The University of Vemont Libraries: Bailey/Howe Library

• Use the 4 study rooms when you wish to study in a small group. You can book a room with assistance from either service desk.
• The quietest areas of the library are in the back and periphery of the library.
• If you are a graduate student (including medical students), please use designated study areas.
• Please chat with friends or use your phone in the hallway outside of the library.
• If you can’t find a seat, ask at either service desk for assistance.
• A list of alternative places to study around campus can be found at each service desk.

Good luck with your work!

Dana Medical Library is grateful for the trained health care professionals who responded professionally and humanely to the recent tragic bombing in Boston. The following resources analyze the successes of the coordinated response among Boston hospitals, and highlight the importance of disaster planning exercises and emergency preparedness.

Wall Street Journal, Boston Hospitals Mobilize
The Boston Globe, Hospital scene was like a battle zone
New York Times, Surgeons Saved Lives, if Not Legs, After Boston Blasts
MedpageToday, Boston Bombing a Lesson in Prep for Hospitals

Books in the Dana Medical Library Collection

Disaster medicine / editors, David E. Hogan, Jonathan L. Burstein, 2nd ed., Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007; WB 105 D6108 2007

Major incident medical management and support : the practical approach in the hospital /  by Simon Carley, Kevin Mackway-Jones, Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2005; WX 185 C2815m 2005

Public health management of disasters : the practice guide / Linda Young Landesman, 3rd ed., Washington, DC : American Public Health Association, 2012; WA 295 L256p 2012

04-10-2013
By University Communications

Nursing major Jeanelle Achee, a UVM junior, has been named a 2013 Harry S. Truman Scholar. She is one of 62 students this year to win the highly competitive national award, which recognizes those who want to make a difference in public service and “provide them with financial support for graduate study, leadership training, and fellowship with other students who are committed to making a difference through public service.”

A Rochester, Vt. native, Achee enrolled at UVM dedicated to begin her training as a nurse as well as to develop an expertise in how to help women around the world, especially around issues of sexual violence. As a survivor of sexual violence, Achee has worked with communities throughout Vermont to advocate for women’s empowerment in areas of our society where it is needed most. She created a leadership weekend for the Girl Scouts Beyond Bars; an empowerment event for young girls who have a parent in prison. Her work with the organization introduced children to positive role models, strategies for living a healthy lifestyle, and how to foster self-efficacy.

Two other UVM students were chosen as finalists for this year’s Truman award: Tad Cooke ’14, an ecological food and energy systems major from Williston, Vt., and Hillary Laggis ’14, a public communications major from Hardwick, Vt.

The Truman Foundation, a federal agency that seeks to identify and support college juniors who are on track to be future public servants and change agents, issues the Truman Scholarship. Each year, universities across the country submit up to four nominees through a rigorous application review and interview process (in total, 629 students were nominated in 2013). At UVM, the Office of Fellowships Advising oversees this process.

“We are thrilled that Jeanelle has been recognized in this way — she is a truly inspiring person,” said Lisa Schnell, associate dean of the Honors College, who supervises the Office of Fellowships Advising. “Indeed, all four Truman nominees this year were stellar candidates for the award, and of the three Vermonters who were finalists — Jeanelle, Tad, and Hillary — UVM has every right to be proud. Their success is all theirs, but I know that they would want me to mention that behind them all the way was Brit Chase, UVM’s fellowships adviser, who spent countless hours helping them prepare for the competition, as well as a faculty committee and individual UVM faculty mentors who have been extremely generous in the support and mentoring of all the nominees.”

In addition to her work with Girl Scouts Beyond Bars, Achee, a certified crisis counselor, has dedicated thousands of hours to counseling victims at Hope Works, Chittenden County’s largest non-profit organization dedicated to supporting people who have experienced the trauma of sexual violence. She has also been an active volunteer in statewide campaigns for presidential candidates John Kerry and Barack Obama. She’s volunteered for Sen. Bernie Sanders’ re-election. She co-founded the Vermont Student Summit for Building Peace in Iraq, a foundation for a statewide student-led peace group. She’s received state and national recognition for her service to her community, including the Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award, the Miss America Community Service Award, and the Vermont Governor’s Award for Outstanding Community Service. A global studies minor, she is also a member of Mortar Board, and is a former member of the Dewey House for Civic Engagement, UVM’s residential learning community for students who are dedicated to becoming engaged and active members in the community through public service.

“Jeanelle Achee is an exceptional young woman who represents all that we hope for in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences — someone who really does make a difference for the health and wellbeing of others,” says Dean Patricia Prelock.

“As a student here, Jeanelle has made a huge impact not just on her fellow students’ lives — counseling individuals through crises, advising on writing papers, organizing service activities, for instance — but also faculty,” says Luis Vivanco, director of the Global and Regional Studies Program. “Her combination of humility, dedication and insightfulness about people is amazing. While the Truman is an excellent reflection on her qualities and commitment, she’s an excellent reflection on the Truman program.”

Achee is the fourth UVM student to win the award. Brent Reader ’13, a social work major, received the award in 2012. Alumna Kesha Ram, now a Vermont state representative, was a winner in 2007, and William F. Steinman was a winner in 1988.

Please take our library user survey now by selecting your most frequently-used library:

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The University Libraries care about what you think. We want your voice to be at the heart of our planning efforts.

Every four years we run a very important, nationally-benchmarked electronic survey that helps us learn how our user community views library services, collections, and facilities.

Help us raise up to $2,000 for the Chittenden County Emergency Food Shelf by participating in this year’s survey. We’ll donate 50 cents for every response until we reach our goal. It takes approximately ten minutes to complete the survey – in that time you’ll be providing multiple meals to a hungry neighbor. Additionally, participants can enter a drawing for gift certificates to UVM’s bookstore.

Your responses will be held in confidence. No identifying links between responses and the individual responding will be retained. The survey is called LibQUAL+ (TM) and is administered by the Association of Research Libraries. If you have any difficulty in accessing or taking the survey, please contact Selene Colburn at Selene.Colburn@uvm.edu.

Bring your laptop and your questions to the Dana Library Conference Room for library skill-building workshops. Learn how to use EndNote, brush up your lit searching skills, make a better PowerPoint presentation, and much more!

The Dana Medical Library 2012 Annual Report highlights the goals and accomplishments of the Library in this past year. The Director’s Summary and a list of presentations and posters by Dana faculty and staff are also included. For the full Report see http://library.uvm.edu/dana/about/annual_reports/2012AnnualReport.pdf.

We know that study space is a problem for medical and health science students at UVM. We share the concerns of graduate students in the MD, MePN, MSN,DPT, MS/CSD programs, and those in graduate research programs, who have not had study seats available to them during the crowded University exam periods. We have also heard the concerns of undergraduates in Nursing, Rehabilitation & Movement Science, Medical Laboratory & Radiation Science, and Communication Sciences & Disorders who have also experienced this crowding, and we want to assure you that there is study space at Dana for you as well.

At Dana Library, we want to maintain as much study space as possible for our primary student groups. To that end, Dana library has established a reserved medical and graduate student study area. The area contains 26 table seats and six lounge chairs and it is located in the front-side, south end of the Library. Medical and graduate students in College of Medicine and College of Nursing and Health Sciences (CNHS) programs are welcome to study in this area. The remaining study seats at tables and carrels are available to CNHS undergraduates and others on an open seating basis. UVM faculty, FAHC residents and attending physicians, nurses, and other professional staff also appropriately conduct study and research in the Library.

To reduce the incentive for students in non-CNHS undergraduate general enrollment classes to study at Dana, we will no longer have reading materials on reserve for those classes. However, all reading materials associated with programs in CNHS will still be available at Dana.

While providing quiet study space is an important Library service, other teaching, learning, and research activities of the Academic Health Center and the University take place at Dana Library. Activities such as finding and checking out books, using electronic information sources, consultation with a librarian, and attending classes taught by the librarians on information competency and evidence-based practice are important uses of Library space. We hope you will find the physical library a great place to study, but also take advantage of the many other services the Library offers both in the building, and online at the Dana website: library.uvm.edu/dana.

Please let us know your comments and concerns, and give us your feedback concerning study seating at Dana Medical Library, including the new Med/Grad study space.

Wishing you success with your course of study and career,

Marianne Burke, MLS AHIP

Director, Dana Medical Library

Bruce A. Gibbard, M.D. Memorial Lectureship Program

Sponsored by the University of Vermont College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry

Friday, March 22, 2013

The Davis Auditorium

Fletcher Allen/UVM Medical Education Center, Burlington

Aritetta Slade, Ph.D.
Minding the Baby(r):
Attachment, Trauma, and the Development of Mentalization

Morning Program:

10:15 – 10:30 A.M. Vermont Psychiatric Association’s Presentation of the Bruce A. Gibbard, M.D. Award for Clinical Excellence for 2013

10:30 − 11:45 A.M. Gibbard Lecture* (Grand Rounds Workshop #13-128-29)
Minding the Baby(r): Attachment, Trauma, and the Development of Mentalization

12:00 − 1:00 P.M. Lunch Reception−−Davis Auditorium Lobby

Afternoon Program (open to Clinicians and Mental Health Professionals only):

1:00 − 3:00 P.M. Workshop* (Davis Auditorium)

“Developing Reflective Capacities in Mothers and Families: Notes from the Field”

*The Afternoon Workshop is open to Clinicians and Mental Health Professionals only. Attendance and clinical affiliation will be taken at the door.

Lecture and Workshop Descriptions

MORNING LECTURE:

Minding the Baby(r): Attachment, Trauma, and the Development of Mentalization

Minding the Baby(r) is an intensive, interdisciplinary home-based intervention aimed at helping parents, whose lives have been disrupted by trauma, abandonment, loss, and severe mental illness, to develop the capacity to envision their own and their child’s subjective experience. While Selma Fraiberg planted the seeds for psychoanalytic infant-parent work over 40 years ago, contemporary efforts have been deeply enriched by developments in infant research, relational psychoanalysis, as well as attachment and mentalization theories, with their particular focus on affect regulation, intersubjectivity, and intergenerational transmission of fear and trauma. Minding the Baby(r) engages mothers before they give birth, with the goal of interrupting cycles of traumatizing, disrupted interactions, and developing more attuned interactions that culminate in a more secure attachment and appropriate development. The presentation will include a discussion of the theoretical frameworks for Minding the Baby(r), a description of the fundamental aspects of mentalization-based infant-parent work, and a summary of a randomized clinical trial and preliminary findings.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will learn the fundamental tenets of attachment and mentalization theory, as these pertain to parent-infant intervention.
2. Participants will learn about models and approaches to enhancing attachment and mentalization in young families.
3. Participants will learn about the outcomes of a longitudinal randomized clinical trial examining the impact of Minding the Baby(r) on health, attachment, and relationship outcomes.

AFTERNOON WORKSHOP:

Developing Reflective Capacities in Mothers and Families: Notes from the Field

This seminar will focus more closely on the processes whereby clinicians observe and evaluate a parent’s reflective capacities, and engage parents in becoming more reflective and sensitive in their parenting. This will first involve an in-depth look at what parental reflective functioning looks like in the clinical situation, as well as a discussion of case material and clinical vignettes demonstrating clinical strategies for working with breakdowns in mentalization.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will learn how to define and recognize instances of parental reflective functioning.
2. Participants will learn basic techniques for enhancing parental reflective functioning in young parents.
3. Participants will learn basic techniques for interrupting cycles of non-mentalizing interactions.

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About Our Speaker:

Arietta Slade, Ph.D. is Professor of Clinical and Developmental Psychology at the City University of New York, and Visiting Research Scientist at the Yale Child Study Center. Dr. Slade is a theoretician, clinician, researcher, and teacher who has focused for the past 30 years on integrating the domains of attachment research and dynamically oriented clinical practice. She has written widely on the clinical implications of attachment theory, the development of parental reflective functioning and mentalization, and the relational contexts of play and early symbolization. Most recently she has addressed the role of fear in attachment and clinical process. For the past 10 years she has been co-directing Minding the Baby, an interdisciplinary reflective parenting home visiting program for high-risk mothers, infants, and their families, at the Yale Child Study Center and School of Nursing. She is editor, with Dennie Wolf, of Children at Play: Developmental and Clinical Approaches to Meaning and Representation, (Oxford University Press, 1994), with Elliot Jurist and Sharone Bergner, of Mind to Mind: Infant Research, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis (Other Press, 2008), and with Jeremy Holmes of the forthcoming Major Work on Attachment (SAGE Publications). She has also been in private practice for thirty years, working with children and adults.

Continuing Education Credits:

The morning lecture (Workshop #13-128-29) is part of the UVM Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds Series. Attendees will receive 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM

The University of Vermont College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Vermont designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The Afternoon Workshop is not accredited for Category 1 CME or CEU Credits.

Application has been made for CEUs for Psychologists, Social Workers, and Mental Health Counselors.

Registration and Program Fees:

No registration is required for the morning program. Attendance and clinical affiliation will be recorded for the afternoon program. The annual Gibbard Lectureship Program is provided at no charge to participants, thanks to donations made to the Bruce A. Gibbard M.D. Lectureship in Psychiatry Fund at the University of Vermont, College of Medicine. To learn more about the Gibbard Lectureship Fund or to make a donation, contact: sarah.keblin@uvm.edu.

Directions to Davis Auditorium:

From the Fletcher Allen Health Center parking garage Level 2 (orange), enter the Ambulatory Care Center (ACC). Once inside, follow the signs to the Medical Education Center. At the snack kiosk, turn left through the double glass doors. Davis Auditorium is on the right.

Directions to Fletcher Allen Health Center Parking Garage:

Map available at: http://www.fletcherallen.org/Quick_Links/mchv_flrplan.html

Questions?

Contact: Jean Pieniadz, Ph.D., UVM Gibbard Committee Chair, at 802-651-7506, or

Committee Members: Brooke Barss, M.D., James Jacobson, M.D., Judith Lewis, M.D., & Debra Lopez, M.D.

How clean is Vermont’s air? What health problems could be linked to the water we drink? What relationships may exist between environmental exposures and cancer?

Vermont’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Program aims to assist policymakers, health professionals, scientists, researchers and others to answer these questions and more. According to the Vermont Public Health Tracking web site, environmental public health tracking brings environmental and public health data together in one place in order to understand how environmental factors play a role in certain illnesses. As the VT Department of Health notes,

For decades, the United States has faced a fundamental gap in understanding how environmental contaminants affect people’s health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working to close this gap by improving surveillance through the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network). The Tracking Network is a dynamic Web-based tool that, for the first time, provides health and environment data in one easy to find location.

Policy makers and public health officials can use the Tracking Network to make critical decisions about where to target environmental public health resources and interventions. Health practitioners and researchers can use the Tracking Network to learn more about health conditions related to the environment, and improve treatment plans. Anyone can use the Tracking Network to find out how the environment may be affecting them, their family’s or community’s health.

The building blocks of the national network are state and local health departments around the country that are funded to build local tracking systems. These systems supply data to the National Tracking Network and address local environmental public health concerns. The tracking programs use their networks every day to improve the health of their communities.

Vermont’s Tracking Program also links you to comparable information from other states and to national data.

Anyone can use the site to search for data about environmental and health topics such as air quality, cancer, lead, drinking water and birth defects. The site also connects users to additional resources on the health and environmental topics. For more information, be sure to visit the site at healthvermont.gov/tracking.

The Dana Medical Library wants to maintain a dynamic and relevant collection of books, journals, and databases for our health sciences patrons at UVM and FAHC. Requests are submitted by faculty, staff, and students.

Each year the Collections Team sits down with the “wish list” of items requested by our users, and after evaluating their price, impact factor, and other evaluative measures, decides which ones to add to our collection.

This year, the Dana Medical Library added the following electronic journals:

Nature Reviews Endocrinology
Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries
Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)- Clinical & Translational Medicine and
JoVE- Neurosciences
Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research
Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery British edition (new title)

In addition, the Library added another simultaneous user for the title Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics as a result of high numbers of patrons being turned away.

Still under consideration is another segment of the MEDU database, which offers virtual patient cases for use in medical education. CORE provides educational cases designed for use in radiology. Dana Library has subscribed to this resource for trial this month to evaluate its usefulness.

A collection of streaming videos for use with psychiatry clerkship students as well as residents has been also added. It can be found in our catalog under the title Symptom Media.

And, of course, the Library regularly adds book titles– print and eBooks. An up to date list of new books at Dana can always be found at: http://library.uvm.edu/dana/newbooks/index.php/.