LWW Health Library, 5 Minute Clinical Consult and Gideon databases are now available on trial at the Al Maktoum Medical Library starting from April 16 until June 14, 2020. Databases are accessible to everyone on campus, remote access to the resource is limited to registered members of the library.

User need to create personal account within the database to access the full content.

LWW Health Library

LWW Health Library is far more than electronic texts—providing highly intuitive, interactive access and simple search capabilities to essential texts, as well as rich multimedia ancillary content comprised of procedural videos, images, real-life case studies and quiz banks specifically tailored for the specialty.

LWW Health Library provides a singular access point to clinical and educational content, as well as rich multimedia ancillaries for teaching, learning, and practice. LWW has the resources need to effectively support curriculum for students’ and residents’ foundational learning and clinical practice needs.

Kay Features:

• Highly-rated references: Trusted, core texts from Lippincott®, making it a one-stop, digital portal for authoritative content paired with industry leading functionality
• Content updates regularly: As new editions publish, ancillary content is acquired, and/or as authors supply clinical, practice changing updates to their content
• Advanced semantic search: Guides users to results displayed by title, chapter, topic, and/or type of resource
• PubMed citations: Links to the most relevant PubMed results based on the chapter the user is viewing
• Responsive design: Browse content on your computer, tablet or smartphone with ease
• Print/save a chapter: Users are able to download chapters via pdf, for easy access to content when offline – for note taking or to print
• Multimedia ancillary content: Access videos, images, Q & A, and more

Click here to access LWW Health Library database

5 Minute Clinical Consult – WK

5MinuteConsult helps physicians and healthcare professionals by providing quick answers they can trust, where and when they need it most. 5MinuteConsult is a fully integrated digital resource to help guide primary care professionals and clinical students in daily decision support, based on the best-selling clinical content in the family medicine market for over 20 years, giving access to the information needed at the point-of-care. It is the fastest resource to obtain the most likely diagnosis, treatment, and management for thousands of diseases

Click here to access 5 Minute Clinical Consult Database

GIDEON (Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network)

From GIDEON Informatics, Gideon is a comprehensive and accurate database of global infectious diseases.

This one-of-a-kind resource covers all infectious diseases in every country. Updated daily, with information on the latest outbreaks, it’s ideal for help with diagnosing diseases and identifying organisms. Includes more than 30,000 graphs and images.

Click here to access Gideon database