Database Digest

Featuring AccessMedicine & Global Health

AccessMedicine is a collection of full-text clinical and basic sciences textbooks available through the library’s E-Texts link. Titles in the database include Harrison's Online, Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine, Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, Hurst's The Heart, Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease, and more. The Lange Educational Library series expands the resource with a collection of additional clinical medicine and basic sciences texts.

Users can search the entire database by keyword. Search results provide links to the specific textbook and chapter that are relevant. Links are also provided for quick access to content, news updates on the topic, and related practice guidelines, content, and web resources. Users can e-mail, print, or download portions of the textbooks to PDA.

The Lange self-assessment tool for USMLE preparation, USMLEasy, is also available to students for USMLE test preparation. Using McGraw-Hill’s online testing service, students can practice for the USMLE Steps 1 & 2 exams for free.

Other AccessMedicine features include Practice Guidelines, a differential diagnosis tool which is downloadable to PDA, and customizable patient handouts.

Global Health is an international public health database that offers deep subject coverage of information related to human health and communicable diseases published since 1972. Subjects covered include:

• Communicable diseases (including HIV/AIDS)
• Tropical diseases (including field and experimental studies)
• Parasitic diseases and parasitology (medical entomology)
• Human nutrition (including food composition, food poisoning, effects of diet on health, nutritional disorders, and experimental aspects)
• Community and public health (including chronic diseases, occupational health, health status indicators, the impact of agriculture on health, and cancer epidemiology)
• Medicinal and poisonous plants (including pharmacology, tissue culture, animal studies, plant composition, allergens, and toxins)

Available to users through the library’s E-Databases/MEDLINE link, Global Health can be searched using the familiar OVID interface, and provides subject-specific bibliographic information from English and foreign language journals, books, research reports, patents and standards, dissertations, conference proceedings, annual reports, public health, developing country information, and other difficult-to-obtain material.