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Introduction

This guide is designed to assist you in accessing information relevant to your clinical practice.


Please contact Lynne Fox, Library Liaison to Residents and Fellows, with suggestions or corrections for this page.  

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Introduction

You can always get immediate assistance by visiting the library. (Check our hours) If not, try one of the options below.
Ask a Librarian  Get help from the Health Sciences Library via online chat, email, or phone.
Health Sciences Library Classes  Classes focus on basic skills for searching major resources and on finding full text efficiently.
If you can't attend a scheduled class, individualized instruction is provided.  Request group or individual instruction on a date and time convenient for you!
Health Sciences Library Handouts  Learn more about the resources included in this guide.
Health Sciences Library Orientation 101  Tutorials designed to provide a basic overview of Health Sciences Library services, resources, and the library's webpage. Includes information about your library ID number, remote access to library resources, and how to find electronic journals. Requires Flash browser plugin.
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Service Desk  Staff at the desk near the library entrance can place holds, renew books, provide reserve readings, and update library records.  They are the central point to answer general questions about the library's resources and services.
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Access Library Resources from Work or Home

When you access library resources from off campus (home, a clinic, private medical office, or hospital) you will be asked to enter your name and Employee ID. Your ID will be verified in a library database and you will be allowed access to the resource. If you cannot access resources off campus, please call the Desk for assistance at 303-724-2152.

Don't know your Employee ID number? To find your 6-digit employee ID number, please refer to your timesheet, paycheck stub, or ask your supervisor to look up your number in PeopleSoft. f you have an HSC email address, you can also lookup your employee ID at MyCU (http://my.cu.edu/ ).

The Health Sciences Library's electronic resources such as full text journals, Ovid and PubMed MEDLINE, and point of care clinical reference tools, are available from any UCH or Anschutz Medical Campus networked computer.
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Types of Resources

Filtered, summarized monographs: Answer clinical questions in a concise, easily accessible format. Organize information for quick browsing. Use when you have less than 15 minutes to find information.

Examples: ACP PIER, Clinical Inquiries in the Journal of Family Practice, FirstConsult, Five Minute Clinical Consult, Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database, and Up To Date [Up to Date is not available off campus].

Information Aggregators: Go beyond the basics and scan collected information for relevant content. One-stop access to a wide variety of material. Save time by simultaneously searching textbooks, PubMed, Cochrane, National Guidelines Clearinghouse, image resources, drug reference databases, risk calculators or other tools, or other specialized resources. Allow at least 20-30 minutes when you use these resources.

Examples: Essential Evidence Plus (formerly InfoRetriever), MD Consult, Micromedex, and STAT!Ref

Critically Appraised Information: MD prepared critical summaries of the evidence. Use when you want to keep up on the literature, but don't have time to read the whole article.

Examples: ACP Journal Club, InfoPOEMs in Essential Evidence Plus, and some parts of The Cochrane Library

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Audio Digest

Multi-task and learn via your MP3 player by downloading lectures from expert clinicians in the fields of Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Family Practice, and Internal Medicine. Review the topics since July 2006, then go to: http://denison1.uchsc.edu/audio/ and click on a specialty. Select the desired issue from the list. You can view a pdf with a summary of the topic for that issue, or you can download the mp3 file to load onto your player.

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Books for Residents

Bing-You, Robert. The Residency survival manual : tools & tips to help you make it through residency training. 1st ed. Yarmouth, ME : Morgan Bay Productions, c2004. HSL General Collection/3rd Floor W 20 B613r 2004

Jauhar, Sandeep, Intern : a doctor's initiation. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. HSL History of Medicine/3rd Floor WZ 100 J4095 2008

Lin, Grace A.  The Washington manual internship survival guide.  Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2006. HSL General Collection/3rd Floor  WB 39 L735w 2006     

Peterkin, Allan. Staying human during residency training. 3rd ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, c2004. HSC Books W 20 P479s 2004

Transue, Emily R. On call : a doctor's days and nights in residency. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2004.   HSL General Collection/3rd Floor W 20 T772o 2004   

Wischnitzer, Saul. Wischnitzer's residency manual : selecting, securing, surviving, succeeding. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. HSL General Collection/3rd Floor W 20 W811w 2006

View additional resources in the library's catalog.

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Career Planning Resources

AAMC Career Planning Resources  Links to financial planning resources, and fellowship information
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education  Resources from the organization that supervises residency programs.
ACP Career Resource Center  Information on certification and licensing, self-marketing, compensation, and opening a private practice
How to Prepare Your Curriculum Vitae  Tips, sample, and format for a vita from the Academy of Family Physicians
Job Search Resources  Recruitment and relocation resources, plus employment tips
Physician Compensation and Benefits Worksheet  Analysis tool for evaluating compensation packages
[PDF]
Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Career Services  Employment tips and resources for preparing resumes, vitae, cover letters, and the interview process
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Consumer Health, Patient Education and Discharge Guides

Consumer health materials can help you provide information to your patients that they can understand and refer to later. You can refer your patients to the Health Sciences Library or Denver Public Library to find reputable sources of health information using computers with high speed, multi-media capable internet connections.
ACP PIER ( via STAT!Ref)  Useful education materials can be distributed to patients. This resource is only available directly to patients in the Health Sciences Library.
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MD Consult  Easy to understand patient handouts with nice illustrations. Click on the "Patient Handouts" tab to search for and print information for your patients. Also, click on the "News" tab, then on "What Patients Are Reading" on the left for summaries of recent health articles in popular magazines. This resource is only available directly to patients in the Health Sciences Library.
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MEDLINEPlus  Easy-to-read, multilingual materials, Flash tutorials, and other materials reviewed for accuracy and reliability of information by the National Library of Medicine.. Browse or search a catalog of links to consumer health information or just refer your patients here.
Micromedex Healthcare Series  Numerous handouts, customized by many UCH departments. Click on the "Proceed" button, then the "Patient Education" tab, then "CareNotes System". Search for a keyword, or check under the "Hot Lists" tab to find and print materials used by specific UCH units. This resource is not available to patients, you must print handouts to give to them.
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Multilingual Consumer Health Resources for Residents

24 Languages Project  Offers audio materials in many languages for patients who cannot read
Multilingual Multimedia Consumer Health Information Multilingual Health information materials are in multiple formats - handouts, audio, multimedia, web-video and (some) iPod videos, and multiple languages.
New South Wales Multicultural Health Communication Service  Offers the greatest variety of topics and languages.  Click on "Resources by Topic" or "Resources by Language" on left side of page.
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Evidence Based Medicine for Residents

A brief list of evidence based medicine tools which you may find helpful. You may also want to see our full Evidence Based Health Care Resources guide.
Cochrane Library  Premier evidence based medicine resource composed of - the Database of Systematic Reviews containing systematic reviews and meta-analyses conducted by Cochrane Study Groups, - the Database of Reviews of Effects including systematic reviews and meta-analyses from non-Cochrane sources, many with structured abstracts with comments on the reviews and full text of the review is available via the Online Journals A to Z list, - Central Register of Controlled Trials indexes many trials not included in MEDLINE, - HTA and NHS EED include evidence based reviews of technology and economic issues.
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Google Coop: Netting the Evidence  Andrew Booth, a pioneer in evidence based information practice at the University of Sheffield, created one of the first list of evidence based health care resources on the Internet.  He's taken this one step further with a Google Coop site that limits your Google search to over 100 authoritative, evidence based websites. Type a condition and diagnostic method or treatment into the search box to quickly find resources with an evidence based approach.
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Tips for Learning EBM from CMAJ  This series is devoted to helping clinicians understand and apply the
basic principles of EBM. The series also targets teachers of EBM
principles, and offers tips for teaching key concepts. Be sure to
advance to page 2 to see all of the articles in the series. Teachers
should click on the "Online Appendix" links for teaching advice.
Users' Guides Interactive  Excellent self-paced learning modules based on the JAMA Users' Guides to the Medical Literature series, featuring interactive activities designed to reinforce learning.
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Visual Rx  Chris Cate's evidence based medicine tool creates visual displays to communicate risk information to patients using 100 happy or sad faces in green, yellow, and red. Visual Rx is designed to calculate Numbers Needed to Treat (NNT) from the pooled results of a Meta-analysis and produce a graphical display of the result.
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Finding Full Text

Find Journals  Use this list find the Health Sciences Library's journals by title.
IMPULSE (UCDHSC Library Catalog)  Use the Health Sciences Library's IMPULSE catalog as a secondary resource for linking to full text audio-visual materials and books. Search IMPULSE using the Word or Title option, then look for the titles with the indicator (Online) or [Electronic Resource].
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Interesting Websites for Residents

Chronicles of a Madhouse Madman  An entertaining daily diary from a recent medical resident. Having completed his residency, the Madman has started a new blog, Doctor, which was discontinued in March 2007.
Medlogs: Residents and Students  Comments, news, and tips for residents and students culled from a variety of weblogs.
Postgraduate Medicine Pearls  Tips and suggestions from the readers of Postgraduate Medicine.
Resident Web  General resource for residents.
Things I Learn From My Patients  Humorous "tips" from observing ED patients. (Caution: Some Adult Language and Situations - Just like your real work life.)
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Journal Club

ACP Journal Club [ACP]  Evidence based evaluative summaries of articles taken from 100 clinical journals, written by MDs and others, with comments from MDs.
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Birmingham Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP )  Online learning resources and supporting materials for developing critical appraisal skills..
CAT Crawler  A metasearch engine for website repositories of CATs.
CatMaker  Download a wizard that guides you through a critical appraisal, then calculates appropriate EBM values.
POEMS at Essential Evidence Plus  Short appraisals of articles on a variety of topics. "POEM" is an acronym for "patient oriented evidence that matters". Click on "Access InfoRetriever Online", then click on "InfoPOEMs Archive" on the left.
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MEDLINE versions

The Health Sciences Library provides access to the MEDLINE databse via Ovid and PubMed. (Ovid or PubMed, What's the difference?)

MEDLINE (from Ovid)  Search for clinical trials or systematic reviews in biomedical journals. MEDLINE includes 16 million journal citations. Use the Limit menu labeled "Clinical Queries" to access high quality clinical trials on specific clinical topics.
Also includes International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, Journals@Ovid, PsycInfo
PubMed (MEDLINE)  After executing a search, change the display from summary to "abstract", then follow the "Article Linker" link find the full text of articles.
[recommended]
PubMed Online Tutorial  From the National Library of Medicine
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Other Libraries

Use these resources to obtain materials or access other library catalogs.
Colorado Virtual Library  Link to web pages and library catalogs for hundreds of Colorado Library's to locate materials or to find out library hours. Click on the "Find A Library" link to start.
IMPULSE (UCDHSC Library Catalog)  Check to see if 9 hospital libraries have the journal you need. When viewing results change from the Health Sciences Library to IMPULSE Medical Collections to display information from our partner hospital libraries.
Also note that there is a red Search Prospector button in the IMPULSE Library catalog that automatically searches Prospector.
Interlibrary Loan  Request article copies that can be picked up electronically or at the Circulation Desk.
Prospector  Request books, dvds, or audio cds from 23 public and academic libraries and have them delivered to the Health Sciences Library or PASCAL at Anschutz. Search the catalog and click on "REQUEST THIS ITEM", type in your name and library ID, and pick a delivery point. You will be notified when your item can be picked up.
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Calculators, Lab Analysis, Rules, and Tables

Essential Evidence Plus (aka InfoRetriever)  Scroll down and click on Clinical Rules and Calculators. Browse the topic or type of result category to find the desired rule or calculator.
[Point-of-Care]
MedCalc 3000  MedCalc 3000 encompasses a wide array of pertinent medical formulae, clinical criteria sets and decision tree analysis tools used everyday by clinicians, medical educators, nurses and health care students of all types. Includes EBM calculators.
Medical Algorithms Project  Calculators, interactive tools, and reference resources for interns.
Micromedex Healthcare Series  For calculators, roll over "Main" tab, then click on "Calculators". Use the drop down menus to find the information you need. For Labs, choose the "Labs tab, then "Database Search" or "Topic Search". Search for a lab test to find reference ranges, when the test is indicated, common panels, and LOINC codes. Or browse and pick from a list of labs.
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Differential Diagnosis

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual  Psychological diagnositic reference online. Browse the contents or search Psychiatry Online for a specific symptom or disorder.
Essential Evidence Plus (aka InfoRetriever)  Scroll down and click on Signs & Symptoms or Tests.
Browse by topic, type of result, or by resource.
[Point-of-Care]
FirstConsult  Browse a list of symptoms and review the list of diseases associated with that symptom. Click on "Differential Diagnosis" under the search box, then on the symptom, then diseases that match the symptom to review diagnostic information for each disease.
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JAMA's Rational Clinical Examination  via PubMed: Improve your clinical examination skills using JAMA's case based approach. The goal of the series is to identify findings on clinical examination that are useful or useless based on the quality of the evidence for the findings. To narrow the results to a topic of your choice, add yourtopic and at the front of the search box.
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MD Consult  Ferri's Clinical Advisor: Move from symptoms to diagnosis quickly. Click on the "Books" tab, then scroll down to "Family Medicine" and click on the link for Ferri's. Click on the "+" next to "Section II: Differential Diagnosis" to browse, or type key words into the search box to find your keywords in Ferri's.
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Disease Etiology, Treatment, Diagnosis, and Prognosis

ACP PIER ( via STAT!Ref)  Authoritative, evidence-based guidance for clinical care. Evidence is graded based on the type of research study and the quality of the evidence. more info
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ACP PIER (via ACP)  Use your ACP member number to register for and use the website.
Essential Evidence Plus (aka InfoRetriever)  Many references are coded by level of evidence; 1a is best, 5 denotes information without a clear source of evidence.
Type a keyword in the search box, then browse through the topics, type of result, or resource for information.
[Point-of-Care]
FirstConsult  Find summarized, evidence based information on diseases. Search or browse for topics to retrieve concise reviews of essential information for practice.
[ full text]
FPIN Clinical Inquiries: American Family Physician (via Google)  in American Family Physician: Fast access to short, evidence based articles on many common family practice questions. This link opens a Google search results. To narrow the results, add your topic at the end of the search box, after the fpin site:www.aafp.org search strategy.
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FPIN Clinical Inquiries: Journal of Family Practice & American Family Physician (via PubMed)  in Journal of Family Practice or American Family Physician via PubMed: Fast access to short, evidence based articles on many common family practice questions. Use this search filter to retrieve articles from the Clinical Inquiries series, then narrow the results to yourtopic AND at the beginning of the search box.
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Google Coop Health  Focus Google results more quickly on high quality professional resources, rather than the less selective results of a regular Google search.
MD Consult  Search textbookss, journals, guidelines, drug information, news, and patient education information in one handy resource. Click on "Advanced Search" (top middle of screen). Type a disease or condition in the search box, then select Diagnosis, Etiology, Treatment, or Prognosis from the menu under "Focus" and click the "Search" button.
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Merck Pronunciation Dictionary  Audio files provide the accepted pronunciation of medical terms.
Micromedex Healthcare Series  Diseasedex: Click on the "Proceed" button, then on the "Disease" tab, then on the "Database Search" or "Topic Search". Search for a specific disease or condition name for a discussion of the disease.
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STAT!Ref  Search for answers quickly in multiple medical texts. To search, scroll down and check the box for the resource you'd like to search. Type a keyword in the search box and click on "Search". If you need to narrow your results, select from the advanced search settings for precision, proximity, related concepts, suffixes, or subsets of books. BE SURE TO LOGOFF WHEN DONE!

Also contains Griffith’s 5 Minute Clinical Consult, an A to Z list of diseases and conditions designed for quick reference. To browse, click on the "Table of Contents" tab, then on the link for Griffith's. To search, scroll down and check the box for Griffith's.
[ full text, Limited to 10 concurrent users.]
UpToDate  Convenient compendium of useful clinical information. Available On Campus Only Browse the "Table of Contents" or search for a keyword.
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Drug Information for Residents

Drugstore.com  Search for drug pricing information by using the alphabetic list in the upper right.
MD Consult  Access general drug information. Search the drug name, click on the + sign to the left of the drug name.
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Micromedex Healthcare Series  This comprehensive resource includes information about prescription and over-the-counter drugs, herbals and supplements, and common household substances taken from published drug references and articles written by PharmDs. Click on the "Proceed" button, then search within subsets for Drugs (drug information, dosing tools, therapeutic class information, and detailed analysis), Toxicology (includes illustrated drug identification database), or Interactions.
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Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database  Quickly access evidence based information on herbs, supplements, and commercial products. Click on "Product Search", find the product in the alpha list or search for a product name for quickest access to a summary of synonyms, uses, safety, effects and evidence for effectiveness, interactions, mechanism of action, and dosing. Links at the top or bottom of the page provide access to references, a list of brand name products containing the substance, and patient handouts.
STAT!Ref  AHFS Drug Information and Mosby's Drug Consult are available. To search, scroll down and check the box for any drug resource you'd like to search. Type a drug name in the search box and click on "Search". If you need to narrow your results, select from the advanced search settings for precision, proximity, related concepts, suffixes, or subsets of books. You may also browse any text by clicking on the "Table of Contents" tab and then the book title. BE SURE TO LOGOFF WHEN DONE!
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UpToDate  Lexi-Interact: Easy-to-use drug interaction database. Click on the "Launch Lexi-Interact" link and type one drug at a time in the search box, then click the "Analyze" button. Click on the drug name in the results page to view a report on interactions.
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Clinical Genetics Information

GeneCards  Gene information retrieved from multiple databases of importance to the study of genes and genetic disorders. The retrieval tool for GeneCards was created by the Weizmann Institute of Science, the online data sources are from a variety of well respected government, corporate, and educational organizations.
GeneTests  Find current, authoritative information on genetic testing and its use in diagnosis, management, and genetic counseling. Provided by the National Institutes of Health to promote appropriate use of genetic testing.
Genetics Home Reference  
OMIM, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man  An authoritative catalog of human genes and genetic disorders for medical professionals. Authored and edited by Dr. Victor A. McKusick of Johns Hopkins University and his colleagues.
PubMed Clinical Queries – Medical Genetics  Search PubMed quickly for genetic disorders related articles. Limit your genetic disorder topic to articles in the categories of Diagnosis, Differential Diagnosis, Clinical Description, Management, Genetic Counseling, Molecular Genetics, or Genetic Testing. This query was created by GeneReviews: Genetic Disease Online Reviews at GeneTests, University of Washington, Seattle.
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Firefox Web Browser

Mozilla Firefox is a wonderful alternative to Internet Explorer. It's tabbed browsing and add-on features make it a great research tool. Download Firefox at http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ Once you have downloaded Firefox, you can "add-on" features and functions.
About Firefox Search Engines  These will load in the search box on the upper toolbar (the default is Google). After these are added, you will click on an inverted triangle to open the list and pick a different search engine from the list.
Find Journals Plugin  Searches for online & print journals owned by the Health Sciences Library.
Firefox Handout  
IMPULSE Catalog Plugin  Searches for books & audiovisual items.
Prospector Plugin  Click on the link for Prospector, The Colorado Unified Catalog, to install a search plugin for 25 major Colorado public or academic libraries.  HSC employees and students can request books, dvds, and audio cds from other libraries to be sent to the Health Sciences Library for convenient pickup and checkout. 
PubMed Plugin  Perform keyword searches in PubMed.
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Google Tips

Expert Googling  Includes tips on using Google Scholar.
iGoogle  Create a gateway to the world wide web that you can open on any workstation that is connected to the Internet.
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More Google  A guide to the services, tools, and special search engines offered by Google by clicking on the "More" link.
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PDA Resources for Residents & MSA

A good place to start is the Health Sciences Library's PDA Guide. It provides a variety of links for new and veteran PDA users.
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Handheld Computers (National Guideline Clearinghouse)  Obtain a handheld version of any guideline in the Clearinghouse.
[Practice Guidelines]
Diagnosaurus  Differential diagnosis resource including disease, symptom, or organ system for quick reference.
[Point-of-Care]
Epocrates Rx  A drug information database useful in clinical practice. An enhanced version is available for a fee.
[Drug Reference]
Johns Hopkins POC-IT Antibiotic (ABX) Guide  Concise, clinically useful, and up-to-date information about the evaluation and treatment of infectious diseases in adults.
MedCalc  Medical calculator with formulas and scores from "Absolute Neutrophil Count" to "Winters' Formula." Palm.
mobile MerckMedicus  Merck Manual and other resources. Wired and wireless versions. Must register with Merck. Palm and Pocket PC. Windows PC only, no Mac version.
[Point-of-Care]
NCBI Bookshelf  Download free medical texts for quick reference. This collection of handheld books is growing, keep checking for texts of interest to you.
[Palm or PocketPC]
Pocket Consult  Quick reference clinical decision support. This is the handheld version of the First Consult resource.
POEMS at Essential Evidence Plus  Point-of-care clinical information including Griffith's 5 Minute Clinical Consult, critically appraised PubMed articles, care guidelines, diagnostic tools and risk calculators, and other evidence-based information.
TB Treatment Guidelines  Handheld version of the CDC's Treatment of Tuberculosis guidelines.
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Bibliographic Citation Tools and Styles for Medicine

There are many tools and style guides for citing works in papers and manuscripts.  The following are options for creating bibliographies from citation and reprint management software. 
CiteULike  Stores references and pdf reprints of articles. However, it doesn't have any output feature, so it won't translate a reference into a formatted citation for a bibliography. However, CiteULike does export references for uploading into EndNote, which can be used at Library computers with MS Word to format a paper/bibliography. View a short tutorial on CiteULike.
Citing medicine: the NLM style guide for authors, editors, and publishers. 2nd ed. 2007.  Citing Medicine provides assistance to authors in compiling lists
of references for their publications, to editors in revising such lists, to
publishers in setting reference standards for their authors and editors, and to
librarians and others in formatting bibliographic citations.
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EndNote  EndNote is a software program that lets you save references, pdf
reprints, and works with MS Word to automatically format reference in
your papers in AMA style. This is available at all computers in the
Health Sciences Library. You may also be interested in Organizing an Article Reprint File.
EndNote 30-day trial  
EndNote Handout  
EndNote Handout (Advanced)  
EndNote Support  From Thomson ResearchSoft.
EndNote Training  From Thomson ResearchSoft.
EndNote Tutorial  From UNC Chapel Hill.
EndNote Web  Available via Web of Science. You can sign up for an account, then add references to your EndNote Web library from Web of Science or PubMed
EndNote Web & CiteULike Handout  
EndNote Web Help Page  
EndNote Web Training  
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Presentation and PowerPoint Skills

Residents can obtain MS Office (including PowerPoint) for a nominal fee from the UCDHSC Help Desk (x4-HELP or 303-724-4357).
Life After Death By PowerPoint  A funny and educational way to learn PowerPoint Don'ts.
[recommended, new, requires sound.]
PowerPoint FAQ  
PowerPoint Online  
Presenting With Flair: PowerPoint 2003 Presentations  This guide covers the basics of PowerPoint and is helpful for those with no experience who want to learn how to work efficiently using PowerPoint's slide and style templates, different views, and special features such as animation. 
From Sams'  Teach Yourself Microsoft Office 2003 in 24 Hours by Greg M. Perry.
[recommended]
Public Speaking  (or how to enjoy presentations)
Ten Simple Rules for Making Good Oral Presentations  PLoS Computation Biology offers advice on successful presentions from a seasoned veteran of the conference and meeting circuit.
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Image Resources

NOTE: Copyrighted images should be used only for limited educational purposes, such as your peer teaching presentation. Even when images are not copyrighted, the source of the image should be included in your slide.
Atlases of the Brain  The atlases include brain and spinal cord images and MRIs of the
brain. Content is freely available for non-profit use by health science
educators. Interactive features allow the user to request an outline
of structures or a quiz on the image content.
BioMed Image Archive  This is a categorized archive of 20,000 images. A search engine facilitates
retrieval of images on specific topics or conditions. Before downloading
full-size images, users must complete a free registration process,
but users can search and browse the archive first without registering.
The creators of the archive allow free use of the images for teaching
and educational purposes.The archive is maintained by the University
of Bristol, UK.
CELLS Alive!  Cells Alive! provides basic cell biology, microbiology, and immunology
videos, micrographs and diagrams. The images are available for use
in lectures and handouts and for other nonprofit, educational use with
some important exceptions.

Using Materials from CELLS Alive!
[http://www.cellsalive.com/permissn.htm]
Clip Art for Health Communication  From Johns Hopkins University
DermAtlas: Dermatology Image Atlas  Dermatlas is made available by Johns Hopkins University. There are
currently over 4,900 images submitted by more than 180 contributors
in the database. Users can search by categories, diagnoses, or body
sites. Images are copyrighted by Dermatlas, but may be used freely
for teaching purposes. Please review restrictions on
use.
eMedicine World Medical Library  Select "emedicine" under the search box. Search your topic, then look for the Multimedia link in the article.
Google Images  Some images are for purchase and download.
Hardin MD Medical Pictures  
HEAL  (Health Education Assests Library)
HON Health on the Net Media Gallery  This media gallery is put together by the Health on the Net Foundation,
an international body that seeks to encourage ethical provision of
online health informationt. The media gallery is indexed by body part
and includes images of medical conditions and procedures.
HONMedia  (Health on the Net Foundation)
Images from the History of Medicine  Produced by the National Library of Medicine, this database contains
nearly 60,000 images from the library's History of Medicine Division.
The works digitized here include prints, lithographs, engravings, etchings,
woodcarvings, and paintings.
Internet Atlas of Histology  The COM-UIUC Atlas of Histology contains over 1000, labeled, histological
images with accompanying functional descriptions. Interactive features
allow the user to change magnification and examine areas of interest
in great detail. Some images include a mouse-over function: when the
mouse pointer is over a labeled object, that object is highlighted,
its name is pronounced, and its identity is given in a drop-down menu.
JayDoc HistoWeb  JayDoc HistoWeb is an online histology atlas. The creators of HistoWeb
allow use of the content for non-profit, educational purposes.
Karolinska Institute Medical Images and Illustrations  
Microsoft Clip Art and Media  
NCI Visuals Online  
Protist Image Data  Protist Image Data is part of the Molecular Evolution and Organelle Genomics
program at the University of Montreal
The Alan E. Lindsay ECG Learning Center in Cyberspace  The ECG Learning Center includes not only the expected ECGs but also
diagrams useful in explaining ECG abnormalities. Use of ECG Learning
Center images is governed by a Creative Commons Copyright which allows
rather liberal non-profit use -- please
review conditions of use.
The Digital Anatomist Project  The interactive, anatomy atlases available at this site have been
produced by the University of Washington, Seattle. Brain, neuroanatomy,
thorcic viscera, and knee atlases are available. The software and images
are available for non-commercial use with some restrictions.
The Visible Human Project  A project of the National Library of Medicine, the Visible Human
Project provides access to cross-sectional images of the human female
and male. Sample images are available free of charge. Access to the
complete sets of images requires a fee payment and completion of a
license agreement.
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Research Skill Guides

Ten Simple Rules Collection  The Public Library of Science (PLoS) offers skill guides for researchers and professionals that include:
  • Ten Simple Rules for Getting Published
  • Ten Simple Rules for Getting Grants
  • Ten Simple Rules for Reviewers
  • Ten Simple Rules for Selecting a Postdoctoral Position
  • Ten Simple Rules for a Successful Collaboration
  • Ten Simple Rules for Making Good Oral Presentations
  • Ten Simple Rules for a Good Poster Presentation
  • Ten Simple Rules for Graduate Students
  • Ten Simple Rules for Doing Your Best Research, According to Hamming
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PubMed Tips

Use our PubMed Tips to learn how to unleash some of PubMed's greatest features. Tips include personalizing PubMed, saving searches, getting one-click access to our online journals no matter how you access PubMed, and creating customized views of PubMed results.
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Search Topic Shortcuts for PubMed

Click on a link below to launch a PubMed search. Review the results, use Limits to refine the search, or add yourtopic AND (must be caps) to further narrow the search. Submit a topic for a shortcut to Lynne Fox. She will email a shortcut back to you and post it below.
Clinical Trials limited to Adult: 19-64 years, 2000- , English, Humans  Click on this link, add yourtopic AND at the front of the search, and click on the Go button for clinical trials on your subject.
FPIN Clinical Inquiries  In Journal of Family Practice Use this search filter to retrieve articles from the Clinical Inquiries series, then narrow the results to yourtopic AND at the beginning of the search box.
General Reviews limited to Adult: 19-64 years, 2000- , English, Humans  Click on this link, add yourtopic AND at the front of the search, and click on the Go button for general review articles on your subject.
Internal Medicine and Residency  Just for fun.
PubMed Clinical Study Category, Systematic Reviews or Medical Genetic Queries  All provide easy, quick search forms.
Systematic Reviews limited to Adult: 19-64 years, 2000- , English, Humans  Click on this link, add yourtopic AND at the front of the search, and click on the Go button for general review articles on your subject.