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If your patient has it, we have it.

MD Consult is designed to help physicians answer clinical questions and stay current with new developments in medicine.

50 leading medical reference and textbooks80 full-text journals/clinics with MEDLINEOver 22,000 drug medicationsThe latest medical newsPeer-reviewed practice guidelinesAlmost 10,000 customizable patient handoutsEarn CME credit onlineStudent Union – the medical student’s resourcePOCKET Consult – free for your PDA

Content is organized in Ten Categories

ClinicsBooksJournalsDrugsNews

This Week in MedicineWhat Your Patients Are ReadingIn This Week’s Journals

Current PracticeClinical Topic ToursClinical InsightsCase of the WeekPractice Guidelines

Patient HandoutsStudent UnionCMEMarketplace

Bookstoree-Detailinge-Sampling

Clinics

Search across 31 Clinics of North America simultaneously

Bibliographic data and Table of Contents available for each full-text article

Search options provide simple but flexible ways to refine searches

Focus button Study GroupSubject Age Sorted by full text/relevancy, relevancy, or publication date

ClinicsFor those who have add-on Clinics packages, clicking on the Clinics tab displays the Clinics packages available and their titles.

Add-on Clinics Packages enable you to browse a particular issue

Clinics

When doing a global search, your Clinics hits show up in the search results summary.

The top 3 Clinics results of your search are displayed in the “Results at a Glance” area.

Reference Books

Dozens of the most respected references

Scroll through the table of contents or the back of the book index

Reference Books

Search across the entire collection simultaneously

Searching uses human-made indexes as well as MD Consult’s controlled medical vocabulary and thesaurus

Your last search and set of search results is always available for you

Reference Books

Search within a specific book

Journals

Full-text articles from over 80 journals and clinics

Includes the Clinics of North America and Year Books

Simultaneously searches the MEDLINE and AIDSLINE databases

Bibliographic data and Table of Contents available for each full-text article

Journal Search

Search options provide simple but flexible ways to refine searches

Focus button Study GroupSubject Age Sorted by full text/relevancy, relevancy, or publication date

Year Book articles are attached to the original journal article

Review articles are flagged in search results

Journal PDFs

Available for Elsevier Journals and Clinics

Includes more than 30,000 articles dating back to 2002

Allows users to view, download and print the article in PDF

DrugsMosby’s Drug Consult

Over 22,000 drug medications

Pill pictures available

Cost of therapy provided for many medications

Also includes:USP off-label usesFDA pregnancy categoriesDEA schedules of controlled substancesPoison control centersDrug comparative tables

Drug Look-up

Allows users to search for a specific drug medication by:Brand nameGeneric nameTherapeutic classPharmacological classIndication

Images

Quickly search over 50,000 high-quality medical images from the renowned medical books on MD Consult.

Images include photos, tables, graphs, and more.

News

Keep current on what’s happening in the medical world

Includes three service areas:

This Week In MedicineWhat Your Patients Are ReadingIn This Week’s Journals

This Week In Medicine

Concise summaries

Updated daily

Customize to your specialty interest area

What Your Patients Are Reading

We canvass the popular press to identify major stories about health and medicine

Provides a “heads up” on what patients are likely to ask

New stories are added each week

In This Week’s JournalsSummarized key articles from current influential medical journals

Allows users to quickly scan the content of leading medical journals

Includes featured journals which change monthly

Updated weekly (simultaneous with new issue release)

In This Week’s Journals

Coverage includes:

New England Journal of MedicineJAMAThe LancetBritish Medical JournalAnnals of Internal MedicineArchives of Internal Medicine

Current PracticeFour service areas:

Clinical Topic ToursCase of the WeekClinical InsightsPractice Guidelines

Clinical Topic Tours

Current “hot” topics reviewed and extensively annotated

Includes related information from all areas of MDC

Reference additional resources online

Clinical Insights

Clinical Cornerstone offers free CME

Images in Surgery

Practice Management and Patient Safety articles

Review articles

Case of the Week

A patient-directed approach to help improve clinical reasoning skills and increase knowledge

Original medical cases written by physicians

Each case is presented as a series of questions and answers, with links to MD Consult's reference material.

Practice Guidelines

Over 1,000 peer-reviewed clinical practice guidelinesOrganized by authoring organization, specialty and topicBibliographic data and Table of Contents available for each full-text article

Patient Handouts

Almost 10,000 handouts

Fully customizable

6th–8th grade reading level

2-3 pages in length

10% available in Spanish

Over 100 comprehensive handouts available

CME Center

Over 200 Category 1 modules

Across 15 specialties

First 5 conferences are free

Sign up for a full year's worth of conferences

POCKET Consult

Current medical news

20 Medical Calculators

Mosby’s Drug Consult Database

Drug Interaction Tool

Drug updates

Personalized journal abstracts

Initiate & save searches

Palm & Pocket PC platforms

FREE!

POCKET Consult

My PDA button located in upper right corner

First time users will have to create a new account

POCKET Consult

Existing users simply need to click on the ‘My PDA’ link – no user name and password required

Automatically taken into POCKET Consult

POCKET Consult

Channels tab allows users to select which sections they would like downloaded on their handheld

Choices include:MD Consult Drug Updates MD Consult Medical News Medical Calculators Mosby's Drug Consult Interaction Tool This Week’s Journals

POCKET Consult

This Week’s Journals

Found in the Channels tabClick on the This Week’s Journals linkPick and choose from over 400 journalsClick ‘Add Journals’ when all selections have been made

POCKET Consult

Library tab allows users to select which Elsevier handheld titles they would like downloaded on their handheld

Choices include:Mosby’s Drug ConsultOther Elsevier handheld titles which have been purchased separately

POCKET Consult

Daily update of current medical news, as well as important drug alerts

Drug updates

Medical news

POCKET Consult

Mosby’s Drug Consult Database with over 900 drug monographs.Mosby’s Drug IX, a drug interaction toolMosby’s Drug Consult

Drug Interaction Tool

POCKET Consult

20 Free Medical Calculators

BMI, Glasgow Coma Scale, Sodium Defect, Metric Units Conversion, and more.

POCKET Consult

Download the table of contents from over 400 journals

Provides the citation and/or abstract of journal articles

POCKET Consult

Capture information needs on your PDA

Searches are uploaded when you hot sync

Searches are saved in “My Searches” for future use

Print Preview

Allows users to view what will be printed

Print right from the preview page

Global Search

Quick search box lets you search all areas simultaneously

Enter a quick search

Open the Advanced Search form

View the results of your last search

Focus your search to Diagnosis, Etiology, Treatment, or Prognosis

Global Search Results

Includes search results in all areas of the services

Jump directly to any section of search results

Results at a Glance

A summary showing the first 3 results in each content area

Simplifies user navigation and shows breadth of content

You can expand the results by clicking “More Results”

Focus drop-down box

Use the Focus drop-down box to refine your search to one of these information needs: Diagnosis, Etiology, Treatment, or Prognosis

You receive less hits and the results you want.

Spellchecker

Terms are checked against a comprehensive Medical and English language dictionary

If the term isn’t found, we’ll offer alternative spellings and give you the option of searching again with the correct spelling

Advanced Search

Enables users to target search to a specific content area

Use boolean terms for multiple search terms

Searching Reference BooksSearch all books simultaneously

Books listed by number of occurrences

Index of specific hit topics is displayed for each book

Searching Journals/MEDLINE

Enter phrase(s) in search boxUse limiters to narrow searchSearch results indicate:

Copyright informationReview articleYear Book articlePresence of full-text or abstractFind similar articles

Searching Drug Information

Enter drug in search box

Search results include the number of hits in:

Drug InformationDrug Updates

Searching

Search FIRST Consult content from within MD Consult

Offers updated advice on the latest in evaluation and diagnosis, management options, patient education and disease prevention - all at the point of care.

* This feature is only available for those who subscribe to FIRST Consult

Searching FIRST Consult within MD Consult Clicking on the search result will take you to the appropriate location in the FIRST Consult content

* This feature is only available for those who subscribe to FIRST Consult

Searching News

Enter phrase(s) in search boxSelect sort order

Reverse ChronologicalRelevancy to Query

Search results indicate:Article titleService areaDate of article

Searching Current PracticeSearches Clinical Topic Tours and Clinical Insight storiesEnter phrase(s) in search boxSelect sort order

Reverse ChronologicalRelevancy to Query

Searching Practice GuidelinesEnter phrase(s) in search boxUse limiters to narrow searchSearch results include:

Copyright informationCochrane or Review articlePresence of full-text or abstractFind similar articles link

Searching Patient Handouts

Enter phrase(s) in search boxResults are sorted by relevancySpanish and Comprehensive handouts are indicatedImages are available on select handouts

Benefits of MD Consult

Convenience - 24-hour access to medical content and news. MDC Mobile provides medical information and news to your PDA.Trusted resources - Accessing information from peer-reviewed medical resources.Efficiency – Faster searching, no junk hits. Search one or all of the references.Be more productive – The content on MD Consult helps you do your job better and faster.Higher quality of care – This is due to the depth and quality of the content on MDC.Confidence – Used by over 1,700 healthcare organizations worldwide and nearly 95% of U.S. medical schools.

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