Late last year we delivered a series of lectures on how to conduct and publish a systematic review to pre- and post-doctoral fellows at the MSKCC Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences.

 This opportunity would normally never have taken place, but it did, and it happened because someone asked us about the possibility of developing a workshop to support their interest on this topic.

Antonio DeRosa, Marisol Hernandez, Sarah Jewell, Isabel Sulimanoff, and Donna Gibson worked to develop four workshops that were given each Friday in October 2012. The sessions built on one another and included:

• Overview: History, Structure, and Characteristics of a Systematic Review
• Formulating the Question and Developing the Search Strategy
• Conducting the Research
• Investigator’s Analysis and Assessment of Literature

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Drs. Elizabeth Schulman and Juliana Eng recently partnered with Antonio DeRosa, the newest member on the Reference team, to develop an online resource guide and tool to deliver customized training content to the medicine housestaff. By incorporating Web 2.0 technologies, this group now has an opportunity to access an array of orientation materials, selected articles and PowerPoint slides, and other education resources on their own or as a group, at times that are convenient for them. Welcome to the “Medicine Educational Resources” LibGuide.

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As a Research Fellow from Rome, Dr. Andrea Saggini has only positive comments to share regarding the MSKCC Document Delivery Service (DDS) where article turnaround time from request to delivery has “been more than satisfactory.”

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