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Barwon Health Library Service: Featured eResource

Evidence for Excellence

Featured Resource of the Month

Our featured resource this month is AccessMedicine. It features access to leading medical textbooks, plus multimedia, self-assessment, algorithms, and case studies. As we are running a 3 month trial of this resource please Contact us  to give us your thoughts on AccessMedicine.

Please Contact the library if you require any further information or assistance in using our featured resource

AccessMedicine Content

AccessMedicine is a comprehensive online medical resource for residents and health professionals and students

AccessMedicine content includes:

Publication types:

  • Medical Textbooks - more than 100 eBooks including Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine, Harrisons Principles of Internal Medicine, and Ganong's Review of Medical Physiology,
  • Multimedia Library - Examination and procedural videos, patient safety modules audio files and animations
  • Differential Diagnosis Tool -  Search by symptom, disease, or organ system at the point of care.

Study Tools

  • Self-Assessment. - Q&A from leading references such as Harrison’s Self-Assessment and Board Review for exam preparation
  • 2 minute Medicine® - Concise and curated reviews and summaries of new medical studies.
  • Customizable Patient Education - Comprehensive healthcare information.
  • Downloadable Images - Tens of thousands of photos and illustrations to aid in visual diagnosis are available to save and download educational purposes.
  • Cases - A selection of cases from across the popular Case Files series and Pathophysiology of Disease
  • CME - Receive CME credit for searches and prepare for in-services, certification, and recertification

Searching AccessMedicine

The search feature in AccessMedicine is simple and easy to use. You can learn more about the search features at this link.

Create a free MyAccess profile (upper-right sign in dropdown menu) in AccessMedicine to:

  • Save favourite content
  • Download images Annotate and
  • highlight chapters

If you are accessing the database from home you will need to log in with your library membership login. Click here to register for a Library Membership

AccessMedicine Overview