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Blue Ridge Area Health Education Center (AHEC) is proud to provide an exciting benefit for our active preceptors and their
students. As an active preceptor or student, you may access the OVID database, which offers the following health science databases: Medline, Journals@Ovid
Full Text, Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews: Best Evidence, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and Database of Abstracts of Reviews
of Effectiveness, CINAHL, and Pre-Medline. See a list of available OVID
titles (PDF format, 11 KB - Requires free Adobe® Acrobat Reader, get
it here) Full-text journal articles are available from hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical
journals. The EBM Reviews include a small number of high-quality articles that are reviewed by medical professionals. Top clinical journals are screened on a regular basis and studies that are both methodologically sound
and clinically relevant are identified. Enhanced abstracts of the chosen articles are written and provide a commentary on the
value of the article for clinical practice. EBM reviews provide clinicians with the ability to quickly understand and apply to their practice important
changes in medical knowledge, without having to read and synthesize for themselves thousands of journal articles.
Internet access is needed in order to connect to the OVID.
Please note that access to OVID is limited to active AHEC
preceptors and their students.
Password information may not be shared with others.
Any unauthorized use of passwords will violate our agreement with OVID Technologies
and could jeopardize OVID access for all preceptors and students in the AHEC
preceptor program.
Passwords for preceptors and students will be changed every 6 months.
When the passwords are changed, any saved changes associated with the
AHEC accounts will be cleared off the OVID system.
To use this service:
-
Click on OVID link below.
- Under Status, locate PRECEPTOR or STUDENT,
under Affiliation, locate BLUE RIDGE AHEC.
- Finally, enter your
login and password (case sensitive)
- Click on the “Submit” button
- Select a Database
- To get more information about a database, click the
red information icon: “i”
- Begin your OVID search by entering
a keyword or phrase. You can search by Medical Subject Heading,
Author, Journal
Title,
or Textword.
If you
have the “Map term to Subject Heading” box
selected, OVID will find the closest Medical Subject
heading for that term(s).
You may
choose to pre-limit your search by clicking on one
of the boxes beneath the search box. Limits may include:
Full text, Human, English,
Reviews,
or Abstracts.
- Click on “Perform Search” button
to begin you search
- You may choose to complete your
initial search, judge the number of results, and then limit the
results by using the “Limit” option.
- An OVID tutorial is
available from Duke University on the following web site: http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/respub/guides/ovidtut/
Please direct any questions to:
Erin Hernandez, Special Projects/Education Coordinator
706-235-0776, ext. 210
ehernandez@blueridgeahec.org
