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AccessMed 
Collection of 62 basic and clinical medical texts, including Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Hurst's the Heart, the Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Series, and tools like Diagnosaurus, a differential diagnosis tool, and a case study for students. Also included are an image gallery, drug database (Clinical Pharmacology Online), patient education information, and a link to appendices with normal laboratory values.

MD Consult
Collection of 52 medical textbooks, patient education materials, images, and a drug database. Tip: choose the section you want to search (books, drugs, etc.) to focus the results.

DynaMed
Database of clinical topic overviews in outline format that includes images, links to references in primary literature and full-text, patient information, and calculators. There is also a mobile version of DynaMed.

UpToDate
Database of clinical topic overviews in narrative format that includes images, links to primary literature and related UpToDate articles, patient information, the Lexi-Comp drug database, and medical calculators.

Lexi-comp
Focused drug database with an overview of medications, including the mechanism of action, side effects, secondary benefits, and patient information. This database focuses mainly on drugs and drug interactions, but there are also medical calculators.

Micromedex
An extensive database of drug monographs that also include toxicology (Poisindex), reproductive toxicology (ReproRisk), calculators, and reference values.

MedCalc 3000
MedCalc 3000 provides a variety of medical calculators, including unit & dose convertors, equations for dosing, multicalcs, clinical criteria, and decision trees.

OMMBID--Online Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease
Online version of the multi-volume print reference by the same name provides very complete monographs on genetic diseases.

OMIM--Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
Database of human genes and genetic disorders; copious links to PubMed and DNA sequence records.

Exam Master Online 
Exam Master is a study tool for the USMLE Step 1, 2, CK and 3, subject specific exams: anatomy, biochemistry, cytology/histology, microbiology, pathology, physiology, internal medicine, psychiatry. 

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MedlinePlus
A resource for patient education with tutorials, surgery videos, drug information, and medical dictionary.