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Resources to support the VU Bachelor of Paramedicine course
You can find journal articles online via Library search or via Library databases. A database is a collection of material from trusted sources, particularly journal articles. One database may include articles from hundreds of journals. Some databases are multi-disciplinary, others are subject-specific and focus on a particular discipline, such as health.
To see a full list of databases relevant to your studies in paramedicine, go to the library homepage, click on 'Databases A-Z', select 'subjects' and click on the 'Health, biomedicine & nursing' link.
Provides full text and covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters.
MEDLINE with Full-Text is a tool for medical research providing full text for top-tier medical journals. These top journals cover a wide range of subjects within the biomedical and health fields containing information needed by doctors, nurses, health professionals, and researchers engaged in clinical care, public health and health policy development.
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full-text articles and other related resources.
Includes six databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, as well as information about Cochrane groups.
Combines clinical research titles in ProQuest Medical Library with consumer and health administration titles. Also includes charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, and photos relevant to medical research. The journals cover clinical and healthcare disciplines. Subject coverage includes anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, biomedicine, microbiology, immunology, nervous system, pharmacology, psychiatry, and dermatology. Search results can be limited to full-text and peer-reviewed articles.
Modules include 3D Atlas, 3D Real-time, Anatomy & Physiology, Functional Anatomy - including sport injuries shoulder and knee, Therapy - including Hand therapy, Massage & Manual Therapies, Quizzes and Activities, Perceptual and Adaptive Learning Modules, and Clinical Specialities - Speech Language Pathology.
This online emergency medicine resource provides quick diagnosis and treatment answers for a broad spectrum of complaints encountered in the ED, ranging from neurologic and pediatric emergencies, to poisoning and trauma – specifically designed for optimized viewing on any device.
The VU Library subscribes to many medical and health databases on the ProQuest One Academic platform. When you access the ProQuest database, you are automatically searching multiple databases' content simultaneously. This includes journals, videos, eBooks and dissertations. You can also focus your search on the specific database using the Databases link on the top menu.
The following are some of the databases from ProQuest Central you might consult:
ScienceDirect is Elsevier's leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature. It is an extensive database of scientific, technical, and medical research with a wide variety of features and content. ScienceDirect contains many peer-reviewed journals with full-text content. You can view, print and download full-text articles. This database covers areas in science, technology, medicine, the social sciences and business.