Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
Medical Library
OUWB Medical Library
Volume 12, Issue 6, September 2022
Newsletter Archive

Welcome Trey Lemley!
The Medical Library has a new Director! We are so pleased to welcome Trey Lemley to the OUWB Medical Library, and it has been great to bring him into our space. For more information about Trey, see a short bio below. 
This month's newletter features a return to feeding medical students, tips for evidence based medicine, and the newest titles in the Medical Library collection. 

Library Hours and Housekeeping
Library Building Hours
Library hours will remain the same throughout the month of October. Please note that the Medical Library study spaces are only accessible during the Kresge Library building hours.
  •  Mon - Thurs 7:30am - 11:00pm, Fri - 7:30am - 8:00pm, 10:00am - 6:00pm on weekends. 
Medical Library Open House
We are having an open house! Please join us on October 17th from 11am - 1pm for food, our annual textbook giveaway, and general mingling as we open house for the first time in two years!
While study spaces have been available for students, this will be our opportunity for students and faculty to meet the new Medical Library Director and check out what services we have to offer.
Please RSVP if you'd like to come as we are limiting how many people we want to comfortably invite into one room and how many people we can feed. The picture invite to the left should house a link that you can follow in order to put in your RSVP. We look forward to seeing people!
Medical Library Twitter
We have a Twitter! Please look for us @ouwbmedlib for all the latest news and information from the OUWB Medical Library.

Trey Lemley - Medical Library Director 
The Medical Library is excited to have found its new Medical Library Director -Trey Lemley. Trey comes to us from the University of South Alabama, where he spent 16 years in multiple librarian roles before finding his place within the Biomedical Library where he served as Senior Librarian and liaison to several departments in the College of Allied Health.  
Trey has bachelor’s degrees in history, political science, and psychology, master’s degrees in library/information science, music (organ performance), and political science, and a doctorate in jurisprudence from the Indiana University Bloomington School of Law. The man is well-rounded and thoroughly educated!  We're honored to have him with us and can not wait to see what direction he takes the OUWB Medical Library in moving forward. For Trey's full bio courtesy of OUWB, please check out their wonderful introduction here. 

Embase Search Strategies - PICO 
If you need help with evidence-based medicine literature searches, Embase has a tool that you need to try! It's called PICO searching, PICO of course standing for Patient/Population, Intervention, Comparison and Outcomes, and it takes the hassle out of using complicated query strings by providing you the four fields and then doing all the connection work for you. In order to find this feature, go to the Embase homepage and click on the 'PICO' option in the search features. 
From there, you can simply fill out fields for each parameter, and Embase takes care of the search operators. You even have the option of picking which kind of article you want - clinical trials, randomized control trials, cohort studies, etc.  
Once you have your results, you can refine them and select them as you like, or even use specific articles within the results to find new keywords to search with. The possibilities are almost endlessly specific to whatever you're searching! 

New Titles List
The Medical Libary has released its Third Quarter New Titles for 2022, featuring the following interesting titles - 

Medical Topics Around the Web
Every newsletter we try to bring you some hot topics in the medical field that we've found scrolling around on the internet. Check out our newest offering below:
  • October is National Health Literacy Month - The Institute for Healthcare Advancement has created several videos about health literacy that are short and informative. 
  • To honor Health Literacy Month, the Network of the National Library of Medicine is hosting a book spine poetry contest. Think you have what it takes to compete?  Join here!  
  • October is also Breast Cancer Awareness Month - Prepare yourself for a deluge of pink themed social media items next month. This year's theme, per the National Breast Cancer Foundation, is RISE. 
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