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Welcome!

Welcome to the Medicine Guide, where you'll find a variety of library resources to support your clinical work.

Call: 804-828-0636
Toll-free: 1-866-VCU-BOOK
Fax: (804) 828-6089

509 North 12th Street
PO Box 980582
Richmond, VA 23298-0582

MEDLINE/PubMed

The primary database of information in biomedical and health sciences fields.
MD Consult

A clinical library online; includes reference books, journals, and patient education materials. Includes an option for a personal account.
Access Medicine
Features over 60 medical book titles, drug information, thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment programs, case files, diagnostic tools, and the ability to download content to a mobile device. Includes an integrated differential diagnosis tool.

* Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
* Hurst's The Heart
* Schwartz's Principles of Surgery
* Williams Obstetrics
* Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics
STAT!Ref Electronic Medical Library

Full-text cross-searchable reference books for the health professional. Includes Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment and DSM-IV-TR.
UpToDate
Clinical information tool providing reviewed clinical reference material. Includes pharmaceutical information, patient handouts, graphics. Provided by the VCU Health System. New: Access is available from on campus only.

If you have not found what you are looking for in 10 minutes ... it's time to call me.

As your librarian I provide many information based services for free, including:

Systematic Reviews - assistance with searching, citation management, and appraisal.
Expert Literature Searches
Evidence Based Practice Searches
Citation Management assistance
and more.

I can also come to your office, lab or facutly meeting, or class to give presentations on: