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Physician Assistants - Resource Guide

Information resources -- both web-based and library-owned content -- for those registered in the physician assistants program through the Department of Family and Community Medicine

Quick Disease Facts

5 Minute Clinical Consult
Alphabetical list of brief articles on the basics of several hundred diseases/conditions. Use when you need a quick overview of a condition.
Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
Encyclopedia of Microbiology, 3rd ed.
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy

Evidence-Based Information Resources

For even more EBM resources, try this:

Evidence-Based Practice
by Ask Gerstein! Last Updated Nov 16, 2023 2225 views this year

Most Distilled-Diseases & Conditions

DynaMed Plus This link opens in a new window
Tool for physicians and other medical professionals providing evidence-based clinical decision support.

UpToDate

Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
Includes Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), and Cochrane Clinical Answers. The Wiley platform is appropriate for systematic and scoping reviews as well as other advanced searches.
Natural Medicines This link opens in a new window

Less Distilled - Diseases & Conditions

PubMed Clinical Queries
Special PubMed filters restrict results to clinically relevant articles on diseases and conditions.
TRIP Turning Research Into Practice
Like Google for clinical medicine. Find answers to clinical questions from an aggregated database drawn from hundreds of clinically relevant free web sites. Especially good for finding English-language content from outside of North America.

Online Tutorials

Need help using online information tools? Watch these short video tutorials to learn the basics for specific tools.

Answering Background Questions with Online Resources
Gerstein Library tutorial on how to access online books to answer background (factual) questions on diseases/conditions.
Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Resources (Yale)
Searching the Cochrane Library (Yale)
TRIP Database (Yale)
PubMed Clinical Queries
Finding Evidence in Pubmed
Detailed step by step guide on Pubmed's filtering options for limiting to evidence.

Last Updated: Nov 3, 2023 9:49 AM
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