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Topic Ideas and Background Information
For topic ideas and background information, try these book collections and reference resources:
- Acland’s Video Atlas of Human Anatomy This link opens in a new windowContains nearly 330 videos of real human anatomic specimens in their natural colors.
- Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination This link opens in a new windowDelivers head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques for the (Advanced) Assessment or Introduction to Clinical Medicine course. The site features more than 8 hours of video content.
- AccessMedicine This link opens in a new windowA collection of 50+ clinical and basic science textbooks, including classics such as Harrison's Principals of Internal Medicine.
- R2 Library This link opens in a new windowA searchable collection of textbooks in medicine, nursing and allied health disciplines.
- LWW Health Library – Medical Education: Premium Basic Sciences This link opens in a new window
A collection of trusted Lippincott content including key textbooks, atlases, videos and self-assessments.
- BMJ Best Practice This link opens in a new window
Clinical decision support tool providing step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention using evidence-based methodology and expert opinion. Jefferson’s subscription includes a Comorbidities Manager on select acute topics for tailored treatment recommendations. Updated daily.
See BMJ’s guide for more information on creating a user profile and requirements for downloading the mobile app.
Primary Sources
For primary research articles and secondary sources with high-quality evidence, try these literature databases:
- PubMed This link opens in a new windowPubMed is the National Library of Medicine's own interface for MEDLINE and also includes PREMEDLINE (new citations which don't have their subject headings yet) and OLDMEDLINE (reaching back to the 1950s). Use it to identify journal articles on your biomedical topic.
- CINAHL - Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature This link opens in a new windowThe Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers for finding articles.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowScopus is Scott Memorial Library's broadest literature database for nursing, life and health sciences. Scopus searches citations and abstracts of over 19,000 journals across a broad spectrum of sciences, medicine, social sciences and technology, science-related Web sites, conference papers, and world patent literature.
- Cochrane Library This link opens in a new windowEach Cochrane Review is a peer-reviewed systematic review that has been prepared and supervised by a Cochrane Review Group (editorial team) in The Cochrane Collaboration according to the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions or Cochrane Handbook for Diagnostic Test Accuracy Reviews.
- Ovid MEDLINE ALL This link opens in a new windowOvid MEDLINE covers the international journal literature of biomedicine. While the main thrust of MEDLINE is clinical information, some administrative and sociological literature is included.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowThe American Psychological Association produces PsycINFO for coverage of the international literature of psychology and related disciplines.
- SocINDEX with Full Text: This link opens in a new windowTopics include: gender studies, criminal justice, social psychology, racial studies, religion and social work.
- Health Business Elite This link opens in a new windowThis database provides comprehensive journal content detailing all aspects of health care administration and other non-clinical aspects of health care institution management.
- Trip (free version) This link opens in a new windowTrip is a clinical search engine that classifies results by evidence type: systematic reviews, guidelines, controlled trials, patient education, etc. SML does not subscribe to the Pro version. Select "Try out the new site!" link at the top of the page which is currently in Beta.
- Google Scholar for Jeffersonians This link opens in a new windowWhile Google Scholar is free to all users from the Google site, this link passes users through Jefferson's proxy server, so that Google will then display Jefferson links to subscribed full text, where available.
- Library Databases: A-Z ListFor more, see our full list of available databases.
Finding Full Text Articles
When we do not have a subscription for a journal that you need, we can still get you a copy. Just submit a request through our Interlibrary Loan system. Check out our guide to Finding Full Text for more information about how to access full text articles through the library and how to request through Interlibrary Loan when we do not have what you need.