Use these resources when you need to see the big picture or answer specific background questions concerning an illness, disease or condition. These types of resources are usually considered to be expert opinion tools and may or may not be completely evidence based.
 

DynaMed

This clinical reference tool is primarily used for “point of care” clinical practice. It is an evidence-based clinical resource.
 

5-Minute Clinical Cardiac Consult

5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult

5-Minute Pediatric Consult

This online textbook series provides a quick summary in a standard, bulleted format for the most common illnesses, diseases and conditions.

 

More and Other E-Books

Use this link to explore other online textbooks. You can browse E-Books by subject and alphabetically by title.

UpToDate

Clinical decision support tool designed to answer clinical questions that arise in daily practice.

 

PubMed Medline

Use PubMed to search the journal literature for the most current clinical and medical research available on the planet. Most of you recognize the main search interface but some of the specialized search interfaces PubMed provides includes:

• Search by Clinical Study Category - Therapy, Etiology/Harm, Prognosis or Diagnosis
• Find Systematic Reviews - finds citations for systematic reviews, meta-analyses, reviews of clinical trials, evidence-based medicine, concensus development conferences, and guidelines
• CAM on PubMed - finds complementary and alternative medicine citations in PubMed
• Cancer Topic Searches - literature searches finding citations on more than 100 different cancer topics
• Health Service Research (HSR) Queries - helps find citations relating to health care quality or to health care costs
• Medical Genetics - finds citations related to various topics in medical genetics
• PubMed for Handhelds - Search MEDLINE with a mobile device
   

OvidSP Medline

This is an alternative way to search the journal literature for those who are already familiar with the Ovid SP search interface.

Micromedex Healthcare Series

Micromedex Healthcare Series provides unbiased, referenced information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, patient education, and alternative medicine. Written by experts for experts, the Thomson Healthcare suite of decision support tools delivers the most thoroughly reviewed and evaluated information available. Thomson Healthcare provides timely access to trusted information, helping clinicians enhance decisions, reduce adverse events, and promote best practices.

RefWorks

A web-based bibliography and database manager, used to easily create personal databases of imported references from text files or online databases, that facilitates reference storage, retrieval, formatting for publication and sharing of folders or databases.

 

Library Catalog

Use the online Library Catalog to find out which books are owned by the Calder Library or to which journals the library has print and/or online subscriptions. CALLCAT does not know which articles are published in a journal - use the Search for Medical Literature for Journal Articles (above) to find journal articles on your topic.
 

E-Journals Searchable List

Use this webpage to search for electronic or online access to journals. You may search the list in a variety of ways including:

• Official Medline Abbreviiation (i.e., n engl j med)
• Title begins with (i.e., New England finds all journal titles beginning with the exact words New England)
• Title contains all words (i.e., Cancer finds any journal title containing the word Cancer regardless of where it appears in the journal's title)
   

E-Journals Access Problem Form

Use this form to report problems you encounter when trying to access online journal subscriptions.

Here are some of the student's most commonly used non-library resources at the Miller School of Medicine and from the Internet
 

UMMSM Students General Information Webpage

Created by the Miller School of Medicine, this page holds links to information important to the medical students.
 

UMMSM Department of Medical Education

Get quick access to the online schedules and other information created by the Department of Medical Education.
 

WebMail

Http://webmail.med.miami.edu is the internet address for the web interface to your student Outlook email accounts.
 

Blackboard

Students use Blackboard, an online course system, during their first two years to access materials and complete required activites pertaining to the Evidence-Based Medicine Theme as part of their Doctoring 1-4 courses. A university assigned login and password is required to access this online information resource.

GeriU - the Online Geriatrics University

Students use GeriU throughout their four years of training. The site houses all of the online interactive self-study modules and review materials for Geriatrics, Pain Management, and Palliative Care instructional activities. Students submit their independent assignments on templates provided on GeriU. At various times throughout their training, they will also complete some of the competency assessments on GeriU. A personalized username and password is required before you may access the GeriU system.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.

Martindale’s Health Science Guide

Links to thousands of video clips, atlas and image databases, and more.

myIDP (Individual Development Plan from Science Careers)

myIDP is a unique, web-based career-planning tool tailored to meet the needs of Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows in the sciences, from the publishers of the journal Science.

National Board of Medical Examiners

Provides information on licensing exam services including sample assessments.

 

Doctoring

DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination Leblond, Brown, DeGowin McGraw-Hill (2009, 9th edition)

User's Guide to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guyatt, Rennie AMA Press (2008)

Human Structure

Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of DiseaseKumar, Robbins, Cotran (2009, 8th edition)

Cellular Function and Regulation

Cell PhysiologyLandowne (2006)

Neuroscience and Behavioral Neuroscience

Behavioral Science in Medicine, 1st ed., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003.

Neuroscience   Purves, Augustine, Fitzpatrick, Hall, (2000, 2nd Edition).
This book is not the most current edition of the textbook.     

Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease Kumar, Robbins, Cotran (2009, 8th edition)

Doctoring

DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination Leblond, Brown, DeGowin McGraw-Hill (2009, 9th edition)

User's Guide to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guyatt, Rennie AMA Press (2008)

Respiratory System

Pulmonary Physiology  Levitzky (2007, 7th Edition) 

Gastrointestinal and Nutrition

Handbook of Gastroenterology, 2nd ed., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.

Hemotology and Oncology

Goldman Cecil Medicine  (2011, 24th Edition) 

Endocrine and Reproductive System

Endocrine Physiology  PE Molina (2006, 2nd Edition)    

Basic & Clinical Endocrinology Greenspan (2007, 8th Edition)

Dermatology and Ophthalmology

Clinical Dermatology   Habif (  2004, 4th Edition)

Internal Medicine Clerkship

Goldman Cecil Medicine (2011, 24th Edition) 

Psychiatry Clerkship

Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Psychiatry  Ebert, Loosen, Nurcomb & Leckman   (2008, 2nd Edition)

Pediatrics Clerkship

Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics (2011, 19th edition)

Anesthesiology

Basics of Anesthesia, 5th ed., Stoelting & Miller, 2007

Surgery

Principles of Surgery Companion Handbook (7th Edition, 1998)

Cameron: Current Surgical Therapy, 9th ed 2007

Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery (2010, 9th edition)