Fast and easy to learn, the VisualDx visual diagnostic decision support system links health care professionals
to superior-quality medical images and information prepared by respected physician scholars – all
available on site at the point of care.  Access the library subscription to VisualDx here.

We are pleased to announce that we have revised Exam Master’s USMLE Step 1 Board Preparation and Medical Subjects question banks. To assure that you have a better and more focused study opportunity, we have removed over 2000 questions from both of these question banks.

Upon evaluation, these questions were not sufficiently of a high yield nature, nor were they clinically oriented in many cases. This revision makes both of these question banks more pertinent to your studies. Our USMLE Step 1 Board Review question bank now includes over 3200 high quality questions. Our Step 1 Medical Subjects Question bank will now contain a more focused 6,000+ questions organized into the most relevant basic science medical subjects.

The 2000+ questions that were removed from the USMLE Step 1 question banks are available in our Medical Subject Review set of question banks, comprising over 11,400 questions. You will still find these questions useful for general studies or as a basic sciences refresher. Both the USMLE Step 1 and the Medical Subject Review resources are available on your institution’s Exam Master OnLine gateway.

You can reach the IUSM subscription to Exam Master here.

Sincerely,
The Team at Exam Master

The Medical Library now has a subscription to the database Natural Standard: the Authority on Integrative Medicine.  Natural Standard was founded by clinicians and researchers to provide high quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. This international multidisciplinary collaboration now includes contributors from more than 100 eminent academic institutions. 

The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.  The Cochrane Library consists of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), the Cochrane Methodology Register, the Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA), and the NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED).

For a brief overview and user guide, click here.

The Cochrane Library subscription was formerly available through Ovid, and is now available through the publisher Wiley.

All of the EBM databases in Cochrane can be found in the A-Z Journals list.

The Medical Library has added a new database called AccessAnesthesiology.   The product features:

• Core clinical texts Longnecker’s Anesthesiology, Hadzic’s Textbook of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management, Morgan’s Lange Clinical Anesthesiology and others.
• Procedural videos including videos from the authors of Management of the Difficult and Failed Airway), and an ultrasound series.
• Practice Guidelines featuring easy-to-use summary tables alongside the full-text guidelines.
• Self-Assessment Q&A from Anesthesiology: Examination & Board Review, 6/e and from Clinical Manual and Review of Transesophageal Echocardiography.
• Fully integrated drug database that provides dosing, indications, adverse reactions, and drug interactions.

AccessAnesthesiology may be accessed from our A to Z Journals list or click here.

The Medical Library has added a new database called Pediatric Care Online.

Pediatric Care Online is a comprehensive resource from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), an organizartion of over 60,000 board certified pediatrican members dedicated to the health of all children.  Pediatric Care Online combines comprehensive clinical information, such as the AAP Textbook of Pediatric Care and Bright Futures, with pracitical pont-of-care resources, such as the Visual Library, Drug Database, and Interactive Periodicty Schedule.  To view a demonstration of the site, click Demo.

This new database may be accessed via the A-Z list from the library’s home page or click here. 

The Medical Library now subscribes to BMJ Case Reports.  BMJ Case Reports delivers a focused, peer-reviewed, valuable collection of cases in all disciplines so that healthcare professionals, researchers and others can easily find clinically important information on common and rare conditions. This is the largest single collection of case reports online with more than 1000 articles from over 55 countries.

To access this database, please click here

The Medical Library has added a new database, EMBASE.com, to the A-Z Journals list.

EMBASE.com a database by Elsevier has been added to the Medical Libraries collection. It has more than 18 million validated biomedical and pharmacological records.

• The newest version of EMBASE.com has been enhanced with the addition of over 1.2 million MEDLINE records from 1950-1965
• Searches can now be pre-defined to select all records within MEDLINE
• Records unique to EMBASE can be retrieved by enhanced search functions
• New “Autocomplete” feature offers guidance for selection of search terms

Click here to access EMBASE.com from the A-Z Journals list.

The Medical Library has added a new database, Lexi-Comp Online, to the A-Z Journals list.

Lexi-Comp Online is a concise, authoritative drug resource guide.  This database includes information on:

• Drug and Drug Interaction
• Drug Allergy
• Drug Therapy Duplication
• Drug Dose Checking
• Information on Diagnosis and Disease Management
• Formulary Services
• Patient Education Resources
• Clinical Support Tools

Click here to access Lexi-Comp from the A-Z Journals list.

The Medical Library has added a new nursing database on our Ovid menu called Nursing@Ovid.

This new resource is a comprehensive new online portal offering streamlined access to premium nursing and allied health full-text resources.

It may be accessed via the A-Z list or the Ovid link located on the library’s home page.