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MD Consult Core Collection MD Consult Overview Clinics Books Journals Drugs News Current Practice Patient Handouts Student Union CME Marketplace POCKET Consult Advanced Searching Customization Features If your patient has it, we have it.

MD Consult is designed to help physicians answer clinical questions and stay current with new developments in medicine. 120 leading medical reference and textbooks 70 full-text journals/clinics with MEDLINE Over 22,000 drug medications The latest medical news Peer-reviewed practice guidelines Almost 10,000 customizable patient handouts Earn CME credit online Student Union – the medical student’s resource POCKET Consult – free for your PDA

Content is organized in Ten Categories Clinics Books Journals Drugs News This Week in Medicine What Your Patients Are Reading In This Week’s Journals Current Practice Clinical Topic Tours Clinical Insights Case of the Week Practice Guidelines Patient Handouts Student Union CME Marketplace Bookstore e-Detailing e-Sampling

Clinics Search across 31 Clinics of North America simultaneously Bibliographic data and Table of Contents available for each full- text article 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

Clinics For those who have add-on Clinics packages, clicking on the Clinics tab displays the Clinics packages available and their titles. Add-on Clinics Packages enable you to browse a particular issue

Clinics When doing a global search, your Clinics hits show up in the search results summary. The top 3 Clinics results of your search are displayed in the “Results at a Glance” area.

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

Reference Books Search within a specific book

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

Journal PDFs Available for Elsevier Journals and Clinics Includes more than 30,000 articles dating back to 2002 Allows users to view, download and print the article in PDF

Drugs Mosby’s Drug Consult Over 22,000 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 Current news on recent medication information Provides latest information on new drug approvals safety notices newly approved indications plus more Updated daily

News Keep current 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 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 Four service areas: Clinical Topic Tours Case of the Week Clinical Insights Practice Guidelines

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

Clinical Insights Clinical Cornerstone offers free CME Images in Surgery Practice Management and Patient Safety articles Review articles

Case of the Week A patient-directed approach to help improve clinical reasoning skills and increase knowledge Original medical cases written by physicians Each case is presented as a series of questions and answers, with links to MD Consult's reference material.

Practice Guidelines Over 1,000 peer-reviewed clinical practice guidelines Organized by authoring organization, specialty and topic Bibliographic data and Table of Contents available for each full- text article

Patient Handouts Almost 10,000 handouts Fully customizable 6 th –8 th grade reading level 2-3 pages in length 10% available in Spanish Over 100 comprehensive handouts available

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 Current 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

POCKET Consult Current medical news 20 Medical Calculators Mosby’s Drug Consult Database Drug Interaction Tool Drug updates Personalized journal abstracts Initiate & save searches Palm & Pocket PC platforms FREE!

POCKET Consult My PDA button located in upper right corner First time users will have to create a new account

POCKET Consult Existing users simply need to click on the ‘My PDA’ link – no user name and password required Automatically taken into POCKET Consult

POCKET Consult Channels tab allows users to select which sections they would like downloaded on their handheld Choices include: MD Consult Drug Updates MD Consult Medical News Medical Calculators Mosby's Drug Consult Interaction Tool This Week’s Journals

POCKET Consult This Week’s Journals Found in the Channels tab Click on the This Week’s Journals link Pick and choose from over 400 journals Click ‘Add Journals’ when all selections have been made

POCKET Consult Library tab allows users to select which Elsevier handheld titles they would like downloaded on their handheld Choices include: Mosby’s Drug Consult Other Elsevier handheld titles which have been purchased separately

POCKET Consult Daily update of current medical news, as well as important drug alerts Drug updates Medical news

POCKET Consult Mosby’s Drug Consult Database with over 900 drug monographs. Mosby’s Drug IX, a drug interaction tool Mosby’s Drug Consult Drug Interaction Tool

POCKET Consult 20 Free Medical Calculators BMI, Glasgow Coma Scale, Sodium Defect, Metric Units Conversion, and more.

POCKET Consult Download the table of contents from over 400 journals Provides the citation and/or abstract of journal articles

POCKET Consult 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 Focus your search to Diagnosis, Etiology, Treatment, or Prognosis

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

Results at a Glance A summary showing the first 3 results in each content area Simplifies user navigation and shows breadth of content You can expand the results by clicking “More Results”

Focus drop-down box Use the Focus drop-down box to refine your search to one of these information needs: Diagnosis, Etiology, Treatment, or Prognosis You receive less hits and the results you want.

Spellchecker Terms are checked against a comprehensive Medical and English language dictionary If the term isn’t found, we’ll offer alternative spellings and give you the option of searching again with the correct spelling

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 Search results include the number of hits in: Drug Information Drug Updates

Searching Search FIRST Consult content from within MD Consult Offers updated advice on the latest in evaluation and diagnosis, management options, patient education and disease prevention - all at the point of care. * This feature is only available for those who subscribe to FIRST Consult

Searching FIRST Consult within MD Consult Clicking on the search result will take you to the appropriate location in the FIRST Consult content * This feature is only available for those who subscribe to FIRST Consult

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

Searching Current Practice Searches Clinical Topic Tours and Clinical Insight stories 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 Set Search Alerts 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

My Folder Search Alerts Setup daily, weekly or monthly notification can include: New results with summary New results without summary All results with summary All results without summary Folder link to new results Folder link to all results Click on magnifying glass to set search alert

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

Log Off Located in the upper right corner Click once you have finished your time on the service MD Consult will automatically log users off after 15 minutes of inactivity

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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