This guide is intended to provide an overview of library resources NYUGSoM faculty can use and incorporate into their classes.
If you have any questions, please email juliana.magro@nyulangone.org
There are many tools that can be used in classes. Below, see four AccessMedicine tools you can use as reference on your browser, and also a way to download an app with all four of them combined!
For general information about diagnosis, you can use Quick Medical Diagnosis and Treatment (QMDT) as a reference resource, available through the library.
This resource provides key diagnostic and treatment features of more than 930 disorders. It is structured in a bullet format and includes key features, clinical findings, diagnosis, treatment, outcomes, and evidence.
For quick DDx reference, use the AccessMedicine Diagnosaurus app through your browser, or download the app (more information on the app below).
Diagnosaurus provides differential diagnoses (DDx) of symptoms, signs, and diseases. By using the various indexes, you can choose to view entries by organ system, or select to view the list of symptoms only, the list of diseases only, or all of the entries. For example, if you wish to review the causes of a patient's chief complaint, simply select the symptom or sign from the alphabetical listing. If you have made a diagnosis and wonder what other disorders to consider, select your diagnosis from the list to see its DDx.
Guide to Diagnostic Tests, 7th ed., is is a reference guide to the selection and interpretation of commonly used diagnostic tests. It provides information on over 350 tests, including new laboratory tests and. diagnostic algorithms.
Fitzpatrick's Clinical Dermatology Atlas, 8th ed., facilitates dermatologic diagnosis by providing color photographs of skin lesions and a summary of skin disorders and skin signs of systemic diseases.
To have these four resources in one place, and the ability to search across all of them, download the AccessMedicine app to your mobile devices.
To download the app:
If you want to share a specific article for any of these AccessMedicine resources with your students, click on "get citation" and copy the URL you see. This will generate a persistent URL you can use.
There are different clinical case resources that can be used in classes. Take a look below at different sources, and feel free to contact Juliana if you have questions!
Updated regularly, this comprehensive case collection helps students learn and apply basic science and clinical medicine concepts in the context of realistic patient cases.
This collection features:
Both students and faculty need to create a free account in order to view and practice these cases.
Here is a step-by-step:
If you would like to view a list of all cases, you can do so using this link. The list includes the case title, a permanent link to the resource, and it gives the option to export the list to Excel.
You can also view a list of all Case File books here (also exportable).
To share cases with students, simply copy the URL of the resource from the webpage, or copy the URL from the list provided above.
There are also cases from different journals. Take a look, for example, at these case challenges from NEJM:
https://www.nejm.org/case-challenges
LWW Library also offers clinical cases, most in PDF form, that are pulled from textbooks. The textbook format varies, as well as the cases included. For this reason, they may or may not include answers to the questions.
Micromedex supplies evidence-based drug and clinical information including toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine. Includes a calculators tab with 22 separate dosing, laboratory value, antidote, and measurement calculators, and tabs for Trissel's 2 IV compatibility, drug identification with images, comprehensive drug interaction checking, and Tox & Drug Product Lookup for quick substance identification.
Access Micromex through the library:
https://hslguides.med.nyu.edu/Micromedex
Natural Medicines (formerly Natural Standard and Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database) is an authoritative resource of monographs on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary alternative and integrative therapies.
Access Natural Medicines through the library:
https://hslguides.med.nyu.edu/NMTRC
Features popular clinical resources from Unbound Medicine, including the Johns Hopkins ABX and Diabetes Guides.
Create a free account to save articles, and make annotations. Your notes can be color-coded and are saved under the "notes" tab.
Access uCentral through the library:
https://hslguides.med.nyu.edu/uCentral
Lexicomp offers point-of-care drug, disease, toxicology, diagnostic tests, and patient information.
Access Lexidrug through the library:
https://hslguides.med.nyu.edu/Lexidrug
Go to this page to learn how to download apps for these resources. If you have questions or run into issues, please email Juliana or anyone at the library.
https://hslguides.med.nyu.edu/mobile/apps
Within Access Medicine, you can access Goodman & Gilman’s Annual FDA Approvals. This resource provides summaries of recently FDA-approved drugs and biologics.
Access Goodman & Gilman’s through the library:
https://accessmedicine-mhmedical-com.ezproxy.med.nyu.edu/fdaApprovals.aspx?gboscontainerid=232
AccessMedicine's content encompasses a variety of multimedia content, including Pharmacology content:
https://accessmedicine-mhmedical-com.ezproxy.med.nyu.edu/multimedia.aspx#21847
Textbooks can also be a good source for general drug information.
You can try, for example, looking at pharmacology textbooks in AccessMedicine, or LWW Health Library.
AMBOSS is an interactive library of 20,000+ medical topics interlinked with a Question Bank with 5,100+ clinical case-based questions.
With all the necessary resources available in one place, AMBOSS delivers up-to-date medical knowledge to nearly two million students, physicians, and faculty around the world.
Take a look at the video below with instructions on how to set up University Sessions (your quiz playlist) that can be shared with students.
If you are an NYUGSoM faculty, you have access to AMBOSS! Please email Juliana Magro at juliana.magro@nyulangone.org set up your account.
BioRender is an online software tool that helps scientists create and share beautiful, professional science figures in minutes. To access it, please log in with your @nyulangone.org email address using the link below:
Create beautiful graphs from your raw data with graph presets that are accessibility-friendly
Visualize and explain analyses clearly
Combine graphs with other BioRender figures to keep all of your research files together
Newest Features: Two-way ANOVA analysis and grouped charts, Linear regression and line graphs, More color-blind friendly themes
Try out the new Graphing feature HERE!
Reminder: BioRender TemplatesBioRender has over five thousand pre-made templates, like the ones below, to help researchers and lecturers save time, easily create beautiful illustrations, and learn about new topics
Next time you need to create a figure or need to explain a concept in a lecture, consider looking in the Template Library first and see how much time it can save you by using the template as a starting point for your illustration!
Check out our templates HERE!
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