The two major databases you will use for medical textbooks:
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Additional medical textbooks can be found in these databases:
For more information on ebooks see the Ebook Guide
Looking for a quick definition of a medical term? Try out some of these dictionaries:
Biostatistics
Study Design
Search for biomedical journal articles in these databases:
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.
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.
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In a Review Article, the author(s) sum up the current research on a particular topic. There are many different types of review articles, some (systematic review, scoping review, meta-analysis) are more comprehensive than others, meaning the writer searches for everything relevant to the topic before writing the article. Other review articles (literature review, narrative review, overview) focus on a smaller set of the relevant research on the topic, ultimately including the most important research, to give an overview of the topic.
The most important impacts of a review article for a learner who is new to the topic are:
How does one find review articles? There are special journals that only publish review articles, but many journals publish a wide variety of articles including review articles. Try the following resources and strategies:
Databases - (use filters to limit search results to review articles):
Run a search and then filter to review articles - choices are systematic reviews, meta-analysis, and narrative reviews.
On the homepage of ClinicalKey, click on the link for "Clinical Overviews." Then search or browse for the disease or condition.
Journals that focus on review articles:
Drug Information
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Videos
George Libman Engel, M.D. (1913-1999) described his biopsychosocial model of medical care as one that offered a holistic alternative to the usual practice. He sought to "reverse the dehumanization of medicine and disempowerment of patients." He felt that "clinicians must attend simultaneously to the biological, psychological, and social dimensions of illness."
Borrell-Carrio F, Suchman AL, Epstein RM. The biopsychosocial model 25 year later: principles, practice, and scientific inquiry. Ann Fam Med. 2004;2(6):576-582. doi: 10.1370/afm.245. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1466742/
Engel's original article introducing his biopsychosocial model:
Engel GL. The need for a new medical model: a challenge for biomedicine. Science. 1977;196(4286):129-36. doi:10.1126/science.847460. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/847460/
As you seek answers to your biopsychosocial learning objectives from your PILLARS cases, here are some useful databases in which to search on your topic. If you need or want to explore additional resources, go to the full listing of UT Libraries' databases.
Finding Books and Book Chapters:
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Finding Journal Articles
In Biomedical Databases:
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.
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.
In Social Science Databases:
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.
The PAIS Archive database comprises a retrospective conversion of the PAIS Annual Cumulated Bulletin, Volumes 1-62, published 1915-1976. At completion of this conversion, the PAIS Archive contains over 1.23 million records.
House and Senate Reports and Documents indexed in ProQuest Congressional (1817-1969) are available in full text in the Serial Set database. Our subscription to ProQuest Congressional does not include full text of the Serial Set.
Congressional Hearings after 2013 and House and Senate Documents and Reports indexed in ProQuest Congressional (1995 to present) are available in full text on Govinfo.gov site from the Government Printing Office.
Searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals. Contains detailed author profiles for the 20,000 most-cited authors in the database.
Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, and SWOT analyses.
In Interdisciplinary Databases:
Features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 journals.
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.
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In Newspaper Databases:
This database was formerly called Dow Jones Interactive.
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This tab lists some resources to use for finding information about health equity.
Also check the "Biopsychosocial Resources" tab, for e-book and journal databases in which to search on health equity topics. Run searches using terms such as health equity, health equality, health inequity, health inequality, health disparities, healthcare inequity, healthcare equality, etc. Or use terms that are more specific to your particular topic, for example: ("African American" OR Black) AND (health equity OR healthcare equity OR health inequity OR healthcare inequity).
Source: Raphael JL, Lopez MA. Disparities in child health. In Disparities in Child Health: A Solutions-Based Approach, pp. 1-10. Cham: Springer. 2018.
More health statistics resources can be found on the Health Statistics section of the website.
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