Clinical Professionals

This guide contains many general resources used by all clinicians. The USC Libraries link in the upper-left of this page will take you back to the main catalogue if you wish to search for a particular article, title or database. 

Search for pre-appraised evidence in USC Subscribed Clinical Information Summary Tools:

Other Quick Reference Tools:

If you do not find the answer to your clinical question in the tools above, or within a practice guideline, expand your search to textbooks and the medical literature research databases. 

Keck Medical Center of USC subscribes to UpToDate Lexidrugs (formerly Lexi-Comp) and Facts and Comparisons. See also other free, drug apps on the Mobile Resources page.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) tools are a subset of Large Language Models which translate and predict relevant responses from a limited and curated set of information resources, and aim to attribute and link summarizations to pre-existing evidence. However, summaries and citations returned often include irrelevant, inaccurate or even harmful content. Generative AI is experimental. Results may not be reliable, current or comprehensive. AI-generated source citations should be verified. Summaries also require the application of your own expert judgement, knowledge and research skills to validate the machine-generated rationale. 

Below are examples of RAG tools trained and based on a set of clinical information publications and resources.

Compare results and ease-of-use with your own clinical knowledge and judgement, and with the pre-appraised Point of Care Reference  tools above.

Safety and Privacy Note: Data is not shared or stored or used by OpenAI for training its publicly available models when accessing these tools through an institutional subscription. Also see how you can turn off data-sharing in the PDF below.

USC Libraries resources: Using Generative AI in Research and AI Literacy