Books of interest outside of Access Medicine. Check Roger to see what we might have on any topic.
Basic Medical Microbiology by 
Diagnosis and treatment of human Mycoses by Not limited to HIV, but included all mycoses-related conditions - providing an overview of diagnostic and therapeutic tools.
Behavioral interventions for prevention and control of sexually transmitted diseases by Not finding what you need? Having trouble using one of our resources? Please let us know.
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As you wind down the cases, most of you have a good idea of where to go for your answers. But, just in case you need to do some searching that is a little different than you have tried before, here are a few reminders of some of the tricks you might try.
Resources for this case include:
Textbook Suggestions (look left)
PubMed Searching -- Title Searching
Mandatory Reporting - tips for national to local public health info
Featured Resources -- AccessMedicine & Study Tools
Additional Resources -- to Check Out
Dr. Gates Tip -- Quick SOFA a tool to predicts poor outcome in septic patients
Title Searching in PubMed
A search tip I often offer is borrowed from a colleague and that is to "think like an author." If you could image an ideal article for your topic, what would the title of it be? That then gives you some ideas of what to use to search for articles on your topic.
Sometime, your PBL topics lend themselves well to this type of searching -- searching for articles with your terms in the title. For example, what about searching for articles on early goal directed therapy for sepsis? Placing all those terms in the search box will work and will eventually get you some good articles, but what if you could get articles where early goal directed therapy is in the title?
You can indicate to PubMed which term should be in the title by adding [ti] to any search. (Or, you can do this on the Advanced search form.) Link to it below the search box.) Where you place it matters, so put it after the terms you want in the title while the other words will be somewhere in the citation. Something like this might work:
early goal directed therapy[ti] sepsis
You could use this same trick to search for information about antibiotics for sepsis or gram negative bacteremia.
Reportable or Notifiable Diseases
As you ponder this question, also consider, who would it be reported to? Different states and counties may have specific rules and timeframes as well as the national mandates. The national group concerned with STIs is the CDC. So, as you search keep these things in mind.
So, how to get at all of that?
Well, to get you started, MedLinePlus has a nice understandable list of diseases. Then hop over to your favorite search engine because the health departments have their info there. A general search - something like
mandatory reporting of sexually transmitted diseases
which will turn up some California specific info from the CDC as well as the MedLinePlus link I have below.
Once that is done, let's get more locally specific. Simply add to the above search the following
California site:gov
and in the first few results will be the CA Dept. of Public Health info. And, to get more local, replace California with San Diego to find the county public health department.
** Both the California Department of Public Health and the local San Diego County have helpful websites and documents. **
AccessMedicine & Its Hidden Resources
Did you know? AccessMedicine has study tools you can use including flash cards & case studies?
For this case, not only does Access Medicine have a couple of helpful books on microbiology, but it also let's you create custom quizzes based on Sherri's Medical Microbiology text as well as a few case studies.
Sherris Medical Microbiology by Obviously, you are not at the clerkship stage, but you may find calculators helpful. Dr. Gates mentioned a helpful tool called Quick SOFA (qSOFA) which "predicts poor outcome in infection patients; initial step in suspected sepsis evaluation (2016)."
