DynaMed is designed for use at the point of care, delivering current evidence-based answers to your clinical questions. It combines the highest quality evidence-based information, expert guidance and a user-friendly, personalised experience to deliver accurate answers fast at the point of care.
Click on the logo above and login with your NHS OpenAthens username and password. Don't have one? Register online for free here
Mobile App – online and offline versions available for Android and Apple devices. Download the DynaMed app from iOS App Store or Google Play store and login with your personal user credentials. Choose to download the full content, the content without images, or the online access only version Note: We recommend performing the initial content download while connected to a wireless network.
Create a personal user account by logging into DynaMed and click “SIGN IN” in the upper right-hand corner, followed by “Create Account” and complete the form. Once you are signed in a CME ticker will appear next to your name. Click the “Settings” icon to the right and adjust your settings to receive the appropriate CME and MOC credits. Once you have configured your CME and MOC settings you will start earning credits for all of your DynaMed activity.
This tutorial demonstrates the features and functionality of EBSCO's DynaMed interface. Included are searching, browsing, and following topics. Access the tutorial video here
British National Formulary (BNF and BNFC)
Key information on the selection, prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines. Click on the logo to access the resource.
The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry is the essential evidence-based handbook on the safe and effective prescribing of psychotropic agents. Covering both common and complex prescribing situations encountered in day-to-day clinical practice. Login via Open Athens
Clinical Knowledge Summaries are concise, accessible summaries of current evidence for primary care professionals. Providing practitioners with a readily accessible practical advice on best practice for over 370 topics grouped into specialities and organised alphabetically. Click on the logo or title to access the resource.
Nationally funded, free to the NHS in England.
BMJ Best Practice provides healthcare professionals with access to the latest clinical information. It is the only point-of-care tool that supports the management of the whole patient by including guidance on the treatment of a patient’s acute condition, alongside their pre-existing comorbidities through its unique Comorbidities Manager. With the BMJ Best Practice app, you have unlimited access to clinical answers, online or offline.
How do I access it? - Click on the logo above and login with your NHS OpenAthens username and password. Don't have one? Register online for free here
Click on 'Institutional Login' and type in your organisation when prompted.
Is there an APP? - once you are logged in you can create a BMJ Best Practice personal account to access additional features like the mobile app and CME/CPD activity tracking.
Who can use it? - any NHS member of staff who works in England and who has an NHS OpenAthens account.
What can I use it for? - 'BMJ Best Practice gives medical professionals the best available information for any clinical situation'.
You can use it to:
Evidence-based recommendations developed by independent committees, including professionals and lay members, and consulted on by stakeholders.
What is Clinical Key?
ClinicalKey is a clinical knowledge solution (search engine) designed to" help healthcare professionals and students find the right answers at the right time, every time, through a wide breadth and depth of trusted content". Further information can be found here and here
How do I access it? - Click on the logo above and login with your NHS OpenAthens username and password. Don't have one? Register online for free here
Is there an APP?
There is a mobile app for Apple and Android smart phones.
Who can use it? - any East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust member of staff and students with an NHS OpenAthens account.
What can I use it for?
It contains over 1,000 e-books, over 600 e-journals (published by Elsevier, including The Lancet) and over 9,000 medical and procedural videos.
It searches across all of this content plus Medline to pull together information to answer your clinical question. It can be used for clinical decisions, reference, learning, patient education and more.
Check out this short video which explains more or visit the Clinical Key channel on YouTube