Surgery Subject Guide
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Online Journals
Online Books
Clinical Databases
Study Guides
Library Curated Articles
A sample of the online journals available in surgery include:
To locate all online journals available to you, search your local library.
A sample of the online books available in surgery include:
Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Surgery - Gerard M. Doherty
Publication Date: 2020
Maingot's Abdominal Operations - Michael J. Zinner
Publication Date: 2019
Sabiston Textbook of Surgery - Courtney M. Townsend
Publication Date: 2022
Schwartz's Principles of Surgery - Seymour Schwartz
Publication Date: 2019
Trauma - Kenneth L. Mattox
Publication Date: 2021
Zollinger's Atlas of Surgical Operations - Robert M. Zollinger, Jr.
Publication Date: 2022
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.
- AccessAnesthesiology
AccessAnesthesiology includes anesthesiology ebooks, videos, interactive self-assessments, case studies, practice guidelines, drug database, curriculum development tools and more.
- AccessSurgery
This is an integrated online resource that provides medical students, surgical residents, and practicing surgeons with quick answers to surgical inquiries from trusted sources. Organized around the accepted ACGME's (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education) Core Curriculum, AccessSurgery delivers content in context.
- Anatomy.tv
Anatomy.tv (Primal Pictures) allows you to explore human anatomy in a 3D interactive model. Interact with anatomy by peeling away layers, rotating models, and reconstructing layers back to their original structure. Compare 3D images to MRI slices to aid in diagnosis and management of injuries. Anatomy.tv includes Systemic Anatomy, Regional Anatomy, Primal Interactive Human: The 3D Real-time Body, Sports Injuries Series, Surgery Series and Specialty Titles.
- 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.
- 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
Please check with your local library for additional databases in your subject area.
Library Staff know how busy you are. In an effort to keep you abreast of current literature, articles from journals available to you from the national VA library collection have been scanned to create the list hyperlinked below. This list is updated monthly.
