Today I discussed a topic with my roommate: When you just join a department, how can you quickly understand the diagnostic and treatment approaches for common undergraduate diseases?
This inevitably brings up UpToDate. I often use it to search for a disease name and then look at the related content. It’s both comprehensive and concise, and it is always kept up-to-date.
For example, if we want to understand stroke, we first learn about the mechanism and diagnosis of stroke. Just search for “stroke” and everything shows up.
Let’s first look at the evaluation of acute cerebral stroke. If you want to practice English, you can choose the English version, and the English version is also updated faster.
After entering, you can see that the latest update is 10.1, and this article was written on 10.17, which means it is right on the cutting edge. Generally, I first check the directory, find the content I’m most interested in, and after reading the relevant chapters, I have a basic understanding of that part and can start discussing with clinical instructors. Otherwise, you won’t understand what they are saying at all.
Of course, if you’re an expert, you can also try this database. At Dongzhimen’s Nephrology A, Teacher Qingqing often refers to UpToDate to develop diagnosis and treatment plans (guidelines are also very important references, but guidelines are generally updated slower).
How to Access
You can directly access it on the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine campus network at UpToDate临床顾问
If you cannot open it, please use the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine VPN 北中医校园网、VPN、邮件系统
VPNs outside campus also do not work (I have already tried). You may need to purchase an account yourself (on Taobao), or borrow an account from a classmate at Peking Union Medical College (their accounts can be accessed off-campus, possibly because they pay more).
Official Introduction
https://www.uptodate.cn/home/product
Authoritative and practical diagnostic and treatment knowledge at your fingertips
For more than 30 years, doctors worldwide have used UpToDate® as their primary resource for acquiring medical knowledge during diagnosis and treatment.
UpToDate is not just a simple summary or report of recent research findings; it is based on evidence-based medicine principles that continuously combine existing medical evidence and the clinical experience of world experts. After multi-level and multi-round screening, digestion, and absorption, it creatively presents users with high-level practical medical information.
Importantly, on the basis of comprehensively integrating research evidence, UpToDate also provides graded diagnostic and treatment recommendations based on the evidence-based medicine GRADE principles, and these recommendations can be applied in clinical practice.
A clinical decision support system that improves clinical quality
The English topics of UpToDate are written and edited by world-renowned doctors who adhere to a rigorous editing process and use an advanced topic publishing platform to update topic content according to the latest diagnostic and treatment progress, helping UpToDate users keep up with practical clinical information in a timely manner.
UpToDate users have consistently reported that UpToDate is a clinical decision support system that can improve clinical quality. Multiple clinical studies have also proven that UpToDate can change clinical decisions, shorten hospital stays, reduce mortality, and improve scores on Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA) evaluation indicators.*
UpToDate Clinical Consultant is the Chinese version of UpToDate. UpToDate Clinical Consultant maintains content consistency with UpToDate and integrates the domestic drug monograph database into the topics, helping Chinese doctors understand practical clinical medication information and promoting rational drug use and rational medical treatment in China.