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School of Medicine: M1s: Resource Tutorials & Instructions

This guide contains content suitable for study and review for first-year medical students.

Learn About the Library's Resource Platforms

Before you visit the Bates Visual Guide to Physical Examination, watch the instructional video found below.

For Students:

  • Registration is required with Meharry email address and a password of your choosing
  • Access to the Bates eBook which accompanies the website, locate LWW Health Library (righthand side of Digital Library) and create a personal account with your Meharry email address and a password of your own choosing (see instructions below)

IMPORTANT!
For Faculty:

  • Faculty teaching Principles and Practice of Medicine courses should email Ellen Clare Kimbro, reference and embedded librarian, at ekimbro@mmc.edu to get access to URLs for Bates videos that can be added to Blackboard for assignments
    • Once contacted, Kimbro will send faculty members an administrative email from Wolters Kluwer/Bates Visual Guide
      • Authenticate yourself as a Meharrian by clicking the link in the email you receive from Wolters Kluwer/Bates Visual Guide
      • Kimbro will email you an Excel document which contains the URLs you need for adding Bates videos to Blackboard
      • To access Bates Visual Guide, visit the Digital Library and click on the Bates Visual Guide button (righthand side of page) and sign in with Meharry credentials
      • To access the Bates eBook, which accompanies the website, locate LWW Health Library (righthand side of Digital Library) and create a personal account with your Meharry email address and a password of your own choosing
        • Once signed in, click on the "Premium Basic Sciences" link
        • On the new webpage that opens, click the "Books" button
        • Locate and navigate chapters of "Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, 13th ed." on this page
  • To access instructor resources (PowerPoint slides) available to faculty who are teaching from "Bates Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, 13th ed.," follow these steps:
    • Ask Kimbro, the librarian, to request instructor privileges from Wolters Kluwer/Bates Visual Guide
    • Once Kimbro confirms your instructor privileges:
      • Locate the LWW Health Library button on the Digital Library page
      • If you have not registered with a personal account for this database, do so with Meharry credentials
      • Sign into LWW Health Library and locate the "Premium Basic Sciences" link
      • Locate the Bates ebook and then click on "Instructor Resources" on the book's homepage
      • Visit a chapter you're interested in and you will see PowerPoint slides available to faculty only


 

IMPORTANT! Registration is required for all users, whether accessing the platform from ON or OFF campus. Be sure to register for AccessMedicine with your Meharry username and password and then sign in each time you visit the site.                                                                              

 



IMPORTANT! Registration is required for all users, whether accessing the platform from ON or OFF campus. Be sure to register for BoardVitals with your Meharry username and password and then sign in each time you visit the site.



IMPORTANT! Registration and sign in with ClinicalKey are required ONLY when accessing the platform from OFF campus.

  • If you anticipate using ClinicalKey from off campus, be sure to register on the platform with your Meharry username and password and then sign in each time you visit the site.
  • Once registered, follow these instructions to ensure off-campus access:
    • Click the Login link at top right
    • Once on the Login page, locate the "Remote Access" heading
    • Click "Apply Now," input your Meharry email address, and click "Continue"
    • You will receive confirmation that you now have access to ClinicalKey content from off campus

 

 

 

Decker: Medicine, a comprehensive professional medical database, has a reputation for providing practicing clinicians and students with detailed and up-to-date medical information. Decker: Medicine was previously known as Scientific American Medicine and prior to that, from 2004 to 2013, it was known as the American College of Physicians (ACP) Medicine.

This resource covers the 11 subspecialties of internal medicine plus selected topics in Women's Health, Palliative Medicine, Psychiatry, Dermatology, Neurology, and Emergency Medicine. It is continually updated.

• Provides clear and actionable diagnosis and treatment recommendations
• Written and continually updated by a team of the nation's foremost primary-care physicians
• Decker Medicine is authoritative and is evidence-based and peer-reviewed
• The consistent organization, writing style, and search logic provides answers fast, with more than 1,500 illustrations to guide through complex explanations

 

 

 

This comprehensive professional surgical database was first published in 1989 under the name Care of the Surgical Patient.

Decker: Surgery was previously known as Scientific American Surgery and prior to that, for eleven years (2002-2013), the resource was known as American College of Surgeons (ACS).

Decker: Surgery has a reputation for providing practicing surgeons and students with comprehensive and up-to-date surgical information. It covers all subspecialties of surgery plus Competency-Based Surgical Care, Care in Special Situations, Scientific Foundations, and Organ Systems with clear and actionable diagnostic and procedural recommendations. It is continually updated.

Recent Additions/Updates:
• Diagnosis of Diabetic Foot
• Initial Management of Life-Threatening Trauma
• Parotidectomy
• Principles of Wound Management and Soft Tissue Repair I
• Principles of Wound Management and Soft Tissue Repair II
• Sepsis
• Tumors of the Liver
• Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy: Advanced Endoscopic Techniques
• Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy: Basic Upper Endoscopy

Nearly 200 eBooks on Infectious Disease for Physicians, Policymakers, and Educators

  • Great for physicians in clinical settings, researchers tracking and understanding an outbreak, or students and faculty in a classroom, the GIDEON eBook collection provides comprehensive coverage of individual diseases (or disease groups), pathogens, drugs, and vaccines in every country in the world.
  • Includes 188 disease-specific books that make up the entire GIDEON disease collection PLUS 9 titles focusing on bioterrorism, outbreaks, vaccines, bacteria, and other topics
  • Features a just-published title on COVID-19, MERS, and SARS, now on the Doody’s Review Service™ COVID-19 book list
  • All books can be searched simultaneously using just a single search query
  • Since 1992, GIDEON (Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network) has been helping the medical, public health, and public policy communities better understand, diagnose, monitor, and forecast infectious diseases affecting populations all over the world.

TUTORIALS BELOW: Learn more about 1) the GIDEON eBook Collection and 2) how to navigate the Ovid eBook platform where this collection is found



IMPORTANT! When you click the links below, you will be prompted to sign into JAMAevidence with your personal profile--the same profile you may already have created when visiting AccessMedicine.

Haven't registered yet? Create your personal profile in seconds after clicking on one of the links below, being sure to use your Meharry email address and a password of your choosing. These same credentials also will sign you into AccessMedicine, AccessObGyn, and the Case Files Collection.

NOTE: If you visit one of these platforms and are unable to log in, it's likely because you have not visited McGraw-Hill Medical's sites for three or more months. In that case, just register again, making sure to use the Meharry credentials you used in the past.

 

 

IMPORTANT! Registration is required for all users, whether accessing the platform from ON or OFF campus. Be sure to register for LWW Health Library with your Meharry username and password and then sign in each time you visit the site.

 


IMPORTANT! Registration and sign in with PsychiatryOnline are required ONLY when accessing the platform from OFF campus.


The library subscribes to these three SAGE Research Methods collections:

 

 

 

Discover titles in the library's STAT!Ref Collection of ebooks you can search like a database--once on the platform's homepage, click the "Titles" link at top left, then click each title to see and navigate the hyperlinked table of contents.

Every STAT!Ref subscription comes with the following resources:

View the following instructional videos below:

  • How to Register for an UpToDate Anywhere Account
  • How to Install UpToDate on Your Device
  • Learn About UpToDate's more than 3,700 photographs, figures, tables, graphs, algorithms, and videos
  • How to Earn and Redeem CME/CE/CPD Credit

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