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Learning Resources for Medicine: Get Started

This guide will lead you to resources that help your study and research in the field of Medicine. There are also a range of learning tools that will allow you to develop your research and study skills.

Helpful Brainstorming Resources

Web of Science
Web of Knowledge is an academic citation indexing & search service, it provides bibliographic content and tools to access, analyze, and manage research information.
Scopus
Scopus gives you access to the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature.

Start with a good topic

Brainstorm a Topic that Interests You:

Think of topics for which you have:

personal interest,
knowledge or life experience
an opinion
a desire to learn more

If no topic seems interesting:

take 5 minutes and write down any ideas related to the assignment that come to mind, then look at what you wrote for a pattern or an idea that stands out.

review your course textbook(s) and class notes for something interesting.

Choosing a research topic

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