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Health Sciences Search (EBSCOhost)
Simultaneously search CINAHL, MEDLINE, Consumer Health Complete, Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source, eBook Clinical Collection, OVID journals, and more with this health science multi-database EBSCO search.
Nursing Reference Center Plus
Essential info including evidence-based care sheets, nursing best practices and CEUs, Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses, Davis’s Comprehensive Handbook of Laboratory & Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications; Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, videos, patient education sheets, and more. Get the Nursing Reference Center app
UpToDate
Clinical decision support for allied health and nursing, providing best practices, patient information, drug information, and clinical calculators. Create a log in to be used when downloading the mobile app (available for Android and iOS).
VisibleBody Web Suite
Click Sign Up and create a Visible Body account to access on mobile or desktop. Once you create an account, download the mobile app (Apple App Store or Google Play) and sign in using your new Visible Body account login to access the Human Anatomy Atlas 2023+. You must create a Visible Body account on the website before you can access the app. Includes comprehensive anatomical atlas, Visible Biology module, anatomy and physiology study module, muscle pathology models, and physiology animations.
CINAHL Ultimate
Health Sciences
The largest source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 940 journals indexed in CINAHL. Replaces CINAHL Plus with Full Text.
Consumer Health Complete
Search consumer-oriented health including academic journals, news and magazines, and fact sheets. Covers all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.
Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source
Search academic articles and industry publications the areas of dentistry including dental public health, endodontics, facial pain & surgery, odontology, oral & maxillofacial pathology/surgery/radiology, orthodontology, pediatric dentistry, periodontology, and prosthodontics.
Films on Demand: Allied Health
Streaming video collection includes introductions and demonstrations to medical terminology and technology, anatomy, patient care, medication & pharmacology, and health care professionalism.
MEDLINE
Search peer-reviewed medical journals, medical guidelines and more on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
New York Times
Register using your otc.edu email address to get access to the latest Health and Science news stories.
Prep for Your Exams with LearningExpress
Get test prep and practice test materials for entrance exams and certification tests including EMT, medical assisting, paramedic (NRP), nursing entrance exams (HESI), OTA, PTA, radiologic technology, and respiratory therapy,