Equip your students with the latest evidence and how to apply it in clinical situations

Medical students of today will graduate into an increasingly complex medical landscape — one that’s more demanding than ever before. Part of the challenge rests with how medicine will continue to be practiced due to the rapid expansion of medical knowledge. In the mid 20th century, medical knowledge was on pace to double every 50 years. A generation ago, it had accelerated to every seven years, and by 2010, every five years. Now, research suggests it’s doubling every few months.1 This expansion of medical knowledge will significantly challenge today and tomorrow’s medical students, who will mature into clinicians that will use this information at the point of care.

Evidence-based clinical decision support resources will play an increasingly vital role in future clinical practice. Clinicians will make diagnosis and treatment decisions with the aid of resources that synthesize a vast amount of evidence and help them apply their clinical judgement to arrive at the most appropriate care decisions.

Our editorial rigor facilitates comprehensive learning. More than 3 million healthcare professionals around the world trust UpToDate to support them as they make patient care decisions. In fact, UpToDate is accessed more than 1,200 times every minute.

As the only clinical decision support solution of its kind proven to be associated with improved outcomes, such as fewer diagnostic errors, lower mortality rates, shorter lengths of hospital stay, and improved quality,2 UpToDate provides trusted, authoritative clinical decision support that medical students can use as they prepare to make diagnosis and treatment decisions upon entering practice and throughout their career.

I very much enjoy showing students that they have access to UpToDate as they very rapidly realize how useful this resource is to their professional development and their studying for exams.
Dr. Steve Jackson
UpToDate has been essential to my education and clinical practice for years. Dr. Burton Rose [UpToDate founder] was a visionary and a trailblazer in medical app development for point of care access to medical information.
Dr. Steven Bollipo
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Prepare medical students for practice with evidence-based training using UpToDate

  • Students can review synthesized evidence while still having access to references and citations to the source evidence.
  • Instructors can present information in UpToDate to students and quickly and conveniently export graphics to PowerPoint presentations.

UpToDate provides both practicing clinicians and students with trusted, authoritative clinical decision support. And, with search in your own language, non-native English speakers can better align search results with queries and reduce the time spent considering translations from English.

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Evidence-based clinical information authored, peer reviewed, and edited by 7,400 clinician experts that includes

12,400 topics

9,800 graded recommendations

7,600+ unique drug entries

544,000 references/citations (Medline)

37,000+ graphics (tables, images, algorithms)

220+ medical calculators

420+ journals hand searched/reviewed

25 specialties covered in depth

Available for use on mobile, tablet, and desktop

case study - Nagasaki University Hospital
Leading universities around the world rely on UpToDate as an educational clinical decision support resource, including
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (Germany)
Imperial College London (UK)
Nagasaki University (Japan)
Centro Universitário FMABC (Brazil)
Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (Lebanon)
Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht (Netherlands)
Yale University New Haven (USA)
1 Thomas Isaac, MD, et al. “Use of UpToDate and outcomes in US hospitals,” Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2012 February; 7(2):85-90.
https://www.journalofhospitalmedicine.com/jhospmed/article/128158/and-outcomes
2 Wolters Kluwer Case Studies; https://www.wolterskluwer.com/-/media/project/wolterskluwer/oneweb/www/health/ce/files/case-studies/wk-customer-profile-000798-inha-university-hospital.pdf 3 UpToDate Individual Subscriber Survey, October 2020, N=14,137 4 Amada Cooper, “Research utilization patterns of third-year medical students,” The Clinical Teacher, 2011 March; 8(1):43-7.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21324072/
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