1. What is MD Consult? Rich Collection of Clinical Content including:
39 Medical Reference Textbooks (Ebooks)
60+ Full text journals, including the Clinics of North America Series
Peer-reviewed Clinical Practice Guidelines
Daily Medical News
Current Contents + summaries of articles in key journals
Patient Handouts

2. How do I access MD Consult?
Go to Health Sciences Library Website
Choose Health Databases where MD Consult is listed
Available on-campus and off-campus
NB: you must be registered as a library user for access

3. Click on Health Databases

4. Click on MDConsult

7. Navigating / Searching MD Consult
Two ways of searching:
Quick search
Single word or a phrase
Can combine 2 or more word/phrases with Boolean Operators (and, or, not)
Advanced Search
Used mainly when searching specifically for journal articles on Medline

8. Navigating / Searching MD Consult
Quick Search
Type search term/phrase in block at top of page and click on Search (All areas will then be searched)

9. Tabs for different areas Start by typing in Search terms
This is the Home Page
See “What’s New Today”
Tabs for different areas
Start by typing in Search terms

10. Search results in each area
Be on the lookout for “Quick Tips” in each area

11. Reference Books
You now have the option of looking at the full text results in the different Reference Books (Textbooks)

12. Results sorted according to relevancy

13. Publication details of book
Search hits in this book
Can also go to “Index” or “Contents”
Publication details of book

14. Click here to go back to last results of search

15. Table of Contents of book
Click on + to see Headings of each Chapter/Section
Helps to browse contents of books quickly

16. Click on “Frontmatter” for bibliographic details of book

17. Journal references These results come from the Medline database
The references are sorted according to full text relevancy followed by references with abstracts only
Approximately 60 full text journal titles

18. Click on “Full Text” to retrieve this article

19. Contents of this article to facilitate browsing
To Print Click here
Contents of this article to facilitate browsing
Full Text of this article

20. Printing Use the .pdf option for printing when available
If the “print preview” option does not respond then:
Place cursor on text and right-click on the mouse. (or)
Highlight what you wish to print – copy and paste to Word

21. Printing : right-click on text
This menu appears - Click on Print

22. Drugs Results from the “Drug” area Covers more than 30,000 medications
Drug information sub-divided into:
Contents
Updates

23. Click on title for full text

24. Index for “Updates”
Full text reference

25. Choose your preference

26. News Keep up-to-date with the latest developments Daily updates
This week in Medicine
This week in Journals
Daily updates

27. Clinical summaries highlight recent findings, announcements, conferences, and other developments

28. This week’s top 6 journal titles
Click on Title for Contents pages

29. Each article is summarized for quick review and includes a variety of related information sources for further review

32. Current Practice Sub-divided into 3 sections Clinical Topics Tours
Practice Guidelines
Clinical Insights

33. Topics provide a concise review of current thinking, frequently updated.
Includes Definition, incidence, etiology, risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, prevention….

34. Display guidelines by Topic, Specialty or Authoring Organization
Complete, full text guidelines are provided and regularly updated

35. Important articles in the current literature are selected by the editorial board, providing abstract and analysis of findings

36. Patient Handouts Provides clear, customized information on subject
Includes your contact information
If used as a patient handout – your own special instructions can be included

37. Your own contact details
Choose your subject information from “Contents”
Click on + to obtain more detailed information
Your own contact details
Clear detailed information on subject

38. At end of article Special Instructions can be added

39. Student Union Found under “Learning Center” area
Student Union is the place where you will find information specific to your medical education experience, includes
Survival guide
Practice case studies
Step-by-step procedure instructions

40. Step-by-step procedure guide – find under Clerkship Survival Guide

41. My Folder
Within MD Consult you can organise bookmarks and save searches
You can create and organise your own folders to help with projects, study notes, information
You will however have to register yourself for your own Personal Account
No one else can access your folder as you have your own userid/password for MD Consult

43. Click on My Folder to open references, documents, etc saved within MD Consult

44. Please always EXIT program
Important as we only have 2 simultaneous licences
Click on “EXIT”

45. Enjoy searching!
Created by: Maureen Brassel
September 2006