What's New
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Physical Examination and Diagnosis Skills Videos [use Internet Explorer 6 or 7] - Examination techniques covering all organ systems cross linked
with abnormal and normal findings on real patients. Heart sound interpretation, from basic to advanced, is included with animated tutorials. Ophthalmoscopy techniques are shown with retinal findings in motion as in the real examination.
- VisualDx
- visual diagnostic tool with 16,000 images represented in more than 900 visually diagnosable diseases including not only common conditions, STDs,
and reportable infections, but also bioterrorism and emerging infections diseases. Patient visual clues, patient symptoms, signs,
medical history, etc. are entered to refine the differential, which can be seen visually to compare directly with the patient's
presentation.
- NetAnatomy
- resource for teaching human anatomy to students of the health professions. Includes gross, cross-sectional, and radiographic anatomy.
- Faculty of 1000 Medicine - most important recent papers in clinical medicine as judged by 2500 top medical scientists.
- Medicines (Epocrates) and New Medicines - Epocrates contains 3,300 drug monographs (brand and generic) giving extensive data on
mechanisms of action, dosing, adverse reactions, drug interactions, contraindications, abbreviations, pricing, photos, etc. New Medicines is a PhRMA website which provides a list of new medicines approved and/or currently
in clinical trials at FDA for review.
Point-of-Care Databases
- DynaMed
- an evidence-based, clinical decision support tool containing more than 3000 up-to-date clinical topic summaries with information on etiology, directed history and physical findings,
differential diagnoses and diagnostic testing, prognosis, treatment, prevention, links to patient education resources,
and the most common ICD-9 Codes.
- FIRSTConsult - an evidence-based, clinical decision support tool containing
more than 600 medical conditions, 1500 diagnoses, 300 signs and symptoms, 300
patient education sheets in English and Spanish, 1400 of the most common ICD-9 Codes,
and 30 Surgical/Diagnostic procedures. Accessible from local and remote locations.
- PIER (From ACP)
- an evidence-based, clinical decision support tool containing more than 330 disease
modules, 11 videos, 14,000 pages of medical condition and diagnostic text, and 2500
graphs and tables. Integrated with STAT!Ref. Accessible from local and remote locations.
- UpToDate - an expert opinion and evidence-based, clinical decision support tool containing
more than 60,000 pages of original text covering 7,000 topics in primary care and
internal medicine from 3000 expert contributors, 250 patient education sheets, 15,000 graphics,
and 160,000 MEDLINE abstracts. Accessible only from the OSU CHS Campus on West 17th Street and the Health Care Center at
2345 Southwest Blvd.

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