LibGuides: Problem-Based Learning (PBL): Basic Resources & Searching the Literature

Search Tools

When searching for medical literature, students can browse different online platforms like AccessMedicine, ClinicalKey and the LWW Health Library. All of which provide background information, expert opinion and more. Additionally, students may search medicals databases like PubMed where users are provided medical and scientific literature on various health-related topics. Medical literature databases can help learners acquire useful and credible information for the problem-based learning sessions.

Medical Databases

AccessMedicine provides medical students with a variety of resources needed to excel in basic science studies and clerkships. Features: eBooks (126), Multimedia files (959), Clinical Files (23), Review Books (28), Flashcards, Differential Diagnosis Tool, Drug Database, Clerkship Topics, and Patient Ed.
CINAHL Complete provides comprehensive coverage of the nursing and allied health journal literature, with over 5,000 indexed journals and more.
ClinicalKey is an evidence-based information tool that provides access to journals, ebooks, medical and procedural videos as well as calculators.
Cochrane is a collection of high- quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It is the premier database for systematic reviews.
Embase covers the most important international biomedical literature from 1947 to the present day and all articles are indexed in depth using Elsevier's Life Science Emtree thesaurus.
Google Scholar searches the Web for articles, books, and other scholarly materials in many different disciplines. Most searches return an assortment of citations, abstracts, and links to full text.
MEDLINE Complete is the leading full-text database of biomedical and health journals. It is the largest companion to the MEDLINE index, providing full text for thousands of top medical journals with cover-to-cover indexing.
Ovid MEDLINE has integrated the MEDLINE database of 26 million citations with the EBM Reviews,and other Ovid resources, allowing you to run the same search across multiple databases.
PsychiatryOnline (POL) creates a one-stop resource for information on diagnosis, treatment, guidelines, the latest research, and breaking news from the field. From a single location, you can access all APA journals, Psychiatric News, the DSM Library, and bestselling textbooks, as well as APA Practice Guidelines, and continuing medical education.
PsycINFO contains more than 7 million citations (nearly 2 million with abstracts) of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, in the field of psychology.
PubMed comprises more than 29 million citations for biomedical literature dating back to around 1946. It covers more than 5600 biomedical journals; citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
Scopus the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature. With over 22,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers.
VisualDx a clinical decision support database provides instant access to concise disease information and high-quality medical images to assist in diagnosis, to direct testing, and to guide management and therapy decisions. Works with UpToDate and PubMed.