MDConsult

Have you tried MD Consult, the latest electronic resource recently acquired by the Talbot Research Library?  MD Consult includes information from leading medical textbooks, full-text journals and also includes a complete medline database.  Additionally, it provides a drug database, a medical news service, a collection of peer-reviewed practice guidelines, a CME collection, a collection of patient education handouts, and a database of medical images that include photos, tables and graphs.  Images can be searched, downloaded, and /or printed.

The collection of textbooks includes more than 50 titles including Abeloff’’s   Clinical Oncology, Hoffman’s Hematology, and many others in all areas of medicine.  The journals collection contains more than 80 full-text journals, including most of the Clinics of North America titles. Each title can be searched separately or as a collection.

Need some basic background information?  Type a topic in the search box or click on the star for Recommended Results for the Most Common Searches.  MD Consult automatically breaks down search results by resource and lists the top results delivered by each resource.  Searches can be stored and Alerts can also be set up.

MD Consult News is updated daily and includes top stories, stories by specialty, and a section called, “In This Week’s Journals”.  Sign up for the free weekly e-newsletter or set up an RSS newsfeed on your computer.

You can find MD Consult on the library’s webpage, under “other web resources”.  MD Consult can also be accessed at home and by PDA, unlike Up-to-Date.  Please contact Talbot Research Librarians Karen Albert, Beth Lewis, or Sherri Place with any questions or for a demo of MD Consult.