UMHS has renewed our UpToDate institutional subscription for 2023 for all our students and Faculty, and it comes with many new enhancements!!
We are so excited, we had to share with all the UMHS Library blog readers. Check out all the new features!! For further information regarding your access - see the UMHS LMS under the 'Library Services' section.
UpToDate is your "go-to" resource for clinical point-of-care and medical decision support information.
Answering
more critical questions, with clarity
Hundreds of new topics, including COVID-19; expanded
renal dosing, adverse drug reaction content
Patient perspective topics
Expanded international brand drug names
Speed
to answer, supporting shifts in care delivery
“Go Directly To” drug information
Enhanced display of drug dosing by indication
Commonly asked questions, answered in search results
Enhancing
the continuing professional development experience
Direct CME submission to more medical specialty and
state licensing boards - including Surgery and Pediatrics in 2021
Complete your CME reflection questions in-topic and in
real time.
Content and contributor highlights:
Added over 100 new authors, editors and peer reviewers, now 7,400
Added over 180 new topics - now 12,300 in 25 specialties
Over 400 unique drug topics
Added over 900 new graphics to the 37,000
Added 10 more medical calculators to the 215
Added over 15,000 references to the current 530.000
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!
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!
Access Medicine has added some new functionality to it's Q&A section. As you know, your MyAccess profile keeps track of your practice quiz
performances. However, it only lists how many questions you took, the
score, and the date/time you took that quiz. This makes it difficult to
quickly identify what that quiz may have been related to.
Students now have
the ability to rename their quizzes so they can easily identify that quiz for
future reference. To help demonstrate this new functionality, Access Medicine has
recorded this brief tutorial: Renaming Quiz Enhancement. This new
functionality should be particularly helpful to those students using the
Q&A and the Board Review Q&A.
Please contact Ann Celestine at the Library if you need assistance with your personal MyAccess login to Access Medicine, or otherwise navigating the database.
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.
AccessMedicine provides built-in American Medical AssociationContinuing Medical Education (CME) opportunities!
With our UMHS institutional site license UMHS faculty and students can obtain CME credits simply by browsing and reading content on AccessMedicine. Users can obtain up to 20 category 1 AMA credits through AccessMedicine. Credits are obtained when users read a CME eligible chapter from one of the many full text medical reference books included on AM, such as Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine. The user can choose to tag that material for CME, answer some basic follow-up questions, and then they will earn their CME certificate.
Users can also find CME eligible content within the new Clinical Prep feature on AccessMedicine.
Users also have the ability to set-up alerts to notify them when any eligible CME is about to expire so that they can claim that credit. An overview of what AccessMedicine resources are available for CME along with more details about this feature can be found at: About CME.
Now when you search for information resources using our 'one search' interface, the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), you will also be retrieving the holdings records of the Anne Ross Library.
Our Library World OPAC (online public access catalogue) is now integrated into the EBSCO Discovery Service database to facilitate easier searching of the library's resources.
The Discover Search interface (EDS) is shown here highlighting the location of library holdings information. Links back to the LibraryWorld database are included. In the left side bar notice the location of the search 'limiter' to narrow your search to retrieve only items that are held in the library.
View of these same materials as found in the Anne Ross Library Catalogue.
EDS also includes records for the resources held at UMHS Maine Campus.
Links to our various eBook Collections and extensive downloadable ebook holdings are also retrievable through this same 'one search' interface.
The Anne Ross Library EBSCO journal holdings are now linked with Google Scholar. This means that if your search results return a journal article that is included in one of our subscription databases, you will be alerted with the link for 'myUMHS' appearing to the right of the article description. See the section below on 'How do I set up Google Scholar?' for instructions on setting this up. Search Google Scholar for peer-reviewed papers, theses, books,
abstracts and court opinions from academic publishers, professional
societies, online repositories, universities, and websites. While there is overlap between Google Scholar, Discovery Search, and individual library databases, it’s always helpful to have a variety
of research tools at your disposal.
Google Scholar links to many online
journal articles, but it does not link to all of the articles available
in the Anne Ross Library's online databases. By the same token, you may find
sources in Google Scholar that aren’t available through the library. Google Scholar yields broad and comprehensive search results for
your topic, especially when looking for sources from different
disciplines. It is also useful for identifying related research or
for locating sources that have cited published articles you may have authored. The Search Alert tool is an additional benefit for staying up-to-date with information being published on your topic.
How do I set up Google Scholar? You will need to do a one-time
set-up for your account to access full-text articles available through the Anne Ross Library.
Search for UMHS-SK or University of Medicine and Health Sciences
Click myUMHS
Click Save
If you access Google Scholar directly at scholar.google.comwithout
logging in and creating library links, full-text linking will not be
available. Follow the myUMHS link for instant access to any available article. If you require further assistance to set this up please contact the library.
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