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Copy of AccessMedicine: Getting Started

AccessMedicine provides medical students with a variety of resources needed to excel in basic science studies and clerkships; helps residents, and physician assistants with instant access to videos, self-assessment, and leading medical textbooks.

Access Profile

To engage with AccessMedicine and its content and resources, users need to create a free Access profile (upper-right sign in dropdown menu) in AccessMedicine. Users are encouraged to login each time they use the site. Download the PDF flyer below to learn more about creating an Access profile.

Quick Reference

Huppert’s Notes: Pathophysiology and Clinical Pearls for Internal Medicine

Bridge the gap between pathophysiology and clinical medicine in a succinct outline of core internal medicine topics!

Originally created and road-tested by a resident and then updated by a team of resident authors, Huppert’s Notes succinctly organizes the foundational science covered early in medical school and the clinical approaches encountered in clerkships and beyond. This marriage of pathophysiology and clinical medicine provides a framework for how to approach internal medicine concepts mechanistically, rather than through memorization. 

You’ll find concise descriptions of common medical conditions with diagnostic and management pearls, as well as high-yield diagrams and tables to emphasize key concepts. Covering all internal medicine subspecialties, each Huppert’s Notes chapter is organized in an intuitive and consistent outline format for rapid access:

  • Anatomy & Physiology
  • Diagnostics
  • Approaches & Chief Complaints
  • Diseases & Pathophysiology
  • Key Medications & Interventions
  • Key Clinical Trials & Publications

(Source: McGraw Hill)

QMDT

Quick Medical Diagnosis and Treatment (QMDT) provides concise, evidence-based point-of-care resource outlining diagnosis and treatment information for common conditions and disorders in a quick reference format.

Based on our popular Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment (CMDT) title, QMDT provides key diagnostic and treatment recommendations in bulleted format for more than 930 disorders.

2 Minute Medicine

  • Expert physician publishing group founded out of Harvard Medical School that provides medical reports of breaking medical literature and seminal studies in medicine.
  • Browse by topics.
  • “Search Within” function is now featured within in 2 Minute Medicine allowing users to quickly and easily find topics without scrolling through archives. Users can type directly within the search bar which utilizes auto-suggest. Auto-suggest can also be disabled according to user preference. 
  • Link provided to access the original article discussed.

Differential Diagnosis (Diagnosaurus, DDx)

  • Differential diagnosis information for thousands of symptoms, signs, and diseases.
  • Organized by system, disease, and organ system.
  • Alphabetized, searchable.
  • Links to content in site.
  • Each entry is linked to related entries (“See Related Dx”) to see related diagnoses which is great for facilitating best differential diagnosis.

Primary Care Guidelines

  • Current practice guidelines in primary care.
  • Brush up on the latest disease screening, prevention, and management regimens for primary care topics.
  • Updated annually.

Diagnostic Tests

  • Reference manual for medical, nursing, and other health professions.
  • Quick reference guide to commonly used diagnostic tests, including lab procedures in the clinical setting, common lab tests, diagnostic imaging tests, electrocardiography, etc.
  • Over 350 tests.
  • Full citations to PubMed literature.

Goodman & Gilman’s Annual FDA Approvals

This resource represents an exciting new presentation of the Goodman & Gilman’s Annual FDA Approval summaries and can be found under the "Quick Reference" drop down menu on the ACM home page. The content in this feature will be updated annually. 

This feature represents a more succinct and easy-to-navigate interpretation of the content for end users to more easily learn the recent additions and changes to drugs.

The user will then be taken to a page where the can filter between first-in class agents, first-in class biologics, pharmacological similar biologics, and pharmacological similars. The drugs are arranged in alphabetical order.

Linking to Content

Instructors can link to content in AccessMedicine through their LMS using the durable URLs found in the browser of all text and chapter content, multimedia, cases, study tools, and clerkship content. For a tutorial on how to link to content in AccessMedicine via durable URLs, please view the brief video below.

Cases

Cases in AccessMedicine provide materials for short, targeted case-based learning. They vary slightly, but for each case you get a patient history and systems review, short answer questions, clinical pearls, references, and a comprehensive quiz. The results of the quizzes can be emailed and collected for a grade, e.g., student to instructor. Cases are durable URL-enabled and can be linked to in coursework, e.g., LMS course page, lecture slides, syllabus, etc. See the "Linking to Content" box in this guide to find out more about linking to content on AccessMedicine for course integration.

Click here to view all cases on AccessMedicine, including:

  • Case Files: Basic Science and select Clinical Rotation cases
  • Clinical Neuroanatomy
  • Critical Concept Mastery Series
  • Family Medicine Board Review
  • Fluid/Electrolyte and Acid-Base Cases
  • Goodman & Gilman's Pharmacology 
  • Harrison's Visual Case Challenge
  • Internal Medicine (residents)
  • Medical Microbiology
  • Pathophysiology
  • Vanderbilt Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Curriculum
  • Principles of Rehabilitation Medicine Case-Based Board Review
  • CME-eligible cases

Study Tools

Study Tools in AccessMedicine provides thousands of review Q&A for board exam preparation and recertification and other resources, including:

  • Review Questions texts which are great for self-assessment with review Q&A designed to help residents, clerks, and physicians. Users can generate random and custom quizzes from the texts, and the results can be emailed. The review texts are organized into basic sciences and clinical practice & board review categories. 
  • Clerkship Topics: This curated collection of study materials brings together all clerkship specific resources and covers every major topic of the internal medical clerkship, featuring select chapters and cases from across the AccessMedicine library, including text references, case files, and videos on essential concepts and procedures clerks may observe or assist in during their rotation. 
  • Flashcards: Interactive flashcards to supplement your studies.

What Is AccessMedicine?

AccessMedicine (accessmedicine.mhmedical.com)  provides medical students with a variety of resources needed to excel in basic science studies and clerkships; helps residents, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants with instant access to videos, self-assessment, and leading medical textbooks that facilitate decision-making at the point-of-care; and allows practicing physicians to brush up on their medical knowledge to ensure the best patient outcome. Click here to find out more about the content offered on AccessMedicine.

AccessMedicine Overview Video

Multimedia

Auscultation Classroom provides students with the ability to hear an abnormal heart sound, while simultaneously watching a graphic of the intracardiac abnormality that is occurring. The students learn proper auscultation techniques for each murmur. The modules also discuss basics regarding clinical findings associated with the murmurs. This method of learning is designed to help students grasp this difficult concept and solidify their understanding. The target audience includes medical students, NP students, and PA students.

Each module offers an introductory slide, an auscultation points slide, and a final slide. Please ensure that the user has the volume at an appropriate level to hear the murmur. If the volume is low, the murmur will not be heard.

Diagnostic and Imaging Studies includes over 30,000 world-class images useful for diagnosis that can be downloaded. We have more than 70 video clips of foundational diagnostic and imaging studies in multiple specialties, including:

  • CT
  • Echocardiography
  • Emergency Medicine/Critical Care
  • Fetal Ultrasonography
  • Gastroenterology/Hepatology
  • Nephrology/Urology
  • Neurology
  • Ophthalmology
  • Pediatrics
  • Point of Care Ultrasound
  • Pulmonology
  • Rheumatology

Harrison’s Pathophysiology Animations explain complex pathophysiology concepts in new and beautifully animated, easy-to-understand brief videos. Each episode covers a disease mechanism. Running time of each is a student-friendly 4-8 minutes. Nationally regarded educator Scott Stern, MD, from the University of Chicago wrote and narrated each episode, giving our series authenticity often lacking in other medical animations.

Harrison’s Podclass provides illuminating and engaging discussions on key principles of internal medicine, around board-style case vignettes from the acclaimed Harrison’s Self-Assessment and Board Review. The episodes are a user-friendly 4-8 minutes in length. AccessMedicine is mobile optimized, so you can open in a browser and listen on-the-go. Currently features over 100 new audio and podclasses.

Human Anatomy Modules:

These interactive modules allow for visualization of the human body in an interactive, 3D format where Male Complete Anatomy Module and Female Complete Anatomy Module can be viewed. Choose a module and then utilize the options on the left-side of the screen to learn more about human anatomy.

Anatomy Module Features:

Expand: Provide your learners with more space to immerse in your interactive 3D experience with our new Expand mode. When embedded on desktop or Android (not available on iOS), learners can now expand the browser to span the entire screen without having to leave your page or open a new tab.

Tools: We're introducing a dedicated, and more scalable, toolbar that will promote exploration of the 3D model. "Dissect" is now called "Hide," and we're now giving users access to the "Fade" effect from Human Studio which will allow you to make a structure transparent. Dissection for removal by layers and structures, object tree, tools to identify and rotate.

Help: We've dramatically improved our "Help" experience with richer graphics that show learners on how to interact with the model and a comprehensive 3D interaction key that changes based on the device the learner is using (desktop or mobile).

Anatomy Descriptions: Learners will now have the option of reading more about specific anatomical structures as they explore. When available, individual structures will be linked to Wikipedia descriptions, which are generally sourced from Gray's Anatomy.

Anatomy Search: Learners will now be able to search for specific anatomical structures in your model by name or browse through all of the structures contained in the model in the Anatomy Tree. They can then click on the name to locate and zoom in on the structure in the model. The Anatomy Tree is now contained within the new Anatomy Search tool (right side of the search bar, tree icon).

Reset: Refresh the 3D model without having to reload the page.

Human Anatomy Tours:

  • These focused, 3-D modules guide medical students through systems-based tours of the human anatomy, helping them to learn human anatomy in a systems-based, interactive format. Launching with 7 modules/tours, additional modules/tours will continue to be added to the collection throughout the year.
  • A number of enhancements have been made to existing modules to make them more dynamic. For example, the Endocrine System tour now demonstrates thyroid hormone release.
  • Each module features roughly 7-10 slides.

Regional Anatomy and Focused Anatomy Modules:

  • The BioDigital System Modules are live on AccessMedicine.  This is a collection of hundreds of interactive, 3-D modules designed to deliver a focused learning experience while also offering a deep-dive into our core foundational textbooks.
  • Users navigate to the modules from the Multimedia dropdown on the AccessMedicine homepage by first clicking "Human Anatomy Modules".
  • The user will then be taken to the BioDigital System Modules landing page which displays multiple specialties with hundreds of modules. 
  • After selecting a module, the user will note that each module is 3D. Each module is accompanied by text that was selected individually for the module by a SME from one of our foundational textbooks. The user can choose to view the reading in context if they would like a deeper-dive.

Lectures are ready-to-view or ready-to-assign for a flipped classroom pedagogy, an online course, or as a knowledge refresher. These lectures are covered in the license for educational purposes and include the following categories:

  • Anatomy
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Genetics
  • Harrison's Quick Lectures
  • Neurology
  • Patient Interview
  • Pharmacology
  • Physiology
  • Telehealth

Patient Interview Videos are of high quality and demonstrate how to communicate with patients in challenging and unusual situations. This resource addresses some of the “softer skills” in medical education and helps to teach emotional intelligence.

Patient Safety Modules will provide you with an introduction to the core concepts of patient safety in an interactive and self-paced learning environment.

The current course includes three modules. Each module can be used as a stand-alone tool or as a component of a broader curriculum in patient safety.

We strongly recommend that you work through each module (navigable on the left) from beginning to end because the concepts will build on each other within a single unit. The modules include activity buttons and video clips, so please be sure to explore the content available which will help you understand these concepts in your own role within the healthcare system.

The Core Concepts in Patient Safety Course has been developed through a collaboration of nurses, physicians, pharmacists, and educators and is designed to be an inter-professional curriculum.

Physical Exam videos is a complete collection for the physical exam organized into categories from head to toe. These videos are based on and supplement DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination, 11e, available in the AccessMedicine Library.

The video collection in AccessMedicine offers users a collection of hundreds of detailed procedural videos online designed to help users through basic and advanced skills procedures, brief interventions, and applications of decision rules. The videos are organized by different categories, such examination and evaluation, physiologic areas, including: 

  • Anesthesia/Nerve Blocks
  • Cardiology
  • Critical Care
  • Dermatology
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Gastroenterology/Hepatology
  • Gynecology
  • Neurology
  • Obstetrics
  • Ophthalmology
  • Orthopedics
  • Otolaryngology
  • Pediatrics
  • Pulmonology
  • Surgery
  • Wound Management

View the complete video library in AccessMedicine at this link.

Multimedia items come with their own unique durable URLs found in the browser URL link at the top and can be linked to in coursework, e.g., LMS course page, lecture slides, syllabus, etc. See the "Linking to Content" box in this guide to find out more about linking to content on AccessMedicine for course integration.

In each video, users can take advantage of the player tools found in the menu in the video, including to share and download. The accompanying transcript is available for each video on AccessMedicine.

S2D: The Symptom to Diagnosis Podcast

  • The content structure of our best-selling text Symptom to Diagnosis, 4e, by Stern et al. has been digitally optimized for a better user experience on AccessMedicine and is now live! The new presentation has been tested by medical students; they validated that the fantastic kernels of content can now be located quickly o help users with differential diagnosis.
  • A case-based discussion of signs, symptoms and diagnostics tests to improve clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice.
  • The book authors do a great job of making topics like “abdominal pain” and “headache” engaging – be sure to listen to one.  We anticipate a total of 28 episodes – each one mirroring a chapter topic in our best-selling book by Stern with the same title.  The Stern text is “hot” right now as is the increased attention being paid in med ed to diagnostic skills and reasoning, so the release timing of the S2D podcast is ideal.

Run the List Podcast

  • A medical education podcast designed for medical students, new residents, and all learners looking for a high-yield review in internal medicine. Concise episodes guide listeners through the diagnosis, management, and clinical pearls for common internal medicine problems.
  • Run the List is a popular and established podcast for the medical and healthcare education and training communities. It has earned numerous excellent reviews from listeners for its comprehensive and high-yield discussions on core medicine topics. Episodes are arranged and released in the form of specialty blocks, making it an excellent resource for all those taking care of patients on the internal medicine ward, whether during clerkship, elective, or general training. Each 20-minute episode takes the listener through the practical aspects of diagnosis and management through an interactive discussion with an expert who has a specific focus in medical education.
  • The mission of the host team is timely and on point, to provide “a succinct, high-yield resource that covers the initial steps in clinical decision-making and management of common problems for which patients are admitted to the hospital. While there are multiple available resources that prepare students and trainees to ace exams, there are far fewer that focus on more practical advice for the wards.”
  • New episodes posted every two weeks.

User Guide

The AccessMedicine User Guide walks the user through a step-by-step self-guided tour of the site, including information outlining all of the resources available in AccessMedicine. Select the PDF document below to download the AccessMedicine User Guide.

Training

Webinar Series

  • General Overview Webinars:
    • Sign up to attend an upcoming webinar. The session provides an overview of site features and available content.
  • Archived Webinars:
    • Browse our list of past webinars and register to view a recorded session. 

To request live custom training for your institution, email Customer Success at CustomerSuccess@mheducation.com

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