E-books Tips and Hints

AccessMedicine is an online medical resource that provides students with the tools they need to excel in basic and advanced studies, clerkships, and crucial test prep. ACM provides residents, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants with interactive content, self-assessment, and leading medical texts to enhance decision-making at the point-of-care. It and allows for practicing physicians to brush up on their medicalknowledge to ensure best patient outcomes. It includes a complete full-text library of clinical and basic science textbooks, including Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, 20e, CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment, The Color Atlas of Family Medicine, 2e, and many others.

PDF's of Individual chapters or sections can be downloaded or printed.. Text to speech reader is available at the chapter level. Create a free MyAccess account to use the self-assessment features and the free app. A MyAccess account also allows off-site access without the use of VPN or the library proxy. The McGraw-Hill Medical website has many modules. Use the drop down menu labeled McGraw-Hill Medical, found in the upper left corner of the screen, to view the library provided modules.

The AccessMedicine app offers mobile access to the following resources:
Quick Medical Dx & Rx– perfect for high-yield review or for quick reference in the clinical setting
Fitzpatrick’s Color Atlas of Clinical Dermatology– recognized as the world’s #1 visual atlas of dermatology
Differential Diagnosis Tool– providing more than 1,000 diagnoses through Diagnosaurus®
Diagnostic Tests– a quick reference guide to the selection and interpretation of commonly used diagnostic tests.

The McGraw Hill/AccessMedicine license does not allow for use of images or brief text in course materials/packs. Users are encouraged to use persistent links to AccessMedicine. For class material, please see Recommended Practices for Creating Persistent Links for guidance on creating persistent links. Please contact McGraw-Hill for questions.

AccessSurgery from McGraw-Hill Medical introduces a whole new dimension to surgical education and clinical practice. Updated regularly, this comprehensive online surgery resource enhances medical knowledge and delivers quick answers to surgical inquiries – all in one place. AccessSurgery provides medical students with a variety of resources needed to excel in their surgery clerkship; assists residents in gaining instant access to videos, self-assessment, and leading surgical textbooks that will establish an important foundation for learning; and allows practicing surgeons to brush up on their medical knowledge when studying for their Maintenance of Certification Exam.
See the AccessMedicine section above for more information on using AccessMedicine modules.
The McGraw-Hill Medical website has many modules. Use the drop down menu labeled McGraw-Hill Medical, found in the upper left corner of the screen, to view the library provided modules.

You can print most ebooks without a login but to download E-Book chapters you must register to create a free account with ClinicalKey. Use your WUSM email address as your username. Please note when printing, the entire chapter will print when you select the print icon. Page numbers from the print book are not included. Elsevier has told the library that: "PDFs of chapters are provided for the majority of book titles in ClinicalKey, with the exception of books intended for the medical education setting (used by students and trainees on an undergraduate and graduate level). Since the launch of ClinicalKey, PDFs have not been included with the medical education books because of the unauthorized systematic and widespread downloading and sharing of PDFs in the medical education market. However, these book titles are still included in full text in the ClinicalKey HTML book reader, complete with all chapters, images, tables, and references. If you are a faculty member and wish to assign reading resources for your courses, please note that all content in ClinicalKey, including book chapters and parts thereof, have durable URLs that can be captured and copied into a content management system or syllabus." Access restricted to WUSM.

New! This comprehensive selection 40 authoritative texts—covering the 6 core clerkship rotations—is ideal for clerkship students, faculty, and directors and coordinators.
Features:
- Over 150 cases, broken down by rotation
- Covers core rotations of Internal Medicine, OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Surgery, Family Medicine, and Psychiatry
- Users can search or browse content across all rotations or filter to a specific rotation
- All content optimized for desktop, tablet, and mobile usage
- Complete chapters are downloadable and printable, and can be shared with colleagues
- Great resource for both core didactic content, as well as review content through review series titles and Q&A

Access the new website for the O'Reilly/Safari Tech Books Online by using a valid Washington University email. Create a free user account to retain notes etc. in the e-books you have used. The collection contains over 30,000 full-text e-books and videos on computing, databases, networking, operating systems, programming, software engineering, .NET, Cisco products, Web design, Java, XML and more. It is fully searchable - even for snippets of code. Printing and PDF files are not available. For offline reading, use the mobile app. For more information about the mobile app: https://www.oreilly.com/online-learning/apps.html

Psychiatry Online features DSM-5 and The American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of a collection of psychiatric references, including books, journals, and self-assessment tools. View the available e-books in our catalog . For more information about our POL Premium Psychiatry Online subscription please consult the Training Guide

Red Book® Online extends beyond the print edition to provide instant access to pediatric infectious disease solutions not available anywhere else. It includes the most reliable and clinically relevant content on more than 200 childhood infectious diseases and is the quickest and easiest way to keep pace with all the latest developments and clinical guidelines at the point of care. Current edition is Red Book 2021 (32nd edition). Previous editions available.as PDFs.

uCentral provides access to The Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics, 5-Minute Clinical Consult and to the Johns Hopkins ABX Guide through a free downloadable mobile application or on the web.
uCentral also includes Unbound MEDLINE with Grapherence™ a powerful search tool with visual exploration capabilities and Grasp™ a study solution that allows you to build decks of flashcards as well a number of integrated calculators.
Access to the Website and to download the uCentral app to an iphone, iPad or android device is restricted to WUSM. To personalize uCentral and download the free mobile app, register from the uCentral website. Printing from the website is limited to a topic at a time. Downloading the app to your mobile device provides offline access to the material.