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PHYSICAL EXAM
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Clinical Key This link opens in a new window
Full text access to selected medical texts, medical journals, practice guidelines, drug information, patient handouts, and CME materials.
DynaMed Plus This link opens in a new window
DynaMed Plus is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the point-of-care. Content is written by a team of physicians and researchers who synthesize the evidence and provide objective analysis. Evidence-based disease and condition information includes summaries, guidelines, patient information, ICD codes and more.
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EBM calc
EBMcalc encompasses a wide array of pertinent medical formulae, clinical criteria sets and decision tree analysis tools used everyday by clinicians, medical educators, nurses and health care students of all types.
Evidence Alerts (STAT!Ref)
The STAT!Ref Evidence Alerts system provides e-mail delivery and access to evidence-based medicine (EBM) information from current research of over 130 premier clinical journals.
5 Minute Clinical Consult
Fast, evidence-based answers to your clinical questions at the point of care.
Guideline Central
Guideline Central is dedicated to providing healthcare professionals with evidence-based clinical decision-support tools that are current, practical, and easily accessible.

Essential Evidence Plus (Stat!Ref)
Select Essential Evidence Plus from Stat!Ref main menu. Provides best-evidence for clinical questions concerning symptoms, diseases, drugs, and other treatment regimens; includes "strength-of-evidence" ratings and "Bottom Line" summaries.

JAMA Evidence This link opens in a new window
JAMAevidence is an instructional resource from the American Medical Association that is intended to teach about concepts fundamental to the practice of evidence-based medicine. It is meant to help decision makers identify the best available evidence by providing guides to the systematic consideration of the validity, importance, and applicability of claims about the assessment of health problems and the outcomes of health care.
UpToDate Online This link opens in a new window
A practical clinical reference, contains the equivalent of 40,000 pages of original, peer-reviewed text which provides specific, practical recommendations for diagnosis and treatment.

Language Appropriate Health Care and Medical Language Education Collection
From MedEdPORTAL - This collection seeks to elevate the educational scholarship and convene a community of collaborators dedicated to improving medical education curricula about language-appropriate health care.