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Accessibility and Disability Inclusion in Medicine

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The searches that follow are a sample of searches that can be performed in various medical information databases that are available at TMU. If you are interested in obtaining an article that is not available at TMU please reach out to the TMU Libraries Resource Sharing and Interlibrary Loan services.

The search strings that follow use the following key terms:

  • Medical education
  • Medical schools
  • Health care education
  • Disability
  • Accessibility

PubMed (Medline)

PubMed (Medline)

PubMed comprises more than 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

 Copy and paste the following text into the PubMed main search box:

((((disabilities) OR (disability[Title/Abstract])) OR (accessibility[Title/Abstract])) AND (medical education[Title/Abstract])) OR (medical school[Title/Abstract])

Medline (OVID)

Medline (OVID) 

The Medline database contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts for articles from over 4,300 current biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries.

Copy and paste the following text into the Medline main search box:

Education, Medical/ or Schools, Medical/ or (medical education or medical school*).ab,ti. 

and

Persons with Disabilities/ or Health Services Accessibility/ or (disabilit* or accessib*).ab,ti.

Emcare

Emcare

International articles of allied health, education and training, development and management, midwifery, health and healthcare economics, clinical medical and healthcare social work, psychiatry and mental health, and traumatology, emergency and critical-care medicine. Including Journal content not in Embase.

Copy and paste the following text into the Emcare main search box:

Education, Medical/ or Schools, Medical/ or (medical education or medical school*).ab,ti. 

and

Persons with Disabilities/ or Health Services Accessibility/ or (disabilit* or accessib*).ab,ti.

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