CHEC, a partnership of VCU Health System, VCU Libraries, and the VCU Health System Auxiliary, is a library where patients and their family members can find reliable health information. CHEC provides books, consumer health journals, videos, and computers.
Extensive guide to health information resources. Includes common diseases and conditions, dictionaries, organizations, clearinghouses, publications, directories, consumer health libraries, MEDLINE and other medical databases.
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.
An online clinical library includes 1,100 reference books, 600 journals, guidelines, point-of-care topic summaries, and multimedia materials. Includes an option for a personal account.
VisualDx is a clinical decision support system that allows validation of a medical diagnosis based on visual conditions. It contains over 1,300 diagnoses and more than 25,000 medical images detailing variation in age, stage, and skin type. Free mobile app available.
Evidence-based, peer-reviewed information on complementary and alternative medicine treatments. Includes evaluation of therapies for specific conditions, herbs and supplements, and diet therapies.
Clinical information tool providing reviewed clinical reference material. Includes pharmaceutical information, patient handouts, graphics. Provided by the VCU Health System.
The primary database for biomedical and health sciences literature. Identify full-text online journals and remote access available through VCU Libraries using the VCU Libraries "Get It @ VCU" icon. Limit by topic, publication type, date of publication, human or animal study, age group, and more. Store searches and set up alerts using PubMed’s MyNCBI Service.
A simple way to conduct a broad search of scholarly literature indexed by Google. Results are ranked by journal impact factor, author, and number of citations.
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