Databases

• MEDLINE (Ovid) - Premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of the biomedical literature. Includes some full-text.
• Academic Search Premier - Covers a wide range of academic areas including arts, business, communication, education, humanities, language and linguistics, literature, sciences, social sciences, technology and women's studies. Full text is provided for more than 4,650 journals dating back to 1975.
• Proquest Social Science Journals - Provides access to more than 160 key journals for the study of social sciences. Subjects include anthropology, community health and medical care, family studies, gender studies, international relations, minority studies, psychiatry, social work and more.
• 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.
• PubMed (NLM) - PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
• ERIC - ERIC is the world's largest source of education information. The database contains more than one million abstracts of education-related documents and journal articles. Available to the public from the U.S. Dept. of Education
  

Electronic and Print Books

• Medical Terminology Simplified, 3rd ed., 2005 (R2 Library)
  
• UMDNJ Online Catalog: Examples of some Subjects:
  

Clinical Clerkship

Education, Medical

Education, Medical, Continuing

Education, Medical, Graduate

Faculty, Medical

Internship and Residency

Teaching

Teaching Hospitals

Electronic Journals and Feeds (What's RSS?)

To subscribe: copy and paste the URL of the RSS feed to your RSS Reader application.

• Academic Medicine
  http://feeds.feedburner.com/wolterskluwer/acmed/toccurrentrss
• Advances in Health Sciences Education
  
• BMC Medical Education
  http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcmededuc/rss/
  
• Education for Primary Care
  http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rmp/epc/latest
  
• Education for Health: Change in Learning & Practice
  http://www.informaworld.com/ampp/rss~content=t713416292
• Journal of Audiovisual Media in Medicine
  http://rss.ebscohost.com/AlertSyndicationService/Syndication.asmx/GetFeed?guid=1191167
  
• Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
  http://rss.sciencedirect.com/getMessage?registrationId=JACAJBCAKGCBRADCLACHJFEBJJDEMFGHNSEIMJCCJQ
  
• Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine
  http://rss.ebscohost.com/AlertSyndicationService/Syndication.asmx/GetFeed?guid=1191186
  
• Medical Education
  http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/action/showFeed?ui=0&mi=gjhd5&ai=vy&jc=med&type=etoc&feed=rss
  
• Medical Education Online
  
• Medical Teacher
  http://www.informaworld.com/ampp/rss~content=t713438241
• Postgraduate Medical Journal
  
• Teaching and Learning in Medicine
  
• The Clinical Teacher
  http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/action/showFeed?ui=0&mi=je38i&ai=cv3&jc=tct&type=etoc&feed=rss

This is a sample of highly cited journals in medical education. To see a complete list of UMDNJ Library electroinc journal holdings please check the Electronic Journals Holdings List. To check print holdings please use the UMDNJ Libraries Catalog.

University Resources

• Master Educators' Guild
• Center for Teaching Excellence
• My.UMDNJ Portal
• WebCT - virtual learning environment

Selected Web Resources

• American Academy of Medical Colleges The AAMC and the medical schools, teaching hospitals, academic and professional societies, faculty, residents, and students we represent are committed to improving the nation's health through medical education, research, and high-quality patient care.
• MedEdPORTAL is a Web-based tool that promotes collaboration across disciplines and institutions by facilitating the exchange of high-quality, peer-reviewed educational materials, including PowerPoint presentations, assessment tools, virtual patient cases, and faculty development materials.

What is ?

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication (or Rich Site Summary, depending on your preference). RSS is an XML-based format that scans a site for updates to the content, and then delivers those to subscribers in the form of a list of headlines, each containing a description and link to the related web page. RSS 'feeds' provide useful tools that allow the delivery of the website content you want straight to your desktop, as soon as it is available.

How do I use RSS?

To enable you to make use of RSS you will need a program called a News Reader or Aggregator. This is where you download a software application to your computer and “subscribe” to feeds by entering the URL of the RSS feed into the program. There are many different News Readers available; visit Google to create a personal account and use Google Reader or find links to the most popular products, many of which are free to install. (Note: Different News Readers work on different operating systems, so you will need to take this into account when you make your selection.

Once you have a News Reader (or ‘aggregator’) selected, all you then have to do is to choose the information that you would like to receive. Where an RSS feed is available, click on the RSS link or copy and paste the URL of the feed to your News Reader.

Alternatively, a web page can act as an RSS reader. An illustrative example of this is My Yahoo! or Google’s Personalized Home Page which both allow you to customize a Yahoo! or Google home page for yourself, including the ability to use RSS to pull headlines straight through to that web page. Similarly, any website or personal blog can pull RSS headlines into a website.