This document provides an overview of library resources available to students at Nova Southeastern University's Health Professions Division. It highlights 10 key online medical resources available through the library including Access Medicine, Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination, DynaMed, Anatomy and Physiology Online, MD Consult, and UpToDate. Students must authenticate using their Sharklink login to access these full-text medical databases, textbooks, videos and other resources.

1. http://nova.edu/hpdlibrary
OR www.nova.edu < Libraries < Health Professions
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LibGuide

3. 10 things to Know about the Library

4. Binding Machine available
Combs sold for 1$ at the Circulation Desk

6. 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 Blackboard and to access WebMail.

7. 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.

8. Access Medicine features:
• Practice guidelines from Current Practice Guidelines in Primary Care.
• Cutting-edge videos & animations
• PDA Downloads and remote access included at no additional cost
• Weekly Podcasts for iPods or other portable MP3 devices
• Over 1,000 differential diagnoses linked for in-depth information
• External OpenURL enabled linking to primary literature via PubMed
• Text updates — Medical advancements, hot topics, and more from world-
renowned physicians
• Over 50 leading clinical and educational resources including:
– Harrison’s Online - Featuring the complete contents of Harrison's
Principles of Internal Medicine, 17e
– CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
– HURST’S The Heart
– LANGE educational titles
• Fully-integrated drug database

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

10. 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.
**App Available
(contact Kristin for
access code)

11. Anatomy and Physiology Online

12. * 19 body system modules
* Clear 3D images,
* Comprehensive text, clinical and case
studies, learning objectives & quizzes
Users can interact with anatomy by peeling
away layers, rotating models, and
reconstructing layers back to their original
structure

13. MD Consult - is a one-stop virtual library to e-books, e-
journals (via an enhanced MEDLINE interface), patient
education handouts, medical news, drug information, and
clinical guidelines.
There are currently 115 full text reference books in MD
Consult, over 90 full text current journal titles, and 50 Clinics.
MD Consult has a companion resource called FirstConsult.
FirstConsult provides information on medical
conditions and links seamlessly to MD Consult content.

15. UpToDate