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Health Sciences Overview: Surg Tech (TR)

Research guide for all TR health science programs

What kind of articles do you need?

Credible articles can be found in a variety of places: medical journals, reliable websites, expert interviews, and medical databases, to name a few.

Your search is driven by what kind of articles you need.

Select from the following list to see how to locate articles from different places.

AORN Website

You will find many useful articles on these websites:

Association of Surgical Technologists

Association for periOperative Registered Nurses

National Institutes of Health

CINAHL

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CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) is a great database for locating JOURNAL articles

This database has very good articles about all sorts of medical issues. Some of the options on the ADVANCED SEARCH page include date range, biomedical journal, American journals, subject specialty (like diagnostic imaging), among others. Look through them all to see if any will help with your particular search.

is a great database for locating JOURNAL articles

While this database is geared toward nursing, it also has very good articles about all sorts of medical issues. Some of the options on the ADVANCED SEARCH page include date range, patient type, and Peer Review among others. Look through them all to see if any will help with your particular search.
TCCD

Health Source Nursing/Academic

MEDLINE

Health Reference Center Academic

Health and Medicine (formerly Health Reference Center Academic) This link opens in a new window
Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine integrates tens of millions of articles from a wide range of full-text nursing and allied health journals, magazines, newsletters and select consumer health information sources with full-text reference works and thousands of health-related multimedia assets.
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