Yesterday the new PubMed interface debuted successfully. The simpler-looking and quite differently designed interface appears at first to represent substantial change, but all the features are still present. For an overview of what has been changed, see the NLM Technical Bulletin articles here and here. Users who frequently search PubMed will notice that setting up a "My NCBI" login is becoming increasingly desirable.
Elsevier has informed us that Science Direct will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 8 hours from 8pm Central, Saturday, October 31, to 4am Central, Sunday, November 1st. Science Direct journals will not be available at this time. The publisher apologizes for this inconvenience. Thank you for your patience while Elsevier completes this scheduled maintenance on the Science Direct platform.
Program No. 884, "Gender Differences in Acute Coronary Syndromes Care and Outcomes" was released recently by NCME TV. This program, taught by Christopher P. Cannon, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, deals with the differences in coronary disease manifestation between the sexes and addresses effective assessment techniques and treatment approaches for female patients with ACS (Acute Coronary Syndromes.)
NCME is approved by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. All NCME programs are certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ on an hour-for-hour basis. (Some individual programs are supported by educational grants from industry.) See this page for clarification on how to register at the NCME TV website.
Our electronic resources link provider, Serials Solutions, will be upgrading their systems Saturday, Oct. 24, at 2:01 am, to improve speed and reliability of service. As a result of this upgrade, access to ejournals will be unavailable for a period of time. Downtime across the global system could last two to six hours, but Serials Solutions predicts a maximum of three for our local area. Thank you for your patience while the provider completes this upgrade.
Exam Master has sent the following notification:
Revised USMLE Steps 2 and 3 Medical Subjects Question Banks
Dear Customer:
We are pleased to announce that we have revised Exam Master’s USMLE Step 2 and Step 3 Medical Subjects question banks.
To ensure that you have a better and more focused study opportunity, we have removed the Basic Sciences topic from both of these question banks.
This revision makes both of these question banks more pertinent to your studies.
Many of the Basic Science questions that were removed from the USMLE Step 2 and Step 3 Medical Subject question banks are available in our Medical Subject Review set of question banks, comprising over 6000 Basic Science questions. You will still find these questions useful for general studies or as a Basic Sciences refresher. Both the USMLE and the Medical Subject Review resources are available on your institution’s Exam Master OnLine gateway.
We wish you continued success in your studies. Please let us know how you like this important change to our USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 resources; just send an email to customer_service@exammaster.com.
Sincerely,
The Team at Exam Master
