AAP Resources
Guidelines for Perinatal Care, 8th ed
Manual providing the latest recommendations on quality care of pregnant women, their fetuses, and their newborn infants.
Nelson’s Pediatric Antimicrobial Therapy, 27th ed.
Reference providing instant access to the latest recommendations for treatment of all infectious diseases in children, including COVID-19.
Pediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines & Policies: A Compendium of Evidence based Research for Pediatric Practice, 22nd ed.
Evidence-based decision-making tool for managing common pediatric conditions revised and updated for 2020 with the latest clinical practice guidelines for more than 40 conditions plus every AAP policy statement, clinical report, and technical report though December 2019
Pediatrics
Official flagship journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics that provides the authoritative information needed to stay current with original, peer-reviewed research and evidence-based articles; conduct new research studies; further augment education and training activities; and enhance pediatric outpatient or inpatient care
Pediatrics in Review
AAP journal that guides residents and practicing clinicians on the optimal diagnostic and therapeutic management of diseases and delivery of pediatric outpatient or inpatient care
Red Book: 2021-2024 Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases, 32nd ed.
Evidence-based guidance to practicing clinicians on pediatric infections and vaccinations based on the recommendations of the committee as well as the combined expertise of the CDC, the FDA, and hundreds of physician contributors
Textbook of Pediatric Care, 2nd ed.
Premier clinical reference including signs and symptoms, behavioral health, care of healthy and high-risk infants, adolescent health, critical situations, practice management, ethical and legal concerns, and essential clinical guidance
Continuing Education
AudioDigest
The AudioDigest Pediatrics CME/CE program helps you manage the broad range of information you require to provide the best patient care you can. The CME online library contains timely topics, trends and developments curated from the best lectures, world-class institutions and Pediatric experts. All Audio Digest programs can be used for credit or contact hours by physicians, PAs, and nurses.
Contact the library for registration instructions.
CDC Training and Continuing Education Online (TCEO)
TCEO provides the public health and healthcare workforce access to CDC educational activities that offer free continuing education (CE) credits, contact hours, or units. Use TCEO to search for CE opportunities, complete course evaluations and posttests, obtain your CE certificates, and manage your CDC CE transcript. CDC is accredited with Distinction as a provider of Continuing Nursing Education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's (ANCC) Commission on Accreditation. Use the search function in TCOE to search for course by accreditation type.
DynaMed Instructions
Physicians and nurse practitioners using DynaMed to inform and support their clinical decisions are eligible to earn continuing medical education (CME) credits and continuing nursing education (CNE) contact hours, respectively, for this internet point of care (PoC) activity.
Medscape
Medscape, LLC offers online continuing education (CE) for selected journal articles, allowing clinicians the opportunity to earn Medscape CE credit. Medscape, LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Register for free or login without a password to get unlimited access to all continuing education activities.
Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database Instructions
Natural Medicines offers a variety of continuing education credits derived from the Prescribers’ Letter and Natural Medicines for all healthcare professionals, including physicians, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and nurses.
Travax Instructions
Travax, an online database of preventive and travel health information, keeps medical professionals up to date on current events and best practices in global and operational medicine. The site provides concise, constantly updated, location-specific, expert-vetted summaries of health and safety concerns and necessary preventive measures (including MILVAX requirements) for 237 countries and territories. TRAVAX has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 20.00 Prescribed credit(s) by the American Academy of Family Physicians.
UpToDate Instructions
UpToDate is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. UpToDate designates this Internet point-of-care activity for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. This continuing medical education activity has been reviewed by the American Academy of Pediatrics and is acceptable for a maximum of 50.00 AAP credits. These credits can be applied toward the AAP CME/CPD Award available to Fellows and Candidate Members of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn up to 0.5 MOC points per Internet point-of-care activity in the American Board of Pediatrics' (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.
The Pediatric Nursing Certification Board's (PNCB) recertification program accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ and AANP NP contact hours, both of which UpToDate offers, to count toward the annual requirement of 15 contact hours. PNCB certificants must enter each individual CME/CE activity as a separate entry on the application/tracker.
Core eBooks
Fleisher & Ludwig's Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 8th ed.
Comprehensive reference for diagnosing and managing emergent health issues in children
Harriet Lane Handbook, 22nd.
Pediatric point-of-care manual that keeps pediatric residents, students, nurses, and all healthcare professionals who treat young patients current with new guidelines, practice parameters, pharmacology, and more
Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 21st ed.
Authoritative coverage of the best approaches to care, including the latest on genetics, neurology, infectious disease, melamine poisoning, sexual identity and adolescent homosexuality, psychosis associated with epilepsy, and more
Smith's Recognizable Patterns of Human Malformation, 8th ed.
Reference book with complete and authoritative, yet accessible guidance to help accurately diagnose multiple malformation syndromes of environmental and genetic etiology as well as recognizable disorders of unknown cause
Zitelli and Davis' Atlas of Pediatric Physical Diagnosis, 7th ed.
Atlas of pediatric diagnosis for residents and physicians, with thousands of high-quality clinical photographs paired with authoritative clinical content covering both common and uncommon pediatric disorders
Drug Information
Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed)
Peer-reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed, including data on maternal and infant levels of drugs, possible effects on breastfed infants and on lactation, and alternate drugs to consider
Lexicomp ONLINE
Drug decision support resource with an easily searchable interface to quickly make medicine decisions at the point-of-care, even for patients with complex medical conditions
Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database
Authoritative resource on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary alternative and integrative therapies
Nelson’s Pediatric Antimicrobial Therapy, 28th ed.
Reference providing instant access to the latest recommendations for treatment of all infectious diseases in children, including COVID-19
Pediatric Injectable Drugs (The Teddy Bear Book), 11th ed.
Reliable evidence-based information specific to pediatric injectable drugs, including all drugs commonly used in the treatment of infants and children from neonates to adolescents, with age-specific dosing and administration guidelines throughout
Evidence-Based Practice Resources
The Cochrane Library (via Ovid)
Collection of databases containing high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making comprised of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, ACP Journal Club, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Cochrane Clinical Answers, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Methodology Register, Health Technology Assessment, & NHS Economic Evaluation Database.
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DynaMed
Evidence-based clinical decision support tool with clinically organized summaries for 3,200+ topics
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Essential Evidence Plus
Evidence-based clinical decision support system featuring over 13,000 topics, guidelines, abstracts, tools, images, and summaries covering the most common conditions, diseases, and procedures clinicians come in contact with every day
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Guidelines for Perinatal Care, 8th ed.
Manual providing the latest recommendations on quality care of pregnant women, their fetuses, and their newborn infants.
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Ovid MEDLINE
Ovid’s subscription interface to access MEDLINE, the premier literature database containing over 27 million references from 5,200 biomedical journals, dating from 1966 to present
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Pediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines & Policies: A Compendium of Evidence-Based Research for Pediatric Practice, 22nd ed.
Evidence-based decision-making tool for managing common pediatric conditions revised and updated for 2020 with the latest clinical practice guidelines for more than 40 conditions plus every AAP policy statement, clinical report, and technical report though December 2019.
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PubMed
National Library of Medicine’s free interface to access MEDLINE, the premier literature database containing over 27 million references from 5,200 biomedical journals, dating from 1966 to present.
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Trip Medical Database
Clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. (Register for a free account and select AMEDD Virtual Library as your institution to link directly to articles available in the AVL.)
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UpToDate
Clinical decision support tool with comprehensive synthesis of the evidence, followed by recommendations that can be acted on at the point of care.
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ClinicalKey
Database of online books, journals, procedure videos, multimedia, drug monographs, and practice guidelines published by Elsevier
Ovid MEDLINE
Ovid’s subscription interface to access MEDLINE, the premier literature database containing over 27 million references from 5,200 biomedical journals, dating from 1966 to present
PubMed
National Library of Medicine’s free interface to access MEDLINE, the premier literature database containing over 27 million references from 5,200 biomedical journals, dating from 1966 to present
Clinical Descision Support
5Minute Consult
Decision support resource that covers 2,000+ diseases and conditions and includes 200+ procedure videos, 200+ diagnosis and treatment algorithms and charts, prescribing and safety information for 1,900+ drugs, and patient handouts
Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination
Over 8 hours of video on head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques
DynaMed
Evidence-based clinical decision support tool with clinically organized summaries for 3,200+ topics
Essential Evidence Plus
Evidence-based clinical decision support system featuring over 13,000 topics, guidelines, abstracts, tools, images, and summaries covering the most common conditions, diseases, and procedures clinicians come in contact with every day
LWW Health Library
Online library providing interactive access and simple search capabilities to essential Lippincott textbooks, as well as rich multimedia ancillary content comprised of procedural videos, images, real-life case studies and quiz banks specifically tailored for the specialty
UpToDate
Clinical decision support tool with comprehensive synthesis of the evidence, followed by recommendations that can be acted on at the point of care.