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AccessEmergency Medicine provides medical ebooks, procedural videos, self-assessments, a drug database, and case files.

AccessMedicine provides medical ebooks, examination and procedural videos, patient safety modules, and a diagnosis tool.

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.

Ovid provides ebooks on medical topics.

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 is restricted to VTCSOM users.
During orientation, students will create an account that will last for their entire time in the VTCSOM program. Students must login through the Institutional Account to access materials assigned to them or for self-study.
Faculty have a Faculty portal for access. A resource guide is also available (contact us at vtcsomlibrary@vt.edu for login credentials and further assistance).

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.

This ebook provides updated information on all aspects of medicine. Access restricted to VTCSOM faculty and students.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

Ulrichsweb is an easy to search source of detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals (also called serials) of all types: academic and scholarly journals, e-journals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more. Information about periodicals includes: whether a journal is peer reviewed, scholarly, trade, or popular; in which databases it is indexed; publication dates and title changes; journal and publisher policies for the self-archiving of articles by authors; and links to Journal Citation Reports for impact factors.

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.