Library Guides: Scholarship & Discovery: Medical Education

Med Ed Journals

Academic Medicine
Medical Education
Journal of Graduate Medical Education
DR MERL
Dependable Reviews of Medical Education Research Literature (DR MERL) is a collection of brief reviews, authored by physicians and medical school educators. Founded at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

MedEdPORTAL
An open educational repository and publication service from the AAMC. Features approximately 2,000 peer-reviewed educational resources from over 10,000 medical and dental education institutions worldwide.
MedEdWorld
Launched by Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) in 2009 to help those interested in health professions education to learn, connect and debate key issues in education. For teachers and trainers, educationists, researchers, course leaders, deans, students, and medical schools.
UME/GME Program Resources
AAIM (Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine) offers resources to improve UME and GME programs. Learn more about "best practice" resources and tools, guidelines and positions, curricular resources, and other features for internal medicine faculty and staff.
Portal of Geriatric Online Education (POGOe)
Free, public repository of geriatric educational materials in various formats, including lectures, exercises, virtual patients, case-based discussions, simulations, and more. Funded by Donald W. Reynolds Foundation and managed by Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine.

PubMed

Provides access to citations and full text articles from the biomedical literature (medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care, and the preclinical sciences). PubMed includes MEDLINE (mid 1960s-present), OLDMEDLINE (1950-1965), in-process citations (not yet indexed).
MEDLINE (Ovid)

MEDLINE is the United States National Library of Medicine's (NLM) bibliographic database providing information from the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, allied health, and the pre-clinical sciences. It is also a primary source of information from the international literature on biomedicine, including the following topics as they relate to biomedicine and health care: Biology, environmental science, marine biology, plant and animal science, biophysics, and chemistry.

ERIC
Education Resources Information Center, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, is the largest education database in the world.

ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), U.S. Department of Education. Since 1966, ERIC has indexed journals, research reports, conference papers, curriculum guides and publications of organizations. Full-text of older ERIC documents (non-journal material) are often available on microfiche; note the Accession Number beginning with ED in the ERIC record. The ERIC microfiche is located on the Regenstein B-level.
Education Index Retrospective, 1929-1983

Covering a century of research, this database provides cover-to-cover indexing for an international range of English-language periodicals and yearbooks. It includes accurate, detailed, cover-to-cover indexing of some 500 periodicals, as far back as 1929 through 1983.

Scopus
Contains over 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 publishers in the scientific, technical, medical, social sciences, and arts & humanities fields.

Scopus is an interdisciplinary, bibliographic database that indexes the contents of more than 15,000 journals in the physical sciences, engineering, earth and environmental sciences, life and health sciences, social sciences, psychology, business, and management.

Scopus also features cited references and can be searched for articles that cite a specific article.
Web of Science
Content in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Some material dates from 1900.

Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers over 10,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 110,000 conference proceedings. You'll find current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage available to 1900. Includes the Science Citation Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Web of Science is especially useful for its citation linking.
Google Scholar
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IndexCat
The database of the print Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, printed from 1880-1961 in five series consisting of 61 volumes.

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Director, Pediatric Residency Program

Dr. Jeanne Farnan
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director, Clinical Skills Education and Medical Director, Clinical Performance Center

Deb Werner
Director of Library Research in Medical Education
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