Current Awareness Tools (Staying up-to-date)

Evidence Alerts

Evidence Alerts, a collaboration between McMaster University's Health Information Research Unit and DynaMed Plus, offers an email alerting system and a searchable database of articles that are pre-screened for quality and given a clinical relevancy rating.

Google Scholar Alerts

Google Scholar offers search alerts and citation alerts. You can also create a public author profile.

Tutorial: 
Has this article been cited? (Searching Google Scholar) (School of Medicine Library) Transcript (Word)

 

MedWorm

MedWorm is a medical RSS feed provider that compiles news from over 6,000 authoritative data sources. You can view the feeds many ways, by medical condition, specialty, top 100 articles, and more.

2 Minute Medicine

2 Minute Medicine is a physician publishing group from Harvard Medical School. Their reports review and summarize high-impact and current medical literature. Subscribe to free daily updates here.