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If your patient has it, we have it.

MD Consult is designed to help physicians answer clinical questions and stay up-to-date with new developments in medicine.

41 leading medical textbooks70 full-text journals/clinics with MEDLINEOver 30,000 drug medicationsThe latest medical newsPeer-reviewed practice guidelines3,500 customizable patient handoutsEarn CME credit onlineStudent Union – the medical student’s resourceMDC Mobile – free for your PDA

Content is organized in Nine Categories

BooksJournalsDrugsNews

This Week in MedicineWhat Your Patients Are ReadingIn This Week’s Journals

Current PracticeClinical Topic ToursPractice Guidelines

Patient HandoutsLearning Center

CMEStudent Union

MarketplaceBookstoree-Detailinge-Sampling

MDC Mobile

Reference Books

Dozens of the most respected references

Scroll through the table of contents or the back of the book index

Reference Books

Search across the entire collection simultaneously

Searching uses human-made indexes as well as MD Consult’s controlled medical vocabulary and thesaurus

Your last search and set of search results is always available for you

Journals

Full-text articles from over 70 journals and clinics

Includes the Clinics of North America and Year Books

Simultaneously searches the MEDLINE and AIDSLINE databases

Bibliographic data and Table of Contents available for each full-text article

Journal Search

Search options provide simple but flexible ways to refine searches

Focus button Study GroupSubject Age Sorted by full text/relevancy, relevancy, or publication date

Year Book articles are attached to the original journal article

Review articles are flagged in search results

Drugs

Mosby’s Drug Consult

Over 30,000 drug medications

Pill pictures available

Cost of therapy provided for many medications

Also includes:USP off-label usesFDA pregnancy categoriesDEA schedules of controlled substancesPoison control centersDrug comparative tables

Drug Look-up

Allows users to search for a specific drug medication by:

Brand name

Generic name

Therapeutic class

Pharmacological class

Indication

Drug Updates

Up-to-date news on recent medication information

Provides current information on

new drug approvalssafety noticesnewly approved indicationsplus more

Updated daily

News

Keep up-to-date on what’s happening in the medical world

Includes three service areas:This Week In MedicineWhat Your Patients Are ReadingIn This Week’s Journals

This Week In Medicine

Concise summaries

Updated daily

Customize to your specialty interest area

What Your Patients Are Reading

We canvass the popular press to identify major stories about health and medicine

Provides a “heads up” on what patients are likely to ask about

New stories are added each week

In This Week’s Journals

Summarized key articles from current influential medical journals

Allows users to quickly scan the content of leading medical journals

Includes featured journals which change monthly

Updated weekly (simultaneous with new issue release)

In This Week’s Journals

Coverage includes:

New England Journal of MedicineJAMAThe LancetBritish Medical JournalAnnals of Internal MedicineArchives of Internal Medicine

Current Practice

Two service areas:

Clinical Topic ToursPractice Guidelines

Clinical Topic Tours

Current “hot” topics reviewed and extensively annotated

Includes related information from all areas of MDC

Reference additional resources online

Practice Guidelines

Over 3,500 handouts

Fully customizable

6th – 8th grade reading level

1-2 pages in length

10% available in Spanish

Over 100 comprehensive handouts available

Learning Center

Online CME

Medical student resources

CME Center

Over 200 Category 1 modules

Across 15 specialties

First 5 conferences are free

Sign up for a full year's worth of conferences

Student UnionUp-to-date topics and study aids for medical students

Clerkship survival guide

Resources to help choose a specialty and find a residency

Step-by-step instructions for practice techniques

Case studies

In Medical Student Journals

Online reading room

Marketplace

Valuable professional products and services from respected companies

Includes:Online bookstoree-Detailinge-Sampling

Bookstore

Elsevier’s online bookstore

10% off purchases of 3 or more

Free shipping

e-Detailing

Virtual Details

Educational presentations

Describes the features of a pharmaceutical product and its benefit to patients

e-SamplingOnline access to prescription drug samples

Via mail, drug representative or downloading sample vouchers

Must have a DEA number and state medical license number

MDC MobileCurrent medical news

Drug updates

Personalized journal abstracts

Initiate & save searches

Palm & Pocket PC platforms

FREE!

MDC Mobile

Daily update of current medical news, as well as important drug alerts

Drug updates

Medical news

MDC Mobile

Download the table of contents from over 350 journals

Provides the citation and/or abstract of journal articles

MDC Mobile

Capture information needs on your PDA

Searches are uploaded when you hot sync

Searches are saved in “My Searches” for future use

Print Preview

Allows users to view what will be printed

Print right from the preview page

Global Search

Quick search box lets you search all areas simultaneously

Enter a quick search

Open the Advanced Search form

View the results of your last search

Global Search Results

Includes search results in all areas of the services

Jump directly to any section of search results

Advanced Search

Enables users to target search to a specific content area

Use boolean terms for multiple search terms

Searching Reference BooksSearch all books simultaneously

Books listed by number of occurrences

Index of specific hit topics is displayed for each book

Searching Journals/MEDLINE

Enter phrase(s) in search boxUse limiters to narrow searchSearch results indicate:

Copyright informationReview articleYear Book articlePresence of full-text or abstractFind similar articles

Searching Drug Information

Enter drug in search box

Searching NewsEnter phrase(s) in search boxSelect sort order

Reverse ChronologicalRelevancy to Query

Search results indicate:Article titleService areaDate of article

Search results encompass Drug Updates

Searching Current Practice

Searches Clinical Topic ToursEnter phrase(s) in search boxSelect sort order

Reverse ChronologicalRelevancy to Query

Searching Practice GuidelinesEnter phrase(s) in search boxUse limiters to narrow searchSearch results include:

Copyright informationCochrane or Review articlePresence of full-text or abstractFind similar articles link

Searching Patient Handouts

Enter phrase(s) in search boxResults are sorted by relevancySpanish and Comprehensive handouts are indicatedImages are available on select handouts

My Folder

Personal filing toolSave and organize informationSave searches for easy reuseAccess folders from any computer

Add to Folder

Bookmark information to My FolderEasy to access for future useTitle the bookmark any way you choose

News Customization

Select the specialty areas of interest to you

News stories in these areas will appear first in Other Stories by Specialty

Benefits of MD Consult

Convenience - 24-hour access to medical content and news. MDC Mobile provides medical information and news to your PDA.Trusted resources - Accessing information from peer-reviewed medical resourcesEfficiency – Faster searching, no junk hits. Search one or all of the references.Be more productive – The content on MD Consult helps you do your job better and faster.Higher quality of care – This is due to the depth and quality of the content on MDC.Confidence – Used by over 1,700 healthcare organizations worldwide and nearly 95% of U.S. medical schools.

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