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Physician Assistant: Research Databases

This Research Guide will help PA students find Library resources and useful websites for their PA classes and projects. When looking for resources for PH classes, the Public Health Research Guide may be more appropriate.

The TUC Library has many more databases besides those listed on this page.

>>>CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE LIBRARY'S A-Z DATABASE LIST<<<

Please note, when accessing Library resources from off campus you may be required to login into OpenAthens. 

PUBMED

PubMed 

PubMed is a service of the National Library of Medicine. It provides access to over 22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE and other sources. PubMed is the first database to search when looking for biomedical and life science journal articles, clinical trials, reviews, and more.

PubMed Training & Help - Click here for help and info about using PubMed

UpToDate

UpToDate

UpToDate provides topic reviews that include a synthesis of the literature, the latest evidence, and specific recommendations for patient care. UpToDate is used to answer questions quickly, increase your clinical knowledge, check for changes to drug monographs, and improve patient care.

Access to UpToDate has changed! UpToDate now requires that you register for an account from within the TUC network (on-campus or off-campus ; if you are off-campus, login with your OpenAthens/TouroOne credentials). The UpToDate login you create can also be used for your mobile device and includes free access to the UpToDate mobile app.  Once you have registered, the app will recognize that you are affiliated with Touro University California when you install the app. Please note: If after initial registration, you use UpToDate directly through UpToDate.com (not through the TUC network) your registration will expire after 30 days.  If this happens, you will need to re-verify your TUC affiliation by logging on to UpToDate from within the TUC network.

ClinicalKey

ClinicalKey

ClinicalKey delivers all of Elsevier's medical and surgical content in one dynamic resource, giving physicians access to over 1100 top books, over 600 top journals, multimedia images and videos, FirstConsult, more than 300 instructional videos from Procedures Consult, practice guidelines, drug monographs, patient education, MEDLINE citations and abstracts from PubMed.

Includes Procedures Consult : multimedia training tool that teaches how to prepare for, perform, and follow up on the most common procedures required in today's hospital setting ; covers the procedures required by the ABIM (American Board of Internal Medicine) and conforms to ACGME standards. Includes an outline on pre– and post-procedures, anatomy, procedures, outcomes, and checklists. Browse by title and enter into ClinicalKey search box. Filter by resource type (select Procedures Consult).

Google Scholar

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

To find out if we have article you find in Google Scholar, you can use the Article Linker tool. Click here to go to ARTICLE LINKER.

If we do not have the article you want, you can request it through ILL. Click here to learn about ILL and set up an ILL account: INTERLIBRARY LOAN 

Google Scholar Search

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