Medical Education Toolkit

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  • MEDLINE (Ovid)- Premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of the biomedical literature. Includes some full-text.
  • Academic Search Premier - Covers a wide range of academic areas including arts, business, communication, education, humanities, language and linguistics, literature, sciences, social sciences, technology and women's studies. Full text is provided for more than 4,650 journals dating back to 1975.
  • Best Evidence Medical Collaboration (BEME) -is a group of individuals or institutions who are committed to the promotion of Best Evidence Medical Education through: the dissemination of information which allows medical teachers, institutions and all concerned with medical education to make decisions on the basis of the best evidence available,the production of appropriate systematic reviews of medical education which reflect the best evidence available and meet the needs of the user, and the creation of a culture of best evidence medical education amongst individual teachers, institutions and national bodies.
  • MedEdPortal - is a free peer-reviewed publication service and repository for medical and oral health teaching materials, assessment tools, and faculty development resources. All copyright and patient privacy issues are addressed during the submission process so users around the globe can download and utilize any and all of the published resources for educational purposes without legal infringements.
  • 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.
  • ERIC - ERIC is the world's largest source of education information. The database contains more than one million abstracts of education-related documents and journal articles. Available to the public from the U.S. Dept. of Education
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