SCOPE: This guide is designed to aid the beginning medical student in finding online and print resources in the HPD Library. It is not meant to be comprehensive. To find these and other resources, always start at the HPD Library homepage http://www.nova.edu/hpdlibrary/

Books and multimedia about General Medicine or the Practice of Medicine are classified in the WB section of the library. To find information in other medical areas follow the NLM (National Library of Medicine) classification system. For example, WC, covers Communicable Diseases. Here are some specialty areas: Psychiatry, WM, Surgery, WO, Pediatrics, WS, Anatomy or Physiology, QS. For other topics, look in Novacat, NSU’s online catalog of all electronic, print, and other materials. Circulating books are shelved on the right side of the library (these can be checked out for 4 weeks and renewed twice), reference books on the left on low shelves (for library use only), and reserve books in the front (these can be used for 3 hours in the library). Study rooms can be used for 3 hours, both in the library and Assembly II Building.

REFERENCE and OTHER USEFUL BOOKS: A partial list.

ACP Medicine. 2 vols. Ref. WB 100 A185 2004.

Current Consult Medicine. Ref. WB 13 C877 2005.

Diagnostic Tests: A Prescriber’s Guide to Test Selection and Interpretation. Ref. WB 200 D5365 2003.

Ferri’s Clinical Advisor. Ref. WB 39 F394 2006.

Griffith’s 5-Minute Clinical Consult. Ref. WB 100 G855 2006.

Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine. 2 vols. Ref. WB 115 H322 2005. [Also available online].

Oxford Textbook of Medicine. 4th ed. 3 vols. WB 100 O988 2003.

Stedman's Medical Terms and Phrases: a Complete Guide to Medical Language. Ref. WB 15 S8127 2005.

RESEARCH DATABASES: All databases can be accessed through the Quick Links listings on the HPD Library homepage. www.nova.edu/hpdlibrary

Clinical Evidence. An evidence-based formulary that provides concise and regularly updated summaries of the best available evidence on clinical interventions. Cochrane Databases. The Cochrane Library contains regularly updated evidence-based healthcare databases. Doctor’s Dilemma. Essentials of medicinal ethics. Dynamed. An evidence-based, primary care database designed to provide the most useful point-of-care health information possible. 2000 summaries of the most commonly reported diseases in primary care.

MEDLINE. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. The premier source for bibliographic coverage of biomedical literature. Almost 10 million records from 4,800 journals are indexed and abstracted. From 1966 to the present.

UpToDate. A clinical reference that provides quick access to synthesized medical information in an easy-to-use format.

Lexicomp. Develops and distributes clinical information regarding diagnosis, drug therapy, and patient counseling. Wiley InterScience: Medicine and Healthcare. Gateway to the top journals, books, and most-read articles.

ONLINE FULL TEXT JOURNALS: To locate all of the available full-text medical journals, click on the following link: Online Fulltext Journals. There are currently over 3,300 online journals in Medicine.

Note: NSU holds over 17,000 online fulltext journal subscriptions.

Lancet

Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

New England Journal of Medicine. (NEJM)

Pain Medicine

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Western Journal of Medicine

Internal Medicine Journal

International Journal of Clinical Practice

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)

Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association (JAMWA)

ACP Journal Club

American Journal of Medicine (AJM)

Annual Review of Medicine

British Medical Journal (BMJ)

Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ)

Clinician Reviews

Disease Management and Health Outcomes

ONLINE BOOKS: Click on the following link to access: Online Fulltext Books.

Cancer: Principles very large selection of electronic books under most medical areas and under every medical specialty. and Practice of Oncology, 7th ed. Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 22nd ed: Goldman. Color Atlas of Ultrasound Anatomy, 2004. Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations, 5th ed., 2005. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 2005. [Also in paper]. Merck Manual of Diagnosis & Therapy, 17th ed. Physicians' Desk Reference: Micromedex.

Some USEFUL ONLINE RESOURCES: For other valuable online resources go to: Hardin MD. University of Iowa: Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources. http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/ HealthWeb. Links to information resources on the Web selected by librarians and information specialists. http://healthweb.org/ Martindale’s Health Science Guide. Access to valuable medical resources. http://www.martindalecenter.com/ Medical Resource Reviews Database. Florida International University. An annotated index of medical resources available online. http://hpdrc.cs.fiu.edu/med.resource/ Medicine On-Line. International quality medical resources regularly updated. http://www.priory.co.uk/othermed.htm Medline Resource Centre. OMNI, Nottingham University. Links to free and commercial Medline resources. http://omni.ac.uk/medline/ Virtual Hospital. University of Iowa. A frequently updated library of health sciences information for patients and health care professionals. http://www.vh.org/

Government INSTITUTES and AGENCIES: partial list. GPO Access Browse Topics. Provides government information on topics such as AIDS, vital and health statistics, and other pertinent health information. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/topics/index.html National Institutes for Health. http://www.nih.gov SciTechResources.gov. A Catalog of Government Science and Technical Web Sites. An excellent portal through which to find a plethora of government resources in medicine. http://www.scitech.gov/Search/topic.php?cat=57 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. http://www.hhs.gov

OTHER PATHFINDERS and ADDITIONAL SUGGESTED LINKS

Auraria Library. Covers resources for all aspects of medicine. http://library.auraria.edu/findit/subj_guides//health/med.html BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources. Excellent gateway to all things medical. http://bubl.ac.uk/link/linkbrowse.cfm?menuid+8230 Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries. A short but excellent introduction to medical resources. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed/resources.htmld/guides.shtml

University of California at Irvine. Designed for the entering medical student. http://www.lib.uci.edu/online/subject/subpage.php?subject=med

University of British Columbia. Toby Library. The Canadian perspective. Concise and well organized guide to medical resources. http://www.library.ubc.ca/home/subjects/#medi University of Colorado at Boulder. University Libraries. Somewhat disorganized but still very useful guide to General Medicine. http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/services/electronic.htm

TUTORIALS for NSU DATABASES:

HPD produced tutorials:

http://www.nova.edu/hpdlibrary/tutorials.html

Tutorials developed by the Main Library:

http://www.nova.edu/library/help/techhelp.html

EBSCOhost tutorials and knowledge base.

http://support.epnet.com/CustSupport/Tutorials/Tutorials.asp

Ovid Technologies, Inc. tutorials.

http://www.ovid.com/site/help/sp_tutorials.jsp?top=28&mid=29&bottom=31&subsection=58T

April, 2006