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.
"It’s 4am, and the big test is in 8 hours. You’ve been studying for days, but you still don’t feel ready. Should you drink another cup of coffee and spend the next few hours cramming? Or should you go to sleep"
"Shai Marcu defends the latter option, showing how sleep restructures your brain in a way that’s crucial for how our memory works." TEDEd production.
Lesson by Shai Marcu, animation by Javier Saldeña.
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
The World Health Organization is responding to a crucial global health care need. The need to simply know "Where are your health facilities?"
The WHO announced the creation of a new Global Health Facilities Database (GHFD) that will allow all populations to locate and access information about health care services and facilities on a global scale. This timely and essential repository will
"standardize the master lists of local and regional health facilities into an open database. Doing so will strengthen country's technical capacity at all levels, improve data interoperability across information systems, support the provision of universal health coverage..." etc.
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').
PubMed comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical
literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and
publisher web sites.
Using the UMHS Outside Link to PubMed
allows UMHS students and faculty to locate any full text that may be available through our
UMHS library subscriptions. When you search PubMed using
this special link to the new PubMed interface, you will see the UMHS
logo link appear in the top right area of the article record page. The logo is a
link back to the full text available from our EBSCO journal database
subscriptions.
You
may also create your own personal login to NCBI and then login to your MyNCBI account.This will allow you
to see the UMHS logo as well as save your searches, among other things.
The new PubMed interface is now live! Check it out!
...facilitating communication between the Library and the Faculty, students, staff and community partners of the University of Medicine & Health Sciences (UMHS).
