Medical Assisting: Best bets
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- Learning Express (Prep Step)
Contains skill-building courses, practice tests, exercises and ebooks. There is also a career resource with advice for creating a resume, cover letter, interviewing, and more.
- Learning Express for non ATC students or staff (on campus only)If you don't have a Learning Express account, register for one (it's free). To find the career interest matcher, go to the Job and Career Accelerator Center, and then click "find a career match" and then again, "find a career match."
- Films on Demand This link opens in a new windowConsists of 40,000 video titles (77,000 segments) in Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Health, and Science.
- Kanopy Streaming movies This link opens in a new window
Related pages
- Anatomy and physiologyOne of your core classes is anatomy. Our Anatomy and Physiology, and medical terminology guides might be helpful to you. Also, you may check out and use models of body parts and systems to study in the library.
- Medical teminolgyResources for studying your medical terminology
- Library tutorialsHow to use our stuff
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Major GALILEO databases for medical assisting
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowThis scholarly collection offers full-text coverage of information in many areas of academic study, including archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic and multicultural studies, food science and technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion and theology, women's studies, and other fields.
- CINAHL Plus with full text This link opens in a new windowOffering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
- Health Source Nursing This link opens in a new windowHealth Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides over 500 scholarly full-text journals focusing on nursing, allied health fields, and many medical disciplines. Patient education sheets from the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide are also included.
- Proquest Nursing and Allied Health This link opens in a new windowProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source also provides evidence-based nursing information from The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI).
- Medline (at EbscoHost) This link opens in a new windowProvides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
- Research Library (Proquest) This link opens in a new windowProvides one-stop access to a wide range of popular academic subjects and includes full-text access for thousands of titles, including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.
- Alt HealthWatch This link opens in a new windowFocuses on multiple perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
- Consumer Health Complete This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content, including full text from many health reference books and encyclopedias and thousands of health reports as well as physician-generated videos and hundreds of medical images and diagrams.
Accessing resources from home
To access library resources at home, you must be authenticated as an Athens Technical College student. So you must log in using your ATC email and password, just like you log into your email or Blackboard.
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