Which point-of-care tools do the library offer?

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For students and faculty, you will have access to:

  • UptoDate: Evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support and reference resources for use at the point of care. Includes drug information from Lexicomp, regular practice-oriented podcasts and news briefs, patient education handouts, drug interactions checkers, calculators, etc. Will work offline. Requires creation of a personal login and id, and regular reauthentication.

 

  • DynaMed: Extensive, highly-respected evidence-based clinical decision support tool and reference that provides answers to clinical questions; content is written and regularly updated by a world-class team of physicians and researchers who synthesize the evidence and communicate it.

 

  • VisualDx: provides problem-oriented decision support for differential diagnosis, testing and therapeutic decisions. Includes Differential Builder, which provides a symptom-based approach to diagnosis; 42K+ of images that can be used to diagnose 3,100+ medical and oral health diagnoses; Sympticons used to visually represent disease; etc. Includes images focused on general medicine, oral medicine, drug reactions, infectious diseases, dermatology, STDs, travel medicine, and more.

 

  • Micromedex: Micromedex Drug Interactions, Micromedex IV Compatibility, Pediatric Essentials and NeoFax Essentials app for subscribers; needs a password that is findable on ATSU provided Micromedex site under Resources. Click on Download Mobile Apps, and see the password in Step 4. NOTE Our Educational-Use license only permits student use in clinical settings. Faculty may only use this for teaching purposes.

 

For Clinical Faculty/Preceptors, you will have access to DynaMed only.

 

  • Last Updated Apr 23, 2025
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