Upcoming live webinar: Drug Desensitization

UPCOMING LIVE WEBINAR Drug Desensitization: Mechanisms and Pharmacological Candidates Prof. Mariana C. Castells Harvard Medical School, USA

Drug allergy and hypersensitivity are growing health care concerns, which encompass a new discipline that is being led by allergists and clinical immunologists.

In the last 25 years, there has been an explosion in the number of new targeted drugs, such as monoclonal antibodies and small molecules, that address personalized diseases. These drugs have been used for the growing population that’s in need of curative treatments for cancer and improved quality of life for chronic, autoimmune, and inflammatory diseases. New symptoms and phenotypes have emerged with new therapies, and patient safety is compromised when they are re-exposed to first line treatments, which have induced a reaction.

Desensitization, a novel ground-breaking procedure that utilizes mast cell inhibitory mechanisms, is now available to safely provide first line therapies to patients with drug-induced hypersensitivity reactions.

Wednesday, November 15 5pm GMT (12pm EST)

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About the Speaker Mariana Castells, M.D., Ph.D. is a clinician-scientist with over 30 years of experience in allergy and immunology. She is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School with over 200 publications and Director of the Brigham and Women’s Mastocytosis Center – one of the few nationally and internationally recognized centers of excellence, which provides diagnosis, management, and treatment options for patients with mastocytosis and mast cell activation disorders. These are rare and potentially deadly disorders which are currently addressed using Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors. Additionally, she is Director of the Drug Hypersensitivity and Desensitization Center at Brigham and Women’s and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, which for the last 20 years has provided over 900 high risk desensitization’s per year for patients with cancer, severe infections and inflammatory diseases, who are allergic to their first line therapy, thereby increasing their life expectancy and quality of life.

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Implementing Calibrate Formative Assessment: Advice from an Early Adopter

 

New Blog (3-minute read) Implementing Calibrate Formative Assessment: Advice from an Early Adopter Anne Walsh, MMSc, PA-C, DFAAPA shares her experience of integrating Calibrate into her program’s elective rotation and advice on how to use the formative assessments as a low-lift way to pinpoint student weaknesses in clinical reasoning before end of rotation exams. READ ON Upcoming Calibrate Webinars Aquifer has an upcoming series of webinars on integrating formative assessments and coaching into your curriculum. Join us to get tools and strategies on maximizing Calibrate at Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. CALIBRATE WEBINARS

AQUIFER Educator-to-Educator Webinars

Webinar Series Maximizing Student Learning with Calibrate

Learn to leverage our new formative assessment tool and set your students up for success by integrating it into coaching.   Register for one, two, or all three sessions focused on Aquifer's newest tool: Calibrate.   Unable to make the scheduled time? Sign up and we’ll send you a copy of the recording to watch at your convenience.

Webinar 1: Integrating Formative Assessment: Strategies to Enhance Student Learning Wednesday, October 25, 2023: 1:00 – 2:00 PM EST We provide an overview of formative assessment and its advantages and how to avoid its pitfalls. We will introduce a new formative assessment tool developed by Aquifer, Calibrate. The session will also explore how leaders can use formative assessment results to improve their curriculum and support students.

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Webinar 2: Accelerate Learning with Aquifer’s “Anyone Can Coach” Method Wednesday, November 1, 2023: 1:00 – 2:00 PM EST We survey of the benefits of coaching for health professions students, introduce participants to the ‘Anyone Can Coach!’ framework, and share tools and strategies for implementing this approach.

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Webinar 3: Implementing Formative Assessment with Coaching Wednesday, November 8, 2023: 1:00 – 2:00 PM EST We introduce participants to coaching tools developed by Aquifer, including a coaching script, that are aimed at improving the effectiveness of coaching with formative assessment.

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Interlibrary Loan Service UBorrow Update

The FIU Libraries, along with all State University System (SUS) and Florida College System (FCS) libraries, are in the process of a system migration in order to bring our customers the best service available. As we go through this transition, patrons will experience some changes. 

One of these changes is that the UBorrow function will no longer be available and the link will be removed from the library website. This will be effective as of May 1, 2021 and all UBorrow items currently on loan must be returned on or before April 30, 2021 in order to avoid late fees. Interlibrary loan service will remain in effect throughout the transition to obtain materials that are not available in the FIU Libraries.

UBorrow will be restored as Resource Sharing when the transition is complete. We appreciate your patience during this transition and invite you to contact us with any concerns you may have.

• Medical Library ILL, medlib@fiu.edu, and (305) 348-1464 (MMC)

The ClinicalKey Student Global Challenge is now LIVE and open to all our Medical Students

The ClinicalKey Student Global Challenge is an online competition for medical students around the world. Using USMLE Step 1 questions from ClinicalKey Student, there are 4 rounds of 25 questions across 4 weeks. Students who improve each week make it through to the next round. Successful students are invited to participate in the quarter-final video round and then a lucky group of students will be invited to an in person (COVID dependent) 2-day extravaganza in Philadelphia where they will connect with the top students in the Global Challenge from North America, attend masterclasses from world class experts, join mini-challenges to win prizes and from this event we will select a lucky 2 students to win an all-expenses paid trip to our Global Finale Event (at a yet to be disclosed location!) with students from around the world!

The ClinicalKey Global Challenge is totally free and doesn’t require an active subscription to ClinicalKey Student, in fact students will get free access to ClinicalKey Student for the duration of the competition

 Applications are open now!

Round 1 opens on 17^th April and students are able to join the competition until 26th April when Rounds 1 and 2 close

Visit the Elsevier Medical Student Hub to apply today!

Important Changes to NCBI Accounts Coming in 2021

Do you login to NCBI to use MyNCBI, SciENcv, or MyBibliography? Do you submit data to NCBI? If so, you’ll want to read further to get a first glimpse at some important changes to NCBI accounts that will be coming in 2021.  read further

Elsevier’s Scopus Funded for One Year

FIU Tech Fee dollars supporting Scholars@FIU have made possible access to Elsevier’s Scopus for one year. The funded purpose is access to the Scopus API, to automate downloading faculty citations into Scholars@FIU. Scopus is available for all FIU faculty, staff and students at https://Scopus.com.

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.

Once on website, click on 'Check Access' button, and conduct an institution search for Florida International University, and sign-in using your FIU credentials.

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