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."
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.
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.
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.
AccessMedicine has launched a new feature with the addition of Clinical Prep. What Clinical Prep does is help to bridge the gap between course work and
actual patient care experiences by providing access to common clinical questions.
"Clinical Prep offers more than 650 core topics essential for medical students. Within these 650+ core topics, students will find
over 50,000 questions."
The questions and answer choices are written; as well as reviewed, and updated; several times a month by specialists who work in clinical settings.
Clinical Prep supports learning in four key ways:
It provides a warm up for your brain before setting out on clinical rotations.
It helps students become familiar with clinical workflow and issues surrounding each disease.
Its topics and questions serve as a point-of-care tool in the wards.
Clinical Prep’s specialty/topic lists align with the USMLE Step 2 content outline and are the same topics as those found in "First Aid for the USMLE Step 2 CK". Which means that diseases included in this feature are likely to appear on the Step 2!
McGraw Hill has announced the addition of 14 new Healthcare Business Titles to the AccessMedicine platform. These titles will appeal to practicing
clinicians, healthcare administrators, residents, fellows, and medical students.
"The focus of these books ranges from
softer skills, such as communication and conflict resolution, to leadership and
management training, to quality improvement and patient safety projects with
Lean Six Sigma, to healthcare technology and privacy issues."
Please remember that
AccessMedicine also includes a series of ten Healthcare Systems Titles on the site, covering topics such as quality, safety, policy, and ethics.
UMHS Students: You where all sent your personal
logins to AccessMedicine at the beginning of your first semester at
UMHS. If you have any problem signing into this resource, please contact
the Library.
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.
The new EBSCO eBooks App supports the complete EBSCO eBooks
experience, allowing you to discover eBooks in the UMHS
collection of clinical and general academic titles. Download them to your device, and begin reading immediately,
all within the app. The link is provided on the Anne Ross Library Home page, look down the left-hand sidebar.
The EBSCO eBooks App is available for:
iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) from the iTunes app store
"Diagnosaurus provides differential diagnoses (DDx) of symptoms,
signs, and diseases. By using the various indexes, you can choose to
view entries by organ system, or select to view the list of symptoms
only, the list of diseases only, or all of the entries. For example, if
you wish to review the causes of a patient's chief complaint, simply
select the symptom or sign from the alphabetical listing. If you have
made a diagnosis and wonder what other disorders to consider, select
your diagnosis from the list to see its DDx."
Access from the Anne Ross Library Home page by clicking on 'AccessMedicine' and logging in using the UMHS generic login, and/or then your personal UMHS MyAccess login.
"In medicine, the terms "differential diagnosis" and "etiology" often
overlap. They are sometimes distinct and sometimes synonymous. In
Diagnosaurus, "DDx" is generally used when either term can apply.
However, many entries have both an etiology list and a DDx. In these
cases, the etiologies are the possible causes of the condition, while
the DDx is the list of alternative diagnoses. For consistency, etiology
is always listed before DDx. A few entries also have a list of
"associated conditions" or "types."
Note that every entry is linked to related entries by way of the "See
Related DDx" feature. For example, while viewing the DDx of psoriasis,
you may wish to see the related DDx of scaly lesions. This feature also
helps label a patient's presenting syndrome and thus leads you to the
best differential diagnosis. In the example above, if the rash reminds
you of psoriasis, you might start with the psoriasis entry and then link
to the differential diagnosis of scaly lesions."
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