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AccessMedicine: Navigating AccessMedicine

Books

EBooks tab in AccessMedicine are organized into categories in the left-hand sidebar, including basic sciences, critical care, endocrinology, internal medicine, family medicine, and many other disciplines.

 

Drugs

  • The Drug Monographs can be searched, browsed alphabetically, or filtered by generics, trade names, and drug classes.
  • The drug monographs are updated every two weeks.

Hospital Corner

  • Hospital Corner provides curated content that were reviewed and selected for advanced learners at the resident trainee level and above.
  • Resources include selected textbooks, board review and advanced clinical cases and questions, quick reference materials for the point-of-care, and procedure videos to hone intervention skills. 

Multimedia

Auscultation Classroom:

This new multimedia resource provides students with the ability to hear an abnormal heart sound, while simultaneously watching a graphic of the intracardiac abnormality that is occurring. 

Each module offers an introductory slide, an auscultation points slide, and a final slide. 

Diagnostic and Imaging Studies:

This resource includes over 30,000 world-class images useful for diagnosis that can be downloaded. We have more than 70 video clips of foundational diagnostic and imaging studies in five different specialties:

Harrison’s Pathophysiology Animations:

These animations explain complex pathophysiology concepts in new and beautifully animated, easy-to-understand brief videos. 

Harrison’s Podclass provides illuminating and engaging discussions on key principles of internal medicine, around board-style case vignettes from the acclaimed Harrison’s Self-Assessment and Board Review.

The episodes are a user-friendly 4-8 minutes in length.

AccessMedicine is mobile optimized, so you can open in a browser and listen on-the-go. Currently features over 100 new audio and podclasses.

Human Anatomy Modules:

Complete Human Anatomy Modules:

These interactive modules allow for visualization of the human body in an interactive, 3D format where both Male Complete Anatomy Module and Female Complete Anatomy Module can be viewed. Choose a module and then utilize the options on the left-side of the screen to learn more about human anatomy.

 

Lectures:

We have many lectures that are ready-to-view or ready-to-assign for a flipped classroom pedagogy, an online course, or as a knowledge refresher.
We have lectures for the following categories:

Pharmacology lecture videos are also located under “Multimedia”, then “Pharmacology”. These lectures include the pharmacology topics of cardiovascular and neurology drugs and basic pharmacotherapeutics concepts.

Patient Interview Videos:

These videos are of high quality and demonstrate how to communicate with patients in challenging and unusual situations. This resource addresses some of the “softer skills” in medical education and helps to teach emotional intelligence.

The online Patient Safety Modules will provide you with an introduction to the core concepts of patient safety in an interactive and self-paced learning environment. The current course includes three (3) modules:

 

Pharmacology video lectures include the pharmacology topics of cardiovascular and neurology drugs and basic pharmacotherapeutics concepts.

Procedural videos are available in AccessMedicine. It is the most complete collection of detailed procedural videos online designed to help users through basic and advanced skills procedures, brief interventions, and applications of decision rules.

The videos are organized by different categories, such examination and evaluation, physiologic areas:

Cases

The Cases tab  provides materials for short, targeted case-based learning. They vary slightly, but for each case you get a patient history and systems review, short answer questions, clinical pearls, and references.

Study Tools

The Study Tools tab  provides: 

  • Review Questions texts which are great for self-assessment with review Q&A designed to help residents, clerks, and physicians.
  • Clerkship Topics:
  • Flashcards: AccessMedicine offers online flashcards to supplement your studies.
  • Play Showdown!: This gamification tool allows the user to challenge peers on their medical knowledge, quiz-bowl style. 

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