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Resources by Topic

Subject Guides & Tool Sets

These selective lists of resources have been created by Medical Center Library staff.
If you would like to have a guide developed for your group or make a suggestion for a specific topic, please contact us.

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Alumni

This site was designed for medical, nursing, physician assistant, and physical therapy students and residents who will be leaving Duke for new opportunities, which may not provide them with access to many information resources.

Anatomy Resources

This guide includes Anatomy resources covering bones, muscles, nerves, and more.

Authors

Publication support tools for authors including links to style manuals, directories, journal impact factors, copyright information, journal abbreviations, and more.

Biostatistics

This guide focuses on resources to support students, faculty, and staff in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, and the students in the Master of Biostatistics Program.

Clinical Leadership Program

This guide provides resources for the Clinical Leadership Program.

Clinicians

Tools for clinicians including databases, EBM resources, drug information, textbooks, and more.

Consumer/Patient Health Information

This subject guide is designed to provide consumers, patients, families, and the general public with links to freely available resources providing health information. Although there is an overwhelming amount of health information on the Web, we have attempted to provide you with the best of the best. Most of these sites have been developed by government organizations, libraries, professional associations, or academic medical centers.

See the handout for more assistance finding consumer and patient health information while at Duke University Medical Center Library.

Copyright Information

This guide was designed to help you consider the issues surrounding copyright including fair use coverage, when you should consider seeking permission from the copyright holder, and how to pay royalty fees to use intellectual property.

Duke Raleigh Hospital

Clinical tools for Duke Raleigh Hospital including databases, EBM resources, drug information, textbooks, and more.

Durham Regional Hospital

Clinical tools for Durham Regional Hospital including databases, EBM resources, drug information, textbooks, and more.

Educators

This teaching resource supports health professions faculty and instructors at Duke in their efforts to enhance their knowledge and skills.

Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)

This guide is designed to assist faculty, house staff, and students in understanding and teaching the principles involved in practicing EBM.

Global Health

Resources and services to support global health.

Grey Literature

This guide provides a central place to find information and resources for searching the grey literature in support of developing systematic reviews.

Health Literacy

Use this guide to locate Web resources pertaining to health literacy, cultural and linguistic competency, and Latino health.

Images

The purpose of this subject guide is to provide links to medical image Websites. Please check the usage policies for each site before downloading any images. Free usage of images is allowed on some sites for educational purposes, while others require that you ask permission or pay user registration or fees. Some permit only links to their site and do not allow downloading of images.

Life After Duke

This toolset was designed to provide access to sites and resources available for those leaving Duke University Medical Center.

Medical Students

Research tools for medical students including anatomy, physical examination, clinical, drug, and diagnostic resources.

Mobile Devices

Resources providing information on software and support for mobile devices including iPhones, iPads, BlackBerrys, Androids, and eReaders.

New Faculty

This guide has been created to provide Duke resources to help orient new faculty.

Nursing

Nursing tools including databases, books, drug information, guidelines, and more.

Open Access

This guide provides links to Open Access resources, events, and activities.

PA Students

Tools for physician assistant students including anatomy, physical examination, clinical, drug, and diagnostic resources.

PT Students

Tools for physical therapy students including anatomy, physical examination, clinical, and evidence-based resources.

Patient Safety & Medical Errors

Selected resources on patient safety, medical mistakes and errors that put the patient at risk.

Qualitative Research

This subject guide has online resources for those interested in conducting, finding, using, synthesizing, or teaching qualitative research.

Reference Shelf

This guide provides quick access to a variety of online dictionaries and encyclopedias, directories of medical and health organizations, health related rankings, NC and Federal government and legislative resoucees, and Duke publications and directories.

Researchers

This guide provides resources for biomedical researchers including articles and books, funding sources, and writing tools.

Scientific Writing

This guide will help you find answers to your questions about writing.

Statistics

A selected list of Websites and organizations, both national and international. Includes major providers of North Carolina statistics.

Systematic Reviews

This guide provides a central place to find information and resources for conducting the search for studies and managing the data as part of the process of creating systematic reviews of the literature.

Test Instruments

Sources used to locate, evaluate and purchase test instruments.