Acute Medicine

There are lots of resources available for acute medicine - as well as e-journals and e-books, there are RSS feeds from top journals to keep you up to date, useful links to external websites and more.

We have tailored this page to help signpost you to the resources you need, all in one place. If there is anything you would like us to add, contact us and help us improve your page.

Online Resources: e-books and e-journals

Click on the tabs below to see a list of e-books and e-journals for your specialty, available with your Athens login. Register for an Athens account if you don't already have one.

Please note that these lists are not exhaustive, so if  you can not find what you are looking for, try the online catalogue or contact library staff, who will be happy to try and source it for you.

Other Online resources

 See our resources page for a full list of online resources the library service provides, including BMJ Case Reports, UpToDate, DynaMed and Anatomy TV.

Evidence Based Clinical Summaries

UpToDate

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UpToDate is an evidence-based, peer-reviewed information resource providing topic reviews that include a synthesis of the literature, the latest evidence and specific recommendations for patient care.

Take a look at the Emergency medicine and Critical Care medicine sections for a range of  topic reviews.

DynaMed

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We now have access to DynaMed, the popular clinical information resource. 

Search clinically-organised summaries for more than 3,400 topics, designed for health care professionals for use at point-of-care.

All evidence is clinically evaluated and integrated into DynaMed's existing content on a daily basis, so that a synthesis of the best evidence is always available. 

Clinical Knowledge Summaries

Clinical Knowledge Summaries provide a summary of the current evidence base and practical guidance on best practice in respect of over 330 common and/or significant primary care presentations.

Browse clinical knowledge summaries by topic or specialty.

Current Awareness

We have collected the RSS feeds of some top acute medicine journals and news sites and put them all in one place for you to browse at your convenience. 

Hosted by Netvibes,  your Acute Medicine current awareness page means you only have to go to one place, rather than visiting each individual website that you are interested in.

If there is a feed that you want us to include, just let us know and we'll add it in.

• Unsure what RSS feeds are? See our Current Awareness page for more information.

Table of Contents (TOC) Alerts 

Table of Contents alerts automatically notify you when a new issue of a journal is published.

If you want us to set up a TOC alert for you, just get in touch and we can set up the alert to come straight to your email inbox.

For more information TOC alerts and other ideas on how to keep up to date, see our Current Awareness page.

Useful Links

Organisations:

• RCP: Acute Medcine - information about the acute medicine specialty with links to resources and news.

• Society for Acute Medicine (SAM) - the national representative body for staff caring for medical patients in the acute hospital setting.

Resources:

• AcuteMed App - a free app designed to help doctors, medical professionals and students working in the fields of acute medicine and accident and emergency.

• AcuteMed website - a website about acute medicine which describes the care of most acute medical emergencies. The website is primarily designed for junior doctors (and medical students) working in an acute medicine unit (AMU). It is written by a group of UK consultants, with the help of junior doctors and nurses.

• Acute Medicine Network e-learning - a web-based learning resource for trainees in acute and general medicine. It has been developed by the Federation of Royal Colleges of Physicians, in collaboration with e-Learning for Healthcare, to enable trainees to access e-learning sessions relevant to all levels of competence as described in the Acute Medicine curriculum. Registration is free for NHS employees.

• Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board (JRCPT): Acute Internal Medicine- training information on your specialty, including the latest curriculum, ARCP decision aids and guidance. 

• Medical Careers: Acute Medicine - information on acute medicine as a specialty. Including data on what it is like to work in acute medicine, the types of patients, disease and conditions you are likely to encounter throughout your career, the training pathways you can follow and a whole host of statistics to help you understand what your future career prospects in the specialty could be. 

• NICE Guidelines: Acute & Critical Care - search for guidelines and quality standards.

• MRCP(UK): Acute Medicine - includes sample questions and recommended info sources.

• RCP Acute Care Toolkits - The acute care toolkits are a series of resources to help improve the delivery of acute care. The toolkits look at current problems and suggest a range of recommendations for improving quality.