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Resource Guide for Physical Therapy

Welcome to the Calder Medical Library Resource Guide for Physical Therapy. This guide will provide essential information for your eucation and clinical practice.

You can navigate this guide by using the links on the Table of Contents or with the Tabs on top to go directly to the desired section.

For additional resources, please use the uSearch box below to find Electronic Resources, find materials in the Library Catalog, and find Everything. 

  • Electronic Resources will find journal articles, book chapters, and other online resources in all UM digital collections.
  • Library Catalog will find books and all other materials housed at the Medical Libraries (Calder Library, Ophthalmology Library, and University of Miami Hospital/UMH Library) or, search a specific medical library collection.
  • Everything will find journal articles, books, e-books, audiovisual materials, and all resources in all UM libraries.
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Physical Therapy Databases
  • PubMed
    PubMed comprises more than 27 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. Use this link to activate the FindIt@UM full text button to make it easier to access and read articles you discover through PubMed 
  • CINAHL Plus
    CINAHL Plus provides records and full text from wide scope of nursing and allied health journals including phyical therapy and rehabilitation. In addition, it provides full-text evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons and continuing education modules.
  • PEDro
    Find evidence based phyical therapy information in randomized controlled trials, reviews, and guidelines.  This database is run by the Centre of Evidence-Based Physiotherapy.   
  • REHABDATA
    The literature of rehabilitation, disability, and assistive technology, 1954 to the present, developed by the National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC).
  • Cochrane Library
    A collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independently-assessed evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Includes: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Cochrane Methodology Register, Health Technology Assessment Database and NHS Economic Evaluation Database.
  • PTNow (requires APTA membership)
    The American Physical Therapy Association's (APTA) evidence based therapy resource.  "PTNow translates physical therapy knowledge into action, supports evidence-informed care, and helps clinicians improve their clinical decision making. PTNow promotes using the best available evidence to achieve optimal patient outcomes and enhances collaboration within the physical therapy profession." Requires login with your APTA member credentials. 
  • Rehabilitation Measures Database
    "The Rehabilitation Measures Database was developed to help clinicians and researchers identify reliable and valid instruments used to assess patient outcomes during all phases of rehabilitation. The database provides evidence-based summaries that include concise descriptions of each instrument’s psychometric properties, instructions for administering and scoring each assessment as well as a representative bibliography with citations linked to PubMed abstracts." Includes copies of instruments when possible. 
Finding Health Statistics Tutorial
Do you need - 
  • A numerical statistic or fact, such as prevalence rates, mortality rates, or other health indicators?
  • A complete data set for independent analysis?
  • A chart or figure?

Section 4 of this NIH/National Library of Medicine tutorial on health statistics has an excellent list of resources and tips on how to use them: 
Finding and Using Health Statistics
Physical Therapy Database Tutorials
Drug Databases--Subscription-Based (Library Resource)
  • AccessMedicine -Drug Monographs
    AccessMedicine is an innovative online resource that provides students, residents, clinicians, researchers, and all health professionals with access to more than 50 medical titles from the best minds in medicine, updated content, thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, diagnostic tools, a comprehensive search platform, and the ability to download content to a mobile device. Note: real time access is only available on iPhone/iPhone 3G, Google's Android, and BlackBerry
  • Micromedex
    MICROMEDEX is a collection of many different drug databases, including Martindale, the Physician's Desk Reference (PDR), DRUGDEX, DISEASEDEX, POSIONDEX, and several alternative medicine databases.
  • DynaMed
    DynaMed is the next-generation clinical reference tool physicians can rely on for fast, easy access to point-of-care decision support. Written by a team of specialized physicians and researchers, content is updated several times daily to include information on the latest evidence-based research, providing practice-changing answers to clinical questions with optimized speed.
  • UpToDate
    Clinical decision support tool designed to answer clinical questions that arise in daily practice. Subscription database with access for UM/JMH authorized users.
Please Note:  Access to library resources are automatic at the medical campus.  Remote access is with a CaneID and password.
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Resources
  • Micromedex
    MICROMEDEX is a collection of many different drug databases, including Martindale, the Physician's Desk Reference (PDR), DRUGDEX, DISEASEDEX, POSIONDEX, and several alternative medicine databases.
  • Natural Medicines
    Provides high-quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies.
  • Natural Medicines Newsletter
    Newsletter published by the Natural Medicines group, with news about new reports, CE programs, and relevant databases.
  • a National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
    The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) is the Federal Government's lead agency for scientific research on complementary and integrative health approaches. They are one of the 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Download Citation Management Software
EndNote - University of Miami students, faculty, and staff can download EndNote desktop software. A web version and an iPad app are also available if you create an EndNote online account.  

RefWorks - Create a RefWorks account by registering while you are on campus with your University of Miami or Jackson Hospital email address, then download the RefWorks software. 
Citation Management Training at Calder

Learn the basics of the EndNote, Mendeley and RefWorks Citation Management software from Calder Librarians from live training sessions and video recordings.
 

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EndNote: Calder Library Video Training Session

EndNote stores references you collect from databases, library catalogues or create manually. The program automatically formats the saved references in any standard citation format. Using EndNote, you can cite as you type your paper and create your bibliography by pulling from your stored references. EndNote is also capable of saving full-text articles (in PDF format and/or in text), organizing image files, searching online and much more.

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Mendeley: Calder Library Video Training Session

MENDELEY Institution Edition (Elsevier) is a reference manager and academic social network that can help organize documents, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research. This session will provide a comprehensive introduction to Mendeley with hands-on exercises on how to organize your research library, collaborate with others online, and discover relevant papers in Mendeley.

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RefWorks: Calder Medical Library Video Tutorials

RefWorks is a web-based bibliography and database manager. This is an introductory class in which participants will learn how to use RefWorks to create personal databases of imported references from online databases and how to store, retrieve, and format them for publication. If you spend more than an hour formatting your references for your paper's bibliography then you are working way too hard. We will show you how citing within your paper and creating your paper's bibliography can take only minutes.

 

Citation Management Software Tutorials
  A selction of ebooks on physical therapy from the library's collection.  To suggest a title, contact us.