MD Consult Core Collection MD Consult Overview Books Journals Drugs News Current Practice Patient Handouts Learning Center Marketplace MDC Mobile Advanced Searching Customization Features If your patient has it, we have it.

MD Consult is designed to help physicians answer clinical questions and stay up-to-date with new developments in medicine. 41 leading medical textbooks 70 full-text journals/clinics with MEDLINE Over 30,000 drug medications The latest medical news Peer-reviewed practice guidelines 3,500 customizable patient handouts Earn CME credit online Student Union – the medical student’s resource MDC Mobile – free for your PDA

Content is organized in Nine Categories Books Journals Drugs News This Week in Medicine What Your Patients Are Reading In This Week’s Journals Current Practice Clinical Topic Tours Practice Guidelines Patient Handouts Learning Center CME Student Union Marketplace Bookstore e-Detailing e-Sampling MDC Mobile

Reference Books Dozens of the most respected references Scroll through the table of contents or the back of the book index

Reference Books Search across the entire collection simultaneously Searching uses human-made indexes as well as MD Consult’s controlled medical vocabulary and thesaurus Your last search and set of search results is always available for you

Journals Full-text articles from over 70 journals and clinics Includes the Clinics of North America and Year Books Simultaneously searches the MEDLINE and AIDSLINE databases Bibliographic data and Table of Contents available for each full- text article

Journal Search Search options provide simple but flexible ways to refine searches Focus button Study Group Subject Age Sorted by full text/relevancy, relevancy, or publication date Year Book articles are attached to the original journal article Review articles are flagged in search results

Drugs Mosby’s Drug Consult Over 30,000 drug medications Pill pictures available Cost of therapy provided for many medications Also includes: USP off-label uses FDA pregnancy categories DEA schedules of controlled substances Poison control centers Drug comparative tables

Drug Look-up Allows users to search for a specific drug medication by: Brand name Generic name Therapeutic class Pharmacological class Indication

Drug Updates Up-to-date news on recent medication information Provides current information on new drug approvals safety notices newly approved indications plus more Updated daily

News Keep up-to-date on what’s happening in the medical world Includes three service areas: This Week In Medicine What Your Patients Are Reading In This Week’s Journals

This Week In Medicine Concise summaries Updated daily Customize to your specialty interest area

What Your Patients Are Reading We canvass the popular press to identify major stories about health and medicine Provides a “heads up” on what patients are likely to ask about New stories are added each week

In This Week’s Journals Summarized key articles from current influential medical journals Allows users to quickly scan the content of leading medical journals Includes featured journals which change monthly Updated weekly (simultaneous with new issue release)

In This Week’s Journals Coverage includes: New England Journal of Medicine JAMA The Lancet British Medical Journal Annals of Internal Medicine Archives of Internal Medicine

Current Practice Two service areas: Clinical Topic Tours Practice Guidelines

Clinical Topic Tours Current “hot” topics reviewed and extensively annotated Includes related information from all areas of MDC Reference additional resources online

Practice Guidelines Over 3,500 handouts Fully customizable 6 th – 8 th grade reading level 1-2 pages in length 10% available in Spanish Over 100 comprehensive handouts available

Learning Center Online CME Medical student resources

CME Center Over 200 Category 1 modules Across 15 specialties First 5 conferences are free Sign up for a full year's worth of conferences

Student Union Up-to-date topics and study aids for medical students Clerkship survival guide Resources to help choose a specialty and find a residency Step-by-step instructions for practice techniques Case studies In Medical Student Journals Online reading room

Marketplace Valuable professional products and services from respected companies Includes: Online bookstore e-Detailing e-Sampling

Bookstore Elsevier’s online bookstore 10% off purchases of 3 or more Free shipping

e-Detailing Virtual Details Educational presentations Describes the features of a pharmaceutical product and its benefit to patients

e-Sampling Online access to prescription drug samples Via mail, drug representative or downloading sample vouchers Must have a DEA number and state medical license number

MDC Mobile Current medical news Drug updates Personalized journal abstracts Initiate & save searches Palm & Pocket PC platforms FREE!

MDC Mobile Daily update of current medical news, as well as important drug alerts Drug updates Medical news

MDC Mobile Download the table of contents from over 350 journals Provides the citation and/or abstract of journal articles

MDC Mobile Capture information needs on your PDA Searches are uploaded when you hot sync Searches are saved in “My Searches” for future use

Print Preview Allows users to view what will be printed Print right from the preview page

Global Search Quick search box lets you search all areas simultaneously Enter a quick search Open the Advanced Search form View the results of your last search

Global Search Results Includes search results in all areas of the services Jump directly to any section of search results

Advanced Search Enables users to target search to a specific content area Use boolean terms for multiple search terms

Searching Reference Books Search all books simultaneously Books listed by number of occurrences Index of specific hit topics is displayed for each book

Searching Journals/MEDLINE Enter phrase(s) in search box Use limiters to narrow search Search results indicate: Copyright information Review article Year Book article Presence of full-text or abstract Find similar articles

Searching Drug Information Enter drug in search box

Searching News Enter phrase(s) in search box Select sort order Reverse Chronological Relevancy to Query Search results indicate: Article title Service area Date of article Search results encompass Drug Updates

Searching Current Practice Searches Clinical Topic Tours Enter phrase(s) in search box Select sort order Reverse Chronological Relevancy to Query

Searching Practice Guidelines Enter phrase(s) in search box Use limiters to narrow search Search results include: Copyright information Cochrane or Review article Presence of full-text or abstract Find similar articles link

Searching Patient Handouts Enter phrase(s) in search box Results are sorted by relevancy Spanish and Comprehensive handouts are indicated Images are available on select handouts

My Folder Personal filing tool Save and organize information Save searches for easy reuse Access folders from any computer

Add to Folder Bookmark information to My Folder Easy to access for future use Title the bookmark any way you choose

News Customization Select the specialty areas of interest to you News stories in these areas will appear first in Other Stories by Specialty

Benefits of MD Consult Convenience - 24-hour access to medical content and news. MDC Mobile provides medical information and news to your PDA. Trusted resources - Accessing information from peer-reviewed medical resources Efficiency – Faster searching, no junk hits. Search one or all of the references. Be more productive – The content on MD Consult helps you do your job better and faster. Higher quality of care – This is due to the depth and quality of the content on MDC. Confidence – Used by over 1,700 healthcare organizations worldwide and nearly 95% of U.S. medical schools.

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