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Welcome to the December 2020 Monash Health Library newsletter: news and insights from our collection once a month. To subscribe or un-subscribe, email library@monashhealth.org.

We hope you all have an enjoyable festive season, especially after such a challenging year. Library spaces remain accessible to Monash Health employees by swipe cards over the Christmas and New Year period. Assistance will be available by email or website chat during business hours.
Our guide for junior doctors provides access to online resources and key titles across a wide range of health disciplines to help new doctors get started. If you are starting in 2021 please get in touch with us or register for a library overview.
This time of year it is important to renew your Clinicians Health Channel (CHC) registration for continued access to resources for the Victorian public health care sector. Go to Update My CHC Account. Contact CHC directly by email: chchelpdesk@medicaldirector.com or phone: 1800 107 421 for support.

eBooks have been added to our collection of study guides and practice books for exam preparation and revision. Access now for online titles such as: Primary FRCA in a Box, RCSI Handbook of Clinical Surgery for Finals, Revision Spine Surgery, Stone’s Plastic Surgery Facts and Respiratory Medicine Self-assessment.

New Mind and Matter books have been also been added just in time for some leisure reading over the festive season. This series includes books on business skills, leadership, wellbeing, health stories and investigations. Email us to reserve a title or visit our Clayton or Dandenong library.

eJournal highlight: Journal of the American College of Cardiology – cardiovascular disease focused, peer reviewed journal that publishes reports on drug treatment, vascular surgery, heart defects, coronary and valve disease and other related areas. Track new articles in BrowZine or Read by QxMD.
 
Care Essentials : practice principles is a go-to clinical guide and easy to use online handbook for skin and wound conditions. Search for other relevant titles in our catalogue.
 
Our website recommends a comprehensive selection of apps for clinicians such as BMJ Best Practice, Read by QxMD, Mobile REMM, The Pathologist, eTG and MIMS. Instructions and additional recommendations are available on the apps and podcasts library guide. 
 
Latest trending articles and monthly updates from ClinicalKey and ClinicalKey for Nursing journals are available in Elsevier’s WhatsApp channel. Visit Elsevier’s What’s App page for more

  •  The Elephant in the Room : What Burnout Is and What It Is Not sets out definitions, evidence and language for talking about physician burnout, with the belief that this elephant in the room can be addressed.
  •  A paper in Health Services Research has considered casual machine learning’s potential for predicting preventable hospital readmissions. Predictions are used to examine treatment effect heterogeneity and design targeting strategies.
  •  A report on a panel of radiology leaders in JACR "What Might Your Practice Look Like Post-Peak COVID-19?" looks at how radiology practice has been significantly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, resumption and post recovery stages and lasting changes that may come. 
  • Innovative responses to healthcare workforce issues during the Covid-19 pandemic. 
  •  To continue with or defer elective surgeries during the Covid-19 pandemic? Three essays in the NEJM explore different approaches to a case vignette.
  • Also from the NEJM, Seizing the Teachable Moment reflects on lessons that can be learnt from the handling of Eisenhower’s presidential heart attack 65 years ago - a situation that was managed with integrity, transparency, optimism and honesty. 
  •  Relatively poor awareness regarding predatory journals and pay-to-publish schemes has been revealed in a study conducted by researchers in New Zealand, Saudi Arabia and the USA. The findings warrant investment in activities that build awareness about academic publishing and the necessity for rigorous peer review.