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Guide for Clinicians
Welcome to Calder Medical Library Resources for Clinicians. This guide will provide essential information for your clinical practice.
 
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Informed Clinical Decision-Support
This section will provide background and foreground information to support your clinical decision-making processes and help improve patient outcomes.
Informed Clinical Decision-Support
  • AccessMedicine
    Include's Harrison's Online and Goodman and Gilman's Pharmacology. McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine.com is an innovative online resource that provides students, residents, clinicians, and researchers with instant answers to clinical questions from the most trusted sources.  Updated daily and expanded continuously, Access Medicine is designed for direct access to the information necessary for completing evaluations, diagnoses, case management decisions, conducting research, medical education, or self-assessment and board review.
  • ClinicalKey
    ClinicalKey is a clinical search engine that supports clinical decisions by making it easier to find and apply relevant knowledge.
  • Cochrane Library
    Collection of health databases providing independent evidence to inform clinical treatment decisions and other health related decisions. 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.
  • Isabel
    Isabel is an award-winning, clinical decision support system designed to enhance the quality of diagnosis decision making. Its unique feature is a diagnosis reminder system. For a given set of clinical features Isabel instantly provides a checklist of likely diagnoses including bio-terrorism conditions, related diagnoses and causative drugs.
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse (AHRQ)
    Resources for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
  • PsychiatryOnline
    A powerful web-based portal that features DSM-5—the most widely used psychiatric reference in the world—and The American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of a collection of psychiatric references from American Psychiatric Publishing. It provides access to the DSM® Library, Journals, Textbooks, American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines, self-assessment tools for study, clinical and research news from Psychiatric News, and medication information handouts for patients. Useful for searching information on psychiatric medications. Subscription database with access for authorized UM/JMH users.
  • PubMed Clinical Queries
    Allows you to quickly focus your PubMed search on clinical studies and systematic reviews. Find out more in our online tutorial.
  • UpToDate
    Clinical decision support tool designed to answer clinical questions that arise in daily practice. Subscription database with access for UM/JMH authorized users.
  • VisualDx
    Diagnostic decision support system (CDSS) merges medical images and expert information to help you build a patient-centric differential diagnosis.
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  • Physical Therapy
    A guide to library resources for physical therapy students and practitioners

    Keywords: Physical therapy, therapists, DPT, PT, PT PhD
  • Public Health
    Library resources for Public Health students.

    Keywords: public health, public_health, mph, epidemiology
  • PubMed Guide
    PubMed Guide

    Keywords: pubmed, mesh
  • RefWorks
    RefWorks is a web-based citation management and bibliography tool. It can help you efficiently store, organize, and share citations and easily format them for papers and bibliographies.

    Keywords: medical, refworks
  • Researchers
    This guide will provide relevant information and links for researchers.

    Keywords: basic sciences research, clinical research, medical research, nursing research, research
  • Residents
    Keywords: residency training, residents, fellows
  • Scholarly Communications and Open Access
    Links to information about essential resources for Open Access and Scholarly Repositories.

    Keywords: medical; health, medical; open access
  • Scopus
  • Systematic Reviews
    Systematic Reviews

    Keywords: Systematic Reviews, prisma, ebm, grey literature, standard, scoping
  • uSearch
    uSearch Help

    Keywords: uSearch, Library Catalog, Calder Library, Electronic Resources
  • Writing a Scientific Paper
    Keywords: citation manager, citationhelp, health sciences, medical libraries, medical research, medical; open access, publishing, reference, refworks, research

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  • Medical Mobile Apps
    A list of all Calder Medical Library databases with mobile apps available

    Keywords: app, medical, medical libraries, medical research, medical; health, mobile, mobile app
  • Online Tutorials
    Links to useful guides, tutorials and videos for databases and software used at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

    Keywords: medical
  • Personal Librarian Program
    This site contains information about the Personal Librarian Program (PLP) for medical students at UMMSM. PLP Coordinator: Carmen Bou-Crick, MSLS, AHIP.

    Keywords: medical education, medical librarians, medical libraries, medical students, personal librarians

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Ebook

Liaison

    Finding Collaborators and Mentors
    Increasing Productivity
    • Mendeley Institution Edition
      Mendeley Institution Edition is a reference manager and academic networking resource. It allows users to create a fully-searchable library in seconds, cite while writing, share full text documents within user’s Mendeley network, and read and annotate PDFs on any device.
    • RefWorks
      Note: To access, users must create/log into an individual account. Refworks is a web based bibliography and database manager that allows users to create their own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases.
    • Web of Science
      The Web of Science is today's premier research platform, helping you quickly find, analyze, and share information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. You get integrated access to high quality literature through a unified platform that links a wide variety of content with one seamless search.
    Help with Graphics, Photos, & Printing
    • BioMedical Communications
      Biomedical Communications offers free tutorials designed to help UM faculty, staff and students create posters for presentations and conferences using Microsoft PowerPoint. The tutorials cover a variety of PowerPoint tools, including understanding menus, basics of page setup, choosing font types and sizes, importing objects and other steps needed to create impressive poster exhibits. The free sessions are for individual assistance and are held on a one-to-one basis.

      Our Mission is to provide the University of Miami and Jackson Memorial Hospital with professional digital and creative services that comply with University design standards and utilize state-of-the-art technology.
    Biomed Services
    • Image Archives
      Biomed maintains archives of photographs taken at Medical School and departmental events, award ceremonies, groups of faculty, staff, residents, and students. The Historical Collection has been compiled from various sources. Archives of people are private and available on request.
    • Photography
      The Photography Department is staffed by professional photographers experienced in both digital and conventional photographic methods. We utilize advanced photographic equipment, computers, digital cameras and slide, negative and flatbed scanners to provide high-quality output.
    • Poster Templates
      Download University of Miami PowerPoint poster templates.
    • Posters
      Design, create and print posters, brochures. Whether you need to produce scientific posters that impress, brilliant photographic signage that lasts, or presentation graphics that persuade, experts at Biomedical Communications can help you. Our computer graphic designers specialize in high-end, custom graphics, illustrations, and page layout for digital and print media, from concept to conclusion for both print and the web.

     
    Additional Resources for Videos and Graphics
    Video and Image Databases
    Collection of sources for videos and graphics.

     
    Making Your Work Widely Available
    • Scholarship@Miami
      The institutional repository and research information hub for the University of Miami. Contains select full text research and scholarly works by faculty, students, and staff at the University of Miami and the Miller School of Medicine. Make your publications widely available (as allowed by your publisher) by placing them on this site.
    NIH Public Access Policy
    • NIH Public Access Policy
      Offers detailed information to researchers on how to comply with the NIH policy, which requires that the public have access to the published results of NIH-funded research.
    Scholarly Communications and Open Access
    • Calder Library Scholarly Communications and Open Access Resources
      Provides information on the benefits that open access brings to authors, researchers, scientists and the public. This resource guide contains links to relevant organizations that promote Open Access.
    • SPARC -Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
      SPARC is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication.
    • OASIS - Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook
      A portal of educational materials offering authoritative information on the concept, principles, approaches and initiatives of the open access movement worldwide. OASIS' target audience is researchers, librarians, publishers, administrators, students, and the public.
    • EOS- Enabling Open Scholarship
      EOS is an organisation for universities and research institutions worldwide. The organisation is both an information service and a forum for raising and discussing issues around the mission of modern universities and research institutions, particularly with regard to the creation, dissemination and preservation of research findings. The EOS website is a resource open to all. It provides background information, data and guidance material on open scholarship-related issues.
    • ARL/ACRL-Institute on Scholarly Communication
      The Association of Research Libraries and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) jointly sponsor the Institute on Scholarly Communication (ISC) to promote the development of library-led outreach on scholarly communication issues. The institute has hundreds of alumni forming a community that provides peer support and professional sharing of information relating to campus outreach.
    • UNESCO - Open Access Portal
      The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP), funded by the Governments of Colombia, Denmark, Norway, and the United States Department of State, presents a current snapshot of the status of Open Access (OA) to scientific information around the world. For countries that have been more successful implementing Open Access, the portal highlights critical success factors and aspects of the enabling environment. For countries and regions that are still in the early stages of Open Access development, the portal identifies key players, potential barriers and opportunities.
    Finding Out Who Has Cited You and Documenting Effectiveness
    • Web of Science
      The Web of Science is today's premier research platform, helping you quickly find, analyze, and share information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. You get integrated access to high quality literature through a unified platform that links a wide variety of content with one seamless search.
    • Scopus
      A database of abstracts and citations for scholarly journal articles published since 1996, covering nearly 18,000 titles from the arts, medicine, physical sciences, and the social sciences.
    • Google Scholar@UM
      Search Google Scholar with direct links to University of Miami Library Resources. Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.  If you are within the UM campus or, if from Scholar Preferences you select the University of Miami Libraries, your Google Scholar results will include direct links to items available at UM.  If this information is in a subscription database, you will be prompted to log in with your CaneID username and password.
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    Becoming a Medical Information Power User: Tutorials
    Select:

    Subject

    • Physical Therapy
      A guide to library resources for physical therapy students and practitioners

      Keywords: Physical therapy, therapists, DPT, PT, PT PhD
    • Public Health
      Library resources for Public Health students.

      Keywords: public health, public_health, mph, epidemiology
    • PubMed Guide
      PubMed Guide

      Keywords: pubmed, mesh
    • RefWorks
      RefWorks is a web-based citation management and bibliography tool. It can help you efficiently store, organize, and share citations and easily format them for papers and bibliographies.

      Keywords: medical, refworks
    • Researchers
      This guide will provide relevant information and links for researchers.

      Keywords: basic sciences research, clinical research, medical research, nursing research, research
    • Residents
      Keywords: residency training, residents, fellows
    • Scholarly Communications and Open Access
      Links to information about essential resources for Open Access and Scholarly Repositories.

      Keywords: medical; health, medical; open access
    • Scopus
    • Systematic Reviews
      Systematic Reviews

      Keywords: Systematic Reviews, prisma, ebm, grey literature, standard, scoping
    • uSearch
      uSearch Help

      Keywords: uSearch, Library Catalog, Calder Library, Electronic Resources
    • Writing a Scientific Paper
      Keywords: citation manager, citationhelp, health sciences, medical libraries, medical research, medical; open access, publishing, reference, refworks, research

    Topic

    • Medical Mobile Apps
      A list of all Calder Medical Library databases with mobile apps available

      Keywords: app, medical, medical libraries, medical research, medical; health, mobile, mobile app
    • Online Tutorials
      Links to useful guides, tutorials and videos for databases and software used at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

      Keywords: medical
    • Personal Librarian Program
      This site contains information about the Personal Librarian Program (PLP) for medical students at UMMSM. PLP Coordinator: Carmen Bou-Crick, MSLS, AHIP.

      Keywords: medical education, medical librarians, medical libraries, medical students, personal librarians

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    Ebook

    Liaison

      Publications
      • Journal of Transcultural Nursing
        Journal of Transcultural Nursing (TCN) is a peer-reviewed journal that offers nurses, educators, researchers, and practitioners theoretical approaches and current research findings that have direct implications for the delivery of culturally congruent health care and for the preparation of health care professionals who will provide that care. This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
      • Journal of Cultural Diversity
        The Journal of Cultural Diversity (JCD), published quarterly, is for educators, researchers and practitioners involved in cultural diversity and the delivery of care, the development and implementation of programs, the formulation of policies, and the pursuit and analysis of research.
      • Public Health/AAHE: Cultural Competence in Health Education and Health Promotion (2nd ed.)
        M.A. Perez & R.R. Luquis (Eds.) (Jossey Bass/Wiley, 2013). This book addresses important health education considerations related to culture, race, and ethnicity; discusses health disparities among groups; and presents several models for assessing the role of culture in the prevention of disease and the promotion of health.
      Patient Non-Discrimination Policy Resources
      • Affordable Care Act (ACA US DHHS)
        The Affordable Care Act puts consumers back in charge of their health care. Under the law, a new “Patient’s Bill of Rights†gives the American people the stability and flexibility they need to make informed choices about their health.
      • AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit, 2nd edition
        The AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit, 2nd edition, can help primary care practices reduce the complexity of health care, increase patient understanding of health information, and enhance support for patients of all health literacy levels.
      • Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
        CMS covers 100 million people through Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and the Health Insurance Marketplace. This website provides information for: (1) people with Medicare, Medicare open enrollment, and benefits; (2) children up to the age of 19 in need of health care coverage, and (3) people who need health insurance and want to apply for or enroll in the Marketplace.
      • CHAMPS Cultural Competency Resources
        the Community Health Association of Mountains/Plains States developed this online resource to support Region VIII CHCs in providing quality health care that addresses the needs of culturally diverse populations. It contains: (1) Definitions of Cultural Competency; (2) Why Focusing on Cultural Competency is Important; (3) What it means to be Culturally Competent in a Healthcare Setting; (4) Frequently Asked Questions about Cultural Competency; (5) Cultural Competency Resources for Health Care Professionals; (6) Health Literacy and Language Services Resources; and (7) CHAMPS Population Specific Resources.
      • Culture, Language, and Health Literacy (HRSA DHHS)
        Health Resources and Services Administration site with information about effective health communication and offers resources for health care providers learn how to recognize and address the unique culture, language and health literacy of diverse consumers and communities.
      • CultureGrams Online Database (ProQuest LLC)
        Cultural reports for more than 200 countries each include 25 categories such as land and climate, history, personal appearance, greetings, dating and marriage, family, diet, housing, holidays, economy, education, and health. CultureGrams Online Database--pricing varies by number of users and by length of term.
      • Guidelines for the Care of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Patients (Gay & Lesbian Medical Association)
        This booklet, published by GLMA (San Francisco, CA), provides guidelines and resources for the care of LGBT patients.
      • Healthcare.gov (Health Insurance Marketplace)
        This government website provides information about the healthcare marketplace and provides links to apply and enroll in healthcare, how to choose a plan, important deadlines, rights and protections, etc. Published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
      • National Center for Cultural Competence (Georgetown University)
        The mission of the NCCC is to increase the capacity of health care and mental health care programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems to address growing diversity, persistent disparities, and to promote health and mental health equity.
      • Office of Minority Health (US DHHS)
        The Office of Minority Health is dedicated to improving the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will help eliminate health disparities (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services).
      • Primary Care Protocol for Transgender Patient Care (UCSF)
        This protocol was published by the Center of Excellence for Transgender Patient Care, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 2011. This protocol is intended to serve two purposes: (1) Provide accurate, peer-reviewed medical guidance--this protocol was developed under the supervision of eight physicians with extensive experience in treating transgender patients; and (2) Provide a resource--this protocol contains references to additional materials that may be accessed for further study and shared with other provider colleagues and support staff to improve treatment capabilities as well as access to care for transgender patients.
      • Providing Transgender-Inclusive Healthcare Services (Planned Parenthood)
        All people, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, have rights that need to be respected and responsibilities that need to be exercised-Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Values Statement. This booklet was prepared by the Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes, Inc., Ithaca, NY. It is a training manual to assure that staff members are meeting the needs of the people in the communities they serve.
      • Taking Charge (Quebec, Canada)
        This guidebook was created by Action Santé Travesties et Transsexuel(le)s du Québec (ASTTeQ) as a tool to educate a wide spectrum of health care and social service providers, ranging from social workers, lawyers, family doctors, endocrinologists, mental health professionals, nurses, and frontline workers at social justice organizations, shelters, and HIV/AIDS service organizations, etc. It covers topics that touch on hormones, patient/client advocacy, legal name and sex designation changes, gender segregated facilities (i.e. shelters, prisons, detox facilities), and more.
      • The World Factbook (CIA)
        The Central Intelligence Agency publishes country profiles with information about geography, people and society, government, economy, energy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.
      • World Professional Association for Transgender Health
        WPATH is a non-profit, interdisciplinary professional and educational organization devoted to transgender health. Professional, supporting, and student members engage in clinical and academic research to develop evidence-based medicine and strive to promote a high quality of care for transsexual, transgender, and gender-nonconforming individuals internationally.
      Images, Photographs, Videos, & Graphics
      • ClinicalKey Multimedia
        Clinical search engine that helps you find fast answers and deep evidence from more than 1,000 full-text reference books, 600 full-text journals, videos, images and more.
      • Human Genome Resources
        A challenge facing researchers today is that of piecing together and analyzing the plethora of data currently being generated through the Human Genome Project and scores of smaller projects. NCBI's Web site serves as an integrated, one-stop, genomic information infrastructure for biomedical researchers from around the world so that they may use these data in their research efforts.
      • Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)
        JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, is the world's first peer reviewed scientific video journal. Established in 2006, JoVE is devoted to publishing scientific research in a visual format to help researchers overcome two of the biggest challenges facing the scientific research community today: poor reproducibility and the time and labor intensive nature of learning new experimental techniques.
        •All JoVE articles are indexed in subject-relevant indexing sites, including PubMed/MEDLINE, SciFinder and Scopus
        •Publishing in JoVE allows authors to dynamically present their methods, data analyses and results clearly, accurately, and professionally with the guidance of JoVE's professional videographers and editors
        •JoVE has published thousands of video articles from top research institutions around the world.
      • MedPix
        MedPix is a fully web-enabled cross-platform database, integrating images and textual information. Its primary target audience includes physicians and nurses, allied health professionals, medical students, nursing students and others. The content material is organized by disease location (organ system), pathology category, patient profiles, and by image classification and caption. MedPix can be searched through multiple internal image and text search engines.
      • VisualDx
          Diagnostic decision support system (CDSS) merges medical images and expert information to help you build a patient-centric differential diagnosis.
      Mobile Apps
      • mobilePDR: Drug Information App
        Available in the App Stores for Apple and Android (Search "PDR"). Includes over 2,800 Drug Summaries. Search for drugs by generic name, brand name, or pharmacologic class. Identify unknown drugs by shape and color. Identifies mild, moderate, and severe interactions. Compares drugs.
      • UpToDate Mobile App Registration Page
        Mobile access is now available to all UM/JMH authorized users. A clinical support system designed to answer clinical questions that arise in daily practice. Contains succinct, comprehensive, current and fully referenced evidence on more than 7,000 clinical topics written by physicians. Subscription resource available to UM/JMH authorized users.

      Medical Mobile Apps Resource Guide