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New eBook: The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Cardiothoracic Surgery E-Book

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MSKCC now has an institutional subscription to two titles in the The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Pearson’s General Thoracic Surgery and Adult and Pediatric Cardiac. These two titles are part of the STS Cardiothoracic Surgery eBook. 

The STS Cardiothoracic Surgery E-Book is an authoritative resource for cardiothoracic surgical information. It includes 300 interactive chapters in all main cardiothoracic surgery domains, with all-new hand-drawn medical illustrations, photographs, and surgical videos. Pearson’s General Thoracic Surgery 

New Databases: AccessMedicine and AccessSurgery

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The library now subscribes to two comprehensive resources, AccessMedicine and AccessSurgery. 

AccessMedicine provides more than 100 medical reference textbooks, ranging from surgery and pharmacology to basic and clinical sciences. It includes frequently updated content with thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessments, case files, diagnostic tools, and more. Textbooks include Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine (21st edition), Adams and Victor’s Principles of Neurology (12th edition), and Goodman & Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics (14th edition).

AccessSurgery is a comprehensive online surgery resource aimed to enhance medical knowledge and deliver quick answers to surgical inquiries. AccessSurgery provides access to leading surgical textbooks (including Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery and Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations), instructional surgical videos and animations that show step-by-step how to perform basic and advanced surgical procedures, an Interactive Board Review designed to help residents and clerks prepare for exams, an integrated drug database to look up dosing, indications, and adverse reactions, and a Clerkship Corner that brings together all clerkship specific resources, including text references, case files, and videos on essential concepts and procedures clerks may observe or assist in during their rotation.