Academic Commons News

To recognize National Safety Month, the Jefferson Libraries would like to provide a list of resources on patient safety. From eBooks on becoming a better surgeon to videos on pediatric patient safety, learn about the different ways medical professionals can advocate for patients and their safety. Check out the full list of resources below.

May is High Blood Pressure Awareness Month. To recognize the importance of treating high blood pressure, Jefferson Libraries is providing a list of learning materials on hypertension. Topics include guides to managing hypertension, pregnancy and high blood pressure, ocular hypertension, and more. 

This May, we’re adding 25 eBooks to our collection that cover a wide range of topics. Check out the list below, which includes innovation in the fashion industry, an infectious disease handbook, and the hidden costs of global warming. 

Browse our complete eBook collections at the Dixon Library on the Dixon Campus, the Gutman Library on the East Falls Campus, and the Scott Library on the Center City Campus.

Amplifying Voices in UX: Balancing Design and User Needs in Technical Communication

Bioplastics for Sustainability: Manufacture, Technologies, and Environment

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Code of Ethics for Nurses

The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (almost) Everything We Are Told about Business is Wrong

CPT Professional 2025

Culturally Conscious Board: Setting the Boardroom Table for Impact

Detailing Worlds: A Conceptual History of Architectural Detail

Fashion Business and Digital Transformation: Technology and Innovation Across the Fashion Industry

Fashion in the Metaverse: Designs and Technologies Shaping the Future

Good is the New Cool Guide to Personal Purpose: Designing a Meaningful and Prosperous Career

Health Policy and Analysis: Framework and Tools for Success

The Infectious Diseases Consult Handbook: Common Questions and Answers

Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry

Models for Multi-state Survival Data: Rates, Risks, and Pseudo-values

MRI/DTI Atlas of the Human Brainstem in Transverse and Sagittal Lanes

Neurobiology for Dummies

The Promise and Peril of CRISPR

Pathology Illustrated

RNA As a Drug Target: The Next Frontier for Medicinal Chemistry

Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World

Speech Sound Disorders: For Classroom and Clinic

Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity

Teaching Cultural Competence and Cultural Humility in Medical Education: A Practical Guide

Treatment Resource Manual for Speech-language Pathology

Sciwheel is now Lean Library Workspace. Known initially as F1000 Workspace, Jefferson researchers have been using the intuitive, web-based citation management tool for many years (through multiple name changes) to support their production of high-quality scholarship.

• Please update your browser with the new Lean Library browser extension. The existing browser plug-in will continue working until August 31, 2025.
• This rebranding is mostly cosmetic. Logins, accounts, and functionality are not changing.
• The existing Microsoft Word and Google Docs writing tools are rebranded as Lean Library.

Visit the citation management tools guide from the Jefferson Libraries for more information.

Unwind with a Brain Break during May Week! Take a look at the programming below for stress relieving activities. Visit Scott Library’s 2^nd floor for giveaways, coloring sheets & puzzles, and leisure books until May 2.

Monday, April 28: Self Care Day & Therapy Dog Day 

       Self Care Day: Lubert Plaza, 9am
       brought to you by the office of Student Life & Engagement

       Therapy Dog Griff: Scott Library, 12-2pm
       brought to you by the Scott Memorial Library

Tuesday, April 29: Therapy Goats from Philly Goat Project
12 -  2 pm, Lubert Plaza
Rain date: Wednesday, April 30, 12pm
brought to you the Office of Recreation & the Fitness Center

Wednesday, April 30: Chair Massages
4-7 pm, 1^st floor Scott Memorial Library
brought to you by the Office of Residential Life

Thursday, May 1: Ticket Series AMC Tickets
starts at 10 am, Jefferson Alumni Hall (JAH) 105 
brought to you by the Office of Campus & Community Engagement

Brain Breaks & May Week are brought to you by the Scott Memorial Library, Office of Student Life & Engagement, Office of Residential Life, Office of Recreation & the Fitness Center, and the Office of Campus & Community Engagement.

The Jefferson College of Life Sciences Science Slam is back! 

Show your support by cheering on this year’s contestants as they share their research and compete for your votes. The audience picks the winners as they hear about cool science and nibble on free food. 

Time and location: April 10^th at 5:00 pm 
Biolabs for Advanced Therapeutics
Philadelphia, The Curtis Center, 
601 Walnut Street

There’s no better time to appreciate a little humor in health care than on April Fools’ Day! Check out the nine resources below from the Jefferson Libraries to learn about health care hoaxes and quack medicine, and get a laugh with medical comics and a singing pediatrician. 

eBooks
The Crazy, Wonderful Things Kids Say: Tales from the Singing Pediatrician

Humor and the Health Professions: The Therapeutic Use of Humor in Health Care

Quack Quack: The Threat of Pseudoscience

Tax, Medicines and the Law: From Quackery to Pharmacy
 

Print Books Available at Scott Library (Center City Campus) 

Bedlam Among the Bedpans: Humor in Nursing

The Best of Health Professions Humor: A Collection of Articles, Essays, and Poetry Published in the Allied Health Literature 

The Krebiozen Hoax 

If It Sounds Like a Quack

Medcomic: The Most Entertaining Way to Study Medicine