We hope this guide will make your time on rotations a little easier by providing quick access to VCU Libraries resources. If you get stuck, call or email us!
Lists both prescription and OTC drugs by therapeutic categories with concise information concerning pharmacology, dispensing information, ingredients.
Available online on the VCU School of Pharmacy website; see the Resources menu
Lists both prescription and OTC drugs by therapeutic categories with concise information concerning pharmacology, dispensing information, ingredients.
Available online on the VCU School of Pharmacy website; see the Resources menu
Includes the following pertinent materials for PharmD students:
-Leading pharmacy textbooks, including DiPiro, Pharmacotherapy (even review quiz questions!)
NAPLEX review books
-Flashcards to help you study for top 300 drug exams, pharmacotherapy, pharmacology, and pharmacy calculations
-Videos and pharmacology lectures
-Drug monographs
-Patient education handouts
Evidence-based, peer-reviewed information on complementary and alternative medicine treatments. Includes interactions and adverse effects as well as evaluation of therapies for specific conditions, herbs and supplements, and diet therapies.
Licensed by the VCU Health System. Point-of-care collection of evidence-based recommendations for the diagnosis and management of medical conditions. Also includes drug information.
AHRQ's Evidence-based Practice Center's sponsored reports provide comprehensive, science-based information on common, costly medical conditions and new health care technologies and strategies.
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Practice Guidelines are categorized by Antimicrobial Agent Use, Infections by Organ System, Infections by Organism, and Other Guidelines. Site also includes translations of practice guidelines in languages other than English.
Note: You will need to register for a FREE account.
Veterans Healthcare Affairs, in collaborations with the Department of Defense (DoD), has been developing clinical practice guidelines since the early 1990s. In 2010 the Institute of Medicine identified VA/DoD as leaders in clinical practice guideline development.
Collection of over 60 medical textbooks from McGraw-Hill, case files, diagnostic tools, self-assessment questions and patient handouts. Textbooks include Basic & Clinical Pharmacology, and Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. [NOTE: Only 5 users at a time can use AccessMedicine]
More than 30 core pharmacy electronic textbooks, drug monographs, calculators, herb& supplement information, and care plans. Includes Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach.
Collection of pediatric and neonatology textbooks, such as Rudolph's Pediatrics. Includes patient education, multimedia, and drug monographs with dosing information for children, neonates, and adults. [Only 5 users at a time can use AccessPediatrics]
Comprehensive source of full-text journals and books indexed in the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL). Also features evidence-based care sheets, legal cases, drug records, and more.
Database of Cochrane Collaboration systematic reviews healthcare evidence. Also includes databases of clinical trials, other systematic reviews, and review methodology.
Abstracts of pharmacology research and information. Includes papers presented at ASHP, APhA, and AACP meetings. Produced by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP).
Maximum Simultaneous Users: 1
Searchable database of articles from The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics from 1988 - present. Includes peer-reviewed evaluations of newly approved prescription drugs and comparative reviews of older drugs.
The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) foremost biomedical and life sciences database. Includes citations and abstracts from MEDLINE, life sciences journals, and online books.
Cross-search multiple databases including the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Book Citation Index, and Conference Proceedings Citation Index, as well as Chemical Indexes.
Biomedicine and pharmacology citation database (1974 - present) with an international scope. Recommended for systematic reviews, and for finding drug and medical device information. Updated weekly. Not compatible with Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10.
USP–NF is a combination of two compendia, the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) and the National Formulary (NF). Monographs for drug substances, dosage forms, and compounded preparations are featured in the USP. Monographs for dietary supplements and ingredients appear in a separate section of the USP. Excipient monographs are in the NF.
Extensive index of monographs in the chemical, medical, biological, and environmental sciences. Includes information about a wide range of substances, including drugs, biologicals, dyes, agricultural and industrial chemicals, and more.
With the increasing use of compounded prescriptions, practitioners need to answer the question, "What is the stability of this preparation after it is compounded?" Trissel's Stability of Compounded Formulations is the only book in print that compiles all currently available stability information on drugs in compounded oral, enteral, topical, ophthalmic, and other specialized preparations. Based on data published over the past 60 years, the reference summarizes specific formulations and stability studies.
Trissel's(tm) Stability of Compounded Formulations by 
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