Welcome to BiblioBlast, the newsletter of the D. Samuel Gottesman Library of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. BiblioBlast will inform you about new Library resources and keep you up to date with our classes, events and other activities. It will also highlight tips to make our online resources easier and faster to use.
Einstein Commencement Exhibit 2014
Calculate Your Body Mass Index
Find out How Many Americans Experienced Mental Illness in the Past Year?
Save Time Creating Presentations
Recently Received Books for Clinician's
Workshops are held via Zoom. Click on a title to sign up.
Contact the Reference Department for more information, or to schedule an individual or small-group session.
See our full listing of events.
Culture of animal cells: a manual of basic technique and specialized applications by 
Contrast media : safety issues and ESUR guidelines by 
Functional symptoms in pediatric disease: a clinical guide by 
Hand Function by 
Orofacial pain: a clinician's guide by 
Toxic trauma: a basic clinical guide by 
Rosen's emergency medicine: concepts and clinical practice by Stop by the Library lobby to see the 2014 Commencement Exhibit now on display in the Library’s exhibit cases. An exhibit honoring a number of individuals and faculty members with Lifetime Achievement Awards, Distinguished Alumni Awards, Excellence in Teaching Awards and graduating students is on display during June and July.
This year’s Commencement speaker was Dr. Arturo Casadevall
Arturo Casadevall, MD, PhD is the Leo and Julia Forchheimer Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in the Bronx, New York. He is Chairman of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and served as Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Montefiore Medical Center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine from 2000-2006. Dr. Casadevall received both his MD and PhD (biochemistry) degrees from New York University in New York, New York. Subsequently, he completed internship and residency in internal medicine at Bellevue Hospital in New York, New York. Later he completed subspecialty training in Infectious Diseases at the Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
If you have any questions, contact Rachel Schwartz at 718.430.3104 or rachel.schwartz@einstein.yu.edu
UpToDate includes more than 135 interactive medical calculators that allow you to enter the values in commonly used formulas to obtain numerical data. Calculators in UpToDate are organized according to subject areas, such as Oncology or Allergy and Immunology. Each subject area offers many different calculators. When in UpToDate, click on the "Calculators" tab (shown below) and navigate by topic area.
Endocrinology and Diabetes, for example, offers the following calculators:
Clinical Criteria
Medical Equations
UpToDate is available only to Einstein students and Einstein faculty at the medical school.
Access to UpToDate is available from the library’s homepage with your Remote Access User ID and Password. If you do not have a Remote Access account, contact the Reference Department askref@einstein.yu.edu or 718.430.3104.
Congress established the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in 1992 to "target effectively substance abuse and mental health services to the people most in need." On their homepage, you can get start by clicking on the "Data" link at the top of the page and reading through the "What We Are Doing" section. Here you will find highlights of recent reports, state-level data on these topics, and a series of mental health statistics reports. The top of their homepage contains additional sections of interest, including "Grants", "Publications", "Data", and "Newsroom". You should also take a look at the "Featured Resource", which is also on the homepage. In addition, many of the site's materials are available in Spanish.
Follow SAMHSA on various social networks including Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, and also sign up for their mailing list if you wish to keep up with this valuable organization.
Clinical Key has a built in Presentation Maker that allows you to take images you find within Clinical Key and put them into a presentation layout that can then be exported to Microsoft PowerPoint. Drag and drop images into the Presentation Maker from your search results page, or select an image and then click the Add to Presentation button. The necessary reference citations for each of your images will be added automatically.
If you want to view or delete an image, click the Presentation button to View or Remove it as needed. Once you've made your changes, you can click the Export to PowerPoint button to transfer your created presentation.
Authorized users of Clinical Key have permission to use content from the site in presentations for noncommercial use. You must keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices.
Access to Clinical Key is available from the Library’s homepage under “Databases”. For more information contact the Library Reference staff at 718.430.3104, or emailaskref@einstein.yu.edu.
Infoshare Online was developed by Leonard Rodberg and John Seley, faculty members at Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY). The Infoshare Online tool, which began in 1988, provides free subscriptions to individuals and allows users to access a wide range of data on demographics about New York City and New York State. Demographic data covered Includes population statistics, immigration trends, socio-economic indicators, birth and death data, hospitalizations, local trade data, and much more.
You can profile individual neighborhoods, compare neighborhoods using selected indicators, and produce your own detailed tables. Data can be printed or saved to a spreadsheet or database file. Maps comparing neighborhoods for selected data can be viewed, printed, and saved.
Find Infoshare Online on the Library’s Website http://library.einstein.yu.edu . Click “More” under "Databases".
To download the guide to Infoshare, click here.
A gentle introduction to stats by 
An introduction to Stata for health researchers by 
One hundred nineteen Stata tip by 
The molecular basis of cancer by 
Nelson essentials of pediatrics by 
Roberts and Hedges' clinical procedures in emergency medicine by 
Essentials of radiology by 
Principles of pulmonary medicine by 
Clinical interventional oncology by 
Creasy and Resnik's maternal-fetal medicine: principles and practice by 
The Einstein Book Club members have chosen Dissolution, by C. J. Sansom. "Sansom seems to have been born with, or instinctively acquired, that precious balance of creativity and research that lets a mystery set in another time walk a delicate line between history and humanity." — Chicago Tribune.
The next meeting will be Wednesday, July 9, 2014, 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. on the quad, weather permitting. Otherwise in the Library Conference Room, Forchheimer 119N. All members of the Einstein community are welcome.
If you have any questions and to RSVP, please contact the Reference Department at askref@einstein.yu.edu or 718.430.3104.