Featured Resource: Breast Imaging Review (SpringerLink database @ UWI Mona)

Breast Imaging Review: A Quick Guide to Essential Diagnoses serves as a quick review of essential radiology findings for interpreting multimodality images of the breast. The book includes 92 easy-to-read cases presenting common diagnoses, with over 360 high-quality figures encompassing mammography, ultrasound, MRI, and PET images. Also included are concise pearls covering the basics of interventional breast procedures, such as MRI-guided breast biopsy, galactography, and ultrasound-guided cyst aspirations, along with high yield facts vital to the practice of breast imaging.

Co-authored by Drs. Biren A. Shah, Gina M. Fundaro, and Sabala Mandava, this book successfully integrates a comprehensive array of images, diagnoses, and discussion points into a quickly reviewable format. Breast Imaging Review is a valuable resource for radiology residents preparing to take the oral boards, as well as fellows and practicing radiologists interested in reviewing the basics of breast imaging interpretation and interventional procedures.

Access this book from the SpringerLink database by typing the title in quotation marks and clicking GO.

Featured Resource: Encyclopedia of Diagnostic Imaging

The aim of this comprehensive encyclopedia is to provide detailed information on diagnostic radiology contributing to the broad field of imaging. The wide range of entries are written by leading experts. They will provide basic and clinical scientists in academia, practice and industry with valuable information about the field of diagnostic imaging. Those in related fields, students, teachers, and interested laypeople will also benefit from the important and relevant information on the most recent developments.

Access this book from the SpringerLink database by typing the title in quotation marks and clicking GO.

UWI Mona Undergraduate Orientation – Aug. 25 & 26, 2011

Undergraduate Orientation at UWI Mona takes place on August 25 & 26, 2011 at the Big Tent beside the Undercroft. Click here for further information.

Library Opening Hours During August 2011

The Main, Law, Medical & Science Libraries will close on:

• August 1 Emancipation Day
• August 6 Independence Day

From August 2 – 28 the Main, Law, Medical & Science Libraries will open:

• Mon – Fri 8.30 am-10.00 pm
• Saturday: 8.30 am-4.00 pm.
• Sunday: closed

When the Libraries are closed the Overnight Reading Room, Main Librarywill open:

• 10:15 pm – 6:00 am Monday – Friday
• 4:15pm on Saturday to 6:00am Monday

Normal opening hours will resume on Monday August 29, 2011.

How Technology Gives Insight into Human Anatomy and Disease

 

 

(January 12, 2010) Geoffrey D. Rubin, M.D., Stanford Professor of Radiology and Diagnostic Radiology, discusses the various radiology technologies, their uses, and the positive changes they are making in medical diagnosis.

Stanford Mini Med School is a series arranged and directed by Stanford’s School of Medicine, and presented by the Stanford Continuing Studies program.

World No Tobacco Day – May 31, 2011

WHO produced this video for World No Tobacco Day 2011, the theme of which is a public health treaty, the “WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control”. The tobacco epidemic kills nearly 6 million people each year, of whom more than 5 million are users and ex‑users of tobacco and more than 600 000 are nonsmokers exposed to second-hand smoke. The WHO FCTC is the world’s answer to the tobacco epidemic. Adopted by the World Health Assembly in May 2003 and entered into force less than two years later, it now has more than 170 Parties, making it one of the most rapidly embraced treaties in the history of the United Nations. World No Tobacco Day 2011 highlights the critical importance of ensuring full implementation of the WHO FCTC. Let’s use it!

Featured Ebook: Essential Radiology for Sports Medicine

UWI Mona students can read ebook off-campus through SpringerLink database at the Library’s website.

Essential Radiology for Sports Medicine, a highly illustrated, practical book provides a systematic approach to the radiological assessment of all significant sports injuries. Imaging features are presented along with discussion of the influence of these findings on treatment and image-guided interventions. For each anatomical area, the underlying biomechanical features that produce injury are explored. All imaging modalities are featured, with emphasis on MRI, MR arthrography, CT, and ultrasound. A concise guide to sports injuries, this book will help clinicians quickly identify the appropriate imaging techniques to best serve their patients.