In 1930 sixteen of Delaware’s leading physicians and dentists founded The Academy of Medicine to encourage scientific research, education and professional excellence. Since then, the Academy has become the home of the largest clinical health collection in Delaware.

Today we combine print, digital, and internet resources with knowledge and insight to give members immediate access to the best scientific information available.

Representing academia, state and local government, and the medical, dental, and allied health care communities, the Academy promotes professional excellence with important member benefits.

DelMIRA Resources ---- DelMIRA was created to address the disparity in access to biomedical information and health data that exists statewide and affects all types of health care institutions. Having desktop access to this information improves patient outcomes and quality of care, as well as provider productivity by enabling the clinicians to make the best-informed clinical decisions at crucial points-of-care. DelMIRA will also help Delaware to be more competitive in recruitment and retention of health care professionals, particularly nurses, which is a goal of Healthy Delaware 2010.

• CINAHL - Cumlative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature. Available as a one-year trial courtesy of EBSCO. Click here to access CINAHL remotely.
• DynaMed – a point-of-care tool, DynaMed provides evidence-based topic reviews on nearly 2,000 disease specific topics. DynaMed is updated daily, and also includes patient education handouts.
• Health Business Elite Full Text – a database created specifically for healthcare administrators, Health Business Elite contains full text content from over 450 journals, some dating as far back as 1965.
• MEDLINE - the premiere index of biomedical literature produced by the National Library of Medicine. Click here to access MEDLINE remotely.
• New England Journal of Medicine – provides fulltext online access to the most current issue, plus fulltext back to 1993. Also included are procedure videos and the ability to download audio files of certain articles to an iPod or a PDA.
• Nursing Reference Center - point-of-care resource intended for staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, nurse faculty, and hospital librarians. Available as a one-year trial courtesy of EBSCO.
• NursingSkills –allows nurse managers and educators to assign, track and manage skills and test hospital staff. It includes supplementary material such as patient handouts that are Indexed and tied to specific skills. Access available at AI DuPont Hospital for Children, Bayhealth Medical Center, Beebe Medical Center , Nanticoke Memorial Hospital , and St. Francis Hospital.
• OVID Electronic Journals – participants chose approximately ten titles that most closely fit individual hospital specialties. Available titles include Annals of Internal Medicine , American Journal of Medicine , and Circulation.
• STAT!Ref – cross-searchable compendium of approximately 25 mostly-nursing related textbook titles. Also includes access to ACP PIER. Produced by the American Academy of Physicians, PIER (Physicians' Information and Education Resource) is a Web-based decision-support tool designed for rapid point-of-care delivery of up-to-date, evidence-based guidance for clinicians. Information in PIER is presented in a "drill down" format, in which the user clicks from an opening guidance statement through to more specific information.
• TDNet - provides "one-stop-shopping" for print and electronic journal holdings. Search by journal title, see your institution's print and electronic holdings, link to the full text, or link to the table of contents. Coming soon: TOUR Resolver - link directly to fulltext, no matter what search engine you are searching.
• VisualDX - visual clinical decision support software. VisualDX provides instant access to over 16,000 images that can help diagnose more than 900 visually identifiable diseases, drug reactions, or infections. Although VisualDX is not a resource available as part of the DelMIRA package, it is promoted here because the Delaware Division of Public Health has purchased a three-year license for every hospital in Delaware.

MDConsult Core Service
Over 50 leading medical reference books
Over 80 journals and Clinics of North America
PDFs for many Elsevier journals and The Clinics
MEDLINE
Comprehensive drug information and drug updates
Search over 50,000 images from books
More than 1,000 peer-reviewed practice guidelines
Nearly 10,000 patient handouts
Daily personalized clinical updates
Online Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Year Books
My PDA/POCKET Consult

All you need is a computer and internet access. We will take care of the rest. 

Professional Research Services. Fast, personalized access to medical research --- You can call, fax and email us when you need clinical information fast. And with our upgraded website you can request searches online at delamed.org. Of course you can always talk directly with a librarian to define your research needs. Our highly skilled medical librarians specialize in fast, comprehensive searches. If you can't find what you need in MDConsult, we'll find it for you.

Seminars, Conferences, and Symposia ----The Academy sponsors and operates lectures and seminars on topics of interest to physicians, dentists and allied health professionals.

Swing office and board room facilities ---- we have a fully equipped Board of Director's Room that will comfortably seat 12, we also have a "swing office" in our administrative suite at the Stanton Campus of Christiana Care. These are available for members - just call or stop in. First come, first serve basis if you do not have a prior reservation. The swing office is configured for remote CCHS access. We also have CCHS wireless access in our office suite if you wish to bring your own laptop.

Apply Online. All persons or organizations eligible for membership must be approved by the Membership Committee and pay the required assessment.