Resource Guide:
Health Pre-Professionals
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
- National Library of Medicine
- AAMC Medial Education
- Liaison Committee on Medical Education
- American Medical Association
- American Dental Education Association
- American Dental Association Education
- American Pharmacists Association
- American Veterinary Medical Association
- Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Clinical Medicine
- Geriatrics
- Pediatrics
- Veterinary Medicine
- Medical Education
- Health Occupations Schools
- Dentistry
- Diseases
- Pharmacy
- Medical Sciences
- Medicine and Society
- Paramedical Education
- Emergency Medicine
- Nursing
- Surgery
- Physicians
- Medicine – United States
- Premedical Education
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
- Academic Search Complete
- Alt HealthWatch
- ArXiv
- Associates Programs Source
- Consumer Health Complete
- Credo Reference
- Environment Complete
- Films on Demand
- Handbook of Psychology, 2nd Ed.
- Health Source – Consumer Edition
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
- JSTOR
- MedicLatina
- Medline
- OAISter
- PLOS Biology
- Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global
- PsycInfo
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
- PubChem
- PubMed
- Salud en Espanol
- Statista
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- Medical Education Online
- Medical History
- Medical Industry Employment Opportunities
- Medical Letter on the CDC
- Medicine
- Veterinary Medicine
- Veterinary Week
- Nursing and Health Sciences
- Nursing Education Perspectives
- Dentistry On-Line: International Dental Forum
- Dental Research Journal
- Pharmacy Education
- Journal of Veterinary Medical Education (online)
- Journal of Nursing Education (online)
- American Association of Colleges of Nursing
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
Title | Call Number |
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The demography of health and health care | e-Book |
Designing and conducting health systems research projects | e-Book |
Drugs in sport | RC 1230 .D786 1988 |
Healing words : the power of prayer and the practice of medicine | BL 65 .M4 D67 1993 |
Health professions education a bridge to quality | e-Book |
Introduction to EMS systems | e-Book |
Introduction to the health professions | R 690 .S727 2009 |
MCAT Secrets : your key to MCAT success | REF R 838.5 .M34 2005 |
Medicine PreTest self-assessment and review | e-Book |
Opportunities for medical research in the 21st century | R 690 .N11 2001 |
PDR for herbal medicines | RM 666 .P37 2000 |
Alternative medicine a medical dictionary, bibliography… | e-Book |