McGraw-Hill Professional, a leading global provider of information resources for the scientific and medical communities, today announced the launch of AccessMedicine’s Custom Curriculum, a cutting-edge functionality that enables internal medicine program directors to create learning modules with AccessMedicine content, track resident progress, and generate usage reports. With the Custom Curriculum, internal medicine programs can build a resource that matches their specific needs – mapping AccessMedicine content and capabilities to their program’s unique educational structure.

AccessMedicine’s Custom Curriculum provides a powerful and intuitive online interface for program directors to manage their training rotations. By replicating their existing rotation structure online, program directors can:
• Build collections of learning modules, each with their own unique sets of customizable objectives
• Develop and author case narratives to provide context for each module
• Assign readings from McGraw-Hill’s clinical texts and esteemed Lange Educational Library, as well as videos and Grand Rounds lectures
• Incorporate AccessMedicine Learning Tools, such as Case Files and Imaging Tests, into activities
• Require self-assessment tests and specify the passing grade
• Schedule grand rounds, lectures, or other offline activities
• Generate reports for resident usage that track assignment completion and test scores
• Link out to primary references or other web-based resources

With the Shared Library functionality, internal medicine program directors can save the learning modules they’ve developed, so that others may view, adopt, and even modify their approach, all while giving credit to the original institution. Additions to the shared library are currently underway by program directors at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the University of California-Davis School of Medicine, and the School of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The modules created by these schools will be added to the site in November and December of 2009.

For internal medicine residents, AccessMedicine’s Custom Curriculum provides an intuitive interface for tracking educational progress and managing an individualized learning experience. For a given learning module, each resident knows exactly what is expected and monitors his or her own progress toward achieving that goal.
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NEW EDITIONS
Ganong's Review of Medical Physiology, 23e
By Kim E. Barrett, et al.
Thoroughly updated to reflect the latest research, Ganong's concisely covers every important topic without sacrificing depth or readability, delivering clinically-relevant information on every page.

NEW WILLIAMS GYNECOLOGY ANIMATION
The Pfannenstiel Incision
By Barbara L. Hoffman, MD, and Brenda Harrison, MA

GOODMAN AND GILMAN'S ANIMATION
GABAergic Synaptic Transmission
By Don Blumenthal, PhD, and Derek Cowan

USMLEasy Relaunched with Institutional Access
McGraw-Hill has relaunched USMLEasy (http://www.usmleasy.com) as the first online test preparation resource from McGraw-Hill that offers institutional access. This innovative testing website allows medical students to extensively prepare for the USMLE in the areas of Step 1 Basic Science, Step 2 Clinical Knowledge, and Step 3 Application of Medical Clinical Knowledge. USMLEasy offers nearly 7,000 questions [http://www.usmleasy.com/public/about.aspx] derived from McGraw-Hill’s leading series of test prep books, such as PreTestTM and Lange Q&A™, including all the disciplines and organ systems covered on the exam. To see sample exams, please visit www.usmleasy.com; for more product information, visit the AccessMedicine Library Resource Center.

For a demonstration of the new site, join us for our online product presentation at 3pm EDT on June 4, 2009. Please send an email to digmktg@mhprofessional.com to register for this meeting or visit the AccessMedicine Library Resource center for login information.

 New Harrison’s Online Grand Rounds Lecture with CME
The Endocrine Myopathies
By Vanja Douglas, MD
CME provided by the Interstate Postgraduate Medical Association (IPMA)

 New Williams Gynecology Animation
Suction Dilation and Curettage
By Barbara L. Hoffman, MD, and Laura C. Sesto

 New Updates
5/18/2009 | Updates: Harrison's Online
GENERAL UPDATE
Identification of Possible Genetic Risk Factors for Stroke
by Josephson, S. Andrew

5/14/2009 | Updates: Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine, 7e
GENERAL UPDATE
Filaggrin – An Essential Skin Barrier Protein in Ichthyosis and Atopic Eczema
by McLean, W. H. Irwin

 5/14/2009 | Updates: Harrison's Online
GENERAL UPDATE
Smoking Likely a Risk Factor for ALS
by Josephson, S. Andrew

 5/12/2009 | Updates: Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, 6e
GENERAL UPDATE
Emergency Medicine: Evidence-Based Treatment of Hypercalcemia
by Hagerty, R. Daniel

 5/11/2009 | Updates: Harrison's Online
GENERAL UPDATE
Meta-Analysis Reveals that Two SSRIs May be Superior to Others for Treatment of Depression

Posted 5/5/2009: Hot Topic:

Epidemic of Novel Human H1N1 Reassortant Influenza Virus Descended from Enzootic Swine Influenza Viruses
by 
David M. Morens
MD, Senior Advisor to the Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Anthony S. Fauci
MD, Chief, Laboratory of Immunoregulation; Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

McGraw-HIll is making this update freely available from teh home page to all visitors of AccessMedicine.

UPDATED EDITIONS:
Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology, 9e
By Allan H. Ropper and Martin A. Samuels
This resource provides all the information needed to confidently handle any neurologic problem. Supported by expert insights, written in a conversational style, and augmented by in-depth coverage of common and rare illnesses, this resource is a complete, supported, accessible, and practical guide in clinical practice

CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment in Cardiology, 3e
By Michael H. Crawford
This concise, yet comprehensive book is perfect for board review and all aspects of heart disease care. Fully updated and presented in the easy-to-use CURRENT format, the book covers every important management issue in cardiology.

CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2009
By Stephen J. McPhee, Maxine A. Papadakis, Eds.
Available ahead of the 2010 print edition, chapters 1, 3, 5, 9, 12, 13, 14, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 33, 35.

NEW WILLIAMS GYNECOLOGY ANIMATION:
ParaGard® T380A Insertion
By Barbara L. Hoffman, MD, and Derek Wu

FEATURED GOODMAN & GILMAN'S PHARMACOLOGY VIDEO:
Antiplatelet Drugs is the first in the Goodman & Gilman's Pharmacology animation series entitled "Hemostasis: Antiplatelet, Anticoagulant, and Thrombolytic Drugs."
This animation is available for public viewing for this month only. Share this link with your colleagues.

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NEW EDITION:

DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination, 9e

By Richard F. LeBlond, MD, Donald D. Brown, MD, and Richard L. DeGowin, MD
This completely revised and easy to navigate point-of-care guide covers all physical examination techniques and procedures. Also elegantly organized by symptoms, signs, and syndromes, it allows for complete coverage of differential diagnosis.

NEW WILLIAMS GYNECOLOGY ANIMATION:

Introduction to Diagnostic Laparoscopy
By Barbara L. Hoffman, MD, and Derek Wu

FEATURED GOODMAN & GILMAN'S PHARMACOLOGY VIDEO:

Adrenergic Neuroeffector Junction

In Honor of National DVT Awareness Month:  New Harrison's Online Grand Rounds Lecture with CME

Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in Medical Patients
By Steven Cohn, MD
CME provided by the Interstate Postgraduate Medical Association (IPMA)

AccessMedicine sponsors CardioCareLive!
We invite you to CardioCareLive (http://www.CardioCareLive.com), a free medical conference held entirely online, brings together cardiometabolic experts with healthcare professionals in an interactive virtual environment. This online event offers free Continuing Medical Education (CME) Improving Cardiometabolic Patient Outcomes, accredited through the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and next meets Tuesday, March 3rd and Wednesday, March 4th, 2009.

Get your questions addressed live via video by the leaders in cardiovascular care. Speakers include Roger Blumenthal, MD from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Clyde Yancy, MD from The Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute, Lori Mosca, MD from New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and announcing special guest lecturer, the real Patch Adams, Founder of The Gesundheit Institute! Click here for the full agenda.

New Williams Gynecology Animation Series
From the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
New this month: Introduction to the Basic Pelvic Exam

New Williams Obstetrics Clinical Pearl
PUPPP-Pruritic Urticarial Papules and Plaques of Pregnancy
By Loren N. Petrozella, MD, Manisha Sharma, MD, and Barbara L. Hoffman, MD

New Edition
Current Practice Guidelines in Primary Care 2009
By Ralph Gonzales, MD, MSPH, and Jean S. Kutner, MD, MSPH
This easy-to-use guide for the primary care clinician offers quick-access to the latest guidelines for the most appropriate preventive services, screening methods, and treatment approaches commonly encountered in the outpatient setting. New to this edition are more international guidelines, major updates to disease management guidelines, and Appendix of Guidelines in Perspective identifying areas of discordance and where new directions are emerging.

New Animation
Effects of Antiarrhythmic Drugs on the Electrocardiogram
The fifth in a series of six Goodman & Gilman's Pharmacology Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pharmacology animations

Hurst’s The Heart Text Update
Sildenafil for the Treatment of Heart Failure
By Akshay Desai, MD

Goodman and Gilman Text Update
Regulatory and Pharmacological Milestones in the Development of Drugs for Companion Animals
By Nelda Murri, PharmD, MBA

McGraw-Hill Medical changed the USMLEasy platform to create a more robust product with tougher questions that simulate the USMLE. This new USMLEasy product launched on Jan. 1, 2009. USMLEasy currently offers questions for Step 1 & Step 3;  Step 2 questions will become available in May 2009. The USMLEasy Lite feature on AccessMedcine was also upgraded with a new interface and new questions.

Note for Librarians: USMLEasy will be available as a separate product for institutional subscriptions in May 2009 and will offer more than 3,000 USME-formatted questions for Step 1, Step 2, and Step 3.  Be sure to stop by our MLA booth for a demonstration of the product and to ask a representative about the flexible subscription options.

NEW – USMLEasy Lite on AccessMedicine
USMLEasy Lite, in the Self-Assess/Board Review section of AccessMedicine and offered as part of a full AccessMedicine subscription, will receive a new and improved interface as of Dec. 30, 2008. USMLEasy Lite will still offer Step 1 & Step 3 questions and answers, but Step 2 CK questions will not be available until April 2009. The new Lite version will allow test taking in both Practice and USMLE Simulation modes. The new exam interface will more clearly identify test performance and areas where improvement is needed — providing the knowledge you or your students need to master the most challenging subjects. Please continue to visit the AccessMedicine Librarian Resource Center for updates on this product and the new USMLEasy for institutional subscriptions.

NEW Williams Gynecology Clinical Pearl:
Bartholin Gland Duct Marsupialization
By Barbara L. Hoffman, MD and Genevra Garrett, BA

NEW GOODMAN & GILMAN'S UPDATE:
New Advances in the Chemotherapy of Tuberculosis—Part 3 of 3: New Mechanisms Associated with Resistance To Antituberculosis Drugs
By Dr. Tawanda Gumbo

VIDEO OF THE MONTH:
From Harrison's Online: Formation and complication of atherosclerotic plaques

NEW EDITION:
Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach, 5th edition
Fully updated to reflect current issues, from the structure and organization of the industry to issues regarding government and private insurance to access to healthcare, in the ever-changing world of health care

NEW UPDATE to Fitzpatrick’s Dermatology in General Medicine
"Cutaneous Adverse Effects of Novel Anticancer Therapies"
by Mona Gandhi, MD, and Mario Lacouture, MD

NEW UPDATE to Hurst’s The Heart
"Statins for Aortic Stenosis? "
by Anselma Intini and James C. Fang

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NEW FEATURE: 
Hurst's Imaging Tests
Test your diagnostic skills with multimedia cases presenting cardiac imaging and video for interpretation.
See other self-assessment features.

NEW EDITIONS:
Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2009
The latest edition of the foremost annual reference in internal medicine includes online-only chapters.

Current Pediatric Diagnosis & Treatment, 19e
New features of this revised classic include a chapter on sports medicine and "Essentials of Diagnosis and Treatment" bulleted lists.

NEW CLINICAL PEARL:
From Williams Obstetrics: Placental Chorioangioma
by Barbara L. Hoffman and Jodi Dashe

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NEW RESOURCE:
Review of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, 10e
By Warren Levinson, MD. The most frequently updated microbiology and immunology review emphasizes clinical applications and aids in preparation for course exams and USMLE Step 1.

NEW HARRISON’S ONLINE CHAPTER
Ch e40, Altitude Illness: Acute Mountain Sickness, High-Altitude Pulmonary Edema,
and High-Altitude Cerebral Edema

PROCEDURAL VIDEOS: From Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine:
Dix-Hallpike Maneuver
Epley Maneuver

NEW ANIMATION
From Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics:
Sinus Node Electrophysiology
This animation focuses on the ion channels and transporters that are the primary targets of neurotransmitters of the autonomic nervous system that affect heart rate and drugs used to treat arrhythmias.

NEW Feature:
Diagnosaurus is now available for the Blackberry!
Download this tool for 1000+ DDx today!

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NEW Editions:
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine: Self-Assessment and Board Review, 17e
This guide features more than 1,000 review questions derived from and cross-referenced to the
authoritative content of Harrison’s Online, 17e.


CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment: Psychiatry, 2e
This comprehensive and concise resource on the adult and pediatric psychiatric medicine
is now in its second edition, with a new section on practice in special settings. 

NEW Video: Harrison's Online > Chapter e20.
Atlas of Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging > Atlas of Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging > Video e20-17

Free service for job seekers! Connect with the perfect job while researching your areas of expertise.
AccessMedicine now offers a link to Realmatch, an online job board & service that allows
users to define themselves through titles and skills, not keywords. 

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New resource:
Williams Gynecology
Eds: John O. Schorge, Joseph I. Schaffer, Lisa M. Halvorson, Barbara L. Hoffman, Karen D. Bradshaw, F. Gary Cunningham

New edition:
2008 CURRENT Consult Medicine
Consultants to this edition: Maxine A. Papadakis and Stephen J. McPhee
Formerly QuickAccess, this resource will be renamed Quick Answers.

New updates:
6/20/2008 | Updates: Harrison's Online
CONCISE REVIEW & EDITORIAL
Catheter Septal Ablation versus Surgical Myectomy in the Treatment of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
by Sorajja, Paul

6/19/2008 | Updates: Harrison's Online
GENERAL UPDATE
Recent Trends in the Epidemiology of Invasive Group B Streptococcal Disease
by Barlam, Tamar F.; Kasper, Dennis L.

6/18/2008 | Updates: Harrison's Online
CONCISE REVIEW & EDITORIAL
Diaphragmatic Pacing
by Kanaan, Samer; Ducko, Christopher T.

6/17/2008 | Updates: Williams Gynecology
GENERAL UPDATE
Human Papilloma Virus and Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Women
by Griffith, William F.

6/16/2008 | Updates: Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine, 7e
GENERAL UPDATE
Supportive Data for Use of Etanercept To Treat Psoriasis in Pediatric Patients
by Paller, Amy S.

6/16/2008 | Updates: Harrison's Online
GENERAL UPDATE
How the Intestinal Mucus Barrier Protects against Bacteria
by Isselbacher, Kurt J.

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AccessMedicine has been redesigned to highlight media and education features, including self-assessment and video pages. View the press release.

New images added to Lichtman’s Atlas of Hematology

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NEW RESOURCE!
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 17th Edition,

Eds: Anthony S. Fauci, Eugene Braunwald, Dennis L. Kasper, Stephen L. Hauser,
Dan L. Longo, J. Larry Jameson, Joseph Loscalzo

Expert guidance in patient care from the world's leading internal medicine text. With special emphasis on approach to the patient, differential diagnosis, state-of-the-art treatment, and disease prevention.

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What's New In February

RESOURCE UPDATE:
Smith's General Urology, 17e
Emil A. Tanagho and Jack W. McAninch 

The most trusted guide to the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of
urologic diseases and disorders -completely updated! 

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View Lange Case Files
Apply your knowledge to real-life clinical cases!
Prepare for tough questions on rotations and ace exams.

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