Databases

• MEDLINE (Ovid) - Premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of the biomedical literature. Includes some full-text.
• POPLINE - Provides citations with abstracts from worldwide literature in the field of reproduction, family planning, and health-related issues. Special emphasis upon developing nations.
• Proquest Social Science Journals - Provides access to more than 160 key journals for the study of social sciences. Subjects include anthropology, community health and medical care, family studies, gender studies, international relations, minority studies, psychiatry, social work and more.
• PsycINFO - Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines. Coverage is worldwide, and includes references and abstracts to journals and dissertations in more than 30 languages, and to book chapters and books in the English language. Includes some full-text.
• PubMed (NLM) - PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

Electronic Books

• Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd ed (NCBI Bookshelf)
• Essentials of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 1999 (Books@Ovid)
• Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care, 2005 (STAT!Ref)
• Health, United States, 2004 (NCBI Bookshelf)
• Healthy People 2010 (HHS))
• Integrative Medicine, 2007 (MD Consult)
• Priorities in Health, 2006 (NCBI Bookshelf)
• Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach, 4th ed., 2005 (AccessMedicine)

Electronic Journals

• Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology
• Cultural Values
• Culture, Health & Sexuality
• Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry
• Ethnicity & Health
• Journal of Cultural Diversity
• Journal of Gender, Culture, and Health
• Mental Health, Religion & Culture
• Multicultural Perspectives

This is a sample of highly cited journals in diversity in health care. To see a complete list of UMDNJ Library electroinc journal holdings please check the Electronic Journals Holdings List. To check print holdings please use the UMDNJ Libraries Catalog.

Resources for the PDA (Handheld Devices)

• Essential Evidence Plus - point of care tool designed to offer "Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters". Also includes access to 6 EBM databases, calculators, guidelines and quick reference tools.
• PDA Toolkit

University Resources

• Center for Cultural Competency
• Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity
• Cross Cultural Addiction Psychiatry and Diagnostic Studies
• Hispanic Center of Excellence

Selected Web Resources

• Association of American Medical Colleges
• EthnoMed
• National Center for Cultural Competence
• NJ Department of Health & Senior Services
• Office of Minority Health

CME Resources

• UMDNJ Center for Continuing and Outreach Education CCOE is constructing a portfolio of activities -- live and online, short- and long-duration -- to assist healthcare professionals in New Jersey and throughout the nation to obtain appropriate CME training in cultural competency and health disparities.
• A Physician's Practical Guide to Culturally Competent Care is a free online educational program accredited for physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and pharmacists. Supported through the Office of Minority Health at the United States Department of Health and Human Services. 9 hours.
• Unified Health Communication 101: Addressing Health Literacy, Cultural Competency, and Limited English Proficiency is sponsored by U.S. DHHS-Helath Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Take the course for credit (CEU/CE, CHES, CME, CNE) or not for credit. The course has five modules and is estimated to take a total of 5 hours to complete.
• Medscape Health Diversity Resource Center collections of Medscape's key clinical content, including CME.
• Quality Interactions: Cross-Cultural Health Care from Manhattan Cross Cultural Group is an e-learning program that provides case-based instruction on cross-cultural health care. Priced from $69-$139.
• Delivering Culturally Effective Care sponsored by The University of Arizona College of Medicine at the Arizona Health Sciences Center and Medical Directions, Inc. 2 hours. $30
• Culture and Health Care: an E-Learning Course sponsored by Doctors in Touch. Basde on DIT's "Cultural Sensitivity: A Guidebook for Physicians and HealthCare Professionals." $65-$69 online and CD-ROM.
• Building Cultural Competency for improved Diabetes Care Journal of Family Practice Supplement, September 2007. This supplement to The Journal of Family Practice is sponsored by the Primary Care Education Consortium and is supported by an educational grant from Novo Nordisk, Inc. CME credit expired.