HSLIC News

May is National Stroke Awareness Month! According to the National Institutes of Health, a 2018 National Health Interview Survey found that 7.8 million Americans have suffered from a stroke. For many years, the rate of strokes in the United States had declined, but due to rising rates of obesity, this decline has reversed, and the incidence of strokes in the United States is rising.

Studies show that there is a connection between high blood pressure, dementia, and stroke. Therefore, controlling high blood pressure has become an integral part of stroke prevention and awareness efforts.

Several prominent health organizations promote stroke awareness and provide guidelines for the lay public and health providers:

• The American Heart Association: 

             https://www.heart.org/en/professional/quality-improvement/get-with-the-guidelines/get-with-the-guidelines-stroke

• The American Stroke Association (a Division of the American Heart Association):

             https://www.stroke.org/en/about-the-american-stroke-association

             https://www.stroke.org/en/about-the-american-stroke-association/stroke-awareness-month

• The National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke:

             https://www.ninds.nih.gov/news-events/directors-messages/all-directors-messages/may-stroke-awareness-month-1

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):

             https://www.cdc.gov/stroke/index.htm

In 1983, the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition declared May National Physical Fitness and Sports Month.  Each President since has recognized May as a month to advocate for Americans to adopt healthy lifestyles.  President Biden issued a Proclamation in 2021 stating “No matter our age or ability, the more that we can make regular physical activity and participation in sports a part of our lives, the better off both we and our Nation will be.”  

The library might not be the first place you think of for physical fitness, but the HSLIC front desk offers all kinds of sports equipment for checkout:

• Spikeball sets
• OgoDisk sets 
• Soccer Ball 
• Basketball 
• Volleyball 
• Football 
• Kickball 
• Jump Rope 
• Hacky Sack 
• Frisbee 

Kumal Mankad, a first year student in the MD program, plays Spikeball with fellow students on their break between classes.  They were inspired by the PT students who often play out on the lawn in front of the library. Kumal says physical fitness is very important to him, but it has to be scheduled into his busy week in advance: “I try to set up at least 3 times for physical activities in my planner every week.  It’s not easy.  I’ve seen some students write in ‘Please go to gym’ between meetings or classes.”  He also said that he appreciates that the Library provides exercise equipment “Having equipment available at the library makes it much easier to get exercise.” 

Students can also take advantage of a basketball court located behind the library, a 2-mile trail around the UNM North Golf Course just down the street, and standing desk treadmills on the library's 3rd floor.

Selected ebooks regarding physical fitness available at our library include:

          Esteves, D., & Lewis, K. (Eds.). (2021). Exercise: physical, physiological and psychological benefits Nova Medicine & Health.

          Robbins, J.E., & Madrigal, L. (2017). Sport, exercise, and performance psychology: bridging theory and application. Springer Publishing Company, LLC.

          Trevisano, Q (Ed.). (2020). Physical fitness and exercise: an overview. Nova Science.

Additional Sports and Fitness resources: 

          US Department of Health and Human Services “Move in May”

          City of Albuquerque Parks & Recreation

          UNM Health Sciences Center HSC Wellness

May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) heritage month. We would like to highlight some events sponsored by the Health Sciences Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as well as some resources that may be of interest.

On Tuesday May 16 from 5:00-6:30 PM MST join in the hybrid event:

Building Community: Finding your Food, Fun, & Family in Albuquerque.

On Thursday May 18 from 6:00-7:30 MST join the hybrid event:

Asian American Pacific Islander History Month Trivia Night: Light Dinner & Prizes

Please use this link to register.

The Journal of Health Promotion & Practice has highlighted articles in honor of AANHPI month including:

Through Our Eyes, Hear Our Stories: A Virtual Photovoice Project to Document and Archive Asian American and Pacific Islander Community Experiences During COVID-19

Toward a Politics off Care: Southeast Asian Refugee Organizing, Kinship, Care, and Reunion

Challenges and Successes in Health Communication Messaging With Asian Americans

To learn more about Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) heritage month, please see, https://www.asianpacificheritage.gov/about.html.

In Fall 2022, HSLIC obtained a 3D printer for general use. The printer, an Ultimaker S5, allows for printing in two colors, using filaments such as PLA and PVA. Located on the 2nd Floor, near the public computing stations, Library users can send a print to the Ultimaker S5 from those workstations or bring their file on a USB drive. All files must be sliced in Ultimaker’s software, Cura, which is installed on all the 2nd Floor public computing workstations.  

In Spring 2023, Mohammad Razmjoo, a UNM College of Pharmacy student, practiced using the 3D printer to create a variety of laboratory equipment and objects. He says that his 3D-printed pipette holder has been especially useful for lab work. After completing a few prints, Mohammad felt comfortable enough with the 3D printing technology to integrate it into his poster project for the College of Pharmacy’s Research Day on April 17th. The project, titled “Revolutionize Respiratory Disease Treatment Using a Smart Dry Powder Inhaler,” utilized HSLIC’s 3D printer to produce inhaler components designed in collaboration with students at UNM’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Medicine. The Smart Adaptor makes significant improvements over traditional inhalers, such as better feedback and more precise dosage.  

Mohammad’s poster won Best Poster at the Research Day. Regarding his experience at Research Day, Mohammad said, “It was very unusual for a poster presenter to have a physical model to demonstrate, so the 3D printing really set this poster apart. I had a large audience for the whole time.” 

This initial use case demonstrates how a 3D printer can be utilized to deepen educational experiences for students. Mohammad reports that his classmates were hesitant about using the 3D printer, but he routinely assures them, “It’s really not that complicated.” 

If you are interested in exploring how 3D printing can enhance your work at HSC, we welcome the opportunity to work with you. We invite you to explore our 3D Printing Research Guide and to contact us at reflib@salud.unm.edu. Come try it out!

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May is Mental Health Awareness month. We would like to share some resources that are available to help support mental health. 

This Thursday May 11^th from 11 AM-2 PM there will be a resource fair on the Health Sciences campus BBRP Plaza (horseshoe area) please join if you are able to.

The UNM Mental Health Resources webpage provides many resources that are available both within the UNM community and throughout the greater Albuquerque area.

https://mentalhealth.unm.edu/

The essential support services website of UNM has links to many resources organized by topic. https://mentalhealth.unm.edu/essential-support-services-final.html

The workshop and drop-in services calendar for UNM is available on this page. Even if there are not currently any courses or workshops, it could be helpful to bookmark the site and check as it is updated throughout the academic year/calendar.

https://mentalhealth.unm.edu/workshop-and-drop-in-services-calendar.html

Anyone that is a part of the UNM community can take the Therapy Assistance Online (TAO) course(s) offered through Student Health and Counseling. https://shac.unm.edu/news/2018/11/tao-self-help-for-stress-anxiety-depression.html

The UNM employee assistance program offers Counseling Assistance & Referral Services (CAR) https://cars.unm.edu/.

Educators use rubrics to set expectations for their learners. Rubrics take much of the guesswork out of studying for learners so they can more readily succeed. Rubrics consist of checklists of skills or knowledge learners have gained that, in turn, help learners prepare for their assessments. Educators find rubrics to help score these assessments.

Our recent randomized controlled trial demonstrated that rubrics accompanied by a 5-minute instructional session were just as effective as the same 5-minute instruction followed by an added 25 minutes of instruction.¹ This could save valuable time! The context was our Quantitative Medicine Block for second-year medical students learning question formulation skills as part of their Evidence Based Practice training.

We previously had observed the dramatic improvement driven by rubrics in medical students² and also physician assistant students.³ These two previous quasi-experiments were based on earlier work involving Orthopaedic residents.⁴

Please email me at jeldredge@salud.unm.edu if you would like to learn more on using rubrics to save time in your courses or blocks.

Jon Eldredge, PhD, Professor and Evidence Based Practice Librarian

Every time you sign up for an account online, do you read the Terms of Service? Probably not! These lengthy documents are not easy to get through.  However, they provide useful information about the data they collect from you, whether it be search terms you are using, webpages you visited, or PDFs you may have saved. This goes for accounts for social media, web browsers, and even library databases and resources.

The Terms of Service Didn’t Read Site can help you break down these terms, especially in popular online resources and services. The site provides color coding and grades to help you easily see how and where these services protect your privacy.

The easiest way to protect your privacy is to not create an account; however, in doing this, we give up convenience and a means for saving information to come back to later, answers on test prep resources, or a means for placing an online order. There are some ways we can protect privacy without giving up convenience, such as using a private browser for searching. Options include DuckDuckGo, Brave, and Tor.

Choose Privacy Every Day is an initiative supported by the American Library Association that invites library users into a national conversation about privacy rights in the digital age. For more information about protecting your privacy as a digital information consumer and privacy in the news, see the Choose Privacy Every Day Blog.

Need to unwind during finals week? Join us at Zines and Za Wednesday, May 10th, at noon! We'll have pizza and all the supplies you'll need to work on a zine of your own.

Not sure what a zine is? Zines are short-form self-publication models that allow people to share their experiences in a creative and low-stakes way. We’ll be doing a short introduction, but the most important thing to know is that they are for you to express yourself. You can draw, paint, write, collage, etc. We'll have markers, washi tape, stickers, magazines to cut up, and more! So come get creative without having to take a trip to Michaels and have some free food.

This event will take place in room 428 of the Health Sciences Library. While we do ask that you register so we can estimate supplies and pizza needed, you can drop in any time, and we encourage you to bring friends!

Register for the event here: https://libcal.health.unm.edu/event/10346063