On Wednesday August 29th, 2018, #IPSAG (which stands for Interprofessional Student Advisory Gatherings, a Penn Libraries-hosted interprofessional networking event series geared towards health sciences students) held its 2nd Annual Welcome (Back) Lunch at the Biomedical Library. […]
Seeking evidence-based clinical information at the point of care
When seeking answers to clinical questions at the point of care, healthcare professionals must locate relevant, concise, highly reliable and synthesized evidence-based information in a very short period of time, e.g., 3-5 […]
Penn Health-Tech and Biomed Library to make expired medical devices available for reverse-engineering
What good are medical devices whose expiration date has passed? Well, Penn Health-Tech believes that tinkerers may find such expired devices quite useful and has started to build a stockpile of them for teams to prototype, reverse engineer, […]
Ground-floor space reopened at Biomed!
The Biomedical Library is pleased to announce that the portion of our library (the Stemmler Hall side) that has been closed since 2015, is now reopened, freshly carpeted, with ample space to […]
And the BGS winners are…
BGS students lined up yesterday to subscribe to this Biomeditations blog and enter a raffle for a fitbit versa and two copies of EndNote. And the winners are: fitbit versa: Jennifer Ramirez […]
Meet Subin: The Biomed Library Bioinformatics Intern
Do you have NCBI database questions beyond PubMed? Then meet Subin George, our Bioinformatics intern. Subin, a graduate student pursuing a Professional Science Master’s degree in Bioinformatics at Temple University, joined the […]
Biomed Librarians lead First Year med students through the National Parks
Every year the Biomedical Library sponsors a Library Information Fair for incoming Perelman School of Medicine students. The theme for this year’s event, organized by Medical Education Librarian, Frank Campbell, and held […]
