Required textbooks covered in orientation and required and other useful books available through SMHS Library Resources.
The Harriet Lane Handbook: The Johns Hopkins Hospital 23rd edition
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Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents
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Textbooks from LWW Health Library Clerkship:
(In addition to books, LWW Health Library Clerkship includes cases, journal club and self-assessment. The self-assessment questions are written to test your foreground sciences knowledge more than your clinical knowledge. They are not drawn from previous NBME question banks.)
Schwartz's Clinical Handbook of Pediatrics, 5th edition
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Textbooks from AccessPediatrics:
CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment Pediatrics, Twenty-Sixth Edition
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AccessPediatrics has multimedia content specifically for pediatric patients.
CDC vaccine recommendations for birth through 18 years old, 2025:
To make vaccine recommendations, healthcare providers should:
For Parents: The above information, including schedules, can be used for personal use including scheduling and education. For more information, visit the CDC website.
To build a search using social determinants of health along with a specific research area as it pertains to pediatric areas, add your term following the MeSH term for social determinants of health
("Social Determinants of Health"[MeSH Terms]) AND [use the MeSH and keyword terms for your area of interest] along with any filters you may choose such as systematic reviews and randomized control trials; age by groups; geographic area such as rural
Examples:
("Social Determinants of Health"[MeSH Terms]) AND ("Pediatric Obesity"[Mesh]) also try: ("Pediatric Obesity"[Mesh]) AND ("Adverse Childhood Experiences"[Mesh])
You can also look at Adverse Childhood Experiences as it relates to youth. One caution, do not use ACES as a keyword abbreviation for adverse childhood experiences. PubMed maps ACES to a chemical compound/supplementary concept.
("Life Change Events"[Mesh]) OR ("Adverse Childhood Experiences"[Mesh]) AND screening
(("Life Change Events"[Mesh]) OR ("Adverse Childhood Experiences"[Mesh])) AND ("Health Status Indicators"[Mesh])
("Patient-Centered Care"[Mesh]) AND ("Adverse Childhood Experiences"[Mesh])
Your librarian is happy to assist you in creating a search string.
DynaMed covers all aspects of care for Cystic Fibrosis - one of this clerkship's overall topics. Coverage includes evaluations, management, complications and images for treatments such as clubbing.
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