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What is AccessMedicine?

AccessMedicine is a comprehensive online medical resource, providing a variety of content including textbooks, videos, and multimedia. 

From AccessMedicine:

AccessMedicine provides medical students with a variety of resources needed to excel in basic science studies and clerkships; helps residents, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants with instant access to videos, self-assessment, and leading medical textbooks that facilitate decision-making at the point-of-care; and allows practicing physicians to brush up on their medical knowledge to ensure the best patient outcome.

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Key Resources in AccessMedicine

Some key resources from AccessMedicine include: 

Medical Textbooks

  • Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine - widely regarded internal medicine textbook, considered the "most recognized book in all of medicine"
  • Fitzpatrick's Color Atlas of Clinical Dermatology - color images plus an outline of skin disorders and diseases

Quick Reference Tools

  • Practice Guidelines: short digest versions of disease screening, prevention, management
  • Quick Medical DX & RX: quick clinical reference, includes evidence-based outlines of conditions and disorders
  • Diagnostic tests: Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, a quick reference guide to the selection and interpretation of commonly used diagnostic tests, including laboratory procedures in the clinical setting
  • Diagnosaurus (DDx): differential diagnosis tool, browse by symptom, disease, or organ system at point of care
  • Clinical Prep: clinical Q&As
  • Clinical Calculators
  • 2Minute Medicine: brief journal article updates providing information about timely research 

Integrated Drug Database

  • Find dosing, indications, and adverse reactions
  • Includes customizable, printable patient handouts (in English and Spanish)

Multimedia

  • Videos (examination, procedures, lectures)
  • Patient safety 
  • Audio files
  • Animations and illustrations
  • Photographs
  • Study tools and quizzes

Cases

  • Non sequestered cases from Case Files to help medical students evaluate and understand real world situations, includes questions and patient information