Transcript This Week`s Journals

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In This Week’s Journals
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Clinics
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Table of Contents
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Glance” area.
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Reference Books
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specific book
Journals
Full-text articles from
over 80 journals and
clinics
Includes the Clinics of
North America and
Year Books
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databases
Bibliographic data and
Table of Contents
available for each fulltext article
Journal Search
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Study Group
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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
New stories are added
each week
In This Week’s Journals
Summarized key articles
from current influential
medical journals
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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
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Tours
Case of the
Week
Clinical
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Practice
Guidelines
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Images in Surgery
Practice Management and
Patient Safety articles
Review articles
Case of the Week
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as a series of questions
and answers, with links to
MD Consult's reference
material.
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topic
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Contents available for each fulltext article
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2-3 pages in length
10% available in Spanish
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Click on the This Week’s
Journals link
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Searching Journals/MEDLINE
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Insight stories
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Searching Practice Guidelines
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