Resources for Self-Directed Learning
This guide provides you with links to e-textbooks, study tools, tutorials, multimedia, and other authoritative resources available to you through Rutgers Libraries to assist your case-based and self-directed learning during the second year of medical school. Use the tabs to navigate to pages with resources for case-based assignments in the M2 curriculum.
The Robert Wood Johnson Library's staff and resources are here to assist you! Please let us know if you are interested in finding additional resources: Phone: (732) 235-7610 Email: rwj-ref@libraries.rutgers.edu
Associate Director and Coordinator of Medical Education
Tips for Writing Learning Objectives
- AAMC's Writing Learning ObjectivesProvides overview of Bloom's Taxonomy and an excellent list of verbs to help you articulate educational objectives.
EBM Quick Guide: Asking & Answering Questions
What is background information?
When you need general information about a disease, condition, symptom, or disease process, you should ask background questions.
Examples: What causes migraines? What are the available treatments for type 2 diabetes?
Background information will provide you with basic information and is not appropriate for answering clinical questions about a specific patient.
Background questions are best answered by medical textbooks, book chapters, and narrative review articles.
Resources for Locating Background Information
Locate background information online using library resources such as e-textbooks, evidence summaries, drug directories, guides to diagnostic tests, and review articles.
- AccessMedicineThis is an online collection of key medical textbooks and drug database.
- ClinicalKeyProvides access to e-textbooks, clinical practice guidelines, and FirstConsult reviews.
- DynamedThis clinical reference tool integrates evidence based medicine with practical information for clinical practice on more than 3,200 clinical topics.
- Essential Evidence PlusA database of filtered, synopsized, evidence-based information, this integrated search engine allows you to simultaneously search guidelines, topics, summaries.
- Medical Textbooks: e-booksSearch by title, subject, or collection to access Rutgers Libraries online, full text medical textbook collections.
- Up to DateA point-of-care information resource which contains over 10,000 clinical topics representing 25 specialties.