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Residency Resources

This section of the Dell Medical School Library website focuses on resources most relevant to graduate medical education.

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
The ACGME is a private, 501(c)(3), not-for-profit organization that sets standards for US graduate medical education (residency and fellowship) programs and the institutions that sponsors them, and renders accreditation decisions based on compliance with these standards.
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To find the common program requirements for residencies, go to the main menu at the top of the page and click "What We Do." On the drop-down menu, under "Accreditation" click "Common Program Requirements." There you will find a series of PDFs containing more information about residency program requirements.
NEJM Resident 360
Go to the Learning Lab to find procedure videos, Curbside Consults podcasts, visual abstracts, interactive diagnostic skills tools, image challenges, Clinical Pearls & Morning Reports, Quick Take videos, and more.
- Go to the Resident Lounge to find "The House" podcast.
- Go to the "Student Corner" to find "A Day in the Life" podcast
CareerMD
CareerMD connects physicians with employers – online, in print, and face to face at events all across the country. This is also a career job list site where you can search for training, employment, and educational opportunities by specialty.

This section is under construction. Watch for additions in the near future.

For additional resources, browse the other sections of the Dell Medical School Library website.

As always, direct any questions about resources to the Health Sciences Librarians, Imelda Vetter and Brittany Labinger.

Child Neurology Resources

Dermatology Resources

Emergency Medicine Resources

Family Medicine Resources

Internal Medicine Resources

Neurology Resources

Orthopaedic Surgery Resources

Pathology Resources

Pediatrics Resources

OBGYN Resources

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Psychiatry Resources

Radiology Resources

Surgery Resources

Databases

*Please note you will need your UT EID and password to access most of these databases.

AccessMedicine
Most recent edition. Unlimited users.

Updated regularly. A collection of over 80 leading medical textbooks plus an extensive multimedia library, Diagnosaurus differential diagnosis tool, patient education materials, practice guidelines, diagnostic tests and an integrated drug database. AccessMedicine also features self-assessment tools, Lange Case Files series, and online learning tools for medical education and board exams review. Featured textbooks include: Harrison’s Online, Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine, Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment, Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine, and Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery.
Create a free My Access account while logged in to access content without additional logins required. My Access also enables creation and saving of practice tests, saving and downloading images.

ClinicalKey
• Includes medical textbooks, journals, practice guidelines, drug info, clinical overviews, procedure videos, etc.
• Access is restricted to Dell Medical School students, staff, faculty.
• Instructions for Login: Click on "more"
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1. Click on "Login" in the upper right corner of the ClinicalKey website
2. Select "Other institution login"
3. Search for "Austin" using the institution search box and click on "University of Texas at Austin"
4. This will prompt you to login with your UT EID and password
5. If accessing ClinicalKey while on campus, you might see a popup that asks you to choose organization. If so, choose "Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas at Austin." When off campus, you will not be asked to do this last step

If prefer to see these instructions with images, open the PDF "ClinicalKey Login, Personal Account and App Info."

ClinicalKey Login, Personal Account and App Info

Cochrane Library
Dates of coverage vary. Unlimited users.
Updated quarterly. Includes reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. Provides information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care. Consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, including:
- The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Cochrane Reviews)
- Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
- The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)
- The Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews (Methodology Reviews)
- Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA)
- NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED)
Embase
1974 - present. Unlimited users.
Embase provides coverage of the biomedical literature, with over 31 million records from over 8,500 currently published journals, including over 7 million records and more than 3,000 journals that are not covered by MEDLINE. Offers extensive coverage of searchable conference abstracts dating back to 2009. It currently indexes over 6,000 conferences covering ~350,000 conference abstracts each year. Embase uses Emtree, the Elsevier Life Science thesaurus: a hierarchically structured, controlled vocabulary for biomedicine and the related life sciences. It includes a range of terms for drugs, diseases, medical devices and essential life science concepts
Google Scholar
Dates of coverage vary. Unlimited users.
Google Scholar uses the popular Google search engine to enable searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. It includes a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Google Scholar includes full text and citations.
Use this link to access Google Scholar, and see our Google Scholar Guide for information on using this resource.
If you encounter a warning about the security certificate when using the FindIt@UT tool in Google Scholar, you can learn more about that using this guide.
UpToDate Lexidrug
Dates of coverage vary. Unlimited users. Note: Not compatible with all web browsers. For best results use Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
Updated daily. Provides full text access to point-of-care information from 13 clinical databases and 4 clinical applications. Databases include Lexi-Drugs, Pediatric Lexi-Drugs, and Geriatric Lexi-Drugs as well as Clinician's Guides to Diagnosis, Internal Medicine and Laboratory Medicine. Clinical Applications include drug interactions, tablet & capsule identification, medical calculations and patient advisory leaflets.
MEDLINE (Clarivate)
1950 - present. Unlimited users.
Updated monthly. Provides bibliographic indexing from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Contains bibliographic citations (e.g., authors, title, and journal reference) and author abstracts from 4,500 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 foreign countries.
Journal articles are indexed for MEDLINE using NLM's controlled vocabulary, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Citations are created by the National Library of Medicine, International MEDLARS partners, and cooperating professional organizations.
Corresponds in part to the following print indexes: Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing.
MEDLINE (EBSCO)
1950 - present. Unlimited users.
Updated monthly. Provides bibliographic indexing from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Contains bibliographic citations (e.g., authors, title, and journal reference) and author abstracts from 4,500 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 foreign countries.
Journal articles are indexed for MEDLINE using NLM's controlled vocabulary, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Citations are created by the National Library of Medicine, International MEDLARS partners, and cooperating professional organizations.
MEDLINE has worldwide coverage, but 88% of the citations in current MEDLINE are to English-language sources and 76% have English abstracts.
NLM provides free access to MEDLINE through PubMed.
MEDLINE (Ovid)
1946-present. Unlimited users.
Updated daily. Provides bibliographic indexing from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Contains bibliographic citations (e.g., authors, title, and journal reference) and author abstracts from 4,500 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 foreign countries.

Journal articles are indexed for MEDLINE using NLM's controlled vocabulary, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Citations are created by the National Library of Medicine, International MEDLARS partners, and cooperating professional organizations. English abstracts available for more than 80% of the records.
PsycINFO (Ebsco)
1887 - present. Unlimited users.
Updated monthly. Indexes and abstracts over 1,700 sources, including international material selected from periodicals written in over 35 languages. Contains current chapter and book coverage with worldwide English-language material published from 1987 to the present, and adds over 60,000 references annually through monthly updates. Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines.
Has over 1.8 million individual records, some dating back to 1887, and includes abstracts from Psychological Abstracts back to 1927, Psychological Bulletin from 1921-1926, and all APA journals and the American Journal of Psychology back to their first issues. Corresponds in part to the print index Psychological Abstracts.
PubMed
1950 - present. Unlimited users.
Updated weekly. Provides access to over 36 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases. Links to the full text articles are provided when available, subject to UT subscription status.

Set up LibKey Nomad to find access through the UT Libraries subscriptions and purchases.
TRIP
Dates of coverage vary. Unlimited.
Updated monthly. Trip (Turning Research into Practice) searches evidence-based healthcare resources to support practice and care. It includes systematic reviews, clinical practice guidelines, primary research from over 500 high impact journals, and patient information leaflets. Trip offers a PICO search function and aligns each result with its relevant place on the “Levels of Evidence” pyramid.
Web of Science
1900 - present. Unlimited users.
Updated weekly. The Web of Science Core Collection is a group of databases (Science Citation Index Expanded, 1900-present; Social Sciences Citation Index, 1900-present; Arts & Humanities Citation Index, 1975-present) that together cover more than 21,000 journals across all disciplines. The Emerging Sources Citation Index (2005-present) tracks thousands of additional journals that are being considered for inclusion in the main citation indexes. Other files track references from conference proceedings (1990-present) and citations to books (2005-present).
The Web of Science platform currently also provides temporary access to several databases that are not part of the Core Collection, including Biosis Citation Index, Data Citation Index, and Zoological Record.

DynaMed Plus
Coverage varies. Unlimited users.
Updated daily. Evidence-based point-of-care information for clinicians, organized by disease state. DynaMed Plus includes ICD9/ICD10 codes, images, Micromedex drug content, and access from electronic health records. A mobile app is available to users who sign up for a personal account.
Essential Evidence Plus
Most current edition. 25 users.
EE+ is a powerful, comprehensive clinical decision support system that integrates information on 9,000 diagnoses into healthcare professional’s clinical workflows. This clinical was developed for physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals on the front line of patient care. EE+ features over 13,000 topics, guidelines, abstracts, tools, images, and summaries covering the most common conditions, diseases, and procedures clinicians come in contact with every day. Every recommendation carries a strength-of-evidence rating that accurately grades each recommendation’s merit on the basis of all of the evidence available in the relevant literature.

Merck Manual, Professional Edition
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This manual is "the product of a collaboration between hundreds of medical experts worldwide, an independent editorial board of peer reviewers, and our editorial staff of physicians and professional medical writers. For over 100 years, we have had complete editorial independence to present the best current thinking regarding medical diagnosis and treatment." Content is added/updated continually.

For additional resources, go here.

General Medical Journals

*Please note you will need your UT EID and password to access many of these journals.

BMJ: British Medical Journal The BMJ is one of the world's oldest general medical journals.The BMJ is a weekly peer-reviewed medical trade journal, published by the trade union the British Medical Association. The BMJ strives to: improve the creation and dissemination of research evidence, improve clinical education and practice, advocate for universal, equitable, high quality healthcare, champion the health and wellbeing of doctors, and improve the social and environmental determinants of health.
JAMA: the Journal of the American Medical Association JAMA, published continuously since 1883, is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal. JAMA is a member of the JAMA Network, a consortium of peer-reviewed, general medical and specialty publications.
Lancet The Lancet is an independent, international general medical journal founded in 1823 by Thomas Wakley. Since its first weekly issue (October 5, 1823), the journal has strived to make science widely available so that medicine can serve, and transform society, and positively impact the lives of people. The Lancet is committed to applying scientific knowledge to improve health and advance human progress.
Mayo Clinic Proceedings One of the premier peer-reviewed clinical journals in general and internal medicine, Mayo Clinic Proceedings is among the most widely read and highly cited scientific publications for physicians. This publication is sponsored by Mayo Clinic. Mayo Clinic Proceedings welcomes manuscripts that focus on clinical and laboratory medicine, health care policy and economics, medical education and ethics, and related topics.
NEJM: New England Journal of Medicine The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is recognized as the world’s leading medical journal and website. Published continuously for over 200 years, NEJM delivers high-quality, peer-reviewed research and interactive clinical content to physicians, educators, researchers, and the global medical community. Our mission is to publish the best research and information at the intersection of biomedical science and clinical practice and to present this information in understandable, clinically useful formats that inform health care practice and improve patient outcomes.
PLOS Medicine PLOS Medicine is an open access journal. It is an influential venue for research and commentary on the major challenges to human health worldwide, PLOS Medicine publishes articles of general interest on biomedical, environmental, social and political determinants of health. The journal emphasizes work that advances clinical practice, health policy or pathophysiological understanding to benefit health in a variety of settings.

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Books

Humanism and Resilience in Residency Training A Guide to Physician Wellness by edited by Ana Hategan, Karen Saperson, Sheila Harms, Heather Waters
ISBN: 3030456277
Publication Date: 2020
Life after Residency: A Career Planning Guide by Melissa T. Berhow; William W. Feaster; John G. Brock-Utne
ISBN: 9783030933739
Publication Date: 2022-07-28
Research During Medical Residency by Lynne M. Bianchi
ISBN: 9781003126478
Publication Date: 2022-06-07
Resident's Handbook of Medical Quality and Safety by Levi (Levan) Atanelov (Editor)
ISBN: 3319241907
Publication Date: 2016-04-11

Looking for a specific book or books on a particular topic? Enter title or search terms here:

The American Medical Association (AMA) is the largest and only national association that convenes 190+ state and specialty medical societies and other critical stakeholders. AMA also represents physicians in courts and legislative bodies across the nation, removing obstacles that interfere with patient care, leading the charge to prevent chronic disease and confront public health crises, and driving the future of medicine to tackle the biggest challenges in health care and training the leaders of tomorrow.

American Medical Association (AMA)
This link will take you directly to the "Residents & Students" page on the AMA website. If you are just starting your search for residency programs, this page has great resources for preparing for medical school, choosing your career path and residency program. For those already in a program, there are links to topics such as heath, finance and transitioning to your medical practice after residency.
Texas Medical Association
TMA helps Texas physicians by providing distinctive solutions to the challenges they encounter in the care of patients.TMA provides physician advocacy in Texas Legislature and U.S. Congress and in the courtroom, services and practice help for managing the business side of your practice, education through hundreds of hours of CME and ethics courses available at no cost to members, and other additional tools.
Travis County Medical Society (TCMS)
TCMS is an active community of over 4,000 Austin-area physicians who care about the medical profession in their community and state.

In addition to being a member of TCMS, you are automatically a member of the Texas Medical Association (TMA), the largest medical society in the nation—which offers numerous benefits and opportunities.
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Your specialty society will advocate for your practice type, but it is not involved in the regulations or political climate where you practice and where your patients live. For this reason, physicians should consider membership in both their county/state medical society as well as their specialty society.
American Academy of Dermatology Association
This link takes you to the AADA resident page containing board prep materials, the Directions in Residency publication, quizzes, question of the week tool, Race for the Case contest, and a weekly podcast "Dialogues in Dermatology."
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
This link will take you directly to the AAFP's Family Medicine Resident page that has the latest medical news, expert advice, and tools to help you prepare for a career in family medicine.
American Academy of Neurology (AAN)
This link will take you directly to AAN's tools and resources page for medical residents and fellows.
American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPM&R)
This link will take you directly to AAPM&R's resident resources page.
American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM)
Interested in sports medicine? A person interested in sports medicine can do a residency in family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine, emergency medicine and physical medicine and rehabilitation. Remember that your primary care training should be your priority.

If your specialty's association or society is not listed here, then go to your specialty's subpage within this Residency Resources section of the DMS Library website.

PubMed online training, from the National Library of Medicine, includes database tours, tutorials, webcasts, videos, classes, and handouts.
PubMed User Guide, from the National Library of Medicine
New PubMed Transitions FAQs
UT Libraries PubMed guide

Users can access library resources through this Dell Medical School Library website or through the main UT Libraries website. You will be asked to login with your UT EID and password at some point during the process of searching and accessing the resources, depending on each indvidual resource.

How to access full text articles:

Try one of the following options depending on your preference and the article in question:
- Use the PubMed search box on this webpage. Then click on the FindIt@UT button in the PubMed record
- If you are using another article database such as one listed on the DMS Library Article databases webpage or the UT Libraries databases webpage, you will likewise see the FindIt@UT button to access full text.
- You can also use the article search box on the main UT Libraries website; a link to full text access will be available within the article record.
- Or, use the journal search box on this webpage to search for and access a journal where you can then navigate to the specific article.
If you prefer using Google Scholar, follow the instructions in the following guide to set up the FindIt@UT button in your Google Scholar settings or use the direct link to the UT version of Google Scholar below:

Google Scholar: ViewIt@UT

Google Scholar
Dates of coverage vary. Unlimited users.
Google Scholar uses the popular Google search engine to enable searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. It includes a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Google Scholar includes full text and citations.
Use this link to access Google Scholar, and see our Google Scholar Guide for information on using this resource.
If you encounter a warning about the security certificate when using the FindIt@UT tool in Google Scholar, you can learn more about that using this guide.

3. If the article is not available through UT Libraries' collections, use the "Get a Scan" service. This is a free service whereby the staff at UT Libraries will acquire the article from another library and provide it to you in digital format. This service can take from 1-3 days.

Acknowledgment

The Residency Resources section was created and developed by UT iSchool graduate student Lindsay Wendlandt, in Spring 2021 as part of her Capstone Project.

Work on this section of the website continued with the efforts of UT iSchool graduate student Samuel Marshall in Fall 2021 and Spring 2022.

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