The UWorld Medical Library
Get immediate answers to your clinical questions with 500+ peer‑reviewed articles for medical students and physicians.
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Find Specific Articles in the Medical Library
The Medical Library makes it easy to find and review additional context on topics you’re studying or validate your clinical findings during practice.
- Select “Search Medical Library” and enter your query.
- View the related search results, sorted by relevance.
- Select your preferred article or type in a new search.
The Medical Library makes it easy to find and review additional context on topics you’re studying or validate your clinical findings during practice.
- Select “Search Medical Library” and enter your query.
- View the related search results, sorted by relevance.
- Select your preferred article or type in a new search.
Bookmarks are useful when you’re studying a difficult topic, have a patient with needs you’re less familiar with, or want to save specific articles for future use.
- To make a new bookmark: Select the star icon in your article tools bar at the bottom of your screen.
- To access saved bookmarks: Select “Bookmarks” in your navigation menu and use the search bar.
Use Bookmarks to Flag Important Clinical Content
Bookmarks are useful when you’re studying a difficult topic, have a patient with needs you’re less familiar with, or want to save specific articles for future use.
- To make a new bookmark: Select the star icon in your article tools bar at the bottom of your screen.
- To access saved bookmarks: Select “Bookmarks” in your navigation menu and use the search bar.
Integrate the Medical Library with Your QBank Tools
The Medical Library transforms your QBank into an all-in-one resource for clinical content mastery by expanding on the topics you need to know.
- Transfer content into your custom flashcards and My Notebook.
- View detailed illustrations and explore related topics with in-text hyperlinks.
- Directly highlight important text for when you revisit the material.
- Transfer content into your custom flashcards and My Notebook.
- View detailed illustrations and explore related topics with in-text hyperlinks.
- Directly highlight important text for when you revisit the material.
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Maximize Your Study Sessions as a Medical Student
By combining the UWorld Medical Library with your traditional studies, you’ll deepen your knowledge of required concepts and set yourself up to become a better physician.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Preclinical medical students can use the library to connect pathophysiology with clinical manifestations for a more rounded view of topics they’re introduced to.
- Clinical medical students can use the library to find answers to clinical and management questions they may encounter on their rotations and exams.
- Physicians in general practice can use the library to validate their findings and refresh their knowledge on specific topics.
The Medical Library is a high-yield resource that can help you expand your knowledge base on subjects and systems you’re introduced to. Each article covers a specific topic and provides related links and visuals to add context to your classroom lessons. Using the library during preclinical studies will improve your clinical reasoning as you prepare for Step 1 and your rotations.
The Medical Library will provide you with high-yield clinical information curated by practicing physicians. As you work through each rotation and prepare for your shelf exams, you can quickly research answers to pressing clinical questions and gain a holistic view of each shelf topic.
The Medical Library can be thought of as your clinical companion during real-life general practice. Quickly find up-to-date, peer-reviewed clinical information to validate your findings and improve your patient care. The library can also be used as a general aid to refresh your knowledge and monitor changing information in the subjects and systems most relevant to your practice.
Best practice is to search for specific topics or keyword phrases. The search bar looks for your search in the title and body text of our curated articles. If the text you entered is present, it will be highlighted in your search results.
When you open an article, a cog menu will appear in the upper-right corner of your screen. You can change your font size, color theme, and highlighter color, in addition to a few other options.
Our physician-author team regularly updates articles as needed. However, if you notice outdated information, or if something is not explained clearly, we encourage you to use the feedback option in your article tools bar. We continuously monitor all feedback to ensure a positive user experience.