As a health professional, one of your obligations is to be completely up to date in your field of study. A task that, thanks to the Internet, is easier than ever, if you know where to look, of course. From Clinic Cloud we present you the best medical search engines for scientific articles.
Pubmed, from the United States National Library of Medicine, is possibly the best-known medical search engine in the world. In their own words: PubMed comprises more than 28 million citations to biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life sciences journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publishers’ websites.
A must-see resource for health professionals and life sciences students.
Trip Database is one of the evidence-based search engines for medical articles.
Medical search engines in Spanish
This means that the results are mark and order according to the evidence on which they are bas, so that the first results are the calling lists articles support by greater scientific evidence and behind them we find, for example, articles about clinical trials in progress.
Its appearance is not the most attractive, but the search is fast and efficient. The particularity of this search engine is that only content with the HONcode seal appears in the results, which accredits minimum quality and reliability criteria.
Much of the current medical literature is in English, so it is advisable to have a certain command of this language. Luckily, there is also a large production of medical articles in our language, apart from those that are translat into Spanish.
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In Spanish, the most important search engine is Medes , an initiative of the Lilly Foundation that aims to promote the use of Spanish as a language for the transmission of scientific knowledge in general and Health Sciences in particular.
Another interesting option is SciELO , a virtual library from which you can access a large number of scientific journals in Spanish. The project was initially developed by BIREME Latin American and Caribbean Center for Health Sciences Information and FAPESP Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo but now the BO Leads National Library of Health Sciences has been introduced.
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