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Access to Library Resources

While physically present in the VTCSOM library, you have access to all University Libraries of Virginia Tech's online resources as well as the Virginia Tech Carilion Libraries Consortium's databases listed below. Remote access to the Consortium's medical databases is restricted to current VTCSOM students, faculty, and staff.

Helpful Resources

Health and Medicine subject guides: curated pages dedicated to topics in the Health Sciences (including clerkships)
A-Z Databases: all databases available through VT University Libraries

Medical School Databases

AccessEmergency Medicine from McGraw-Hill
AccessEmergency Medicine provides medical ebooks, procedural videos, self-assessments, a drug database, and case files.
AccessMedicine from McGraw-Hill
AccessMedicine provides medical ebooks, examination and procedural videos, patient safety modules, and a diagnosis tool.
The AccessMedicine app is available to users at institutions with a full site license. To activate and for continued access to the app, the user must have an active My Access account and sign in every 90 days through your institution, either on-site or through a VPN Sign up for a My Access account today by logging into your subscription and clicking on your institution name in the upper right hand corner. To download the app, please visit the App Store or Google Play.
Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy
Acland’s Video Atlas of Human Anatomy provides videos of real dissected human cadaveric specimens. The specimens have not been embalmed and therefore retain the color, texture and mobility of the living body. The recordings show real life movement and transcripts of the audio can be printed out. Access restricted to VTCSOM anatomy faculty and first-year students.
Books@Ovid
Ovid provides ebooks on medical topics.
Boards & Beyond
Boards & Beyond is a learning resource for medical students. Its purpose is to supplement classroom and textbook learning, and to help students prepare for the board exams they will take in medical school.

Access restricted to VTCSOM users. Faculty portal access.
CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health with Full Text from EBSCOhost
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CINAHL indexes citations, abstracts, and full text from journals in nursing and allied health. It offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals, and book chapters. Searchable cited references for some journals are included. Full-text material (in PDF and HTML) includes journals, legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments, and clinical trials. 1981-present.
Decker Rx Medicine
This ebook provides updated information on all aspects of medicine. Access restricted to VTCSOM faculty and students.
Lexicomp Online
Lexicomp is a collection of content sets and clinical tools that provides users with robust clinical drug information. It can be used for both 'clinical' and 'retail' pharmacy applications.
LWW BRS Series
LWW provides board review textbooks covering the core disciplines of behavioral science, biochemistry, cell biology, embryology, gross anatomy, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology, neuroanatomy, pathology, pharmacology, and physiology. Accompanying self-assessment includes nearly 5,000 multiple-choice review questions and explanations. Access restricted to VTCSOM faculty and students.
LWW Health Library: Clerkship Collection
The Clerkship Collection provides ebooks for clinical rotations, including over 150 cases, broken down by rotation. Covers core rotations of Internal Medicine, OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Surgery, Family Medicine, and Psychiatry.

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MEDLINE from Ovid
MEDLINE indexes citations, abstracts and full text from journal articles, case studies, conference papers, clinical trial reports, news reports, and reviews in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences. Full text available in HTML and PDF. You can limit to peer-reviewed sources. 1946-present.
NEJM Catalyst
NEJM Catalyst brings health care executives, clinical leaders, and clinicians together to share innovative ideas and practical applications for enhancing the value of health care delivery. It provides a peer-reviewed journal, live-streamed events, and qualified Insights Council daily publication.

NEJM Journal Watch
Editorially independent, esteemed physician authors and editors write and curate article summaries of the most important clinical research. New content is published bi-weekly and is derived from over 250 medical journals.

Pediatric Care Online
Pediatric Care Online provides the full text of the Pediatric Care manual, the Red Book Online, the AAP Textbook of Pediatric Care, and numerous patient information brochures and fact sheets.
PubMed from NLM
Indexes citations, abstracts and full text from journal articles, case studies, conference papers, clinical trial reports, news reports, and reviews in the fields of medicine,nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences. Full text available in HTML and PDF. You can limit to types of clinical queries, age, gender and species of subject, and review articles that summaries research on a topic. 1946-present.
PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant Web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources.

PubMed is a free resource that is developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

A mobile version is available.
Thieme MedOne Education
Thieme MedOne Education is an online collection of illustrated, full-color textbooks. The base collection comprises 130 textbooks covering biomedical and health sciences. It also includes USMLE Test-prep material and clinical techniques and cases presented in instructional videos.
TRIP Pro (Turning Research Into Practice)
TRIP Pro allows clinicians to search symptoms and other details to find research- and evidence-based medical articles, images, videos, patient information leaflets, educational courses, and news. Create a personal profile to save searches, receive monthly email updates for those searches, and set links to full text.
UpToDate
UpToDate provides evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support recommendations which clinicians can use to make the right point-of-care decisions. More than 5,100 world-renowned physician authors, editors and peer reviewers use a rigorous editorial process to synthesize the most recent medical information into trusted, evidence-based reports that are proven to improve patient care and quality.
UpToDate accounts expire every 90 days. The document below contains instructions to register for your mobile account and to reactivate your account if it has expired.
UpToDate Access is restricted to 3rd and 4th year Medical Students at VTCSOM, Clerkship Directors, and Department Chairs.

UpToDate Mobile Access
Instructions to register for UpToDate mobile access and to reactivate your account if it has expired.

USMLE First Aid for the Boards
Board Review books for USMLE Steps 1, 2, and 3, including the Pathology USMLE Road Map (Step 1), USMLE Pharmacology Review Flash Cards (Step 1) & Internal Medicine Correlations and Clinical Scenarios (Step 3).