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ABOUT MD CONSULT

MD Consult brings the leading medical resources together into one integrated online service to help physicians efficiently find answers to pressing clinical questions and make better treatment decisions.

  • Find answers quickly
  • Keep up with new developments
  • Educate patients

A service of Elsevier, a world leader in health care and medical science publishing, MD Consult operates a family of electronic information resources that meet the clinical content needs of physicians and other health care professionals.

MD Consult was founded in 1997 through a unique venture of the world's leading medical publishers that included Mosby and W.B. Saunders. Our flagship online product, the MD Consult Core Service, quickly earned acclaim for its select content offering and intelligent design. A favorite of primary care physicians and specialists alike, MD Consult now serves over 280,000 users and is licensed by more than 1,700 health care organizations worldwide, including nearly 95% of US medical schools. Subscribers search our extensive content 1.5 million times per month and view more than 8 million pages of clinical content, primarily during daytime practice hours.

The site is designed to meet the exacting needs of clinical practitioners, providing practical and time-saving features that let you quickly access the precise information you need.

  • Leading Medical Reference Books: The complete text of over 50 leading medical reference books. Users can search the entire collection simultaneously to pinpoint the specific information needed. Also, search and compare over 50,000 high-quality images.
  • Full-Text Journals and Clinics of North America: Full text articles are available through a powerful search engine that includes the complete contents of over 80 journals and Clinics of North America. PDFs are available for many of the journal and Clinics of North America articles.
  • Journal Databases: Simultaneously search the full text of our online journals and millions of MEDLINE abstracts.
  • Guidelines: Access our collection of more than 1,000 peer-reviewed practice guidelines, which are regularly updated and organized by topic and authoring organization for easy browsing.
  • Patient Education: Nearly 10,000 printable, patient handouts which you can customize, adding your own notes, patient instructions, and contact information.
  • CME: Grand Rounds activities across 15 specialties. FREE CME credit for the first five conferences that you submit for credit. Plus Clinical Cornerstone and FREE CME, sponsored by Excerpta Medica.
  • Drug Information: MD Consult drug information is provided by Gold Standard.

Accepted standard

MD Consult has been adopted by more than 90% of North American medical schools and is used in over 1,700 healthcare organizations worldwide. With over a quarter million physician and professional users, MD Consult is the most respected online clinical information service.

Get Clinical Answers Quickly

MD Consult is one of the most efficient tools available to physicians today, putting a breadth of highly respected, current clinical resources at your fingertips.

Keep Up With The Latest Developments

MD Consult makes it easy and convenient to stay current with the newest developments in practice — from recent journals to FDA announcements. Throughout the site, updates are flagged and highlighted so you'll know instantly what is new.

  • News: The latest findings and developments in medical news, sorted by interest, allow users to stay current with new developments from all of the major journals, government agencies, and medical conferences. Users also receive concise clinical summaries and links to related information.
  • In This Week's Journals: Select articles from the most respected medical journals. Key contents are presented in an easy-to-scan format, including concise article summaries that provide a fast overview.
  • Pocket Consult: Pocket Consult puts current medical news, drug updates, and journal abstracts on your hand held device each time you hot-sync. Plus you receive 20 free medical calculators, and the ability to store, record, and initiate searches of MD Consult from the PDA.

Educate Patients

MD Consult includes patient education handouts that you can customize to help your patients understand their illnesses and your treatment recommendations.