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What is MD Consult?

What is MD Consult?. Rich Collection of Clinical Content including: 39 Medical Reference Textbooks (Ebooks) 60+ Full text journals, including the Clinics of North America Series Peer-reviewed Clinical Practice Guidelines Daily Medical News

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What is MD Consult?

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  1. What is MD Consult? Rich Collection of Clinical Content including: • 39 Medical Reference Textbooks (Ebooks) • 60+ Full text journals, including the Clinics of North America Series • Peer-reviewed Clinical Practice Guidelines • Daily Medical News • Current Contents + summaries of articles in key journals • Patient Handouts

  2. How do I access MD Consult? • Go to Health Sciences Library Website http://www.ais.up.ac.za/med/med.htm • Choose Health Databases where MD Consult is listed • Available on-campus and off-campus • NB: you must be registered as a library user for access

  3. Click on Health Databases

  4. Click on MD Consult

  5. Navigating / Searching MD Consult Two ways of searching: • Quick search • Single word or a phrase • Can combine 2 or more word/phrases with Boolean Operators (and, or, not) • Advanced Search • Used mainly when searching specifically for journal articles on Medline

  6. Navigating / Searching MD Consult Quick Search • Type search term/phrase in block at top of page and click on Search (All areas will then be searched)

  7. This is the Home Page • See “What’s New Today” Tabs for different areas Start by typing in Search terms

  8. Search results in each area Be on the lookout for “Quick Tips” in each area

  9. Reference Books • You now have the option of looking at the full text results in the different Reference Books (Textbooks)

  10. Results sorted according to relevancy

  11. Search hits in this book • Can also go to “Index” or “Contents” Publication details of book

  12. Click here to go back to last results of search

  13. Table of Contents of book • Click on + to see Headings of each Chapter/Section • Helps to browse contents of books quickly

  14. Click on “Frontmatter” for bibliographic details of book

  15. Journal references • These results come from the Medline database • The references are sorted according to full text relevancy followed by references with abstracts only • Approximately 60 full text journal titles

  16. Click on “Full Text” to retrieve this article

  17. To Print Click here Contents of this article to facilitate browsing Full Text of this article

  18. Printing • Use the .pdf option for printing when available • If the “print preview” option does not respond then: • Place cursor on text and right-click on the mouse. (or) • Highlight what you wish to print – copy and paste to Word

  19. Printing : right-click on text This menu appears - Click on Print

  20. Drugs • Results from the “Drug” area • Covers more than 30,000 medications • Drug information sub-divided into: • Contents • Updates

  21. Click ontitle for full text

  22. Index for “Updates” Full text reference

  23. Choose your preference

  24. News • Keep up-to-date with the latest developments • This week in Medicine • This week in Journals • Daily updates

  25. Clinical summaries highlight recent findings, announcements, conferences, and other developments

  26. This week’s top 6 journal titles • Click on Title for Contents pages

  27. Each article is summarized for quick review and includes a variety of related information sources for further review

  28. Current Practice • Sub-divided into 3 sections • Clinical Topics Tours • Practice Guidelines • Clinical Insights

  29. Topics provide a concise review of current thinking, frequently updated. • Includes Definition, incidence, etiology, risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, prevention….

  30. Display guidelines by Topic, Specialty or Authoring Organization • Complete, full text guidelines are provided and regularly updated

  31. Important articles in the current literature are selected by the editorial board, providing abstract and analysis of findings

  32. Patient Handouts • Provides clear, customized information on subject • Includes your contact information • If used as a patient handout – your own special instructions can be included

  33. Choose your subject information from “Contents” • Click on + to obtain more detailed information Your own contact details Clear detailed information on subject

  34. At end of article Special Instructions can be added

  35. Student Union • Found under “Learning Center” area • Student Union is the place where you will find information specific to your medical education experience, includes • Survival guide • Practice case studies • Step-by-step procedure instructions

  36. Step-by-step procedure guide – find under Clerkship Survival Guide

  37. My Folder • Within MD Consult you can organise bookmarks and save searches • You can create and organise your own folders to help with projects, study notes, information • You will however have to register yourself for your own Personal Account • No one else can access your folder as you have your own userid/password for MD Consult

  38. Click on My Folder to open references, documents, etc saved within MD Consult

  39. Please always EXIT program • Important as we only have 2 simultaneous licences Click on “EXIT”

  40. Enjoy searching! Created by: Maureen Brassel September 2005

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