The University of Medicine and Health Sciences enjoys full institutional access to the AMBOSS medical knowledge platform.
AMBOSS is a breakthrough medical learning platform helping future doctors excel on their USMLE and NBME exams. Complete with a comprehensive, interactive library and Qbank of over 5,000 high-yield case-based MC exam questions, AMBOSS offers detailed analytics of your study progress and goals -- allowing you to study smarter, not harder.
Discover the quickest and easiest way to read EBSCO eBooks with the EBSCO Mobile App. Users have an effortless way to download and read EBSCO eBooks from any location, with an Apple or Android
device. The app enables users to download e-books and read them in the app without needing an Adobe ID or third-party software.
The EBSCO eBook companion guide walks users through each step of the login and e-book download process. Post title links you to the Guide. UMHS Students and Faculty can find the link for the Guide, with personal login information, under the EBSCO eBook section in Library Services (under UMHS LMS - Student Services). Enjoy!
UpToDate (UTD) for Evidence-based Clinical Decision Support is now provided to UMHS students and faculty! Check out the access link on the Anne Ross Library Home page and further information on the UMHS LMS - Library Services section.
"When you care for patients, the stakes are high and every decision counts.You need the best evidence and clinical guidance at your fingertips to answer even the most complex questions with confidence.
Healthcare professionals turn to UpToDate as the one trusted reference for answers even when the evidence isn’t clear. When you face a challenging clinical question or need to confirm your approach, you can turn to UpToDate for trusted answers based on the latest evidence and best practice.
Registration provides the following benefits:
Easy remote access to UpToDate(outside of the UMHS network)
Convenient continuing education credits (CME/CE/CPD)earned researching clinical questions using UpToDate onsite, remotely, and on mobile.
CME Real-time reflection: Look for the blue checkmark in the top navigation of the topic review to complete your CME reflection in real-time.
Electronically submit UpToDate CME credits for MOC points for these boards: American boards of Internal Medicine, Anesthesiology, Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology (head and neck surgery), Pathology,Pediatrics, and Surgery."
UMHS is now subscribed to JAMAevidence- the premier online resource for the teaching, learning, and application of evidence-based medicine, brought to you by McGraw-Hill
and the JAMA Network. Evidence-based learning is a necessity for the curriculum of medical students.
With JAMAevidence, you are provided an authoritative, comprehensive database of resources that will help you identify, appraise, and use the best available evidence to
assess health problems and the outcomes of health care.
Online Education Guides: Online Education Guide slide sets including teaching points to enhance classroom and conference learning.
Exclusive Content:
Exclusive online-only content including podcasts, a searchable
glossary, and more from the leading minds in evidence-based
medicine. All linked directly to reference articles on the JAMA Network journals.
Interactive Features: Powerful
interactive features including functional calculators and
customizable worksheets focusing on critical appraisal skills
and mastering the information cycle.
To (re)activate remote access you will need to first be logged into the UMHS platform for AccessMedicine, and then login with your personal MyAccess account login that was sent to you when you first enrolled at UMHS. (If
you are in an IP authenticated location you will automatically land on
the UMHS platform for these McGraw Hill Medical Sites using any of the
links from the LMS or the Library webpages for AccessMedicine.)
ENJOY this excellent and valuable new resource! Broaden your understanding, knowledge, and skills for practicing evidence based medicine - a must for the 21st century physician!
This fun, educational feature allows
users to test their diagnostic skills in assessing conditions where a visual
element is key to the correct diagnosis, whether an EKG, a CT scan, a plain
film X-ray, a skin lesion, or a pathology slide. Many conditions in medicine
appear to be have similar features, so the ability to spot key differences in
visual clues is an essential part of clinical reasoning.
This new Visual Case Challenge
presents two conditions in each patient case; you can choose the correct diagnosis
just based on the visual clue, or request further patient data before making
the diagnosis. They have also included Clinical Pearls in each case for a
complete learning experience.
The Harrison's Visual Cases modules are
available under the Cases tab of AccessMedicine.
For further instructions on AccessMedicine,
how to login, reactivate, and navigate the database, or any of the resources
provided UMHS Students and Faculty, please check out the ‘Library Services’
section of the UMHS LMS (under 'Student Services').
This short tutorial demonstrates the features of the new EBSCO Concept Map. The Concept Map gives researchers a visual way to interact with their searches while also exploring additional related topics. This special new searching feature has now been added to the Anne Ross Library's Discovery Search for UMHS students and faculty! Check it out!
The Oxford Textbook of Medicine is published online and in hard copy, currently in the 6th edition with 4 volumes. Having been regularly updated for many years, the production of this latest and very
substantially updated edition, provides a moment when it is natural and
proper to reflect on what has changed in Medicine—and what has not—in
recent years.
"Modern medicine has much to offer patients and their doctors. Advances in
biomedical sciences, the broader context of health and disease, patients
and their expectations, and access to medical knowledge are some of the
key areas examined in detail among the 30 sections of the book.
Sections include introductory sections on patients and their treatment,
background to medicine, cell biology, and immunological mechanisms, as
well as more subject-specific sections such as infectious diseases,
neurological disorders, cardiovascular disorders, rheumatology, and the
kidney, as well as many more."
The Anne Ross Library Reference collection now has the complete hard copy set of the 6th edition for the use of our faculty and students.
Ultrasound Training Enhances the UMHS Medical Student Experience
UMHS has acquired an ultrasound machine to enhance the students learning experience and their diagnostic skills through hands-on practice.
Guided by Dr Adegbenro Fakoya, Course Director of Histology & Associate Professor of Gross Anatomy & Histology here at UMHS, our students are thrilled with the valuable opportunity to personally give this indispensable diagnostic tool a test drive!
To further support these efforts, the Anne Ross Library has acquired four new key medical reference titles to augment the students understanding and knowledge of ultrasound procedures and diagnostic capabilities.
"Now in the fully updated 5th edition with more than 2000 new images, 380 new videos, and new content throughout, Diagnostic Ultrasound (2 volume set), remains the most comprehensive and authoritative ultrasound resource available. Spanning a wide range of medical specialties and practice settings, it provides complete, detailed information on the latest techniques for ultrasound imagining of the whole body; image-guided procedures; fetal, obstetric, and pediatric imaging; and much more. Up-to-date guidance from experts in the field keeps you abreast of expanding applications of this versatile imaging modality and helps you understand the ""how"" and ""why"" of ultrasound use and interpretation"
"This comprehensive book provides an in-depth examination of a broad range of procedures that benefit from ultrasound guidance in the point-of-care setting. It covers common procedures such as ultrasound-guided central and peripheral venous access to regional nerve blocks, temporary pacemaker placement, joint aspirations, per-cutaneous drainage, a variety of injections and airway management. Chapters examine a variety of topics critical to successful ultrasound procedures, including relevant sonoantomy, necessary equipment, proper preparation, potential complications, existing evidence and how to integrate these procedures into clinical practice. For each procedure, the book includes step-by-step instructions and discusses the advantages of ultrasound guidance over traditional techniques. Providing rich procedural detail to help in clinical decision making,
The Ultimate Guide to Point-of-Care Ultrasound-Guided Procedures is an indispensable, go-to reference for all health care providers who work in a variety of clinical settings including primary care, emergency department, urgent care, intensive care units, pediatrics, pre-hospital settings and those who practice in the growing number of new ultrasound programs in these specialties."
Essential Ultrasound Anatomy, new first edition from Wolters Kluwer for 2020, Dr. Mario Loukas & Dr. Danny Burns provide the essentials of the anatomy and physics of ultrasound, as well as methods and imaging techniques involved in ultrasonography.
Pocket Guide & Protocols for Abdominal Ultrasound, new first edition from Wolters Kluwer for 2020, Steven Penny provides an overview of abdominal sonography.
McGraw Hill has launched a new Harrison’s audio series based on their Harrison's Self-Assessment and Board Review. The new audio series will be covering key issues that all
residents and clinicians in medicine need to understand, both for patient care
and for board exam preparation.
Each episode is a discussion
between two physicians on
a case vignette. These downloadable episodes will cover key pearls of wisdom
in addition to correct and incorrect answer explanations. Ten episodes are available now with addition episodes to come each month. You can access these directly under the multimedia tab in AccessMedicine.
McGraw Hill has added Harrison's High Yield Pathophysiology Animations to the Access Medicine platform. Each episode covers a disease mechanism that is a 'need-to-know' for the USMLE and rotational exams. Each episode runs only 4-8 minutes and is written and narrated by Scott Stern MD from the University of Chicago. McGraw Hill will continue to post additional episodes every month for the next several months. Access these animations under the multimedia tab 'Harrison's Pathophys Animations'. If you need assistance with your login for Access Medicine please contact the Anne Ross Library.
This video presentation outlines the basic terrain of medical information resources that may be of particular use to students embarking on a medical research study of their own. Recorded for the UMHS Medical Research Elective Course in June 2018 by Ann Celestine, Director of the UMHS Anne Ross Library. (29 min.)
I acknowledge the re-use of a collection of library instruction sheets created by Katy Kavanagh Webb, Librarian at East Carolina University, published by Elsevier's Library Connect, 2017.
UMHS President Warren Ross is pleased to announce that beginning soon UMHS will be offering all our Basic Science students access to the new Kaplan Integrated Plan.We are one of the first off shore medical
schools to provide this resource to students in the Basic Sciences, giving our students a great jump start on preparing for the USMLE Step
1.UMHS students will no longer have to wait until the
5th semester at our campus in Portland, Maine to access these valuable tools.The information will also be useful
as an additional resource with content and video’s which correspond to each of
the basic science courses taught in St. Kitts. The Question Bank is incredible and once again a great tool to test your overall
knowledge.The Integrated plan contains
the following:
Over 2,100 newly updated USMLE type questions
Full explanations and reKap summaries for all questions
Streamlined user experience with progress reports
Simple test creation and test-like interface
Customized study plan structured around your performance
26 Mastery Assessments
40-70 hours of online interactive videos
2 full-length simulated exams
Mobile-friendly and available in the Kaplan App
The attached video provides further details about the program and how to utilize it. Additional information from Kaplan will be provided soon along with a
webinar to further explain the benefits of this plan. Click here to view a short video introduction to the Kaplan Integrated Plan.
Are you struggling with a complicated acid-base disturbance case?
AccessMedicine now includes 58 new Acid-Base Disturbance Cases to help both students and practicing providers hone their skills and master these difficult concepts. These cases are progressive, complex cases appropriate for the advanced medical student and resident level physician covering double and triple acid-base disturbances. The questions are multiple choice and build on each other so they must be answered before moving on to the next page. Each question provides the user with a rationale for the correct answer to maximize learning. Navigate to the Hospital Corner or Cases tab in the main navigation bar to access the cases.
Also the AccessMedicine core textbooks provide in-depth information on acid-base disturbances to help students and practicing providers take a deeper dive into the physiology of each type of disturbance. Here are a few examples of applicable chapters within a few AccessMedicine core textbooks: Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2018, Chapter 21: Electrolyte & Acid-Base Disorders Critical Care, Chapter 28: Acid-Base Disorders Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 19e, Chapter 66: Acidosis and Alkalosis Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine, 2e, Chapter 238: Acid-Base Disorders
As with all the other AM cases, users must be logged into their MyAccess personal account to answer the questions. Contact the library if you need help with your personal MyAccess logins for AccessMedicine.
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