Mobile/Handheld Resources  

Continually updated, selected content from American Family Phyician includes pertinent AFP articles and departments, summaries of practice guidelines from major medical organizations, patient education handouts, articles from Family Practice Management, and American Academy of Family Physicians’ Metric practice improvement modules.

Differential diagnosis tool allows users to navigate by diagnosis, symptom, or organ system.

Access: Download is available for free or minimal fee (.99 for Apple and Android Users).

Point-of-care information resource includes drug and disease information.

Access: Institutional subscription paid for by Himmelfarb Library

Send email to library@gwumc.edu to request serial number for mobile download then consult download instructions.

Access to EBSCOhost databases including CINAHL, Health Policy Reference Center, SPORTDiscus and more. Access citations and abstracts, plus selected full-text articles.

Access: Institutional subscription paid for by Himmelfarb Library

To install, access CINAHL, SPORTDiscus, or Health Policy Reference Center from Library webpage. Scroll to the bottom of the database search page and click on link for 'EBSCOhost iPhone/iPod Touch Application'.

Drug guide that provides access to drug monographs, health plan formularies, drug interaction checker, calculators,
pill ID and pill pictures (not available on Palm, WinMobile and Win Smartphone), and brand name OTC drug products.

Access: Free

Tool that provides short descriptions of thousands of common and obscure eponyms.

Access: Free

Tool developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to assist primary care clinicians to identify the screening, counseling, and preventive medication services that are appropriate for their patients. Based on current recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).

Access: Free

Point-of-care information resource includes disease/condition information.

Access: Institutional subscription paid for by Himmelfarb Library

To install, access FirstConsult from desktop computer and create personal login/password (note: if you already have a personal MDConsult login/password, you can use that account information), then download application on iPhone and login.

Course listings, campus maps, news, sports, social media feeds, alerts, and more.

App provides review of system questions, medical and social history questions and vocabulary words, physical exam instructions and common phrases and expressions in Spanish.

Access: Purchase from iTunes Store

Drug reference that includes a drug interaction checker, medical news across 30 specialties, multimedia images and video, and access to continuing medication education activities.

Access: Free

Downloads available for The Merck Manual, Professional Edition, Harrison's Practice - Answers on Demand, and the Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests (5th ed.).

Access: Free

High quality, evidence-based information on dietary supplements, functional foods, diets, complementary practices, exercises, and medical conditions.

Access: Institutional subscription paid for by Himmelfarb Library

Use linked webpage to request serial number; note that you must register with GW email address. You will receive instructions for accessing or creating a Skyscape account and will then receive your serial number via email.

Selected texts from the NCBI Bookshelf can be freely downloaded. Titles include Clinical Methods, Genes and Disease, and Medical Microbiology.

Access: Free

Full-text clinical information from Pediatric Care Online produced by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Access: Institutional subscription paid for by Himmelfarb Library

To install, access resource then create ' New Customer Registration' and make a note of your AAP number. Then, click on 'Mobile' and activate your account using your AAP number and password. You will then be provided instructions for installing Pediatric Care Online Mobile to your specific phone or device.

Searches PubMed and permits linking to articles in Himmelfarb Library's full-text collection. For full-text linking, access app's Settings menu, set 'Check for Full Text' to 'On', and set 'Library Proxy' to: http://proxygw.wrlc.org/login?url=%@

Access: Fee (PubMed on Tap) and Free (PubMed on Tap Lite)

Selected, key files from the online, full version of REMM including management algorithms, dose estimator, triage information for adults and children, isotopes of interest, countermeasures, and emergency contacts.

Access: Free

Contains childhood, adolescent, catch-up, and adult 2010 immunization schedules and references.

Access: Free

WISER (Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders) is a mobile application designed to assist first responders in hazardous material incidents.

Access: Free

Comprehensive clinical drug information app includes Lexi-Drugs and Lexi-Interact.

Access: Institutional subscription paid for by Himmelfarb Library

To install, access resource then locate link on right-hand menu for 'Mobile App Access'; select your mobile platform (e.g. iPhone, Android, etc.) and you will obtain a product code and installation instructions.

Full-text clinical and basic sciences textbook collection that includes Harrison's Online, Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine, Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, Hurst's The Heart, Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, and the Lange educational library series.

SmartPhone/PDA/Handheld: To access, access AccessMedicine from desktop computer and create a 'My AccessMedicine' login/password which can be used to login to AccessMedicine Mobile on your handheld device.

Access: Institutional subscription paid for by Himmelfarb Library

Authoritative coverage of nursing and allied health literature. Coverage: 1981 - Present. Produced by Ebsco Publishing.

Access: Institutional subscription paid for by Himmelfarb Library

Concise, point-of-care information summaries for more than 700 common diseases, conditions, and procedures. Also includes 3,000 calculators and tools, Cochrane abstracts, 3,000 archived POEMs, etc.

To access mobile website, create a personal account by accessing resource from your desktop computer, then access www.essentialevidenceplus.com from your mobile device and login with your personal login/password.

Access: Institutional subscription paid for by Himmelfarb Library

Health policy information including access and delivery, administration, financing and economics, planning, quality, reform, health services research, and public health. Provides access to journals, books, magazines, and trade publications with emphasis on full-text. Coverage: dates vary by publication; emphasis on current dates. Produced by EBSCOhost.

Access: Institutional subscription paid for by Himmelfarb Library

Mobile-optimized version of MDConsult provides access to full-text textbooks, journal articles, clinics, practice guidelines, and images. To read, access MDConsult from desktop computer and create personal MDConsult login/password which can be used to login to MDConsult mobile.

Access: Institutional subscription paid for by Himmelfarb Library

Access the latest issues of The Medical Letter and Treatment Guidelines; browse past issue via disease and drug indices. To install: access Himmelfarb Library's Medical Letter subscription, then register for mobile access; download app and login.

Access: Institutional subscription paid for by Himmelfarb Library

A consumer health site developed by the National Library of Medicine with links to health topics, prescription and over-the-counter drug information, a dictionary of medical words, and current health news.

Access: Free

Full-text access to the DSM-IV-TR, APA textbooks and journals, guidelines, and patient education materials. Content sections can be downloaded to a PDA; create a 'My PsychiatryOnline' account to use 'PDA Download' function.

To access mobile website, create a personal account by accessing PsychiatryOnline from your desktop computer, then access PsychiatryOnline Mobile (www.psychiatryonline.com) from your mobile device and login with your personal login/password.

Access: Institutional subscription paid for by Himmelfarb Library

Searches PubMed content and provides immediate access to available PDFs.

Access: Free

Search PubMed via a mobile-optimized website. PICO search available.

Access: Free

RefMobile can be accessed using your login and Group Code. To obtain the Group Code log into the following web page via ALADIN:
http://www.aladin.wrlc.org/Z-WEB/Aladin?req=dbr&key=WRL06788GW

Access: Institutional subscription paid for by Himmelfarb Library

Guides to Himmelfarb Library's resources tailored to meet the needs of specific departments and/or courses.

Contains childhood, adolescent, catch-up, and adult 2010 immunization schedules and references.

Access: Free

Sport database covering recreation, exercise physiology, sports medicine, coaching, physical fitness, the psychology, history and sociology of sport, training, and conditioning. Includes journal articles and books. Produced by the Sport Information Resource Centre.

Access: Institutional subscription paid for by Himmelfarb Library

Toxicology and hazardous chemicals databases including HSDB, IRIS, ITER, GENE-TOX, CCRIS, TOXLINE, DART/ETIC, TRI, and ChemIDPlus. Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, through the Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program of its Specialized Information Services Division.

Access: Free