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FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY
Medical Library Resources
What: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is the standard classification of mental disorders used by mental health professionals in the United States and contains a listing of diagnostic criteria for every psychiatric disorder recognized by the U.S. healthcare system.
Where: Access via browser.
What: Embase is a biomedical and literature database offering clinical practice, research, and medical education tools and resources.
Where: Access via browser.
How:
- Videos: Embase Literature Search Demo
Features:
- EBM, gray literature, journals, PICO
- Emtree [controlled vocabulary]
- Email alerts: for searching
What: As the libraries switch to Primo/Alma and OpenAthens, you may encounter error messages. Some may be related to the resource itself and others can be solved with a few troubleshooting steps. The medical library has a troubleshooting page that has some steps you can attempt to take before reaching out to a librarian.
Where: Click the hyperlink, left, or the link below.
- Support page: Troubleshooting Error Messages
Error Messages (please note this is not an inclusive list):
- Bad Request: Cookies not enabled. For assistance please contact your organization administrator.
- Safari cannot open the page because the network connection was lost.
- Bad Request Unknown site
- Forbidden: You are not entitled to access this resource. For assistance please contact your organization administrator."
- 400 bad request
What: Delve into EBM resources, biostats resources, study design, and systematic reviews.
Where: Click here to access the Evidence Based Medicine guide.
What: The FAU Medical Librarians provide both collaboration and consultation services for meta-analysis, systematic review, scoping review, and literature review to the students, faculty, and staff of the FAU Schmidt College of Medicine. Please complete the Request form if you would like one of the FAU Medical Librarians to collaborate or consult with you on a review.
Where: Access and fill out the Medical Librarians Evidence Synthesis Service Request Form HERE.
Timeline: Once the form is complete, please allow 1-3 business days for a response from a librarian. Completion of Evidence Synthesis Services vary and are determined on a case-by-case basis. Currently co-author level requests have an average turn around time of 4 weeks which is subject to lengthen based on volume of requests and librarian availability. Collaboration level requests will be coordinated with individual schedules.
What: Guide to help structure your literature review search strategy, guide you to helpful resources, and level up your results with.
Where: Click here to access the EBM Literature Search guide.
Features: Evidence Based Medicine, Gray literature, PICO, Citation/reference management
What: This guide provides an overview of both Systematic Reviews & Scoping Reviews, provides resources of conducting the Review, as well as provide resources for searching the literature to meet search strategy standards.
Where: Click HERE to access the Systematic & Scoping Review Guide.
Features: FAU Recorded Covidence Training Video, Protocol Templates, Protocol Registrations, Reporting Guidelines, Risk of Bias Tools.
What: To authenticate your FAU status when signing into Library resources, you will receive an FAUNet ID (which will also act as your FAU email.)
Where:
- Access FAU's OIT Self Services page to:
- Activate your account.
- Retrieve your FAUNet ID.
- Reset your password.
- Access Myfau.fau.edu to:
- Access your FAU Email.
- Set up email forwarding options.
- Forwarding Emails Tutorial (print)
What: Guide to help find images to use in your lectures, slides, or papers for publication.
Where: Click here to access the Finding Images guide.
Features: images, multimedia
What: First Aid Forward is a USMLE study prep database offering three textbooks: First Aid for the USMLE Step 1, First Aid Cases for the USMLE Step 1, and First Aid Clinical Pattern Recognition for the USMLE Step 1. Subjects provide quizzes and cases for areas from Biochemistry to Respiratory. Please note that features of this product integrate with Boards and Beyond which the Libraries does not provide access to.
Where: Access via browser.
How:
Steps to Sign in the first time:
- From the First Aid Forward sign-in page, enter your FAU email when prompted to be directed to the product's second sign-in page.
- First time users click the "send magic link." This will generate an email containing a link to the product.
- After clicking the magic link within your email, navigate to the upper right corner to click the user icon to the right of your name.
- Use the drop down to select "my account."
- To set up your account, click "Edit" for the password and security question fields (first time users may notice these fields are pre-populated with "shielded values" but this does not correlate to a complete account set-up.)
- Scroll down to click "Save."
Steps for Returning Users:
- From the First Aid Forward sign-in page, enter your FAU email when prompted to be directed to the product's second sign-in page.
- Use the bottom sign-in option to enter your password and click "Sign in"
Connecting to First Aid Forward Step 2:
- Users should make sure they are signed out of the Step 1 product page before registering for Step 2. Clicking the Step 2 resource link while still signed into Step 1 will only reopen the Step 1 resource.
- After clicking the Step 2 link, enter your FAU email in the first sign-in page.
- On the second sign-in page, click "send magic link" to generate the product email.
- After clicking on the product link, you will be able to access First Aid Forward Step 2.
- Use the drop down in the upper right page to toggle between Step 1 and Step 2 resources.
Features:
- USMLE text books, cases, quizzes
