I visited one of our primary care clinics today with the goal of showing the physicians and nurse practitioners how to register for our Loansome Doc service, a full text document delivery service that's built into PubMed. As long as I don't get too long-winded (a temptation) I'm well received during these visits because what is being offered is a quick, easy-to-use service at no charge to the individuals or their clinics. Gotta like it.
Here's a secret: although I make clinic visits under the guise of registering clinicians for Loansome Doc, I always manage to propagandize a bit for some of our other library services, including my absolute all-time favorite resource: Da-da...DynaMed. Click the DynaMed link on our home page to take a look.
DynaMed is a point-of-care tool that is in a good position, I think, to knock off the current king of the hill, UpToDate. Unlike UTD, DynaMed has clearly explained graded levels of evidence, great navigation, clickable reference links to full text articles AND a very usable version for PDAs, including smart phones. Not to mention the fact that it costs approximately 1/10th of what an UTD site license costs. If you are a SFGH clinician and would like to get access to DynaMed, please contact me, jgraham@sfghdean.ucsf.edu. I'll send you the information you need to get started.
Oh yes, this post was supposed to be about Loansome Doc. You can contact me at that same email address if you want to register for Loansome Doc.
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