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ACS Surgical Skills Curriculum for Residents, Phase I:
American College of Surgeons, Division of Education. The ACS/APDS Surgical Skills Curriculum for Residents: Phase I. This resource requires registration for an individual username and password.  

Anatomy.tv
Anatomy.tv is an online anatomy tool. This database is billed as "The World's Most Detailed 3D Model of Human Anatomy Online." The model can be rotated, and different layers of the body can be examined. Make sure to turn your pop up blockers off when using this resource.

BioMed Central
BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. All the original research articles in journals published by BioMed Central are immediately and permanently available online without charge or any other barriers to access. This commitment is based on the view that open access to research is central to rapid and efficient progress in science and that subscription-based access to research is hindering rather than helping scientific communication.

ChemIDplus is a free, web-based search system that provides access to structure and nomenclature authority files used for the identification of chemical substances cited in National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases, including the TOXNET® system. ChemIDplus also provides structure searching. The database contains over 379,000 chemical records and is searchable by Name, Synonym, CAS Registry Number, Molecular Formula, Classification Code, Locator Code, and Structure.

Cochrane Library
"The Cochrane Library is an electronic publication designed to supply high quality evidence to inform people providing and receiving care, and those responsible for research, teaching, funding and administration at all levels." Read more about the Cochrane Library. The Preston Medical Library has a site license for access from any UTGSM or Medical Center computer. (The library is registered with IP Addresses). YOU DO NOT NEED A USERNAME & PASSWORD.
Wiley is the new publisher of this database, and therefore the interface has a new look. A demo provides useful information about the new interface.

The Dietary Supplements Labels Database
The National Library of Medicine has released a new resource focused on dietary supplements. The database includes information from the labels of over 2,000 brands of dietary supplements in the marketplace, including vitamins, minerals, herbs or other botanicals, amino acids, and other specialty supplements.

DynaMed DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the 'point-of-care'. The Dynamed Brochure explains this resource in a little more detail.

eMedicine
eMedicine now offers full text access to 7,000 chapters and 25,000 images and is now free online.

Expanded Academic ASAP 1980 - Apr 2006
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images! This database is part of the Tennessee Electronic Library.

FREIDA Online Search from AMA
The American Medical Association's Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database, is an online database for fellowship and residency information. This free database features detailed information on over 8,200 graduate medical education programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, as well as over 200 combined specialty programs. Nationwide in scope, it allows searching by geographical area, specialty, as well as program size and other criteria.

General Business File ASAP 1980 - Mar 2006
Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, health care, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available. This database is part of the Tennessee Electronic Library.

Patents. Google has introduced Google Patent Search which searches the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patent database. Patents issued in the United States are public domain government information, and images of the entire database of U.S. patents are readily available online via the USPTO website.

Google Scholar™ is a subset of Google™.

Health and Wellness Resource Center
Use this Resource Center to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, videos, & reference information on: Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Pregnancy, Prescription Drugs, etc. This database is part of the Tennessee Electronic Library.

Health Reference Center Academic
Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. This database is part of the Tennessee Electronic Library.

Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL)

With funding from the Department of Homeland Security's Office for Domestic Preparedness, the Naval Postgraduate School's Dudley Knox Library has created this unique digital library. The HSDL provides researchers, scholars and students with a gateway to a wide range of resources on the broad subject of Homeland Security.

Images on MD Consult.
Quickly search over 50,000 high-quality medical images from the renowned medical books on MD Consult. Images include photos, tables, graphs, and more. Click on the images tab and then search by topic.

InfoTrac OneFile
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.

KUDZU Use KUDZU to simultaneously search the catalogs of the University of Tennessee, Vanderbilt University, the University of Kentucky and eleven Southeastern research libraries.

LactMed - Drugs and Lactation Database
A peer-reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. Among the data included are maternal and infant levels of drugs, possible effects on breastfed infants and on lactation, and alternate drugs to consider.

MD Consult
"The core of MD Consult is our clinical content."

The Preston Medical Library has unlimited access through a site license. This database is available via Off-Campus Access.   (Please register with the library for off-campus access!)

Medline (Ovid Interface) The Ovid MEDLINE database contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,600 biomedical journals published in the United States and in 70 other countries.

Micromedex (Access Restrictions Apply)
Micromedex is a group of full text databases containing information on drugs. Search for summaries and detailed monographs for drugs, toxicological managements, reproductive risks and acute/emergency care. This product is sponsored by the UT Medical Center Department of Pharmacy and is available from UT Medical Center computers only.

Nursing (StatRef Nursing)
A collection of standard nursing texts with full-text.

PubMed (MEDLINE)

PubMed is a service of the National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s, with links to participating online journals. Available from any computer with an Internet connection. The National Library of Medicine has produced a brochure entitled PubMed Basics to introduce you to the database.

SciFinder Scholar is available on several computers in the library thanks to the UT Health Science Center Library for expanding access to include our campus. It also can be downloaded and installed to office computers by any authorized user with a NetID. SciFinder Scholar provides access to the CAplus database of chemical literature and U.S. and foreign chemical-related patents, to CASREACT, to the Registry database from Chemical Abstracts Service, and to Medline. It includes journal articles, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, substance database and dissertations covered in Chemical Abstracts as well as articles currently being indexed, book reviews and biographical information.

STAT!Ref Electronic Reference Database
"STAT!Ref lets you cross-search more than 35 medical and drug texts including popular texts from McGraw Hill, Mosby, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins and more. Full text results provide the most relevant information every time." The license is for three concurrent users. Off-campus access requires that you register with the library.

StatRef Nursing
A collection of standard nursing texts with full-text.

Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL)
Infotrac Health Reference Center Academic AND MORE..
"TEL provides free online access to selected electronic databases for all libraries serving the citizens of the state of Tennessee: public, academic, school, and not-for-profit special libraries." Please call the library for details. Additional databases available at this link: http://galenet.gale.com. Discovering Most Studied Authors & What Do I Read Next. Get answers to your health questions at the Health Reference Academic Database: Health and Wellness Resource Center.

UpToDate
UpToDate is a subscription-based clinical information resource available to physicians. UpToDate is designed to get physicians the concise, practical answers they need when they need them the most - at the point of care. It is available online from any UTGSM or UT Medical Center computer.  There is no off-campus access at this time.

UT Databases
Access restrictions may apply. Only the databases with the NetID logo may be accessed outside the UT campus. In order to utilize these databases, you must be UT Graduate School of Medicine or UT Medical Center Leased employees.

World Cat

Updated September 10, 2008

"Links to Internet resources outside of the UT Graduate School of Medicine site are provided solely for the convenience of persons visiting the UT Graduate School of Medicine site. Provision of such hyperlinks is not an endorsement of these sites."