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 | Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) - A scholarly, multi-disciplinary collection offering coverage of information in many areas study including: animal science, anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology, and many other fields. |
| Access Medicine (McGraw Hill) - AccessMedicine is an online resource that provides students, residents, clinicians, researchers, and all health professionals with access to more than 60 medical titles from the best minds in medicine, updated content, thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, diagnostic tools, a comprehensive search platform, and the ability to download content to a mobile device. |
| Access Pharmacy (McGraw Hill) - Is an online curricular resource designed to meet the changing demands of pharmacy education. A flexible resource, AccessPharmacy allows students to select a core curriculum topic, browse by organ system, review textbooks, or search across pharmacy online references. |
 | Advance for Physician Assistants - Website featuring salary comparisons, peer reviewed articles, etc. |
| Advanced Practice Jobs - This website is free for job seekers and posts jobs for Physician Assistants nationwide.
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| African Index Medicus (AIM) - In order to give access to information published in or related to Africa and to encourage local publishing, the World Health Organization, in collaboration with the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA), has produced an international index to African health literature and information sources. |
| Alt HealthWatch (EBSCO) - Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. |
| American Academy of Osteopathy (AAO) - Their mission is to teach, explore, advocate, and advance the study and application of the science and art of total health care management, emphasizing palpatory diagnosis and osteopathic manipulative treatment. |
| American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) - Preparing Physicians, Changing the Future. |
| American Association of Surgical Physician Assistants - A website for Physician Assistants that are specializing in surgery. There is a section for students offering scholarship information and opportunities. |
| American College of Clinicians (ACC) - The ACC website represents PA’s and Nurse Practitioners and promotes understanding of the two professions. |
| American Medical Association (AMA) - Physicians dedicated to the Health of America. |
| American Osteopathic Association (AOA) - Advancing the philosophy and practice of osteopathic medicine by promoting excellence in education, research, and the delivery of quality, cost-effective healthcare in a distinct, unified profession |
| American Osteopathic Foundation (AOF) - Supporting education, research, and promotion of the osteopathic profession. AOF is the philanthropic arm of the AOA. |
| American Pharmacists Association (APhA) - Improving medication use. Advancing patient care. |
| American Public Health Association (APHA) - The major site for public health professionals emphasizing disease prevention and health promotion. |
| Anatomy TV - Offers detailed 3D models of human anatomy that can be rotated, sectioned and stripped to different layers. Users can study various body regions and test themselves by using the customizable quiz maker. Includes other supportive materials, such as MRIs, videos, slides, and biomechanical actions. |
| ASPH CPH Study Guide - The ASPH CPH study guide provides:Information about the CPH exam;Strategies and tips to assist you in performing your best on the exam; Chapters on each of the five core areas of public health. The majority of the CPH exam is based on the core areas; A chapter reviewing the seven cross cutting competency areas; some content related to the cross-cutting competencies may be included in the exam;A practice test, which we suggest you take as a form of self-assessment to identify your areas of strength and weakness; Terminology and definitions for each core area and the cross-cutting competencies. Please contact Christine Park, MLIS, Electronic Resources Librarian. for the username and password. |
| Auscultation Assistant - The Auscultation Assistant provides heart sounds, heart murmurs, and breath sounds in order to help medical students and others improve their physical diagnosis skills. |
| Bates Visual Guide to Physical Examination (Streaming Video) - Each of the first twelve modules in the series is devoted to a specific body region or system. Six new modules cover assessment strategies for specific patient groups across the life span. System requirements: all streams, "chapters" and "play-all" will be at 256bps, which requires DSL, Cable Modem, LAN or T1 to play. Your computer must have Windows Media Player 9 (free download) or higher installed and it is only compatible with Internet Explorer. The image size is 320 x 240 at 15 FPS and the audio is Mono. |
| Baxter - Baxter's training module for intravenous admixture personnel program. Please contact Christine Park, MLIS, Electronic Resources Librarian for log in information. |
| Bones of the Skull: A 3-D Learning Tool - A collection of QuickTime VR (virtual reality) object movies of the skull and its individual bones. Students are able to rotate the bones and view them from multiple perspectives. At any point, the user can click to view labeled close-ups. This resource need to be downloaded on your computer. It is free, but you must register. |
| Business Source Complete (EBSCO) - Scholarly business database including more than 1,200 journals dating back to 1986. |
| CA Physicians Assistant Committee - Licensing information for Physician Assistants practicing in California. |
| California Academy of Physicians Assistants - This is the California chapter of the Academy of Physicians Assistants website. It offers information on the profession and about working in the profession in California.
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| California Medical Association (CMA) - Physicians dedicated to the health of Californians. |
| Central Search - Many resources on our Web site are proprietary (purchased or subscription) and restricted to the Touro community. You can search many of our databases at once through Central Search. |
| CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCO) - The world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 750 journals indexed in CINAHL. CINAHL also includes literature on world-wide OMM research and indexes the International journal of osteopathic medicine, Journal of the American Osteopathic Association and others. |
| Clinical Pharmacology - A Gold Standard database, provides drug and drug-related information, consumer drug information handouts, a drug identifier, product comparison reports, drug interaction reports, compatibility reports, a drug finding tool, clinical comparison reports, and a resource center. |
| CMA County Affiliates - A complete listing of California county medical associations and societies. |
| Cochrane Databases (EBSCO) - The Cochrane Databases include the Cochrane Methodology Register, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials. The Cochrane Methodology Register Offers a bibliography of publications which report on methods used in the conduct of controlled trials. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews includes full text articles and protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare. Data is evidence-based medicine and is often combined statistically (with meta-analysis) to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies, each too small to produce reliable results individually. The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials is a bibliography of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration and others, as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews. |
| County Health Rankings - The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is collaborating with the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute to develop these Rankings for each state’s counties.This collection of 50 reports – one per state – helps us see that where we live, learn, work, and play influences how healthy we are and how long we live. |
| Credo Reference - Search over 210 reference sources (biographies, conversions, dictionaries, encyclopedias, quotations) in 16 academic disciplines. Covers art, business, history, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, psychology, science, social sciences, technology, etc. |
| Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (EBSCO) - Includes abstracts of published systematic reviews on the effects of health care from around the world. Provides access to quality reviews in subjects for which a Cochrane review may not yet exist. |
| Dissection Videos - Twenty-seven different human dissection QuickTime videos varying in length from 7 to 35 minutes. Provided by the University of Wisconsin - Madison Medical School, Sept. of Anatomy. |
| DPDx - DPDx is a web site developed and maintained by the CDC’s Division of Parasitic Diseases (DPD). Their goal is to use the Internet to strengthen diagnosis of parasitic diseases, both in the United States and abroad. |
| Drug Information Portal - The NLM Drug Information Portal gives users a gateway to selected drug information from the National Library of Medicine and other key government agencies. At the top of the page are links to individual resources with potential drug information, including summaries tailored to various audiences. Resources include the NLM search systems useful in searching for a drug, NLM research resources, resources organized by audience and class, and other NIH and government resources such as FDA and CDC. |
| Drug Pronunciation Guide - This website allows users to listen to drug pronunciations. It includes both generic and trade name pronunciations. It is a work in progress from the University of Michigan Medicinal Chemistry Library. |
| EBSCO Host - Gateway to all EBSCO databases. Select individual databases or search multiple databases together. Note: Searching multiple databases together will limit search options. |
| EdITLib-Digital Library - The Digital Library is an online resource of peer-reviewed and published international journal articles and conference papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of Educational Technology and E-Learning. |
| Educator's Reference Complete (Gale) - Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database. The database is updated daily and provides 24-hour access from school or home. |
| ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) (EBSCO) - An online digital library of education research and information sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. The ERIC collection includes annotated bibliographic records (citations, abstracts, and other pertinent data) for more than 1.2 million items indexed since 1966, including: journal articles, books, research syntheses, conference papers, technical reports, policy papers, and other education-related materials.
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| Exam Master - EXAM MASTER ONLINE is a newly updated USMLE, Certification Review Series, Medical Subject Review, PANCE and NAPLEX preparation and review tool that provides access to thousands of basic and clinical sciences questions. The completely revised interface allows for quick and easy navigation, and provides students with the ability to create very customized practice exams and study blocks. |
| FREIDA Online - Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database: containing information on approximately 7,500 graduate medical education programs that are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), as well as on 200 combined specialty programs. |
| Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO) - Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. |
| General Science Collection (EBSCO) - Offers full text coverage for more than 60 science publications dating back to 1992. |
| Hardin MD: Medical Picture Gallery - A curated directory of medical images from Web sites around the world. |
| Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) - A digital library that provides over 21,000 freely accessible digital teaching resources including: animation files, audio files, case studies, exams, exercises, images, lectures, tutorials, videos and virtual patients. |
| Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO) - Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names. |
| Health Technology Assessments (EBSCO) - Provides details of completed and ongoing health technology assessments (studies of the medical, social, ethical and economic implications of healthcare interventions) from around the world. |
| HighWire Press - A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1165 journals and 4,827,834 full text articles from over 140 scholarly publishers. HighWire-hosted publishers have collectively made 1,910,477 articles free. With our partner publishers we produce 71 of the 200 most-frequently-cited journals. |
| Index to Jewish Periodicals (EBSCO) - Provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish and Middle Eastern affairs. Journal coverage dates back as far as 1988. |
| JSTOR - Includes the Arts & Sciences (I, II, IV & VII), Business II Collections, and Health & General Sciences Collection. Browse articles in over 330 arts & sciences journals (education, history, language & literature, law, mathematics, political science, sociology, etc.) and 65 business journals back to the mid-1800s. |
| LactMed - Provides information on drug levels in breast milk, blood levels in breastfed infants, alternate drugs that might be used during breastfeeding, and more.
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| Lexi-Comp Online - Lexi-Comp is a provider of drug information and clinical content for the healthcare industry. Lexi Comp provides tools necessary to help improve patient safety, ensure compliance, and elevate the quality of care patients receive. |
| LexisNexis Academic - Access over 9,000 news, business, and legal sources. News coverage includes deep backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. The Company Dossier module retrieves detailed company information and financial performance measures or identify and compare companies matching specific criteria. Also provides access to Shepard's Citations service for all federal and states court cases back to 1789. |
 | LibGuides - LibGuides is a Web 2.0 content management and information sharing system. There are now over 400 institutions worldwide using LibGuides to create content, share knowledge, and connect with students and patrons. |
| Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO) - Indexes more than 675 journals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management back as far as the mid-1960s. |
| MANTIS - Indexes peer-reviewed articles from the chiropractic, osteopathic, homeopathic, and manual medicine literature from 1900-present. Also covers alternative medicine literature. |
| MD Consult (Elsevier) - Designed to meet the exacting needs of clinical practitioners, providing practical and time-saving features that let you quickly access the precise information you need. MD Consult includes: the complete text of over 50 leading medical reference books, The Clinics of North America, Journal Databases, Guidelines, Patient Education, CME: Grand Rounds activities, Drug Information.
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| MD Consult Clinics (Elsevier) - The Clinics of North America are your most trusted source for clinical reviews. Every Clinics issue provides today's best thinking on the challenges physicians face. |
| MD Consult Drugs (Elsevier) - Drug information is provided by Gold Standard. Generic and brand name drugs, investigational medications, neutraceuticals, and nutritional products are included. FDA Approvals and Safety Notices are added when announced by the US Food and Drug Administration or a specific drug manufacturer. |
| MD Consult Images (Elsevier) - Over 50,000 high-quality medical images from the renowned medical books on MD Consult.
Images include photos, tables, graphs, and more. |
| MD Consult News (Elsevier) - Provides concise clinical summaries on new developments from all major journals, government agencies, and medical conferences. |
| MD Consult Patient Education (Elsevier) - 10,000 patient education handouts written at a 6th- to 8th-grade reading level and are 1 to 2 pages in length. Spanish versions are available for approximately 30% of topics. Handouts are licensed from several leaders in patient education including American Academy of Family Physicians, DynoMed.com, LLC, McKesson Clinical Reference Systems, A.D.A.M., Inc.
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| MD Consult Practice Guidelines (Elsevier) - Full-text practice guidelines are available when published in journals for which MD Consult has full-text. |
| Medical Board of California - Licensing information for Physicians and Physician Assistants practicing in California. |
| Medical Gross Anatomy Dissection Videos - Dissection Videos from the University of Michigan Medical School. |
| Medical Mnemonics - A free, non-profit, online searchable database of medical mnemonics to help remember the important details. |
| Medical Podcasts - Links to Medical Podcasts compiled by Duke University Medical School Library. Includes podcasts from Nature, Science, Lancet, JAMA, NEJM, etc. |
| MedPix Medical Image Database - A database of over 42,000 radiology images from over 9,900 cases. The material is organized by disease category, disease location (organ system), captions, and by patient profiles. Includes Peer Reviewed Teaching Files, Imaging Atlas, and Decision Support Tools. MedPix® is sponsored by the Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, USUHS, Bethesda, MD. |
| Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print - Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. First published by Oscar K. Buros, the MMY series allows users to make knowledgeable judgments and informed selection decisions about the increasingly complex world of testing. MMY provides coverage from Volume 1 to the present. Also produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). |
| MICROMEDEX - A comprehensive source for drug information. Search for dosage, pharmacokinetics, cautions, interactions, comparative efficacy, clinical applications and place in therapy for investigational, international, FDA-approved, and nonprescription preparations. Also features comparative drug summaries in a side-by-side format, multi-level therapeutic class tree, and drug images for easier identification.
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| MPC Data Projects - Minnesota Population Center
The Minnesota Population Center provides free online access to: Census and survey data from the U.S. and around the world, Consistently-coded data for comparative analysis across time and place and Comprehensive documentation for all datasets. This is a free resource for researchers and students. You will need to complete an online registration form. |
| National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine - The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) is the Federal Government's lead agency for scientific research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). |
| National Commission on Certification of Physicians Assistants - Information on how to become a licensed PA, how to sign up for PANCE, etc. |
| National Guideline Clearinghouse - A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. |
| National Women's Health Information Center - The National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC) is a reliable and current information resource on women’s health. NWHIC offers free women’s health information on more than 800 topics through our call center and web site. |
| Natural Standard - Provide high quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. |
| NetAnatomy - NetAnatomy is designed to teach human anatomy to students of the health professions, including undergraduate medical, health sciences, and nursing students. NetAnatomy also serves as a place to review anatomy after one’s initial exposure to the subject, e.g. students beginning a clinical rotation, USMLE (National Board) preparation, etc. |
| Netter Presenter for Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy - Netter Presenter is a web-based presentation tool based on Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy, Professional Edition, 5th Edition. You can customize images for specific tasks and export custom images to use in Microsoft PowerPoint® and other presentation software |
| Netter Presenter for Netter's Concise Radiologic Anatomy - Netter Presenter is a web-based presentation tool based on Netter's Concise Radiologic Anatomy. You can customize images for specific tasks and export custom images to use in Microsoft PowerPoint® and other presentation software |
| NHS Economic Evaluation Database - The NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED) assists decision-makers in the world of professional health care by providing information on the costs and effects of drugs, treatments and procedures. |
| Oncology - by OncologySTAT. Oncology information organized by cancer types for oncology specialists and professionals. Journals, news, drugs, research, news and more. |
| OSTMED - Osteopathic Medicine Digital Repository - OSTMED is a database of approximately 30,000 citations and abstracts covering 100 years of osteopathic and related literature. Books, core journals, selective journals, video and images will be included. Although not part of the initial OSTMED.DR® project, VCOM/VTLS will collaborate on a second project. Phase II (2008) will be the addition of a quarterly online journal for osteopathic academic medicine’s research. |
| Physician Assistant History Center (PAHC) - PAHC is a freely accessible
website maintained by Duke University dedicated to preserving the history of the PA profession.
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| Physicians Assistant Education Association - This national website represents PA education programs. |
| POPLINE (POPulation information onLINE) - POPLINE®(POPulation information onLINE), the world's largest database on reproductive health, containing citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues. POPLINE is maintained by the K4Health Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs and is funded by the United States Agency for International Development(USAID). |
| PrimateLit - A bibliographic database for people interested in primates--prosimians, monkeys and apes. |
| Procedures Consult - Procedures Consult is an online procedure reference tool that offers easy access to complete details on how to prepare for, perform and follow up on the most common procedures required in today's hospital setting. Procedures Consult covers the procedures required by the ABIM (American Board of Internal Medicine) and conforms to ACGME standards. |
| Professional Development Collection (EBSCO) - Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. |
| ProQuest (Link to all ProQuest Databases) - Access to multiple databases that include over 4000 journals and newspapers covering business, education, social sciences, the arts and medicine, many full-text. Full-text access to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and over 200 key medical journals including JAMA. |
| ProQuest Dissertations & Theses - A comprehensive collection of scholarly research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, this database covers more than 1 million dissertations and theses. |
| ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection - A comprehensive collection of scholarly research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, this database covers more than 1 million dissertations and theses. |
| ProQuest Newspapers - Search the full text of 49 major U.S. newspapers including The Wall Street Journal. Coverage varies. |
| ProQuest Psychology Journals - ProQuest Psychology Journals™ provides abstracts and indexing for more than 640 titles, with over 540 titles available in full text. Additionally, ProQuest Psychology Journals includes 4,000 full text dissertations spanning the years 2000 through 2005. |
| PsychiatryOnline - PsychiatryOnline is a web-based portal that features DSM-IV-TR®—the most widely used psychiatric reference in the world—and The American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of a collection of psychiatric references from American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. |
| PsycINFO (EBSCO) - Contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. Provided by the American Psychological Association (APA). |
| PubChem - PubChem is a free database of chemical structures of small organic molecules and information on their biological activities. It is maintained by the National Library of Medicine. |
| PubMed with LinkOut to full-text articles available - A service of the National Library of Medicine, PubMed provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed is the first database to search when looking for biomedical and life science journal articles, clinical trials, reviews and more. PubMed includes links to many providers offering full text articles and other related resources. |
| Red Book Online - The newly revised and updated 2009 Red Book® contains the latest findings and clinical guidelines on the manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of more than 200 common childhood conditions. |
| Science Direct College Edition - A science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information database containing over 9 million articles. The following subject collections are availabe to TU-CA users: Health & Life Sciences Journals and Social & Behavioral Sciences Journals. |
| STAT!Ref portal to health e-resources - STAT!Ref is a reputable, healthcare e-resource, enabling users to intuitively cross-search full-text, evidence-based and authoritative resources.
With 300+ resources currently offered in over 50 healthcare disciplines, STAT!Ref provides the latest healthcare information in a customizable and convenient format. |
| STATdx - STATdx® is an imaging point-of-care, diagnostic clinical decision support system. It is designed to support the practicing radiologist, pathologist and other imaging professionals by increasing speed, accuracy and diagnostic confidence in complex cases. Please contact Christine Park, MLIS, Electronic Resources Librarian for the login information. |
| Student Academy of the American Association of Physicians Assistants - This is the website for the student branch of the AAPA. |
| Surface Anatomy - Color photographs of surface anatomy that may be viewed with or without labels. |
| The American Academy of Physicians Assistants (AAPA) - Official website for the American Academy of Physicians. |
| The PA Forum - This is a discussion board for PA’s.
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| TOXNET (TOXicology Data NETwork) - A cluster of databases covering toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health and related areas. It is managed by the Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program (TEHIP) in the Division of Specialized Information Services (SIS) of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). |
| TRIP Database (Turning Research into Practice) - A medical search engine with emphasis on evidence based medicine ( EBM ). Features evidence based (including Cochrane and Bandolier), clinical guidelines, medical images and patient information. |
| UCSD Catalog of Clinical Images - A visual educational resource dedicated to providing pictures that are representative of common and uncommon physical exam findings. Discussions of pathophysiology, diagnostics, and treatment are not included. |
| UpToDate - Provides topic reviews that include a synthesis of the literature, the latest evidence, and specific recommendations for patient care. UpToDate is used to answer questions quickly, increase your clinical knowledge, check for changes to drug monographs and improve patient care. |
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