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Surgery

A selection of resources to aid in finding information about surgery.

Welcome to the Surgery LibGuide!

This guide provides access to our most popular, high impact surgery resources. The navigation tabs above can be used to access resources by specialty.

If you have any suggestions to improve your experience with the surgery guide, please use the comment box to the right. We'd love to hear what you think.

General Surgery Organizations and Websites

Here Are Some of Our Best Bets for Providing You with the Information that You're Looking for.....

AccessSurgery
An integrated online resource that provides medical students, surgical residents, and practicing surgeons with quick answers to surgical inquiries from trusted sources.
Scientific American Surgery (formerly ACS Surgery)
A continuously updated general surgical reference.
Clinical Key
Contains content from several current Elsevier databases including MD Consult, First Consult, Procedures Consult, Clinics of North America and new content including over 900 eBooks.
UpToDate
Provides evidence-based answers to commonly asked questions in clinical practice. Designed to provide practical, concise information needed at the point of care.
PubMed
Provided by the US National Library of Medicine, PubMed is a freely available database containing more than 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life sciences journals, and online books.
Cochrane Library
A collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and Cochrane Clinical Answers.