Clerkships

The ECRI guidelines trust is the continuation/replacement for the National Guideline Clearinghouse. It is a publicly available web-based repository of objective, evidence-based clinical practice guideline content. Its purpose is to provide physicians, nurses, other clinical specialties, and members of the healthcare community with up-to-date, clinical practices to advance safe and effective patient care.

Tips for searching for guidelines in PubMed:
1. Search your topic in the search box
2. Select the 'Customize' feature under the 'Article Type' filter
3. Select 'Guidelines' and 'Practice Guidelines'. Click 'Show' to add these filters to your search results screen

Tips for searching for guidelines in ClinicalKey:
1. Select the 'Practice Guidelines' option from the drop down menu next to the search bar
2. To browse through all guidelines in ClinicalKey, select 'Guidelines' from the search bar underneath the search box

Provides differential diagnoses of symptoms, signs, and diseases. By using the various indexes, you can choose to view entries by organ system, or select to view the list of symptoms only, the list of diseases only, or all of the entries. Diagnosaurus is a part of AccessMedicine. Mobile application available.

A web-based differential diagnosis support system designed to assist clinicians. Mobile application available.

A web-based clinical decision support tool containing over 25,000 medical images with concise specialist-developed clinical information in areas such as dermatologic, infectious, and drug-induced diseases. Also includes demonstrative 'how-to-use' video tutorials. Mobile application available.

To find clinical calculators, following the steps bellow:
Medscape --> Drugs & Diseases --> Tools --> Calculators

Calculators can be found on the top menu bar. It will be the second option, after 'Contents'. UpToDate has calculators for a number of different specialties.