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Teaching/Learning resources

Here you find the list of course textbooks currently available in e-book format, and a selection of other bibliographic resources that can be helpful for teaching/learning activities.

Contents inside the expandable menus below are constantly updated. Resources are labelled as on subscription/on trial/free.  Subscription-requiring resources are linked to allow off-campus access via Bibliopass (UniTO credentials required).

 

Course Textbooks
Other Textbooks

- [ON SUBSCRIPTION] Access Medicine: collection of more than 200 constantly updated e-books in English (some also with "Student Companions") in the following fields:

 

- [ON SUBSCRIPTION] DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg's Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology: 11th edition, last updated on September 2019.

 

- [FREE] Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body - Bartleby.com: online version of the 1918 edition, with 13,000 subject index entries and 1247 engravings.

 

 

 

Drug Information

- [ON SUBSCRIPTION] Drug Monographs - Access Medicine: Drug summaries, searchable for generic/trade names or pharmacologic classes. A Patient Education section is also available.

 

- [ON SUBSCRIPTION] Micromedex: A suite of evidence-based databases about drugs, drug interactions, toxicology, laboratory analysis, and alternative medicine. It includes the “Martindale: the Complete Drug Reference”, the reference source about drugs and medicines around the world.

Images

- [ON SUBSCRIPTION] Ovid Multimedia: collection of multimedia (images, audios, and videos). It is possible both to perform a quick search and to browse the available topics.

 

- [FREE] The Visible Human Project: collections of three-dimensional representations of a human male body and a human female body (a project of the National Library of Medicine).

 

- [FREE] Atlas Dermatologico: photo archive of dermatological diseases.

 

- [FREE] Visuals Online: collection of images from the National Cancer Institute archives.

 

- [FREE] Images from the History of Medicine (IHM): digital collection of images about the history of medicine created by the National Library of Medicine.

 

 

Audio/Video Materials

- [ON SUBSCRIPTION] Multimedia - Access Medicine: multimedia collection including auscultations, podcasts, anatomical models, pathophysiology animations, patient interviews, physical exams and procedural videos.

 

- [ON SUBSCRIPTION] Ovid Multimedia: collection of multimedia (images, audios, and videos). It is possible both to perform a quick search and to browse the available topics.

 

- [ON SUBSCRIPTION] Hospital Corner: Procedures - Access Medicine: collection of videos about clinical procedures.

 

- [ON SUBSCRIPTION] JOVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments): Education: collection of education videos about scientific foundamentals. UniTO subscribes the following collections: 

          Cell Biology

          Developmental Biology

          Genetics

          Immunology

          Microbiology

          Neuroscience

          Basic Methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology

          Biology I: Yeast, Drosophila, and C. Elegans

          Biology II: Mouse, Zebrafish, and Chick

          General Laboratory Techniques

 

- [ON SUBSCRIPTIONS] JOVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments):research: collection of peer-reviewed video articles on research methods and technologies.

        Biochemistry

        Biology

        Developmental Biology

        Environment  

        Neuroscience

 

 

 

 

Quizzes, Clinical Cases and Review Questions

- [ON SUBSCRIPTION] Study Tools - Access Medicine: Multiple-choice quizzes, flashcards, and quiz-bowls (free account registration required).

 

- [ON SUBSCRIPTION] Cases - Access Medicine: collection of clinical cases (free account registration required).

Infographics

- [ON SUBSCRIPTION] The Infographic Guide to Medicine: a collection of visual "snapshots" about clinical topics, organized by medical specialties.