Happy New Year! Welcome to the Virtual Medical Library e-Newsletter. The purpose of this newsletter is to announce new resources added to the FSU Virtual Medical Library, to feature established online resources to acquaint students and faculty with these resources, mention a cool feature of some PDA resource, and remind everyone how to access our Library resources from off campus. Featured this month are the PDA drug interaction tool in ePocrotes and some new online features in AccessMedicine, including a USMLE examination preparation tool.
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The Drug Interaction Tool in ePocrates is called MultiCheck and is found by tapping on the red m√ button. The purpose of this tool is to look to see if any of the drugs your patient is taking interact adversely. You should check to see if the drug you are considering prescribing interacts with any of the drugs the patients is taking. When you start this tool, it opens the view in Figure 1 and will go to the drug you last viewed in ePocrates Drugs. One by one you will select and add each drug in the patient’s medications list. Then you will run MultiCheck.
Here are the steps:
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A list of all known interactions will appear. (Figure 5) Tap on each interaction to read an explanation of the interaction with recommendations. (Figure 6) Click Close to exit MultiCheck and return to ePocrates.
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In the latest version of eProcrates Pro, released in December 2004, Multicheck, now not only runs drug-drug interactions, but also will run IV compatibilities and IV solution compatabilities.
Drugs are added the same way as previously, but now there are two buttons (Figure 7). The Drugs button runs a drug-drug interaction, while the IV button looks at the IV compatibility of the drugs. You can enter one drug and check its IV compatibility with solutions like D5-NS.
Figure 1.
AccessMedicine
McGraw-Hill has added features to its newly revised web product AccessMedicine. (Figure 1)
This is an innovative online resource that provides full text (including graphics, images and illustrations) of the most recent editions of medical reference books in internal medicine, cardiology, genetics, pharmacology, diagnosis and management, basic sciences, and patient care.
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Link to AccessMedicine in scrollbox
on Medical Library site.
A link to AccessMedicine may be found in the scrollbox on the
Medical Library home page.
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CMDT in AccessMedicine
One new feature is called myAccessMedicine (Figure 4) and allows the user to:
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MyAccessMedicine
(It is necessary to create an individual username and password to use these features.)
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AccessMedicine - USMLEasy
Students will like the new USMLE study feature found in
AccessMedicine. It is called USMLEasy, and is designed for the USMLE Step 1 or Step 2 Exam.
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AccessMedicine users have access to half of the 3000 self-assessment questions for each exam. The other half are available for an additional fee.
Practice exams of one to 50 questions may be
created and tailored to focus on specific subjects, disciplines, or organ systems.
Figure 6.
AccessMedicine reading list from USMLEasy
After completing the questions, the student may review the correct answers with explanations
The program also generates a reading list based on test performance; the items in the list are in medical textbooks available online in AccessMedicine .
New e-books at AccessMedicine: