and procedures. Conclusions: Hospitals are not immune to mass shooting incidents. Acute and critical care nurses require education including simulations and drills on mass shooting incidents to ensure safety of nurses and patients.
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Office of Communications Records, 1962 - ongoing: A Finding AidThe Office of Communications is the official source of news and information at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS). The records in this collection consist mainly of Office of Communications documents, publications, and other materials created beginning in 1962.
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Robert W. Finberg Papers: A Finding AidThe Robert W. Finberg Papers chronicle Dr. Finberg’s career as a physician, researcher, teacher, and administrator at UMass Chan Medical School.
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UMass Chan Medical School Yearbook Collection, 1974 – ongoing: A Finding AidThis collection contains Iatros, the annually published yearbook of UMass Chan Medical School. Also included are yearbooks published under the school’s name prior to 2021, the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
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Sandy C. Marks Collection: A Finding AidThe Sandy C. Marks Collection chronicles Dr. Marks’s career as a faculty member at UMass Chan Medical School.
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University of Massachusetts Medical School Publications Collection, 1976 - ongoing: A Finding AidThe University of Massachusetts Medical School located in Worcester, Massachusetts was founded in 1962 and is the first and only public medical school in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Established to provide affordable, high-quality medical education to state residents and to increase the number of primary care physicians practicing in the state, the school is comprised of the School of Medicine, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and the Graduate School of Nursing. Its clinical partner, UMass Memorial Health Care, is the largest health care provider in central and western Massachusetts. This collection is composed of publications created by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, and University of Massachusetts Memorial Health Care.
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Implementing a Hybrid Work Model in a University Medical LibraryLike many libraries, the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School Lamar Soutter Library adopted a hybrid work model when returning to onsite work after being remote during the COVID-19 Pandemic. To inform this model, a Hybrid Work Environment Team used existing metrics, a literature review, and surveyed staff on how they felt about hybrid work. Most Library staff stated that 75%-100% of their work could be completed remotely and the most popular onsite schedule was two or three days a week. The hybrid work model provides benefits of both remote and onsite work and hopefully mitigates the drawbacks of both.
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The IR Venn Diagram: Diversity in Technology, Content, Users, and Roles in Specialized Institutional RepositoriesIn this poster, librarians from six academic libraries – representing various sectors including science, technology, engineering, medicine, music, and large universities – collaborated to explore and reflect on the academic IR community that encompasses specialized libraries, collections, and formats. The authors answered self-survey questions and responses were analyzed for visualization in the poster. The poster spotlights diversity in technology, content, users, roles, priorities, and challenges. It also illustrates some of the common threads and opportunities that have relevance and implications in both the special library and the broader IR landscape.
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Review of Interventions That Improve Uptake of Lung Cancer Screening: A Cataloging of Strategies That Have Been Shown to Work (or Not)Topic importance: Lung cancer screening (LCS) has the potential to decrease mortality from lung cancer by 20%. Yet, more than a decade since LCS was established as an evidence-based practice, < 20% of the eligible population in the United States has been screened. This review focuses on critically appraising interventions that have been designed to increase the initial uptake of LCS, including how they address known barriers to LCS and their effectiveness in overcoming these barriers. Review findings: Studies were categorized based on the primary barriers that they addressed: (1) identifying eligible patients (including enhancing awareness through smoking history collection, outreach, and education), (2) shared decision-making-related interventions, and (3) patient navigation interventions. Four of the studies included multicomponent interventions, which often included patient navigation as one of the components. Overall, the effectiveness of the studies reviewed at improving LCS uptake generally was modest and was limited by the multilevel barriers that need to be overcome. Multicomponent interventions generally were more effective at improving LCS uptake, but most studies still had relatively low completion of screening. Summary: Improving uptake of LCS requires learning from prior interventions to design multilevel interventions that address barriers to LCS at key steps and identifying which components of these interventions are effective and generalizable.
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Working Together to Mint DOIs on Demand for a DSpace RepositoryBackground: Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) are a key persistent identifier in the publishing landscape to ensure discoverability and citation of research products. Minting DOIs can be a time-consuming task for repository librarians. This process can be automated since the metadata for DOIs is already in the repository record and DataCite, a DOI minting organization, and Open Repository, a DSpace repository platform, both have application programming interfaces (APIs). Previous software has enabled bulk DOI minting. However, the institutional repository contains a mixture of original materials (dissertations, reports, data, etc.) and previously published materials such as journal articles and preprints. Description: An institutional repository librarian and her librarian colleague with Python experience embarked on a pair programming project to create a script to mint DOIs on demand in DataCite for individual items in the institution’s Open Repository instance. The pair met for one hour each week to develop and test the script. The institutional repository librarian lent invaluable insight into both platforms and the metadata variations the code would need to account for. The project was also a great learning opportunity for both librarians to improve their Python coding skills. This project will be evaluated in terms of how the time spent creating the code compares to the time it takes to mint DOIs manually as well as metadata enhancements and accuracy in DataCite. Program Conclusion: This poster will share the final Python script and highlight the takeaways from this approach for both the institutional repository librarian and the coding librarian. Final evaluation is forthcoming.
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Let's Discuss: The History of Medical Libraries and Medical LibrarianshipIn the Medical Library Association 2022 Janet Doe Lecture, Michael Kronenfeld stated that "The great challenge medical library professionals are facing is how we evolve and respond to the emerging digital era." The Network of the National Library of Medicine invited librarians to explore the history of medical librarianship and the evolution of the profession in a book discussion format based on “The History of Medical Libraries and Medical Librarianship” by Kronenfeld and Kronenfeld. This poster displays a timeline of the history of medical libraries and medical librarianship, a visual of the number of active book discussion participants in relation to the registrants, and word balloons of ideas generated during the three-month discussion.
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The 20th Annual Gerald F. Berlin Creative Writing Award Ceremony and ReadingsThe Gerald F. Berlin Creative Writing Award is funded by a donation from Richard M. Berlin, M.D., a poet and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at UMass Chan Medical School. Dr. Berlin established the Award to encourage creative writing among UMass Chan students and residents, and to honor his father who struggled with a severe chronic illness. 2024 Awards: First Place: "Two True Stories" by Elizabeth (Liz) M. Irvin, MD Candidate, Class of 2026, UMass Chan Medical School. Second Place: "To Be a Body" by Hyein Sarah Lee (she/they), MD/PhD Candidate, GS1, UMass Chan Medical School. Third Place: "Hospital Food" by Abigail DeNike, MD Candidate, Class of 2027, UMass Chan Medical School. Honorable Mention: "Grief Sandwich" by Darya Herscovici, MD Candidate, Class of 2024, UMass Chan Medical School. Honorable Mention: "Shadow" by Alexander Hamel, MD Candidate, Class of 2027, UMass Chan Medical School. Honorable Mention: "His Name is Phil" by Melanie Fu (she/they), MD Candidate, Class of 2027, UMass Chan Medical School.
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Anatomical Gift Program Collection: A Finding AidThe Anatomical Gift Program Collection consists of material created by the Department of Radiology, Division of Anatomy’s Anatomical Gift Program.
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Presentation: History of Medical Librarianship at NAHSLIn 2023, Network of the National Library of Medicine, Region 7 (NNLM R7) hosted a webinar on the History of the Rochester Study: Literature Discussion. We identified the Rochester Study topic by watching discussions on the Medical Library Association’s Hospital Libraries Caucus listserv. On the listserv, librarians expressed curiosity about this historic research. During the webinar, the chat discussion was lively, creating 16 pages of commentary that was saved, anonymized, and distributed to the registrants and on the Hospital Libraries Caucus listserv. In 2024, we will deepen our conversation on this history of medical librarianship by taking three months to read A History of Medical Libraries and Medical Librarianship by Michael and Jennie Kronenfeld. The Moodle course starts in February and closes at the end of April. Participants can choose to join discussion forums and Zoom meetings to share ideas with their peers. This presentation will hit the highlights of the Rochester Study literature discussion. This includes participant remarks about the historic changes in federal requirements, information access, aspects of care as well as commentary on future research directions. The presentation will conclude with a synopsis of the Kronenfeld book, with surprising details about the history of medical librarianship. The NNLM training program had 162 registrants for the History of the Rochester Study: Literature Discussion. Judging from these counts, health sciences librarians are interested in the history of their profession. NNLM supports the work of health sciences librarians and looks forward to providing a learning opportunity for this population.
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Research output of Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences faculty: A visual reviewResearch metrics can be used to demonstrate individual research output but also the research output of a group and their contributions to scientific effort. Traditional research metrics have been limited to publication and citation counts and journal impact measures. New tools allow for a broader perspective and an exploration of public engagement with the inclusion of altmetrics such as mentions in traditional and social media, citations in policy documents, and downloads. Similarly, network analysis of bibliometric data can demonstrate the power of co-authorship and collaboration, as well as reveal trending topics. By using the 2020-2022 research output of current Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences faculty at UMass Chan Medical School, what conclusions can be drawn by seeing all these metrics visually? This poster will display a variety of research metrics and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each.
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Presentation: History of Medical Librarianship at UNYOCIn 2023, Network of the National Library of Medicine, Region 7 (NNLM R7) hosted a webinar on the History of the Rochester Study: Literature Discussion. We identified the Rochester Study topic by watching discussions on the Medical Library Association’s Hospital Libraries Caucus listserv. On the listserv, librarians expressed curiosity about this historic research. During the webinar, the chat discussion was lively, creating 16 pages of commentary that was saved, anonymized, and distributed to the registrants and on the Hospital Libraries Caucus listserv. In 2024, we will deepen our conversation on this history of medical librarianship by taking three months to read A History of Medical Libraries and Medical Librarianship by Michael and Jennie Kronenfeld. The Moodle course starts in February and closes at the end of April. Participants can choose to join discussion forums and Zoom meetings to share ideas with their peers. This presentation will hit the highlights of the Rochester Study literature discussion. This includes participant remarks about the historic changes in federal requirements, information access, aspects of care as well as commentary on future research directions. The presentation will conclude with a synopsis of the Kronenfeld book, with surprising details about the history of medical librarianship. The NNLM training program had 162 registrants for the History of the Rochester Study: Literature Discussion. Judging from these counts, health sciences librarians are interested in the history of their profession. NNLM supports the work of health sciences librarians and looks forward to providing a learning opportunity for this population.
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Lamar Soutter Library Annual Report Fiscal Year 2023Annual report of the Lamar Soutter Library at UMass Chan Medical School, covering fiscal year July 1, 2022-June 30, 2023.
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LGBTQ+ health research guides: a multi-institutional analysis of usage patterns and user information needsObjective: LGBTQ+ health research guides can strengthen the LGBTQ+ community through connecting people to quality health services and information, and previous studies have recommended that health sciences libraries create and maintain these guides. Little evidence exists, though, on how these guides are used and how well they meet the needs of LGBTQ+ users. Using retrospective data retrieved from multiple LGBTQ+ health research guides, we examined the categories of LGBTQ+ health information most used, as well as how often guides were accessed. Based on these results, we hope to find patterns which can lead to best practices for libraries. Methods: Five North American academic health sciences libraries contributed select usage data from their LGBTQ+ health research guides, covering a three-year period (July 2018-June 2021). Data was analyzed in two ways. Firstly, the 20 most-clicked resources from each guide were categorized through open coding, to assess if certain information resource categories were more popular among guide users, allowing for inference of user needs. A time-series analysis was also conducted for two sites, using the Classical Seasonal Decomposition by Moving Averages method, to provide deeper insights into the data. Results: Open coding data showed consumer health information resources were used more often than other health resource categories. Resources from more locally based organizations and those with provider and services information were heavily used, indicating that users may be looking for information connecting to local health services and providers. The time series analysis allowed the potential positive effect of guide promotion to be showcased in ways that would not have been clear from the raw data. Conclusion: This study shows that people are accessing LGBTQ+ consumer health information through academic library research guides, with a preference for local information. Guide usage appears to be positively driven by outreach within one’s institution and to the greater community. Locating external partners may increase guide impact and provide important links to local resources and services.
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Adolescent cancer prevention in rural, pediatric primary care settings in the United States: A scoping reviewAdolescence is a critical period for establishing habits and engaging in health behaviors to prevent future cancers. Rural areas tend to have higher rates of cancer-related morbidity and mortality as well as higher rates of cancer-risk factors among adolescents. Rural primary care clinicians are well-positioned to address these risk factors. Our goal was to identify existing literature on adolescent cancer prevention in rural primary care and to classify key barriers and facilitators to implementing interventions in such settings. We searched the following databases: Ovid MEDLINE®; Ovid APA PsycInfo; Cochrane Library; CINAHL; and Scopus. Studies were included if they reported on provider and/or clinic-level interventions in rural primary care clinics addressing one of these four behaviors (obesity, tobacco, sun exposure, HPV vaccination) among adolescent populations. We identified 3,403 unique studies and 24 met inclusion criteria for this review. 16 addressed obesity, 6 addressed HPV vaccination, 1 addressed skin cancer, and 1 addressed multiple behaviors including obesity and tobacco use. 10 studies were either non-randomized experimental designs (n = 8) or randomized controlled trials (n = 2). The remaining were observational or descriptive research. We found a dearth of studies addressing implementation of adolescent cancer prevention interventions in rural primary care settings. Priorities to address this should include further research and increased funding to support EBI adaptation and implementation in rural clinics to reduce urban-rural cancer inequities.
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eScholarship@UMassChan Repository FlyerFlyer about eScholarship@UMassChan, UMass Medical School's digital repository for research and scholarship, which is managed by the Lamar Soutter Library. The intended audience is faculty, researchers, staff, and students at UMass Chan Medical School.
