A Day in the Life - Tuesday

At work:

• A hospitalist cancelled a 9am research consultation w/ me.  Topic = The leadership and mentorship roles of physicians.  In preparation for the mtg, I threw together (what seemed to me to be) a decent set of search results (for a first search).  I sent him the PubMed results.
• A first-year student was, for some reason, unable to access Ovid from off-campus.  I spent a few minutes trouble-shooting before the problem ironed itself out.
• Volunteered to proctor a dental exam. 
• Had 2 separate research consultations w/ M1 students as part of their longitudinal case study groups.  One early afternoon; the other late.  Both students needed help finding literature on cultural perspectives of health care.  I showed them the research guide a colleague of mine put together for precisely this purpose.  Since both prefered PubMed, I translated the Ovidlish into PubMedese.  I also intro'd them to the ATLA Religion Database to give a non-med slant on things.  Last, I showed some advanced Google strategies (inc site searching) to help them minimize the garbage retrieval.  One of the consultations veered into the land of impact factors and H-Indexes. Aside: I should point out that the LCS is part of the first and second year medical curriculum.  Each small group has 12 or so students + a faculty leader + a librarian.  I've been assigned to 3 M1 groups and 1 M2.  Two of the M1 faculty leaders frequently send students to me.
• Had a working lunch w/ a colleague.

At home:

• Prepped for an early Wed morning presentation.  Topic = Keeping current w/ the literature.  Audience = Nuclear Medicine Fellows.