Clinical Key Offers Free CME

1.    Create a personal account by clicking the Register link at the top right corner of the Clinical Key homepage.

2.    Search for an answer to a clinical question – access book, journal, or FirstConsult content.

3.    Find – Study a result to find what you need and click on the CME icon.

4.    Redeem – Complete the Cleveland Clinic form and submit to earn credit!

Other Helpful Links :

Clinical Key (direct link)    

Clinical Key Quick Reference Card

Setting up a Personal Account in Clinical Key

Clinical Key Support Page (Ministry Library Services)

Questions or Comments?   Feel free to contact Your Librarians:

Deb Knippel at 715-346-5091  or    Michele Matucheski 920-223-0340 

Accessing the FirstConsult App

FirstConsult is a point-of-care tool available through our Institutional subscription to Clinical Key.   You can search FirstConsult through Clinical Key at any Ministry computer.      FirstConsult is also available as a stand-alone iPhone / iPad app.

First Consult offers point-of-care monographs that leverage evidence-based medical information into succinct, clinical answers that are trusted, quick, and accessible from world-renowned physician experts.

Quick answers at the point-of-care

·         Evidence-based medical information is distilled through the collaborative editorial process, ensuring the content is accurate, current and relevant to your practice.

·         Workflow-friendly format characterized by succinct, bulleted answers presented within two clicks

·         More than 1400 primary care disease topic pages covering risk factors, treatments, clinical manifestations, ddx, dosing info, best evidence, and more.

How to get the App:

Before you download the FirstConsult App, you must first create an account in Clinical Key.  If you don't have one, then begin with step 1. If you already have one, skip to Step 4 below :

1.  Visit Clinical Key on a Ministry work computer.
2. Click on the Register link.
3. Enter the required data -- your email address will be your username.
4. Search the App Store for First Consult.   3 options will appear : Choose Option 1 "I use FirstConsult and know my username."    When prompted, login using your newly created personal login.

iPhone Screenshots :

Questions or Comments?   Feel free to contact Your Librarians:

Deb Knippel at 715-346-5091  or    Michele Matucheski 920-223-0340 

Other Helpful Links :

Clinical Key (direct link)    

FirstConsult iPhone / iPad App Flier

Clinical Key Support Page (Ministry Library Services)

Clinical Key Quick Reference Card

Setting up a Personal Account in Clinical Key

5 Simple Steps to Create a Personal Account

1.    Visit Clinical Key within your institutional network or IP Range.

2.    Click the Register Link.

3.    Enter the required data – your email address will be your user name.

4.    Confirm your password be re-entering it.

5.    Congratulations!  You’ve created a new personal account with Clinical Key.

If you require remote access outside of our network, please contact Your Librarians :

Deb Knippel at 715-346-5091  or    Michele Matucheski 920-223-0340 

Clinical Key (direct link)

Clinical Key Support Page (Ministry Library Services)

Clinical Key Quick Reference Card  

Goodbye MDConsult, Hello ClinicalKey

Some of you may already know that the publisher retired the popular resource MDConsult as of December 31, 2014. It has been replaced with a much more comprehensive tool called  Clinical Key. Ministry Health Care made the decision to add Clinical Key to our suite of databases and resources. 

Clinical Key can be accessed through the Library Intranet site (aka The Library without Walls), or our A-Z database list.   We will be working to add additional links via the EMRs and The Source.

Feel free to use this direct link Clinical Key.    If you click on an old MDConsult link now, it should redirect to Clinical Key.   

ClinicalKey’s offerings include:

·         over 500 journals

·         over 1000 textbooks

·         “FirstConsult” point-of-care clinical consults (similar to UptoDate)

·         Procedures Consult

·         Patient Education

·         Drug monographs from Clinical Pharmacology

·         over 13,000 medical and surgical videos

·         millions of images that may be added to presentations

·         over 2,000 practice guidelines

If you are interested in helpful tutorials, videos, and guides for navigating Clinical Key, please visit:

Clinical Key Experience Tour (3-minute video) Use Chrome

Clinical Key User Guide   (pdf)  (Ver.2)

Clinical Key Support

Questions or comments, feel free to contact Your Librarians :

Deb Knippel at 715-346-5091  or Michele Matucheski 920-223-0340 

Free to a Good Home : 2011 AudioDigest CDs

The MMC  Library has 1 year's worth of      2011    AudioDigest CDs  available for FREE. Although these audioCDs are too old to apply for CE credits, they do still offer  excellent  information for Physicians, PAs, Nurses, and other health professionals.

Available Subject areas include the following  :

Anesthesiology 

Emergency Medicine 

Family Practice (on tape  and CD )

Gastroenterology

General Surgery 

Internal Medicine

Neurology

Obstetrics / Gynecology

Ophthalmology

Orthopaedics 

Otolaryngology 

Pediatrics 

Psychiatry

Urology 

Also available on Audio :

ACCEL

Journal Watch 

Practical Reviews in Radiology

Look for them on the  used  book sale table.     Come early.  These are HOT items!   

Too far from Mercy?  No sweat!   I'm  willing to inter-office a selection of  5-10  audio CDs anywhere within Affinity. 

Just tell  me  which series you're interested in.  

Due to challenges with inter-office mail delivery between regions, this offer is only for Affinity / East Region. 

Why are we giving them away?

--limited shelving space for audiovisuals

--CE credits are available only for 3 years since date of publication

--Our libraries emphasize the most up-to-date info, so we want to make room for more recent issues.

Questions, Comments, or just want to Stake your Claim?

Contact Your Librarian : 

Michele Matucheski via Outlook or phone (3-0340)

Goodbye MDConsult - Hello Clinical Key

Some of you may know that Elsevier is retiring the popular resource MDConsult as of December 31, 2014, and replacing it with a much more comprehensive tool called Clinical Key. Ministry Health Care made the decision to add Clinical Key to our suite of databases and resources.  It is currently available as a free trial until our subscription officially begins January 2015. 

Clinical Key can be accessed through the Library Intranet site (aka The Library without Walls), or our A-Z database list.  We will be working to add additional links via the EMRs and The Source after our subscription officially starts. 

For now, feel free to test-drive Clinical Key during our free trial transition period.

ClinicalKey’s offerings include:

•           over 500 journals
•          over 1000 textbooks
•          “FirstConsult” point-of-care clinical consults (similar to UptoDate)
•          Procedures Consult
•     Patient Education 
•          Drug monographs from Clinical Pharmacology
•          over 13,000 medical and surgical videos
•          millions of images that may be added to presentations
•          over 2,000 practice guidelines

If you are interested in helpful tutorials, videos, and guides for navigating Clinical Key, please visit:

Clinical Key Experience Tour (3-minute video) Use Chrome

Clinical Key User Guide  
Clinical Key Resources

Questions or comments, feel free to contact Your Librarians :

Deb Knippel at 715-346-5091

or Michele Matucheski 920-223-0340 

New Book at Ministry Libraries : Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

By Dr. Atul Gawande

“In his latest book, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending.

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering.

Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession’s ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified.
Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.”

To borrow this book, contact your Librarians :

Deb Knippel at 715-346-5091 

or Michele Matucheski 920-223-0340

Emailed Tables-of-Contents eTOCs for Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Journals

The following is a subset of professional and clinical journals focusing

on Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation.

• These full-text journals are currently available through Ministry/Affinity Library Services.  
• If you want to receive emailed updates for each new issue, with links to the full-text articles (as long as you’re using an Affinity/Ministry computer or remote access),  Just ask!
• eTOCs / New issue alerts are a great way to stay up-to-date with what’s happening in this ever-evolving specialty.
• Sneak a peak at what you’ll get for any of the titles below, then
•  Contact your Ministry Librarians via Outlook or phone to register for email alerts for these eJournals:   Michele Matucheski   or  Deb Knippel 
• Tell us what you want, and we'll make sure you get signed up to get the new issue alerts.

American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation  (0894-9115

from 01/01/1996 to present in Journals@Ovid LWW Total Access Collection

American Journal of Sports Medicine (Pub)

                Current Issue 

Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation  (0003-9993) 
      from 1995 to present in JournalsConsult on Elsevier ScienceDrect

Clinical rehabilitation  (0269-2155)   
      from 02/01/1998 to present in Academic Search Premier

International journal of rehabilitation research  (0342-5282)   
      from 03/01/2001 to present in Journals@Ovid LWW Total Access Collection

International journal of therapy and rehabilitation  (1741-1645)   

from 05/01/2003 to present in CINAHL with Full Text

 Journal of acute care physical therapy  (2158-8686)  
     from 2010 to present in Journals@Ovid LWW Total Access Collection

Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume  (0021-9355)

from 01/01/1993 to present in Journals@Ovid Core Biomedical Collection 2010

Journal of geriatric physical therapy (2001)  (1539-8412)   
      from 01/01/2001 to present in Journals@Ovid LWW Total Access Collection

Journal of hand therapy  (0894-1130) 

	from 2003 to present in JournalsConsult on Elsevier ScienceDirect

Journal of head trauma rehabilitation  (0885-9701)          from 02/01/1999 to present in Journals@Ovid LWW Total Access Collection

Journal of neurologic physical therapy  (1557-0576)   

from 2003 to present in Journals@Ovid LWW Total Access Collection

Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy (JOSPT) (Pub)

                Current issue 

Journal of rehabilitation  (0022-4154)   

			from 01/01/1975 to present in Academic Search Premier

Journal of women's health physical therapy  (1556-6803)   

		from 01/01/2005 to present in Journals@Ovid LWW Total Access Collection
	Manual therapy  (1356-689X)            from 2003 to present in JournalsConsult on Elsevier ScienceDirect Medicine and science in sports and exercise  (0195-9131)            from 01/01/1996 to present in Journals@Ovid LWW Total Access Collection  Pediatric physical therapy  (0898-5669)          from 01/01/2000 to present in Journals@Ovid LWW Total Access Collection
Physical therapy  (0031-9023)  from 01/01/2000 to present in Academic Search Premier from 01/01/2000 to present in CINAHL with Full Text

Physical therapy in sport  (1466-853X)   

from 2003 to present in JournalsConsult on Elsevier ScienceDirect

Rehabilitation nursing  (0278-4807)   
         from 1997 to present in Wiley-Blackwell Medicine & Nursing Collection 

Spine (Philadelphia, Pa. 1976)  (0362-2436

from 01/01/1996 to present in Journals@Ovid LWW Total Access Collection

Topics in geriatric rehabilitation  (0882-7524)   
      from 03/01/1998 to present in Journals@Ovid LWW Total Access Collection

Don't see your favorite professional journal?
Consult our A-Z Journals List for our complete holdings.