VHA National Desktop Library

A sample of the online journals available in primary care include:

• Mayo Clinic Proceedings
• JAMA
• New England Journal of Medicine
• American Family Physician
• Family Practice Management

To locate all online journals available to you, search your local library.

A sample of the online books available in primary care include:

To locate all online books available to you, search your local library.

• 5 Minute Consult

  5 Minute Consult is a point-of-care tool providing information to quickly guide clinicians in diagnosis, treatment, and management of 2,000+ clinical topics. It includes algorithms to decide on lab tests and/or procedures. Also included are videos to help PT staff demonstrate for patients, and customizable patient education handouts.

• AccessMedicine

  This innovative online resource provides students, residents, clinicians and all health professionals with access to more than 60 medical titles from the best minds in medicine, updated content, thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, diagnostic tools, a comprehensive search platform, and the ability to download content to a mobile device.

• Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination

  Bates’ Visual Guide features head-to-toe and systems physical exam videos with an emphasis on clinical and patient care. These videos show techniques for the (Advanced) Assessment or Introduction to Clinical Medicine courses. Includes videos showing Communication & Interpersonal Skills to learn and practice the fundamental techniques often demonstrated in clinical encounters—the timeless skills that continually polish as you care for patients.  OSCE Clinical Skills that include videos allowing practice clinical reasoning skills and review for patient exams.

• Clinical Key

  This clinical search engine includes access to full text books, journals, guidelines and multimedia. Contains Elsevier published content of 521 journals, 900+ clinical texts, procedure videos and much more.

• Cochrane Library
  The Cochrane Library is a systematic reviews resource and includes the following:
• Cochrane Clinical Answers
• Cochrane Library - Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)
• Cochrane Library - Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)
• Pubmed

  PubMed provides over 23 million citations for biomedical literature, including MEDLINE, life science journals and ebooks.

• Trip Database

  The Trip Database searches curated content from vetted evidence-based sources, such as Cochrane, AHRQ, BMJ Best Practice, and federal agencies, to deliver top-tier, evidence-based healthcare information. Results are sorted into evidence-based pyramid categories for quick identification of guidelines, synopses, systematic reviews, and more.

• UpToDate (use if on the VA computer network)

  UpToDate is a guided evidence-based, clinical decision-making solution with dynamic and interactive algorithms as well as lab monographs. 
  For remote access use https://www.uptodate.com with your UTD username/password. Tip Sheet for CME/Remote Access Registration

• VisualDX

  VisualDx is an visual-based differential diagnosis tool designed for the point of care. Search by disease or quickly build a differential based on chief complaint, medication, or travel finding. Includes more than 40,000 images and 2,700 diseases across general medicine.

Please check with your local library for additional databases in your subject area.