Faculty of Health Sciences

• Resources by Program
  • Bachelor of Health Sciences
  • Diploma in Occupational Health & Safety
  • Master of Health Management
  • Medical Sciences
  • Medicine
  • Midwifery
  • Nursing
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Online Rehabilitation Science
  • Physician Assistant
  • Physiotherapy
  • Postgraduate Medicine
• Resources by Topic
  • Evidence Based Practice Resources
  • Consumer Health Resources
  • Health Sciences Resources for Mobile Devices
  • Open Access
  • Rehabilitation Resources
  • Glossaries & Health Care Stats Terminology
• Virtual Reference Shelf
• e-Book Collection
• Video & Images
• Digital Commons
• Hamilton & District Health Library Network
• Archives & Records Management Program
• History of Health & Medicine
• Other Libraries

Liz Bayley
Physician Assistant Liaison
Health Sciences Library
bayleyl@mcmaster.ca
905-525-9140, x22545

Instruction Class: Library Orientation

Monday, September 12, 9:00-12:00 in the eClassroom on the upper level of the Health Sciences Library.

Finding out what McMaster has:

• Library Catalogue
• e-Journal Portal

Databases

• Health Databases
• Ovid Databases (includes Medline, Embase and PsycInfo)
• Cochrane Library

Quick Overviews

• 5 -Minute Clinical Consult
• Made Incredibly Easy eBooks
• MedlinePlus
• MD Consult - Patient Education
• Quick Answers (AccessMedicine)

Reference Texts

• Dictionaries and encyclopedias
• eCPS

Electronic Textbooks

Groups of Texts

• MD Consult
• AccessMedicine
• Stat!Ref
• Books@Ovid
• Thieme Electronic Book Library
• PubMed Bookshelf
• R2 Library

Individual Texts

• Harrison's Online
• ACP Medicine
• Merck Manual
• UpToDate NOTE: On-campus access only

Evidence-Based Clinical Resources 

• Clinical Evidence
• ACP PIER (Physicians' Information and Education Resource)
• DynaMed
• FirstConsult
• MacPLUS FS (McMaster Health Knowledge Refinery
  ( please register or login via MedPortal)
• TRIP (Turning Research Into Practice)

Drug Information Sources

• e-CPS - Compendium of pharmaceuticals and specialties (Canada)
• Micromedex Healthcare Series- information on drugs, toxicology, diseases, alternative medicine
• Natural Standard - foods, herbs, supplements; comparative effectiveness; drug-herbal supplements interactions checker, and more)

Clinical Resources

• AccessMedicine (Limit to Images, Video & Audio or Click on the Multimedia tab to get a list of resources by body system)
• Videos & Cool Tools (MedlinePlus - includes Anatomy Videos and links to videos of surgical procedures)
• A.D.A.M Interactive
• A.D.A.M Anatomy Practice Test
• Bates visual guide to physical examination
• Color atlas of physiology
• Pocket atlas of human anatomy
• Virtual Stethoscope (McGill University)
• The Auscultation Assistant "The Auscultation Assistant provides heart sounds, heart murmurs, and breath sounds in order to help medical students and others improve their physical diagnosis skills."
• Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education - University of Utah Health Sciences Center
• NEJM Video Series