High Value Care Resources
Health Care Cost Tools
Prescription Drug Cost Tools
Prescription drug costs may be found using a variety of commercial sites that offer discounts to patients. Some include:
EPAs
- Core EPAs from AAMCThe AAMC published new guidelines in May 2014 to provide expectations for both learners and teachers that include 13 activities that all medical students should be able to perform upon entering residency, regardless of their future career specialty. The guidelines are based on emerging literature documenting a performance gap at the transition point between medical school and residency training. Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) were chosen as the framework for the guide because they offer a practical approach to assessing competence in real-world settings and impact both learners and patients.
Productivity Tools
Digital Notebooks
- Electronic Research Notebook Service (ERNS)LabArchives is a cloud-based service designed as an analog to a paper notebook.
- EvernoteOnline notebook that can be synced to multiple devices. Allows you to take notes, annotate pdfs, capture images and multimedia, and organize ideas on the fly.
- OneNoteNote program from Microsoft that allows you to capture digital notes including files, text, images and websites. Available for desktop/laptop, mobile, or browser-based.
Librarian
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Audience for this guide
This guide is aimed at students completing core clerkships in Phase 2. It features useful reference materials, subject journals, and quick links to textbooks - both print and ebook - you may need during clerkship blocks. The resources were recommended by Clerkship Directors and are listed in the purple book.
Please email us with recommendations for additions to this guide and don't hesitate to contact us for resource and strategy assistance.
General Resources for Phase 2
E-Books
Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: a Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice, 3E by ISBN: 9780071790710Publication Date: 2014-12-30
E-Book Collection
- Lippincott Health Library Clerkship CollectionCollection of content for each of the core clerkship rotations in a user-friendly online portal. Users can quickly access key texts for Internal Medicine, OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Surgery, Family Medicine, and Psychiatry. Also included are key general reference and exam preparation texts as well as over 150 case studies and 4,700 Q&A that are indispensable for board prep.
Web Resources and Apps
- MedscapeLinks and information to peer-reviewed articles, medical educational tools, daily medical news.
- UpToDate AnywherePoint-of-care clinical decision support and evidence-based narrative topic summaries. Access is restricted to the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
* While on the Northwestern network, go to the Galter Library page, click on UpToDate, and create an UpToDate account.
* You must verify your affiliation with Northwestern every 30 days by logging in to UpToDate from the Northwestern network. [iOS, Android, and Windows]
* Our UpToDate license does not include MobileComplete.
* To change affiliation from another university to Northwestern, you must first let your account lapse. Then simply login in from Northwestern's network.
Drug Information Resources
- Clinical Pharmacology
Drug information resource that includes the NMH hospital formulary. [Android, Apple] - Epocrates Rx
Searchable drug information on dosing, interactions, and identification. This drug search is the free resource on Epocrates' site. The library does not subscribe to the full content version. [Android, Apple] - Mobile DDx
Payment required; 1,000+ medicine and surgery DDx; explore topics by organ system, systems, or diseases. [Android, Apple]
Mobile Quick Reference Tools
- Clinical Key
1000+ textbooks, 500+ journals, practice guidelines, drug info, and 5,000+ patient handouts in English and Spanish. Also includes First Consult, ProceduresConsult, over 13,000 videos and millions of images. [Android, Apple] - JAMAevidence
Quick reference from the User's Guides to the Medical Literature, diagnostic sections from The Rational Clinical Examination, and core topics in evidence-based medicine. [mobile website]
- Stat!Ref This link opens in a new window
Download for: Android, AppleAAFP Conditions A to Z, ACP Medicine, ACS Surgery, AHFS Drug Information, CPT 2013, ICD-9-CM 2013, NU Surgical Video Collection, Red Book 2012 Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases. *Register for an account while on campus or connected to the NU VPN. Click Profile above the search box, then Register, and follow prompts to create an account.*
- UpToDate Anywhere
Point-of-care clinical decision support and evidence-based narrative topic summaries. [Android, Apple] - WebSurg, the e-surgical reference
View 1,200+ surgical videos, 500+ lectures, 130+ operative technique chapter presentations, 800+ expert interviews and debates. [Android, Apple]