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Research Tools for Medical Students 

Last update: Oct 13th, 2009 URL: http://guides.mclibrary.duke.edu/medstudents  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Textbooks

  • DynaMed  
    Point of Care resource
  • Harrison's  
    Internal Medicine classic textbook online
  • ACP Medicine  
      
    Good Internal Medicine Textbook (Note: takes a minute to load.)
  • MDConsult  
      
    textbooks, practice guidelines, patient education materials, and images
  • eMedicine  
      
    background information on 7,000+ diseases; requires free registration
 

Google vs Library?

While Google is a great tool for finding resturants and planning vacation, you might think twice before you treat patients from Google.

Here's a tip sheet that shows the pros and cons.

 

Also try:  PoGoFrog.com  PogoFrog.com jumps over the layman-focused clutter on the
internet to find only credible medical information for physicians.

 

PubMed (Medline)

  • PubMed  
      
    Biomedical literature; 1948+
  • PubMed with Clinical Queries  
      
    Limits PubMed search to studies for specific types of questions: therapy, diagnosis, prognosis, and etiology

EBM Databases

  • ACP Journal Club  
      
    structured abstracts and commentaries of original studies selected for sound methodology and clinical relevance
  • Cochrane Library  
      
    systematic reviews, clinical trials and economic evaluations
  • TRIP  
      
    Search engine for 70+ EBM websites that include articles, guidelines, and systematic reviews
  • JAMAevidence  
    Fundamental tools for understanding and applying the medical literature and making clinical diagnoses.
 

What is the diagnosis?

 

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