Library Guides: Point-of-Care Library Resources: Key Resources

Key Resources (listed alphabetically)

5 Minute Consult This link opens in a new window
Fast, evidence-based answers to your clinical questions at the point of care.
AccessMedicine This link opens in a new window
Learn about mobile access.| Access to more than 75 medical titles, algorithms, diagnostic tools, clinical calculators, thousands of images, videos, and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, and drug information.
ClinicalKey This link opens in a new window
Learn about mobile access - Clinical Key combines a broad range of resources within a single interface: Full-text journals & books; Medline citations; point-of-care clinical overviews; Procedure and surgical videos; Clinical Pharmacology drug monographs.
Cochrane Clinical Answers This link opens in a new window
Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCAs) provide a readable, digestible, clinically focused entry point to rigorous research from Cochrane systematic reviews. They are designed to be actionable and to inform decision making at the point of care. Each Cochrane Clinical Answer contains a clinical question, a short answer, and an opportunity to ‘drill down’ to the evidence from relevant Cochrane reviews.
NEJM Resident 360 This link opens in a new window
Videos and point of care content to help you on your rotations. In addition to using the links provided by the library, you will also need to create a personal account with NEJM. Step 1: Access NEJM through the library. Step 2: Create a personal account. This account is not associated with DMU, so pick any account creation method that works for you.
TRIP This link opens in a new window
TRIP is a free clinical search engine designed to allow users to find high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. TRIP includes links to systematic reviews, EBM synopses, professional guidelines, controlled clinical trials, and "key primary research."
UpToDate This link opens in a new window
Learn about mobile access | UpToDate® is a physician-authored clinical decision support resource that assists clinicians with point-of-care decisions. Includes easy-to-search graphics and a drug database and drug interactions tool (in partnership with Lexicomp®).
EBMcalc This link opens in a new window
EBMcalc is a collection of calculators, clinical criteria sets and decision trees. This resource is integrated with the STAT!Ref platform.
Epocrates Mobile This link opens in a new window
Drug reference with brand, generic, and OTC medicines, drug interaction check and pill ID. Available for iOS and Android devices. The full version of the app is available! Call the DMU Helpdesk 271-1522 to learn more. This resource is not managed by the library.

Video & Image Content

VisualDX This link opens in a new window
Learn about mobile access | Searchable by symptoms, signs, and patient factors, VisualDx includes more than 3,000 diagnoses and over 41,000 images, providing a customized, graphical differential diagnosis of an infectious, immunologic, metabolic, nutritional, psychiatric, or genetic disease.
Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination This link opens in a new window
Bates’ Visual Guide delivers head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques for the (Advanced) Assessment or Introduction to Clinical Medicine course. The site features more than 8 hours of video content.
JoVE: The Journal of Visualized Experiments This link opens in a new window
JoVE is a peer-reviewed, PubMed-indexed video journal and science education platform. The DMU Library subscribes to five sections in the Science Education (Clinical Skills) section (1) Physical Examination I (2) Physical Examination II (3) Physical Examination III 4) Emergency Medicine and Critical Care 5) Nursing Skills as well as a bonus Coronavirus/COVID-19 Procedures

Books

The Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics Paperback by Jonas Noe (Editor); Arvind Rengarajan (Editor); Xiaowen Wang (Editor); Zachary Crees; Cassandra Fritz (Editor); Alonso Huedebert (Editor)
ISBN: 9781975113483
Publication Date: 2019-06-06
Offers brief, logical approaches to diagnosis and management of commonly encountered medical conditions, including new therapies that improve patient outcomes.

Harrison's Manuals
Available electronically.