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MD Consult
Core Collection
MD Consult Overview
Books
Journals
Drugs
News
Current Practice
Patient Handouts
Learning Center
Marketplace
MDC Mobile
Advanced Searching
Customization Features
If your patient has it, we have it.
MD Consult is designed to help physicians answer clinical
questions and stay up-to-date with new developments in
medicine.
41 leading medical textbooks
70 full-text journals/clinics with MEDLINE
Over 30,000 drug medications
The latest medical news
Peer-reviewed practice guidelines
3,500 customizable patient handouts
Earn CME credit online
Student Union – the medical student’s
resource
MDC Mobile – free for your PDA
Content is organized in Nine Categories
Books
Journals
Drugs
News
This Week in Medicine
What Your Patients Are Reading
In This Week’s Journals
Current Practice
Clinical Topic Tours
Practice Guidelines
Patient Handouts
Learning Center
CME
Student Union
Marketplace
Bookstore
e-Detailing
e-Sampling
MDC Mobile
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
Journals
Full-text articles from over 70
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 fulltext article
Journal Search
Search options provide simple
but flexible ways to refine
searches
Focus button
Study Group
Subject 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
Drugs
Mosby’s Drug Consult
Over 30,000 drug medications
Pill pictures available
Cost of therapy provided for
many medications
Also includes:
USP off-label uses
FDA pregnancy categories
DEA schedules of controlled
substances
Poison control centers
Drug comparative tables
Drug Look-up
Allows users to search for a
specific drug medication by:
Brand name
Generic name
Therapeutic class
Pharmacological class
Indication
Drug Updates
Up-to-date news on recent
medication information
Provides current information on
new drug approvals
safety notices
newly approved indications
plus more
Updated daily
News
Keep up-to-date on what’s
happening in the medical world
Includes three service areas:
This Week In Medicine
What Your Patients Are
Reading
In 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 about
New stories are added each
week
In This Week’s Journals
Summarized 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 Medicine
JAMA
The Lancet
British Medical Journal
Annals of Internal Medicine
Archives of Internal Medicine
Current Practice
Two service areas:
Clinical Topic Tours
Practice Guidelines
Clinical Topic Tours
Current “hot” topics reviewed
and extensively annotated
Includes related information
from all areas of MDC
Reference additional resources
online
Practice Guidelines
Over 3,500 handouts
Fully customizable
6th – 8th grade reading level
1-2 pages in length
10% available in Spanish
Over 100 comprehensive
handouts available
Learning Center
Online CME
Medical student
resources
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
Student Union
Up-to-date topics and study aids
for medical students
Clerkship survival guide
Resources to help choose a
specialty and find a residency
Step-by-step instructions for
practice techniques
Case studies
In Medical Student Journals
Online reading room
Marketplace
Valuable professional
products and services from
respected companies
Includes:
Online bookstore
e-Detailing
e-Sampling
Bookstore
Elsevier’s online bookstore
10% off purchases of 3 or
more
Free shipping
e-Detailing
Virtual Details
Educational presentations
Describes the features of a
pharmaceutical product and
its benefit to patients
e-Sampling
Online access to prescription
drug samples
Via mail, drug representative
or downloading sample
vouchers
Must have a DEA number
and state medical license
number
MDC Mobile
Current medical news
Drug updates
Personalized journal abstracts
Initiate & save searches
Palm & Pocket PC platforms
FREE!
MDC Mobile
Daily update of current medical
news, as well as important drug
alerts
Drug updates
Medical news
MDC Mobile
Download the table of
contents from over 350
journals
Provides the citation and/or
abstract of journal articles
MDC Mobile
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
Enter a quick search
Open the Advanced
Search form
Quick search box lets you search
all areas simultaneously
View the results of
your last search
Global Search Results
Includes search results in all areas
of the services
Jump directly to any section of
search results
Advanced Search
Enables users to target
search to a specific content
area
Use boolean terms for
multiple search terms
Searching Reference Books
Search 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 box
Use limiters to narrow search
Search results indicate:
Copyright information
Review article
Year Book article
Presence of full-text or abstract
Find similar articles
Searching Drug Information
Enter drug in search box
Searching News
Enter phrase(s) in search box
Select sort order
Reverse Chronological
Relevancy to Query
Search results indicate:
Article title
Service area
Date of article
Search results encompass Drug Updates
Searching Current Practice
Searches Clinical Topic Tours
Enter phrase(s) in search box
Select sort order
Reverse Chronological
Relevancy to Query
Searching Practice Guidelines
Enter phrase(s) in search box
Use limiters to narrow search
Search results include:
Copyright information
Cochrane or Review article
Presence of full-text or abstract
Find similar articles link
Searching Patient Handouts
Enter phrase(s) in search box
Results are sorted by relevancy
Spanish and Comprehensive handouts are
indicated
Images are available on select handouts
My Folder
Personal filing tool
Save and organize information
Save searches for easy reuse
Access folders from any computer
Add to Folder
Bookmark information to My
Folder
Easy to access for future use
Title the bookmark any way
you choose
News Customization
Select the specialty areas of
interest to you
News stories in these areas will
appear first in Other Stories by
Specialty
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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