FSU Flambeaus FSU College of Medicine
Charlotte Edwards Maguire Medical Library
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Off Campus Access
EZ Proxy Tutorial (Approx 2 min., 1 MG)

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EZ Proxy allows you to access the library's e-books, e-journals and databases from off campus.
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Patient Education
FSU COM Faculty Development and CME Credit
Patient Education
Patient Education Resources
MDConsult (Approx 6 min., 3 MG)

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MDConsult provides over 10,000 patient education handouts that can be printed and distributed to patients. Spanish versions are available for about 30 percent of the topics.
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MedlinePlus (Approx 6 min., 3 MG)

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MedlinePlus is free. It brings together authoritative information from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health related organizations.
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Health & Wellness Resource Center (Approx 4 min., 2 MG)

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The Health and Wellness Resource Center contains a medical encyclopedia; a drug and herb finder; a health organization directory; a medical dictionary; an alternative health encyclopedia; health assessment tools; and videos and articles on disease and conditions.
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Dynamed (Approx 4 min., 2 MG)

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Dynamed has clinically organized summaries on over 1,800 topics. About half of the topical handouts are available in Spanish.
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Epocrates (Approx 3 min., 2 MG)

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Each patient education handout in Epocrates addresses common concerns such as: how to take the medication; possible side effects; and what the medication looks like. Handouts are available in English and Spanish.
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AccessMedicine (Approx 2 min., 1 MG)

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The patient education information in AccessMedicine is provided courtesy of McGraw-Hill's Postgraduate Medicine: The Practical Peer Reviewed Jouranl for Primary Care Physicians. There are handouts for over 100 topics.
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Research and Writing Research & Writing Papers
National Library of Medicine Pubmed Online Training
FSU COM Faculty Development and CME Credit
Searching PubMed

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Includes tutotials on how to search for an author, subject, or journal in PubMed.
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My NCBI

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You can use My NCBI to: save searches; set up e-mail alerts for new content; display links to Web resources (LinkOut); and choose filters that group search results.
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PubMed's MeSH Database

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MeSH is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary used for indexing articles for MEDLINE/PubMed. MeSH terminology provides a consistent way to retrieve information that may use different terminology for the same concepts.
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Endnote
Setting Up an Endnote Library (Approx 2 min., 1 MG)

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EndNote is a software tool which allows you to organise and keep track of your references.
 
Importing References from PubMed to Endnote (Approx 7 min., 3 MG)

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This tutorial explains how to download and import references from PubMed's Website into Endnote.
 
Importing References from Google Scholar to Endnote (Approx 2 min., 1 MG)

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This tutorial explains how to download and import references from Google Scholar into Endnote.
 
Importing References from MEDLINE (OVID) to Endnote (Approx 3 min., 1 MG)

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This tutorial explains how to download and import references from Medline in Ovid into Endnote.
 
U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services Area Resource File (ARF)
HRSA ARF (Approx 8 min., 3 MG)

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A database containing more than 6,000 variables for each of the nation's counties designed to be used by persons interested in the nation's health care delivery system and factors that may impact health status and health care in the U.S.
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Evidence Based Medicine
FSU COM Faculty Development and CME Credit
Evidence Based Medicine
Evidence Based Medicine
ACP PIER via ACP Interface (Approx 4 min., 2 MG)

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ACP Pier is a decison support tool designed for rapid point-of-care delivery of evidence-based quidance for physicians. Modules focus on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
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ACP PIER via STAT!Ref Interface (Approx 4 min., 2 MG)

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ACP Pier is a decison support tool designed for rapid point-of-care delivery of evidence-based quidance for physicians. Modules focus on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
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Clinical Evidence (Approx 4 min., 2 MG)

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Clinical Evidene, published by the British Medical Journal Publishing Group, summarizes the current literature on over 200 medical conditions and provides evidence on prevention and treatment.
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Cochrane Library (Approx 5 min., 3 MG)

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The Cochrane Library is a regularly updated collection of 7 evidence-based medicine databases. It includes abstracts and full reviews of controlled trials, methodologies, economic evaluation, and health technology assessment.
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Dynamed (Approx 4 min., 2 MG)

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Dynamed is a point-of-care reference tool designed to provide doctors and medical researches with evidence to support clinical decision making. It provides clinically organized summaries for nearly 2,000 topics.
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Essential Evidence Plus (InfoRetriever) (Approx 4 min., 2 MG)

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InfoRetriever is a database of filtered, synopsized, evidence-based information. The integrated search engine allows you to search 7 databases symultaneously.
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PubMed (Approx 4 min., 2 MG)

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The PubMed Clinical Queries feature provides specialized searches for clinicians.
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WebFeat (Approx 3 min., 2 MG)

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The WebFeat federated search engine allows you to search multiple evidence based medicine resources at the same time.
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EBM Overview
Evidence Based Medicine Resources at the FSU College of Medicine including a definition of EBM, Levels of Evidence (LOE) and how to formulate PICO questions. (Approx 15 min., 3 MG)
Pyramid of Evidence and Definitions of Types of Studies (This is a pdf document)
Locating Materials in the Online Library
FSU COM Faculty Development and CME Credit
Locating Materials in the Online Library
Overview of the Library Web Page
Overview of the Library Web Site Tutorial (Approx 8 min., 4 MG)

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This tutorial is a brief overview of the resources available via the library's web page.
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E-Books
Finding E-Books at the College of Medicine Library Tutorial (Approx 1 min., 1 MG)

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Access clinical, biomedical, and health related electronic books from the library's e-books page.
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E-Journals
Finding E-Journals at the College of Medicine Library Tutorial (Approx 2 min., 1 MG)

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You can access full text medical and biomedical electronic journals by searching the e-journals page.
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Finding E-Journals at All FSU Libraries (Serials Solutions) Tutorial (Approx 5 min., 3 MG)

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Access over 45,000 electronic journals available at the 7 libraries at FSU.
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Finding Full-Text E-Journals in PubMed Tutorial (Approx 4 min., 2 MG

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This tutorial explores how to identify articles in PubMed that are available online full-text to members of the FSU community.
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Searching via WebFeat
Using WebFeat (Federated Search Engine) Tutorial (Approx 4 min., 2 MG)

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WebFeat is a federated search engine the searches multiple library resources from one simplified interface.
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Inter-Library Loan
Requesting Inter-Library Loan from the College of Medicine Library (Approx 2 min., 1 MG)

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When a journal article is not available full-text from any local or electronic source at FSU, you can use InterLibrary Loan to get it from another library.
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Clinical Tools Clinical Tools
Decision Support Resources
FSU COM Faculty Development and CME Credit
AccessMedicine (Approx 6 min., 3 MG)

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The "Diagnostic Tests" section of AccessMedicne features the content of the Pocket Guide to Diagnositc Tests, 4th ed.
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eMedicine (Approx 3 min., 2 MG)

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The Clinical Tools section of eMedicine includes algorithms, calculators, decision rules, diagrams, scores and tables.
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Facts & Comparisons Drug Information (Approx 3 min., 2 MG)

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Facts and Comparisons Drug information provides normal lab values for: blood, plasma or serum; urine; drug levels; and classification of blood pressure.
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Epocrates (Approx 4 min., 2 MG)

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Epocrates contains medical calculators of medical equations, dose converters, and clinical criteria and decision trees.
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Essential Evidence Plus (InfoRetriever) (Approx 4 min., 2 MG)

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InfoRetriever contains decision support, diagnostic test, and history and physical test calculators.
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Differential Diagnosis Tools
FSU COM Faculty Development and CME Credit
DXPlain (Approx 4 min., 2 MG)

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DXPlain is a decision support system that uses a set of clinical findings (signs, symptoms, laboratory data) to produce a ranked list of diagnoses which mght explain (or be associated with) clinical manifestations.
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AccessMedicine (Diagnosaurus) (Approx 2 min., 1 MG)

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Diagnosaurus provides over 1000 differential Diagnosis (DDx) of symptoms, signs and diseases.
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eMedicine (DDX Generator)(Approx 2 min., 1 MG)

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eMedicine contains 6,500 peer-reviewed clinical articles covering virtually every known disease and condition. The DDX Generator searches and draws on these articles.
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Disease Quick Reference Tools
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Dynamed (Approx 3 min., 2 MG)

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Dynamed is a medical information database with nearly 2,000 clinical topic summaries.
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eMedicine (Approx 3 min., 2 MG)

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Over 7,000 physician authors and editors have created thousands peer-reviewed, disease specific articles for eMedicine.
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PEPID (Approx 2 min., 1 MG)

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PEPID's CRC is a tool that contains nearly 2,700 Disease and Trauma topics with diagnosis, pathophysiology, treatment and dispositon.
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Harrison's Practice (Approx 3 min., 2 MG)

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Harrison's Practice is a tool that delivers the most common medical topics in a quick format for instant information at point of care.
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Essential Evidence Plus (InfoRetriever) (Approx 6 min., 3 MG)

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InfoRetriever is a databases system of filtered, synopsized, evidene-based information that searches multiple databases simultaneously.
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Drug Resources
FSU COM Faculty Development and CME Credit
Epocrates (Approx 6 min., 3 MG)

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Epocrates is a comprehensive drug and formulary reference. It contains monographs to over 3,500 of the most frequently prescribed medications.
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Facts & Comparisons Drug Information (Approx 5 min., 3 MG)

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Facts and Comparisons Drug Information lists more than 22,000 prescription and almost 6,000 over the counter items grouped by therapeutic category.
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Harrison's Practice (View Drugs) (Approx 3 min., 2 MG)

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The drug database in Harrison's Practice has complete information for over 51,000 generic and brand name drugs.
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MDConsult (Drugs Section) (Approx 3 min., 2 MG)

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MDConsult Drug information includes generic and brand name drugs, investigational medications, neutraceuticals, and nutritional products.
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PEPID (Drugs Section) (Approx 4 min., 2 MG)

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PEPID's CRC has a complete Drug Database that includes over 5,500 drug, herbal and OTC generic and trade names.
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Please contact the Medical Library staff for assistance.
Phone: (850) 644-3883
e-mail: MedLibrary@med.fsu.edu.
You may also call to make an appointment for individual instruction.