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The goals of this guide are to:

• Provide essential information for your clinical practice.
• Help users access essential resources through the Calder Library.

This guide is intended for clinicians at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, UHealth, and Jackson Health System.

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PubMed Trending Articles
See the PubMed records with recent increases in activity.

Cochrane Library Email Alerts
Sign up to the Cochrane Library's newsletter for updates on their product features and enhancements and the latest high-quality evidence.

UpToDate: What's New?
UpToDate editors select a small number of the most important updates and share them with you via What's New. See these updates by clicking on the specialty you are interested in.

Research Navigator
Research Navigator Services offer support designed to assist faculty in navigating the research enterprise at the University of Miami. They offer one-to-one, concierge-style centralized support to connect researchers to the right resources in a timely manner. They provide guidance on funding, compliance, collaboration, hiring personnel, policies, grant-writing, publishing, promoting your work, and much more.

EndNote Guide
The EndNote guide is designed to provide assistance downloading and learning the basics of the software.

RefWorks
Note: To access, users must create/log into an individual account. Refworks is a web based bibliography and database manager that allows users to create their own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases.

Web of Science
The Web of Science is today's premier research platform, helping you quickly find, analyze, and share information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. You get integrated access to high quality literature through a unified platform that links a wide variety of content with one seamless search.

BioMedical Communications
Biomedical Communications offers free tutorials designed to help UM faculty, staff and students create posters for presentations and conferences using Microsoft PowerPoint. The tutorials cover a variety of PowerPoint tools, including understanding menus, basics of page setup, choosing font types and sizes, importing objects and other steps needed to create impressive poster exhibits. The free sessions are for individual assistance and are held on a one-to-one basis.Our Mission is to provide the University of Miami and Jackson Memorial Hospital with professional digital and creative services that comply with University design standards and utilize state-of-the-art technology.

Image Archives
Biomed maintains archives of photographs taken at Medical School and departmental events, award ceremonies, groups of faculty, staff, residents, and students. The Historical Collection has been compiled from various sources. Archives of people are private and available on request.

Photography
The Photography Department is staffed by professional photographers experienced in both digital and conventional photographic methods. We utilize advanced photographic equipment, computers, digital cameras and slide, negative and flatbed scanners to provide high-quality output.

Poster Templates
Download University of Miami PowerPoint poster templates.

Posters
Design, create and print posters, brochures. Whether you need to produce scientific posters that impress, brilliant photographic signage that lasts, or presentation graphics that persuade, experts at Biomedical Communications can help you. Our computer graphic designers specialize in high-end, custom graphics, illustrations, and page layout for digital and print media, from concept to conclusion for both print and the web.

Video and Image Databases
Collection of sources for videos and graphics.

 

NIH Public Access Policy
Offers detailed information to researchers on how to comply with the NIH policy, which requires that the public have access to the published results of NIH-funded research.

Calder Library Scholarly Communications and Open Access Resources
Provides information on the benefits that open access brings to authors, researchers, scientists and the public. This resource guide contains links to relevant organizations that promote Open Access.

SPARC -Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
SPARC is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication.

OASIS - Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook
A portal of educational materials offering authoritative information on the concept, principles, approaches and initiatives of the open access movement worldwide. OASIS' target audience is researchers, librarians, publishers, administrators, students, and the public.

ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit
The ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit was designed to support advocacy efforts designed to transform the scholarly communication landscape. The Toolkit includes short overview essays on key scholarly communication issues and highly selective lists of other sources of information on these topics, and copies of presentations, handouts, and similar materials.

UNESCO - Open Access Portal
The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP), funded by the Governments of Colombia, Denmark, Norway, and the United States Department of State, presents a current snapshot of the status of Open Access (OA) to scientific information around the world. For countries that have been more successful implementing Open Access, the portal highlights critical success factors and aspects of the enabling environment. For countries and regions that are still in the early stages of Open Access development, the portal identifies key players, potential barriers and opportunities.

• Clinical Key User Guide
• Cochrane Library Tutorials
• DynaMed Tutorial
• Lynda.com Tutorials Database
• Online Tutorials
• PubMed Tutorials
• Scopus Tutorials
• UpToDate Demos
• VisualDx Tutorial

• Affordable Care Act (ACA US DHHS)
  The Affordable Care Act puts consumers back in charge of their health care. Under the law, a new Patient's Bill of Rights gives the American people the stability and flexibility they need to make informed choices about their health.

• AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit, 2nd edition
  The AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit, 2nd edition, can help primary care practices reduce the complexity of health care, increase patient understanding of health information, and enhance support for patients of all health literacy levels.

• Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
  CMS covers 100 million people through Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and the Health Insurance Marketplace. This website provides information for: (1) people with Medicare, Medicare open enrollment, and benefits; (2) children up to the age of 19 in need of health care coverage, and (3) people who need health insurance and want to apply for or enroll in the Marketplace.

• CHAMPS Cultural Competency Resources
  the Community Health Association of Mountains/Plains States developed this online resource to support Region VIII CHCs in providing quality health care that addresses the needs of culturally diverse populations. It contains: (1) Definitions of Cultural Competency; (2) Why Focusing on Cultural Competency is Important; (3) What it means to be Culturally Competent in a Healthcare Setting; (4) Frequently Asked Questions about Cultural Competency; (5) Cultural Competency Resources for Health Care Professionals; (6) Health Literacy and Language Services Resources; and (7) CHAMPS Population Specific Resources.

• Culture, Language, and Health Literacy (HRSA DHHS)
  Health Resources and Services Administration site with information about effective health communication and offers resources for health care providers learn how to recognize and address the unique culture, language and health literacy of diverse consumers and communities.

• CultureGrams Online Database (ProQuest LLC)
  Cultural reports for more than 200 countries each include 25 categories such as land and climate, history, personal appearance, greetings, dating and marriage, family, diet, housing, holidays, economy, education, and health. CultureGrams Online Database--pricing varies by number of users and by length of term.

• Guidelines for the Care of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Patients (Gay & Lesbian Medical Association)
  This booklet, published by GLMA (San Francisco, CA), provides guidelines and resources for the care of LGBT patients.

• Healthcare.gov (Health Insurance Marketplace)
  This government website provides information about the healthcare marketplace and provides links to apply and enroll in healthcare, how to choose a plan, important deadlines, rights and protections, etc. Published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

• National Center for Cultural Competence (Georgetown University)
  The mission of the NCCC is to increase the capacity of health care and mental health care programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems to address growing diversity, persistent disparities, and to promote health and mental health equity.

• Office of Minority Health (US DHHS)
  The Office of Minority Health is dedicated to improving the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will help eliminate health disparities (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services).

• Primary Care Protocol for Transgender Patient Care (UCSF)
  This protocol was published by the Center of Excellence for Transgender Patient Care, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 2011. This protocol is intended to serve two purposes: (1) Provide accurate, peer-reviewed medical guidance--this protocol was developed under the supervision of eight physicians with extensive experience in treating transgender patients; and (2) Provide a resource--this protocol contains references to additional materials that may be accessed for further study and shared with other provider colleagues and support staff to improve treatment capabilities as well as access to care for transgender patients.

• Providing Transgender-Inclusive Healthcare Services (Planned Parenthood)
  All people, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, have rights that need to be respected and responsibilities that need to be exercised-Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Values Statement. This booklet was prepared by the Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes, Inc., Ithaca, NY. It is a training manual to assure that staff members are meeting the needs of the people in the communities they serve.

• Taking Charge (Quebec, Canada)
  This guidebook was created by Action Santé Travesties et Transsexuel(le)s du Québec (ASTTeQ) as a tool to educate a wide spectrum of health care and social service providers, ranging from social workers, lawyers, family doctors, endocrinologists, mental health professionals, nurses, and frontline workers at social justice organizations, shelters, and HIV/AIDS service organizations, etc. It covers topics that touch on hormones, patient/client advocacy, legal name and sex designation changes, gender segregated facilities (i.e. shelters, prisons, detox facilities), and more.

• World Factbook (CIA)
  The Central Intelligence Agency publishes country profiles with information about geography, people and society, government, economy, energy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.

• World Professional Association for Transgender Health
  WPATH is a non-profit, interdisciplinary professional and educational organization devoted to transgender health. Professional, supporting, and student members engage in clinical and academic research to develop evidence-based medicine and strive to promote a high quality of care for transsexual, transgender, and gender-nonconforming individuals internationally.

ClinicalKey Multimedia
Clinical search engine that helps you find fast answers and deep evidence from more than 1,000 full-text reference books, 600 full-text journals, videos, images and more.

Human Genome Resources
A challenge facing researchers today is that of piecing together and analyzing the plethora of data currently being generated through the Human Genome Project and scores of smaller projects. NCBI's Web site serves as an integrated, one-stop, genomic information infrastructure for biomedical researchers from around the world so that they may use these data in their research efforts.