PowerPoint presentation for PA program

1. Nova Southeastern University Health Professions Division Library PA Orientation

2. NSU Homepage www.nova.edu

3. NSU Libraries

4. LibraryHomepage www.nova.edu/hpdlibrary Start with the PA LibGuide

5. My contact information Library Catalog: Books, eBooks, Journals, DVDs Clinical Databases: Access Medicine, Bates , DynaMed Elsevier,

7. This is a Quick Way to Search the Library Catalog for our books & eBooks Ex: Type in DeGowin’s

8. Electronic & Print books The icons on the left margin indicate the format. Click on the title to open up the full record.

9. To open the book Click on the link that says “Available online via R2 Library” You will need to Log-In to get access

10. To access any of our resources, you are going to have to “authenticate” or identify yourself as an NSU student by logging in. You will log-in using your Sharklink Log-in & password. The same one you will use for Web CT and to access WebMail.

11. It will open up the ePublisher’s site. In this example you would use the [Prev] and [Next] buttons to turn the pages or Click on the section from the Table of Contents in the left-margin

14. Access Medicine Full-text, illustrations, and expanded features from McGraw-Hill medical databases. Includes the latest edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine, Schwartz's Surgery and many more titles.

15. Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination Step by step visual guidance on the complete physical examination. **Streaming video requires ActiveX (plug-in)

16. DynaMed Evidence-based, primary care database provides point-of-care health information. Contains more than 2000 concise summaries of the most commonly reported diseases in primary care.

17. Imaging Consult (found on the Images & Multimedia tab)

18. Interact Elsevier - Netter’s 3D

19. Interact Elsevier

21. APA & Citation Help

22. Feedback