Welcome

This guide is designed for the Cone Health Family Medicine Residency Program.  It links relevant resources, tutorials, and other information to improve the end-user experience.

Click HERE to report any issues or problems or to suggest added content for this guide to the Medical Library.

Medical Library Discovery Service

What is Discovery? 

Discovery provides an easy, powerful platform to search multiple resources at once.  

Search PubMed, CINAHL, Science Direct, and Health Business Elite, as well as a biomedical index of more than 9,000 journals, books, proceedings, and more. ALL AT THE SAME TIME.

Find a wide range of peer-reviewed and scholarly content, including systematic reviews on relevant medical topics. 

How to use Discovery.

Connect to the Medical Library's online portal.

Enter your keywords, article title, or other known information into the box and click on Search.

Review the results for records of interest.

Don't forget to apply limiters to improve the precision of your search. There are lots to choose from, so expand and review each section.

Getting the Full-text Article

Click to get the full text if PDF or HTML Full Text is indicated.

Click on Request Article to get a pre-populated form with the citation information.  Just add in your contact info and submit.  The Medical Libary will get a copy and send it to you.

 

 

Click on Get Full Text to connect directly to the publisher's site for the full text or, in the example below, a record with a link to the full-text PDF.

If, for any reason, there is an issue with accessing the full-text article, click on Report a Broken Link.  Just add your contact information to the pre-populated form with the article's citation information, and the library will a) investigate the issue and b) send you a copy of the full-text article.

 

PubMed

Connecting to PubMed

  1. Ensure you use our unique URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?otool=ncmoseslib  Note, all links from the Library's page use it.

Getting Full Text from PubMed.

  1. On the Results page, change the Display options mode from Summary to Abstract.
  2. You will then see the Cone Health icon on every record.  
     
  3. You may also see other icons.  All of these shown here will lead to the full-text article.
  4. Or you may see icons that do not indicate "free", such as these.
  5. ALWAYS click on the Cone Health icon.  (The other icons will lead to a publisher's site requiring payment to purchase access to the article.)
     
  6. You will be taken directly to the full-text article if we can access it.  Or you will get this page where you click on Request Article.
  7. Complete the pre-populated form with your contact information and click on Submit. The Cone Health Medical Libray will get a copy of the full-text article and send it to you.

The Journal

 

Current Awareness

Sign up for eAlerts or grab their RSS feed for your aggregator of choice.  Click HERE.

Browse the Journal

Click HERE to scan through the issues of the journal.  The Library gets access through the Ovid database.

Know what article you want?

There are two options; you can use the Discovery service to locate it using the article's title.  Or you can use Publication Finder and go to the journal and drill down to the full text.  See below for the steps to each.

1. Using the Library's Discovery Service

Enter the article title into the Discovery search box and click on Search.

Click on Get Full Text to connect directly to the publisher's site for the full text or, in the example below, a record with a link to the full-text PDF.

If, for any reason, there is an issue with accessing the full-text article, click on Report a Broken Link.  Just add your contact information to the pre-populated form with the article's citation information, and the library will a) investigate the issue and b) send you a copy of the full-text article.

 

2. Using the Library's Publication Finder.

From the Library's online portal, enter Annals of Internal Medicine in the search box.  Select the Journals tab.  Click on Search.

 

Select the journal from the results list if there is more than one result.  Then click on Journals @ Ovid as the source.

Browse the citations and abstracts or drill down to a specific article.

 

An alternate route if you are logged into your NC AHEC Digital Library account (or connecting from on-campus should be automatically recognized.)

  1. Go to the Journals tab. 
  2. You are already on the "A" tab.   
  3. You can filter by Internal Medicine. (and see the Journal Club as well!)

Stay current with the latest evidence-based clinical information relevant to internal medicine and its subspecialties. Reviewing over 120 leading medical journals, this monthly feature in Annals of Internal Medicine contains an editorial, easy-to-read abstracts, and a page of other notable articles.

Browse and Connect to the Full-text Monographs.

Click HERE to connect.  

The Medical Library gets access to the ACP Journal Club through the OVID platform.  

Browse Issues, Search for Keywords or Authors, Download Full-Text, and more.

 

An alternate route if you are logged into your NC AHEC Digital Library account (or if connecting from on-campus, should be automatically recognized.)

  1. Go to the Journals tab. 
  2. You are already on the "A" tab.   
  3. Can filter by Family Medicine.

 

The Medical Letter offers critical appraisals of new prescription drugs and comparative reviews of drugs for common diseases.

Click HERE to access The Medical Letter.

For some helpful tutorials to get the most out of this resource:

Available through the NC AHEC Digital Library and ONLY to NC physicians.

A clinical decision-making tool that provides point-of-care information and includes evidence-based answers to your most important clinical questions concerning symptoms, diseases, and treatment.

Click HERE to access.

 

NEJM Journal Watch is available through the NC AHEC Digital Library.

Click HERE to access.