Art of Medicine

Art of Medicine

The Art of Medicine course provides students with an introduction to basic concepts of clinical medicine. The course provides students with exposure to the clinical practice of medicine and with the opportunity to practice skills that they develop in this course. The library has many resources to assist as the weekly case course work is assigned.

Remote Access to Electronic Information for UMDNJ Users

In order to access electronic resources from outside of the UMDNJ campus, you must be a registered library user. Access is given through an EZProzy service. To get remote access, you must complete a registration form at the Smith Library circulation desk and have a bar code affixed to the back of your valid UMDNJ ID card. Click here for further information on Remote Access.

Finding Textbooks in the Smith Library

The Online Catalog will help you locate books, journals, and audiovisuals owned by any of the UMDNJ libraries. The Online Catalog, along with all other library electronic resources, is available from the library, your home or office. Using the catalog you have the option to search by Keyword, by Subject, by Title, or by Author. The Online Catalog can be accessed directly or through the Smith Library Home page.
By using the Online Catalog, you can identify the areas that some useful textbooks can be found in the library:

* QV	Pharmacology	* WD	Nutrition Disorders
* QY	Laboratory Tests	* WJ	Urogential System
* WB	Practice of Medicine	* WM	Psychiatry
* WO	Surgery	* WQ	Obstetrics

Useful Textbooks and Electronic Textbooks

TITLE	CALL NUMBER	FORMAT/LOCATION
Atlas of Human Anatomy	QS17 A881a	Paper/ Reserve
PDR Physicians Desk Reference	QV772 P587	Paper/ Reserve
Mosby's Drug Consult	QV772 M894	Paper/ Reference Electronic/StatRef
Laboratory Tests & Diagnostic Procedures	QY L123t	Paper/ Reference
Mosby's Diagnostic and Laboratory Test Reference	QY39 P12m	Paper/Reference
Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Test	QY39 P739	Paper/Reference
Mosby's Handbook of Disease	QZ39 L278m	Paper/Reference
Ferri's Clinical Advisor	WB39 F39	Paper/Reserve Electronic/MDConsult
Cecil's Textbook of Medicine	WB100 T355m	Paper/Reserve Electronic/MDConsult
Merck Manual	WB100 M588	Paper/Reference Electronic/StatRef
Textbook of Family Practice	WB110 T355	Paper/Reserve
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine	WB115 H322	Paper/ Reserve Electronic/Harrisons
Differential Diagnosis	WB141.5 D569	Paper/Reserve
French's Index of Differential Diagnosis	WB141.5	Paper/Reserve
Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis	WB141.5 P379	Paper/Reserve
Clinical Diagnosis: Physiologic Approach	WB200 C641	Paper/Reserve
Textbook of Physical Diagnosis: History & Examination	WB200 S973t	Paper/Reserve
Bates Guide to Physical Examination & History Taking	WB205 B329g	Paper/Reserve
The Medical Interview	WB290 C855m	Paper/Reserve
Basic Surgery	WO100 B311s	Paper/Reserve
Principles of Surgery	WO100 P957	Paper/Reserve Electronic/StatRef
Nelson's Textbook of Pediatrics	WS100 N423T	Paper/Reserve Electronic/MDConsult
Oski's Pediatrics: Principles and Practice	WS100 P957	Paper/Reserve Electronic/Books@Ovid
Current Pediatric Therapy and Diagnosis	WS366 C976	Paper/Reserve Electronic/StatRef

Electronic Textbooks
The Smith Library also provides full text access to over 150 titles of electronic books. Click here for a subject listing of the electronic textbooks available for your use. Electronic Textbooks can also be accessed through different databases such as MDConsult, STAT!Ref and Books@OVID.

Journals

Journals can be located in the Library by using the Online Catalog. It is important to check the library "holdings" after you identify that we do carry a journal. The holdings are a record of the years or issues that the library has received in the past. Journals do not circulate, which means they cannot be borrowed from the Library. Journals are available electronically or in paper copy. Remember, the catalog, will tell you if we carry a specific journal title, it is not used to find individual articles in a journal.

Full Text Electronic Journals

UMDNJ subscribes to over 1500 electronic journal titles university wide in clinical and research areas. Electronic journals have the contents of a journal available full text on the computer and may be viewed or printed. Full text availability in journals begins around 1996. If a journal is not available electronically, be sure to check the catalog to see if it is available in paper copy. A list of the full text journals can be found by starting on the Smith Library Home page and clicking on Full Text Resources.

Sample List of Useful Journals

JOURNAL TITLE	FORMAT of JOURNAL
American Family Physician	Paper/ Electronic
Annals of Internal Medicine	Paper/Electronic
Archives of Internal Medicine	Paper/Electronic
Baillierie Best Practice & Research in...	Electronic
BMJ (British Medical Journal)	Paper/Electronic
Evidence Based......	Electronic
JAMA	Paper/Electronic
New England Journal of Medicine	Paper/Electronic

Databases to Help Locate Journal Articles

Click on Databases on the Smith Library Home page for a complete listing of the databases available to the UMDNJ community. These databases can be used to locate specific journal articles after you have identified the subject you would like to research.

* MEDLINE, provides article information from journals published internationally covering all areas of medicine, including dentistry. It is a database of more than 9 million references to articles published in 3900 biomedical journals from 1966 to the present. Access is through OVID.

* Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews offers the full text of primarily randomized controlled trials that are developed and regularly updated by members of the Cochrane Collaboration.

* Cochrane Controlled Trials Register is a bibliography of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration and others as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews. It includes reports published in conference proceedings and other sources not indexed in MEDLINE or other bibliographic databases.

* Database of Abstracts and Reviews provides full text critical assessments of individual systematic reviews in structured abstract format. Assessed reviews come from a variety of medical journals and cover topics such as diagnosis, prevention, rehabilitation, screening, and treatment. Produced by the National Health Services' Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (NHS CRD) at the University of York (UK).

* InfoRetriever and DailyPOEMs are two parts of a product called the InfoPOEMs Clinical Awareness System:

* InfoRetriever has over 2,000 POEMs, abstracts from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, web-based, evidence-linked practice guidelines, treatment summary, guidelines from the USPSTF, clinical decision rules, diagnostic test calculators, H & PE calculators, complete 5-Minute Clinical Consult book and commonly needed codes from ICD-9

* DailyPOEMs provides research that focuses on "patient-oriented evidence that matters" via a daily e-mail synopsis. The complete set of DailyPOEMs is also compiled monthly and sent out for additional review.

* MDConsult provides searchable, full text access to over 50 of the world's most important medical journals, a collection of over 38 reference books, more than 600 clinical practice guidelines, and almost 3,000 customizable patient education handouts. It also includes fulll text drug information. Available only to currently affiliated UMDNJ students, staff or faculty.
* Lexis/Nexis (Academic) provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal and reference information. Includes some full text.
* PsycINFO Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines. Coverage is worldwide, and includes references and abstracts to journals and dissertations in more than 30 languages, and to book chapters and books in the English language. Includes some full text.

* Harrison’s Online delivers the complete text, illustrations, and expanded features from the 15th edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, including additional references, many links to MEDLINE abstracts, and important information from emerging fields. The fully searchable database regularly presents new and revised content from the editors and contributors of Harrison's. Updated daily.

* STAT!Ref (Electronic Medical Library) Provides full text medical and drug information for health professionals from an online library of more than 30 popular texts, including the 5 Minute Clinical Consult Series.

Multi-media Collection

Click on Multi-media Collection on the Smith Library Home page. The Multi-media collection is materials that can assist you in your class work and research. You can also click on Resources for PBL Cases for more specific resources for this class. This will provide a list of computer generated programs, audiovisual materials, diagnostic computer programs and case study imagining files.

Useful Internet Resources for Art of Medicine

INTERNET SITES	INTERNET ADDRESS
National Guidelines Clearinghouse	http://www.guidelines.gov
Evidence Based Medicine Resource Center	http://www.ebmny.org
ACP Journal Club	http://www.acpjc.org
National Center for Health Statistics	http://www.cdc.gov/nchs
New Jersey State Department of Health & Senior Services	http://www.state.nj.us/health
Finding and Using Health Statistics	http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/usestats/index.html
Related Health Services Research Web Site	http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/hsrsites.html

If you need further assistance ask for help at the Reference Desk, the Media Center Desk, or the Circulation Desk.