Anne Ross Library Blog

Thursday, May 30, 2019

AccessMedicine Adds Great New Content

AccessMedicine has added great new content, both brand new titles and some new editions.

These include:

Jawetz, Melnick, & Adelberg’s Medical Microbiology also comes with over 600 Q&A and the Text & Atlas of Wound Diagnosis and Treatment comes with over 100 Q&A that can be found under AccessMedicine’s Study Tools.

Under the Multimedia tab find a new series of Patient Interview Videos that will help you develop your communication skills, along with tools for communicating effectively with patients in the clinical setting.

Within this series, you will find such topics covered as:

Varying interviewing skills
Agenda setting
Breaking bad news
Dealing with demanding, inappropriate, and angry patients
Empathy

Labels: AccessMedicine, behavioral health, dermatology, microbiology, patient communication, patient interviews, practice questions, psychiatry, wound care

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Skin Disease Finder from VisualDxHealth

VisualDxHealth is a self-care patient information tool providing medical pictures of common diseases and conditions as they appear on different parts of the body.
This is an interactive tool to guide you and is not intended to diagnose automatically. Each disease write-up includes an overview, risk factors and causes, pictures, self-care recommendation, and information on treatments or a treatment your doctor might prescribe.

Labels: dermatological images, dermatology, interactive diagnostic tool, medical images, self-care, skin disease, VisualDx

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