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Welcome to this short video on Access Medicine. Access Medicine is a very popular resource among students and georgia's, and for good reason. It includes medical ebooks, videos, and cases, so it's the perfect audio-visual and interactive resource for your revision.
It includes basic sciences, clinical medicine, and healthcare systems. We have had feedback from students that it contains everything we need in terms of revising for exams, so let's have a look at the wealth of resources included in Access Medicine. Please note that this is a US-focused resource, so it will use U.S. terminology.
To access it, please go to the library homepage and then find Databases A-Z. Set on the right-hand side under A, you find Access Medicine. Click on Offsite Access if you're not logging on from a library computer. On the SimpleLib login page, please put in your username and password and click on Login.
Many crucial textbooks are available as ebooks here. Under the Books tab, you'll see a link to the library section where books are arranged by topic. Let's have a look at this example from the landing page of the textbook. You can navigate to a specific chapter, which you can read or listen to. You can also search for concepts here. You can test your knowledge by accessing the quizzes via the Review Questions section, and you can also view the cases that are related to this topic, making revision even more straightforward.
If you are unsure where to begin, have a look at the Basic Science section. In the Quick Reference section, you will find Two Minute Medicine, which are Harvard Medical School updates that provide concise, curated, authoritative medical reports. These might not be suitable for beginners, but I just mean that Access Medicine is useful for everyone studying medicine, from first year to more advanced. You can listen to or read each update in this section. You can also find guidelines, for example, for primary care.
In the QMD section, you find most medical conditions explained with treatment options given. Please remember that this resource is US-based, so be sure to consult NICE or other UK-focused resources for this type of info. The Drug section is organized alphabetically, and you can find out more about each drug by clicking on the link.
We have the multimedia resources, which include lectures, podcasts, videos, and images. It also includes a pharmacology section focusing on cardiology and neurology. In terms of visual resources, you can find short videos and scans grouped according to topics in the Diagnostics and Imaging Studies section. There are also procedure videos, which you might find useful to give short, detailed overviews of a certain medical procedures. You can see that the procedure videos are always grouped by topic, making it easier for you to find what you need.
You might find a Case Files section particularly helpful, as we know that those exam-style questions fit nicely with some of your modules. If you are studying medicine, for example, under Case Files, you can find questions for basic science and clinical questions as well. Let's have a look at the case as an example. Here you can see the case, and below the questions. You can also listen to the case. Once you're ready, you can find the answers by clicking on Show Answers. Here, back at the top, you can find the Approach, which also includes the definitions. This gives more context to how to approach the case. You can find the most important things under a section called Pearls. So, in this case, because it is a clinical medicine section, it is called Clinical Pearls. You also can see references and further comprehension questions.
In the Study Tools section, you might find the flashcards helpful. In this section, you can find flashcards for different topics. Let's look at the Pathology flashcards. In order to access the flashcards and to create review questions, you need to create a free My Access profile here. This is a personal profile separate of your Shibboleth login. Click on Create Profile. Now you've created your own personal profile for Access Medicine. Let's go back to the flashcards section. Here you can see the flashcards for pathology. Let's look at the immune system. We hope you find this useful for your revision.
Finally, we have a related resource to Access Medicine available, which is called Access Cardiology. And as you might have guessed, it is focused on cardiology topics and textbooks. To log in to Access Cardiology, please use the link provided on our Databases A-Z list on our website. Access Cardiology looks and works in much the same way as Access Medicine. It might be of particular interest to medicine students and some healthcare science students too, if you have chosen cardiology as a specialty, for example. It includes ebooks, interactive audiovisual resources, and much more.
Thank you for watching this short video. Should you have any questions about Access Medicine or Access Cardiology, or any of our other resources, please email library@sgl.ac.uk.