ICS 4-6 EIP Advanced Tutorial

The BU Libary compiled Clinical Tools to provide easy access to information and materials while on shift at the clinic. You will be delving deeper into these resources in coming weeks. You will want to explore it in its entirety on your own, but here are some highlights from the main page:

1. Point-of Care

• Provides information on diagnosis & treatment when you seeing patients
• Summarized/synthesized with a focus on efficiency and practicality

2. Herbs, Supplements, Drugs

• Important b/c going to become familiar with drug & herb monographs
• Provide detailed info, including use, dosage, contraindications, mechanism of action
• Need for knowledge of drug-drug or drug-herb interactionsResources here have tools to help with that

3. Clinical Research

• Providing original research articles and systematic reviews, as well as secondary (& tertiary) materials
• Particularly helpful if can’t find in PoC tool

This page also provides links such as Guidelines & Evidence Summaries, Calculators, and Herb, Supplement & Drug references.

Other tabs include links to typical documents used at clinic, professional organizations & government agencies by specialty, cultural competence & patient education, and CME. The BUC Clinical Tools page also contains materials and links specific to California. 

This PDF suggests some ways to categorize clinical tools to help you decide which are most appropriate for the question at hand.