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January 10, 2005
eMedicine: a Database that Competes Against UpToDate
by Hongjie Wang, MLS
Head, Information and Education Services
eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base is a medical information system similar to UpToDate and is available from the library’s web page at http://libdatabase.uchc.edu/databases/databases.asp. This is a popular database with an average of usage sessions at 1300 a month last year, right after UpToDate, MDConsult and Ovid Medline.
Key features of this system include:
• Thousands of peer-reviewed, 24/7 updated, medical reference articles, covering 58 specialties and 650 consumer reference articles
• Unlimited free PDA/Palm textbook downloads
• A personalized education update system that allows you to register to receive automatic topic updates, MEDLINE journal article updates, weekly quizzes on ECGs, X-rays, and images
• 30,000 hours of institutional CME, CE, and OCEU for physicians, nurses, and optometrists at a discounted rate of $6.50 per unit with use of the discount code, IDC-918.
• A high-resolution collection of over 30,000 pictures suitable for teaching lectures
• Advertising-free environment
At present, two users can access this database at the same time. Please remember to log off when you are done with the search.
Posted by Robert at January 10, 2005 12:16 PM