LibGuides: Clinical Faculty & Preceptors Support Services: Core Resources

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Still OneSearch for Preceptors offers an integrated search of databases, biomedical journals, and e-books for ATSU clinical faculty via full-text or free interlibrary loan (10 free monthly articles). To access library materials, Preceptors/Clinical Faculty should contact their program administrative staff to help put in a ticket to ITS ticket to request access. ITS and the library will ensure your access works smoothly.

Please return to the Clinical Faculty & Preceptors page to continue using these resources. See below for specific included databases.

Interlibrary Loan

The Library provides access to an assortment of skilled research support for Clinical Faculty and Preceptors, including interlibrary loan services:

Free & low-cost Interlibrary Loan Up to ten journal articles a month for free
- Each additional article per month is $10
Requesting articles is easy using the Library's Ask-A-Librarian form
- Alternately, you can email your requests to libmo@atsu.edu, libaz@atsu.edu, or libca@atsu.edu

Online Resources & Databases for Preceptors

ATSU believes that clinicians' access and use of the best available evidence is a core component of the quality of care that a clinician can deliver. This Clinical Faculty Library portal aims to provide ATSU clinical faculty with as many of the resources that are available to students as possible according to the terms of their licenses. Clinical Faculty are expected to use these resources to support ATSU associated educational and training activities.

Use the ATSU Clinical Faculty Portal to gain access to :

AccessMedicine This link opens in a new window
Large collection of important medical textbooks, reference, exam prep, videos, drug information, patient handouts, and diagnostic tools to support students from the 1st years through residency.
AccessNeurology This link opens in a new window
A large collection of textbooks, reference texts, and study tools for studying neurology.
AccessObGyn This link opens in a new window
A collection of reference books, case studies, and study tools for studying obstetrics and gynecology.
AccessPediatrics This link opens in a new window
A broad range of content that covers the entire span of pediatric practice, from neonatology through adolescent medicine. AccessPediatrics provides fast, direct access to the information necessary for completing evaluations, diagnoses, case management decisions, research, self-assessment, and board review. Includes procedural videos and animations, case studies, images, guidelines, and major reference texts.
AccessPharmacy This link opens in a new window
Access Pharmacy is a product from McGraw-Hill Medical for pharmacy education that provides access to the leading pharmacy textbooks, quick references, extensive multimedia library, pharmacotherapy patient-focused practice cases, and extensive self-assessment tools.
AccessPhysiotherapy This link opens in a new window
Resource focused on the study of physical therapy; includes the Physical Therapy Case Files collection, a large set of anatomy & physiology videos, an interactive cadaver dissection tool, NPTE review questions and resources, calculators, a physiotherapy-relevant drug database, and a large collection of leading full-text physical therapy textbooks.
AccessSurgery This link opens in a new window
This resource supports the surgical clerkship, residency, and the Maintenance of Certification Exam. Includes leading surgical textbooks, instructional videos, 16,000+ high quality full-color images, interactive board review, integrated drug database, available in both English and Spanish, Clerkship Corner.
AccessEmergency Medicine This link opens in a new window
Designed to support the immediate needs of the emergency department (ED) and students/physicians at all levels. Offers quick diagnosis and treatment answers for a broad spectrum of complaints encountered in the ED, ranging from neurologic and pediatric emergencies, to poisoning and trauma. Includes leading emergency medicine textbooks, procedural videos, interactive self-assessment, integrated drug database, patient education, self-quzzing Clerkship Corner study resources, etc.
Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination This link opens in a new window
Streaming video collection of head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques (cardiovascular system; thorax and lungs; the skin; nose, mouth & neck; genitourinary system; abdomen; etc) from the 5th edition of the textbook Bates’ Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking. Also includes a set of OSCE clinical skills-based videos showing patient encounters.
Board Review Series This link opens in a new window
LWW Health Library: Board Review Series is aimed at providing basic knowledge as it relates to clinical situations and focuses on the content students need to know for board and course exams, covering material on each corresponding subject that is addressed on USMLE Step 1. The Board Review Series Health Library covers all the core basic sciences and affords an efficient method of studying by providing content in an easy-to-digest outline format containing review questions with accompanying answers and detailed explanations—chapter exams and a comprehensive exam for each text—clinical information, full-color illustrations, photographs, and tables.
Case Files Collection This link opens in a new window
Interactive case files from the McGraw-Hill Case Files book series; regularly updated, this collection helps users learn and apply basic science, clinical medical, and post-graduate medical concepts in the context of realistic patient cases. This resource is highly recommended for NBME, and UMSMLE Part 2 & 3 review. Users create personal IDs to track their individual progress.
Access Note : Create personal ID using your ATSU email to use interactive features and tracking.

*CINAHL (preceptor access)
Comprehensive full-text database for nursing and allied health.

ClinicalKey This link opens in a new window
A vast collection of medical literature from the publisher Elsevier; including access to hundreds of Elsevier's journals, books, and videos; the procedural videos of Procedures Consult; original clinical reviews by experts (First Consult); algorithms and calculators, etc.. Users can save content to individual logins and export citations, images and copyright information into PowerPoint presentations. Intended for both clinical support at the point of care and research.

*DynaMed Plus (preceptor access)
Clinical point-of-care tool used to enhance evidence-based practice for busy clinicians.

F.A. Davis PT Collection This link opens in a new window
A collection of key F.A. Davis physical therapy references, fully searchable and continuously updated, interactive Physical Therapy Cases, and an extensive Video Library of 400+ videos from leaders in the PT field designed to teach exercise and rehabilitation techniques, kinetics, and physical therapy interventions. Available on the AccessPhysiotherapy platform.
Lexicomp Online for Dentistry This link opens in a new window
Dental-specific,continually updated pharmacology and clinical information, interaction and allergy screening tools, patient medication management, ePrescribing, lesion diagnosis, oral surgery videos, and a wide-ranging collection of dental reference databases and references.
LWW Health Library Clerkship/Clinical Rotations This link opens in a new window
Collection of LWW textbooks, multimedia, self-assessment interactive tools, and cases for use in medical sciences; including resources for the Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Psychiatry & Surgery clerkships and rotations.
LWW Health Library Occupational Therapy This link opens in a new window
Collection of LWW textbooks, videos, multimedia, self-assessment interactive tools, and cases for use in studying occupational therapy and its foundational sciences.
LWW Health Library Osteopathic Medical Education This link opens in a new window
Collection of LWW textbooks, video and audio, self-assessment interactive tools, clinical skills review, and cases for use in medical sciences; including resources for the basic sciences, physiology, osteopathic medicine, physical examination, exam prep and review, etc.
MD/DO Board Prep This link opens in a new window
Access to Lippincott Board Prep for MD/DO Students Offers:
-USMLE-style questions to help you master USMLE Step 1 and USMLE Step 2 CK;
-Unique Osteopathic Medicine questions to help you ace the COMLEX Level 1s and 2;
-Board-style clinical vignettes with complete answer explanations.
*Requires (free) personal account to be registered with your ATSU email for access*
*Requires (free) personal account to be registered with your ATSU email for access*
PA Board Prep This link opens in a new window
Access to Lippincott Board Prep for PA Students Offers:
-The 14 major content areas of the PANCE to give you everything you need to ace the exam and support your PA educational needs;
-Board-style clinical vignettes, with complete answer explanations, to help you shore up areas of weakness;
-Access to End of Rotation exams.
*Requires registration of an individual (free) account using your ATSU email for access*
Requires registration of an individual (free) account using your ATSU email for access*
PA Rotations/Specialties Collection This link opens in a new window
LWW Health Library for PA Rotations/Specialties offers a core collection of content for each of the core PA rotations in a student's second year of study in a user-friendly online portal. Users can quickly access key texts for Internal Medicine, OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Surgery, Family Medicine, and Psychiatry,
Note: You will need the free personal account to use the self-assessment tool.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Free access to MEDLINE, the vast NLM database of indexed citations and abstracts to medical, nursing, dental, veterinary, health care, and preclinical sciences journal articles as well as additional selected life sciences and biomedical journals not in MEDLINE.
Linked to ATSU's full-text subscription journals when access via this link. Includes access to PubMed Central, which is fulltext and open access.
PsychiatryOnline This link opens in a new window
The full-text DSM 5 Library, including the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, journals, other books and references, current news from the American Psychiatric Association, APA guidelines, etc.
STAT!Ref This link opens in a new window
Collection of medical, dental, and other textbooks and references, with an assortment of clinical tools and calculators. ICD Diagnosis & Procedures Codes, MEDCALC3000, AHFS Drug Information, ACP Journal Club, AAFP Conditions, etc.