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Evidence-Based Medicine Guide
This guide highlights evidence-based medicine (EBM) and evidence-based nursing (EBN) resources available at the UC Health Sciences Library.

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It also includes the EBM process, tutorials and worksheets.

Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination
Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination includes more than 8 hours of video content that provides head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques. Note: OSCE Clinical Skills Videos not included in this subscription. Access is available via computer, smartphone, or tablet device. Browser compatibility includes Windows PC: IE 9, Firefox (latest version), Chrome (latest version). Mac: Safari (latest version), Firefox (latest version). Android and IOS devices: latest version of native browser.
NOTE: Access limited to authorized UC Medical Center users

BoardVitals Shelf Exam Practice (Registration Required)
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Poster Printing
A poster printer is located in the Health Sciences Library and available to UC College of Medicine graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and undergraduate summer program students only. Learn more about costs, templates, and how to schedule.
Citation Management Software
Learn about several citation manager options New RefWorks, Sciwheel (formally F1000Workspace), EndNote, and Zotero.
New RefWorks Portal
Information about how to create an account, add and organize references, create a bibliography and cite while writing in Word.
Legacy RefWorks Portal
Register for Legacy RefWorks, find tutorials on how to move citations to RefWorks, how to cite references in Word, and more.
Ethics and Copyright (Online Guide for Students)

Key Resources

PubMed
PubMed¸ a service of the National Library of Medicine¸ includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. Coverage: 1950's - present
Cochrane Library (Wiley Online Library)
Wiley Cochrane Library is a collection of databases containing high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. The Cochrane Library includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), and Cochrane Clinical Answers. It can be searched for a particular topic or disease and will return results on clinical trials, reviews, methods, studies, and clinical answers, and is suited for use as supplemental course materials at the undergraduate and graduate levels, for technology assessments and economic evaluations.
Scopus (Elsevier)
Indexing¸ abstracts¸ and citation searching for science and social science scholarly literature. Scopus covers 14¸000 titles across 4¸000 publishers¸ providing access to over 25 million abstracts going back to 1966 and 5 years of cited reference back years¸ building up to 10 years by the end of 2005. Coverage: 1966 - present
DynaMed Plus
Go to DynaMed Plus™ for answers to clinical questions. Content is written by a world-class team of physicians who synthesize the evidence and provide objective analysis.

DynaMed Plus Mobile

EMBASE
EMBASE (Excerpta Medica dataBASE) is a biomedical and pharmacological international database (1947 to present).
Coverage: 1966 - present

Multi-Format Resources

These multi-format resources each include journals, books and other formats. In addition to journals and books, ClinicalKey includes drug monographs, guidelines, patient education, clinical overviews, multimedia, and procedure descriptions in eight specialties. While SpringerLink includes series, protocols, reference works, and conference proceedings.

ClinicalKey Access

Create a personal account using your UC email address to access ClinicalKey.

To set this up from off campus:
Set up https://mydesk.uc.edu/
Then go to ClinicalKey http://www.clinicalkey.com/ to set up a personal account
ClinicalKey personal account Instructions: https://bit.ly/3goYbZF
While creating the personal account, click on “Remember me”.

Once the personal account is set up and the user is logged in, any link to ClinicalKey should open without the need to log in again. Please note: periodically ClinicalKey requires you to log into your personal account again or change your password to maintain access.

ClinicalKey
Access limited to UC Academic Health Center users. Off Campus Access :set up and create
a ClinicalKey personal account using your UC email address. Then log into your ClinicalKey personal account.
ClinicalKey personal account instructions.

This collection includes medical books, textbooks current journals, practice guidelines, patient handouts, and drug information from Clinical Pharmacology. CME credits via the Cleveland Clinic. This resource is specifically designed to support physicians in evidence-based clinical care and clinical education, and also supports researchers and instructors with an included presentation builder for use with images and videos.

SpringerLink
Multi-format and multi-disciplinary. Browse by discipline or search for your topic.