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From AAMC News, physicians and scientists are finding novel ways of using 3D printers to benefit patients. The ability to customize a hand, an organ, or a pelvis has had amazing results.
Success stories from the HS/HSL’s own Innovation Space provide examples of this in action at UMB.
The HS/HSL Innovation Space, which opened in April 2015, is one of the first pioneering makerspaces created at an academic health sciences library to support health sciences education and research. The goal of the Innovation Space is to promote and facilitate innovative and collaborative hands-on learning, teaching, and research activities centered around new maker technologies such as 3D printing and 3D scanning.
Almost a year and a half later, we are happy to report that all of those activities are now taking place. We see UMB graduate students and researchers create custom lab equipment, such as 3D-printed scaffolds for bone tissue engineering and chronic restraint stress tubes and stoppers for mice. Teaching faculty 3D-printed anatomical models, including a pelvis, skull, dentures, and stackable models from CT scan data, to improve students’ learning process.
Students are often seen designing and 3D-printing custom medical devices ranging from a prosthetic hand to a finger splint. Prototyping activities, such as designing a custom well plate or a 3D model for the prosthetic nose, are happening at the HS/HSL Innovation Space. Clinicians created a model of a wound, which they used not only to guide the surgery process but also to cover and protect the wound until the surgery was performed. The HS/HSL Innovation Space also provides invaluable support and resources for coursework on campus. UMB students enrolled in the DPTE 528 course visited the Innovation Space and took a workshop about the application of 3D printing and 3D scanning to physical therapy. Additionally, Imaging Informatics Fellows of the UMMC Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine used the Innovation Space to complete an assignment.
Since its opening, more than 120 reservations have been made for the use of the HS/HSL Innovation Space. More than ninety 3D models were successfully printed, and over 200 faculty, students, and staff have taken the workshops on 3D printing and 3D modeling. Through the Innovation Space, the HS/HSL also provides educational outreach events for youth, as shown in visits by the UMB CURE Scholars Program and the BCCC Refugee Youth Project this summer. We are excited to see the interest and excitement around the HS/HSL Innovation Space as it grows. If you would like to stay informed of the activities at the HS/HSL Innovation Space, please subscribe to our Innovation Space newsletter.
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If you or your organization plays a role in submitting information to ClinicalTrials.gov, please join the National Library of Medicine for three live webinars on the final rule for Clinical Trials Registration and Results Information Submission (42 CFR part 11).
Final Rule Webinar Series
Each webinar will cover a different aspect of the final rule, including an overview of which applicable clinical trials are covered, what clinical trial registration and results information is required under the expanded requirements, and when the requirements take effect. Each webinar will be archived and publicly available for online viewing after the event. There is no cost to participate in the webinars.
You’ll Need to Register
To view the webinar(s) live, please register for each date you plan to attend:
Register for the webinars—
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/manage-recs/present#FinalRuleWebinar
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Last October, the Library Genie visited for a second time. He asked for your 3 library wishes, and you responded. A year later, we can happily say that 3 of your library wishes have been granted (with more to come):
The Library Genie will be accepting wishes from October 1 to 31. Look for our online form October 1.
As the fall semester begins, the HS/HSL has some tips to help you out!
Check out the latest edition of the HS/HSL’s newsletter, Connective Issues.
In this issue:
The Health Sciences and Human Services Library at the University of Maryland Baltimore will be hosting a series of training sessions conducted by Drs, Peter Cooper and Wayne Matten, from NCBI. The sessions will be livecast to HS/HSL Distance Education room on the Lower Level.
Registration is now open to 25 spots per session, please RSVP as soon as possible:
Tuesday, 10/4, 9:00 am-12:00 pm – Navigating NCBI Molecular Data Using the Integrated Entrez System and BLAST
Wednesday, 10/5, 9:00 am-12:00 pm – A Practical Guide to NCBI BLAST
Thursday, 10/6, 9:00 am-12:00 pm – EDirect: Command Line Access to NCBI’s Biomolecular Databases
Handouts from the 2015 workshop are available for download from an NCBI FTP site.
Videos of the 2015 workshop are also available.
Requirements:
Laptop (highly recommended but not required)
Registration (register for any or all sessions)
Questions?
Contact Jean-Paul Courneya at jpcourneya@hshsl.umaryland.edu
You can now watch video recordings of the April 2016 Cybersecurity and You Conference held at UMB. Follow this link and look for the Watch Video icon for each section.
Network with researchers and librarians at HS/HSL as we live stream the latest event in the NIH’s Guide to the Fundamentals of Data Science lecture series.
The lectures will cover the basics of data management, representation, computation, statistical inference, data modeling, and other topics relevant to “big data” biomedicine. The series seeks to provide essential training suitable for individuals at all levels of the biomedical community.
Every Friday through December
Noon to 1pm
Health Sciences & Human Services Library, Distance Ed Room (Lower Level)
Lecture schedule: