Free UpToDate subscription opened for medical students and professionals: these are the requirements
Good news for doctors and medical students. The call for a free UpToDate subscription, a tool with which healthcare professionals will be able to make complex decisions based on evidence, is now open.
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The beneficiaries of the free UpToDate subscription will be those who apply and meet all the requirements specified by the company.
The importance of these resources is the access to a complete repository of studies, monographs and other information with which physicians, surgeons, nurses and other health care specialists will be able to base their decisions on evidence.
Requirements to apply for a free UpToDate subscription
According to the company, those interested must submit their application online in English and meet the following requirements:
- Be professionals or students of Medicine or related areas: physicians, surgeons, medical assistants, nurses, among others.
- Be outside the U.S. territory.
- Be a volunteer, work for a non-profit organization or a public entity.
- Have internet access, even intermittent.
- Complete the application in English.
- Justify how the work you are doing is directly aligned with the UpToDate program objective.
- Certify that neither the applicant nor the institution for which he/she works has the financial resources to purchase a UpToDate subscription.
Also, the call specifies that the free UpToDate subscription is not available to institutions, the entity points out.
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How to apply
The company notes that those who meet all the requirements will be eligible for a free UpToDate subscription. After application, the company has the discretion to reject applicants who do not sufficiently meet all requirements.
To apply for a free UpToDate subscription and access all the information contained in this clinical resource, applicants must follow the steps below:
- Log in to www.better-evidence.org and click on the green ‘Log In or Sign Up to Apply’ button.
- Find the ‘Create a new account’ button at the bottom of the page and click on it.
- This will open the application form in English to be filled out in 20 minutes maximum.
- Applicants will be able to select the devices that are most useful to them on the registration form.
After submitting the application, candidates will be able to check how the application process is going to know if they were admitted or rejected.
Access to UpToDate must be renewed every year, so it will be necessary to apply annually to access the account.
What is UpToDate?
UpToDate is a Wolters Kluwer company, a global provider of professional information, clinical, technology and healthcare services. UpToDate’s main product is the software of the same name.
It is an evidence-based clinical resource that includes a collection of medical and patient information, academic papers such as drug monographs from the Lexicomp clinical list, and medical calculators.
The UpToDate repository is written by more than seven thousand physicians, including authors, editors and peer reviewers. However, to access all this information, medical professionals need to subscribe to UpToDate. The value of the annual subscription for a student starts at USD $199 and for a professional at USD $319. For this reason, a free UpToDate subscription can be a great resource for thousands of students and healthcare professionals. Find more information about the call for applications at this link.
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