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Makerspace Anniversary and VR Experience – Happening May 19th!

Makerspace Anniversary VR Experience, May 19th from 11am to 2pm in the Ruth Lilly Medical Library (RLML).

To celebrate the Ruth Lilly Medical Library Makerspace’s first anniversary, RLML Makerspace staff have partnered with Virtual Reality specialists from across the IUPUI campus to provide IU School of Medicine students, faculty, and staff with a hands-on VR experience in the Medical Library on May 19! RLML Makerspace staff members, Cassandra Jones and Amanda Papandreou, […]

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Final John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Spring Lecture Series Recording Available

The Lessons of the Holocaust for Healthcare: Personal, Professional, and Historical Reflections, April 17, #SilversLecture, #JSB

The final John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Spring Series lecture was given on April 17th By Dr. Alex Kor: "The Lessons of the Holocaust for Healthcare: Personal, Professional, and Historical Reflections". The event was part of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics Dr. William S. Silvers Holocaust, Genocide, and Contemporary Bioethics Lectureship and was […]

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Ruth Lilly Medical Library Makerspace Offers 3D-Printed Larynx Workshop for IU School of Medicine Anesthesiology Class

3d-Printed Larynx produced in a March RLML Makerspace Workshop for Anesthesiologist students.

Master's Students in the Anesthesiologist Assistant Program listen as Nexus Manager Cassandra Jones explains how to use TinkerCAD, a beginner-friendly free 3D modeling software. The Ruth Lilly Medical Library (RLML) Makerspace provides medical students and faculty members access to tools and equipment for prototyping and design. Makerspaces like the one at RLML are becoming increasingly […]

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John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Series Spotlights the History of Electronic Medical Records and Their Impact on Healthcare

John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Lecture, "From Paper to Purgatory: The History of Medical Records and Their Impact on Healthcare" with speaker Bill Tierney, given April 5, 2023.

On Wednesday, April 5th, the John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Society and Ruth Lilly Medical Library co-sponsored a lecture titled “From Paper to Purgatory: The History of Electronic Medical Records and Their Impact on Healthcare” with speaker Bill Tierney, MD of the IU Fairbanks School of Public Health. The lecture was part of the […]

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Ruth Lilly Medical Library's Beth Whipple Honored with the Estelle Brodman Award

Ruth Lilly Medical Library's Beth Whipple

Beth Whipple, MLS, AHIP, Assistant Director for Research and Translational Sciences at the Ruth Lilly Medical Library has been honored with the Estelle Brodman Award for the Academic Health Sciences Librarian of the Year from the Medical Library Association (MLA). One of the Association’s most prestigious awards, the Brodman Award recognizes an academic health sciences […]

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John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Society Talk Spotlights the History of the First English Translation of the Ebers Papyrus

L0016592 G. Ebers (ed.), Papyros Ebers, 1875 Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org Reproduction of the Ebers Papyrus Papyros Ebers Georg Ebers Published: 1875 Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

On March 1, 2023, IU Health's Jane Hartsock, JD, MA, and the IU Center for Bioethics' Colin Halverson, PhD, gave a fascinating lecture on “The First English Translation of the Ebers Papyrus” as part of the John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Society’s Spring 2023 Lecture Series. In this talk, Hartsock and Halverson examined the […]

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