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Subject Guides

Resources	Description
Overview of Diseases, Background Information
Textbooks on the shelves (Identify specific titles using Voyager Catalog)	Health Sciences Library RESERVE Collection
Electronic Textbooks AccessMedicine MDConsult OVID Books STAT!Ref For specific titles or by subject refer to E-books page
eMedicine	Includes thousands of peer-reviewed, disease specific articles. Over 400 new review articles are published monthly. Has a differential diagnosis generator, clinical image gallery, and more.
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Differential Diagnosis Generator
Resources	Description
AccessMedicine
eMedicine
FirstConsult
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Best Practice Recommendations (Clerkships, etc)
Resources	Description
FirstConsult
UpToDate (Available at JABSOM, Manoa Campus)
Cochrane Database
National Guideline Clearinghouse
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Identifying the Journal/Research Literature
Resources	Description
Use MEDLINE database to identify journal articles PubMed MEDLINE via Hamilton Library, UH Manoa, with full-text and holding links Ask at Information Services Desk for assistance searching
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Citing the Literature
Resources	Description
Sample References	International Committee of Medical Journal Editors Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Sample References from the National Library of Medicine
Electronic Databases with textbooks etc.	Follow MDConsult Guidelines; in MDConsult, click on Help and search "citing"
Format for UpToDate
See Virtual Reference Tools for more information
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Reading & Evaluating the Literature
Resources	Description
How to Read a Paper	Series from British Medical Journal. Includes full-text articles such as "Statistics for the Non-Statistician,""Accessing the Methodological Quality of Published Papers," etc.
User's guides to the medical literature	Also a series of articles published in JAMA called
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Statistical Data see JABSOM webpage Statistical Sources
Resources	Description
Communicable Diseases	Hawaii Administrative Rules, Dept. of Health, Title 11, Chapter 156 reportable conditions in Hawaii
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Web-based Bookmark Managers
Resources	Description
Linkagogo
MyBookmarks
myHq
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Searching PubMed MEDLINE
Resources	Description
Inhouse Instruction, basic and advanced level classes at HSLib	Pubmed Medline searching are available on request. Please call the Information Desk at (808)-692-0810 or email us at hslinfo@hawaii.edu
NLM Online Tutorials	From the National Library of Medicine
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Statistical Data see JABSOM webpage Statistical Sources