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AccessMedicine is a collection of medical learning resources featuring hundreds of books, review questions, cases, videos, podcasts, infographics, interactive 3D modules and more across the basic sciences and clinical specialties.
Create a free Access account by clicking "My Profile" in the top right corner of the Home page.

Clinical Key offers over 1100 full-text medical books and over 600 full-text journals, First Consult point-of-care monographs, customizable patient education handouts, drug monographs, thousands of videos, including those from Procedures Consult, millions of images, practice guidelines, and clinical trials from clinicaltrials.gov.

The Johns Hopkins ABX (Antibiotics) Guide is an evidence-based clinical decision resource that delivers up-to-date, authoritative information on infectious diseases, drugs, and pathogens written by the experts at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Lexicomp is an industry-leading database of drug information and clinical content for the healthcare industry. Available for iPhone, iPod, iPad, and Android. There are a limited number of mobile licenses available to CCHS. Faculty, residents and medical students can email the librarian for the access code and the installation instructions.

The Medical Letter, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that publishes critical appraisals of new prescription drugs and comparative reviews of drugs for common diseases. CME is an option, as well as Antimicrobial Therapy and Drug Interactions.

Read by QxMD provides a single place to keep up with new medical and scientific research. Curate your feed by filtering for your profession/specialty/location and favorite journals. You can also save collections of articles important to you. (Institutional, full-text access must be set up through the iPhone/Android apps, rather than on the web interface.)

Sanford Guide provides treatment recommendations, including dosing and length of course, for infections organized by site or pathogen, in addition to infectious disease prevention information and numerous quick reference tables and dosing tools. There are a limited number of license keys available. For availability, please email library@cchs.ua.edu.

Evidence-based answers for clinical practice.
Users must create an account or sign into their account through the web version on the CCHS-network every three months to maintain access.

Visual diagnostic tool that builds a patient-specific pictorial differential diagnosis based on the patient’s findings. The clinician can compare diseases side by side and then drill down to see the range in presentation within each disease in the differential. Handbook length text on each disease is also included to help guide diagnostic decision making and learn more about appropriate tests and treatment.

Access the American College of Cardiology’s clinical guideline recommendations and use interactive tools such as risk scores, dosing calculators, and algorithms through the ACC’s Guideline Clinical App.

Quick access from CDC to ACIP-recommended immunization schedules, complete with footnotes.

The official CDC Mobile application to access the most up to date health information.

This quick-reference tool helps healthcare professionals perform differential diagnosis with speed and confidence at the point of care. With Diagnosaurus you can quickly search over 1,000 diagnoses by organ system, symptom, or disease, or you can view all entries.

Drug reference and clinical decision-support app

The leading clinical decision support app providing 900+ evidence-based calculators, risk scores, and clinical tools to support patient care at the bedside.

Free access to the latest news, expert commentary, clinical tools, drugs and disease information, medical podcasts, CME/CE activities, and more.

The free Prime app connects you to the most up-to-date journal citations and abstracts from the complete PubMed database.

The Prevention TaskForce application was developed to assist primary care clinicians identify the screening, counseling, and preventive medication services that are appropriate for their patients. The Prevention TaskForce information is based on the current recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and can be searched by specific patient characteristics, such as age, sex, and selected behavioral risk factors.

The official FEMA mobile app provides essential tools and information to help you prepare for, stay safe during, and recover from disasters.

PFA Mobile from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD assists responders who provide psychological first aid as part of an organized response effort. The materials are adapted from the Psychological First Aid Field Operations Guide.

SAMHSA Behavioral Health Disaster Response App is designed for behavioral health professionals and provides access to evidenced-based mental health and substance use information, tools, and resources for use in the field.

Care to Translate is a digital medical translator for healthcare staff and patients. The app serves as a complement to human interpreters in healthcare and is available 24/7 in your smart device.

Developed by the American Medical Association (AMA), this on-the-go reference guide quickly helps you determine the appropriate Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes to use for accurate billing.

Zotero is the only research tool that automatically senses content in your web browser, allowing you to add it to your personal library with a single click. Zotero collects all your research in a single, searchable interface. You can add PDFs, images, audio and video files, snapshots of web pages, and really anything else. Zotero automatically indexes the full-text content of your library, enabling you to find exactly what you're looking for with just a few keystrokes.