Clinical Essentials
Point-of-Care / General Reference
- UpToDate (on campus access only)
- FIRSTConsult
- eMedicine
- 5 Minute Clinical Consult
- ACP Medicine
- AccessMedicine
- MDConsult
- STAT!Ref
- ACS Surgery
Diagnosis
- Degowin's Diagnostic Examination
- Delmar's Guide to Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests
- eMedicine's Clinical eTools Over seventy-five algorithms, calculators, decision rules, diagrams, scores, and tables.
- VisualDX Visual clinical decision support software
Drug Information
Evidence-Based Sources
- Cochrane Library
- ACP's PIER
- JAMA Evidence
- Basic & Clinical Biostatistics / B. Dawson & R. Trapp
Ethics
Clinical essentials full text search
Search some of our full text resources in the box below.
Multimedia
- Medical Media Systems' video and audio library of examination techniques, abnormal finds, ophthalmoscopy, and heart sound interpretation.
- AccessMedicine's Image Index - All the images from the textbooks in the McGraw-Hill Access Medicine collection.
- Images.MD - an encylopedia of medical images
Residencies
- AMA FREIDA
- ERAS —The Electronic Residency Application Service
Ambulatory Primary Care
- "The famous scut monkey handbook" (aka Clinician’s Pocket Reference)
- Current Diagnosis and Treatment in Family Medicine
- Textbook of Family Medicine
- Current Practice Guidelines in Primary Care
- See also the resources to the right under "Clincal Essentials".
These resources also provide videos and descriptions of medical procedures:
- FIRSTConsult
- Over 40 commonly performed diagnostic and surgical procedures.
- Medical Media System
- Focus is on the physical exam: Heart Sounds, Head & Neck, Heart, Thorax & Lungs, Abdomen, Neurological, Pelvic Exam, Male Genitalia, Musculoskeletal Exam, Ophthalmoscopy.
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Pediatrics
- Current Pediatric Diagnosis & Treatment
- American Academy of Pediatrics Red Book Online
- Principles and practice of pediatric endocrinology
Psychiatry
- Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Psychiatry
- Review of General Psychiatry, 5th Ed. (2000)
- DSM-IV-TR (Text Revision™, 2000)
Surgery
Dimensions of Clinical Medicine
- evidence-based medicine
- web sites about ebm:
- Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (Oxford)
- Introduction to evidence base medicine (Duke Univ)
- sources
- sexuality
- cultural competence
- professionalism
- alternative medicine
- clinical skills
- medical ethics
- Go to the resource page for the CHPE.
Board Review
- Use Exam Master to study for the USMLE, board certification exams, and to review medical subjects. You may create customized exams in both a “Test” simulation mode and a “Study” review mode with correct answers and explanations accessible.
- USMLEasy from AccessMedicine is a free self-assessment tool which includes 3,800 USMLE-formatted questions, answers and explanations including references back to AccessMedicine for further reading.
Case Studies
- LANGE Case Files (via McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine)
Medical Humanities
- Literature, Arts, & Medicine Database
- The Literature, Arts, & Medicine Database is an annotated multimedia listing of prose, poetry, film, video and art that was developed to be a dynamic, accessible, comprehensive resource for teaching and research in Medical Humanities, and for use in health/pre-health, graduate and undergraduate liberal arts and social science settings.
