Skills for the Ward
- Ethical Issues (McGraw-Hill)Reviews the four pillars of medical ethics, explains the concept of informed consent, decisional capacity, code status, role of DNR orders, therapeutic relationship, the ethics of pain relief, and more.
- Pain Control (McGraw-Hill)Reviews the physiology of pain sensation, perception, and modulation, role of inflammation, mechanism of opioid receptor agonists, clinical features of neuropathic pain, and strategies for chronic pain management without medication.
- Patient Interview (McGraw-Hill)Video talks on patient-centered interviewing, clinician-centered interviewing, new patient interviews, follow up interviews, use of electronic health records, breaking bad news, patient adherence, and disclosing medical errors.
- Rotation Etiquette (Wolters Kluwer)Offers advice on being proactive, prepared, professional, and present during and after your clinical rotations.
Study Tools
- Clerkship and Clinical Rotations (Lippincott-Williams)Library of texts, video, journals, self-assessments, and cases by medical specialty, including family medicine, internal medicine, OB/GYN, pediatrics, psychiatry, and surgery.
- Clinical Rotation Case Files (McGraw-Hill)Includes case files for anesthesiology, cardiology, critical care, emergency medicine, family medicine, geriatrics, internal medicine, medical ethics and professionalism, neurology, OB/GYN, pediatrics, psychiatry, and surgery.
- Clinical Practice and Board Review Q&A (McGraw-Hill)Question and Answer for Clinical Practice and Board Review for multiple specialties.
Clinical Calculators and Point of Care
- BMJ Best Practice
Clinical decision support tool that offers a step-by-step approach to help manage patient diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention.
- Cochrane Clinical Answers
Designed to be actionable and to inform point-of-care decision-making. Each CCA contains a clinical question, a short answer, and data for the outcomes from the Cochrane Review deemed most relevant to practicing healthcare professionals.
- Diagnosaurus
A tool that allows a search of 1000+ differential diagnoses by symptoms, diseases, organ system or all entries.
- DynaMed
Provides evidence-based, clinically-organized summaries. Summaries are based on review of over 500 core clinical journals and systematic review databases. Updated weekly.
- Isabel: Diagnostic Decision Support
Isabel is a Diagnosis Decision Support Checklist System. The system enables a clinician to enter a patient's signs and symptoms and instantly receive back a list of likely diagnoses to consider. Accessible from a computer, iPad, smart phone or integrated into an EMR.
- Rehabilitation Reference Center
Rehabilitation Reference Center is an evidence-based, point-of-care information resource with the most current information to help provide the best care to patients.
- UpToDate
Peer-reviewed clinical information system supports point-of-care decision making. For assistance on account access, contact Jim Panacio.
- VisualDx
Combines high-quality, peer-reviewed medical images and concise, actionable information to support the accurate recognition and management of disease.
- Clinical Calculators (Elsevier)Search Clinical Calculators for body metrics, critical care, drug calculators, unit conversion calculators, and calculators by medical specialty.
- Clinical Overviews from Clinical Key (Elsevier)Offers synopses, key points, pitfall, terminology, classification, diagnosis, causes and risk factors, procedures, treatment, complications and prognosis, and prevention strategies for 2000+ conditions, injuries, or diseases.