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Surgical Technology in Movies

Something the Lord Made

In the Jim Crow South, a white surgeon takes on a black research assistant, and together they develop a procedure to save children with congenital heart disease, but the man of color cannot get recognition for his contribution to the project.

Associations

Career Resources

Occupational Outlook Handbook for Surgical Technologists
National Job Board for Physician Assistant and Advanced Practice Nurse Employment
Career Center from NBSTSA
Nursing resource website with nationwide nursing job search by state and by specialty
How to Become a Surgical Technologist
EduMed.org guide for prospective Surgical Technologists

Library Resources

Academic Video Online
AccessAnesthesiology
AccessEmergency Medicine
AccessMedicine
AccessSurgery
CINAHL Ultimate
Cochrane Library
Health Source - Consumer Edition Health Source: Consumer Edition is a rich collection of consumer health information. This resource provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Fit Pregnancy, Harvard Health Letter, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others. This database also includes searchable full text for more than 1,000 health-related pamphlets and more than 130 health reference books, including books published by the People's Medical Society. Additionally, Health Source: Consumer Edition contains more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which includes Drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers; and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary. Health Source: Consumer Edition covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, women's health, etc.
Health Source Nursing/Academic
Lexidrug (formerly Lexicomp) Lexidrug is a collection of clinical databases and clinical decision support tools that provides users with an extensive medical library.
MEDLINE Ultimate
Micromedex & CareNotes
Nursing Reference Center Plus
PubMed
Sanford Guide
UpToDate

Ebooks

Ebook Collections

Anatomy & Physiology Revealed

MyAccess Registration Guide

Bates' Visual Guide

NEW! Bates Login Instructions

Journal Collections

BioMed Central
Open access journals in the fields of biology and medicine.

BMJ
1991 - Present

Looking for Incision?

The Surgical Technology programs provide access to Incision directly to SurgTech students. Please contact your instructor for more information.

Journal of Medical Insight

JOMI

Register for an account to access JOMI content.

Go to jomi.com/account (using Chrome is suggested).
Enter your information:
- Use your South College email address.
- In the space provided for Institution, type South College.
- Select the most appropriate User Type from the menu.
Click on the green Create Account button.
An email with a confirmation link will be sent to your South College email.
Click the link to confirm your account.

jomi.com/account

Web Resources

Lab Tests Online
Clinical lab test information for patients and medical professionals includes test descriptions, conditions, screening guide, and more.
MedPix | National Library of Medicine
MedPix® is a free open-access online database of medical images, teaching cases, and clinical topics, integrating images and textual metadata including over 12,000 patient case scenarios, 9,000 topics, and nearly 59,000 images.
Operating Room Essential Equipment Checklist

Podcasts

Scopus - TRIAL - ENDS JULY 31st

Library Orientation

Surgical Technology Orientation

This orientation module is focused on Surgical Technology resources. For a general library orientation, please choose one of the location-based orientations on the library's Orientations page.