Search Tools
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PubMed- Health sciences articles including clinical, basic sciences, and public health information.
- Interface incorporates Himmelfarb Library's customized search filters for EBM/Clinical Reviews, EBM/Clinical Trials, and Reviews.
- Coverage: 1950 - Present including corrections and daily updates.
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OpenEvidenceGenerative AI search engine that queries knowledgebase of PubMed abstracts and the full-text of JAMA and New English Journal of Medicine.
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Clinical Queries (PubMed)- Clinical research tool for PubMed searches.
- Permits searches by clinical study category (e.g. etiology, diagnosis, therapy, etc.), for systematic reviews, and for medical genetics topics.
FOAMed
Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAMed) is a movement dedicated to shepherding the "exploding collection of constantly evolving, collaborative and interactive open access medical education resources being distributed on the web."
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Emergency Medical CasesFree online medical education podcast, medical blog and website dedicated to providing online emergency medicine education and CME for physicians, residents, students nurses and paramedics.
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Life in the Fast LaneFocus on emergency medicine and critical care; includes multilingual guides and the history of FOAMed.
Apps
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Relief Central
Full-text offline access to Coronavirus Guidelines, World Factbook, CDC Yellow Book, Field Operations Guide, Psychological First Aid (PFA), Relief News Updates, and CoRespond Emerging Topics. -
USPSTF Prevention TaskForce
Supports primary care clinicians in identifying the screening, counseling, and preventive medication services that are appropriate for their patients. Information is based on the current recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and can be searched by specific patient characteristics, such as age, sex, and selected behavioral risk factors.
OA for Pre-Clinical students
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Cardiovascular Pathophysiology for Pre-Clinical Students
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Cell Biology, Genetics, and Biochemistry for Pre-Clinical Students (PDF)
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ISBN: 9781949373424Publication Date: 2021-06-01
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Pulmonary Pathophysiology for Pre-Clinical Students
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ISBN: 9781957213088Publication Date: 2024-06-15
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Full-Text Resources
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Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM)Open Access resources on medical education through case studies, education theory, and more. All of the books are free and open access except where noted.
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Cochrane Collaboration: Cochrane ReviewsSystematic reviews of healthcare interventions as published in Cochrane systematic reviews. Free access to the abstracts and, where available, the plain language summaries.
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Elsevier Healthcare HubOpen-access clinical information.
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Global Library of Women's Medicine400 + full-text chapters on women's health topics plus surgical videos, diagnostic atlases, laboratory tests and safer motherhood coverage.
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Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a collection of over 22,000 freely available digital materials for health sciences education. The collection is now housed at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Digital Library.
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InTech Health SciencesOver 1500 peer-reviewed open access textbooks.
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Integrated Management for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care (IMEESC) Tool KitWHO recommendations for minimum standards in emergency, surgery, trauma, obstetrics and anaesthesia at first-referral level health-care facilities.
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Medecins Sans Frontieres Operational GuidelinesFull-text app plus online access to full-text medical information. Titles include on essential drugs, clinical guidelines, management of cholera and measles epidemics, tuberculosis, and public health engineering. Essential obstetric and newborn care is on the app only.
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Merck Manual ProfessionalVersionFull-text content includes medical topics, multimedia resources, drug information, commentary, procedures, and quizzes.
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NCBI BookshelfFull-text basic sciences, clinical, and public health book collection.
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Nursing: Mental Health and Community ConceptsThis textbook is an open educational resource with CC-BY licensing developed specifically for prelicensure nursing students. The e-book and downloadable versions are free.
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OpenLibrary.org - MedicineOpen Library's collection of (largely historical) medical textbooks.
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Open Michigan - Open Health CollectionsThe University of Michigan's Open Michigan collection includes tools for health sciences, such as textbooks, courses, audio-videos, journals, images, datasets, software, and other mixed content.
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Pocket Book of Hospital Care for ChildrenDownloadable/printable up-to-date clinical guidelines for use by doctors, senior nurses and other senior health workers who are responsible for the care of young children in developing countries.
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PubMed CentralPubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
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StatPearlsReview articles
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