HIMbook = Hospital Internal Medicine book. For teachers and learners of inpatient clinical reasoning. The HIMbook front page brings together the educational and decision-support resources that hospitalists and teaching teams actually need, all in one place.
Legend: 🔓 open to anyone · 🔒 VUMC login (Eskind/CKM licensed) · 🏥 VUMC internal network only
From the Editor: everything here is curated, but does not claim to be comprehensive. A resource earns a spot by being the thing a resident should open first for that question. Suggest an addition → GitHub issue.
1. What’s your question? - Point of care
The first-click references for a clinical question on the wards.
- 🔓 VLRChat — “What does the Handbook say?” An AI educational decision support system by and for Vanderbilt residents. (Based on the 7th Edition IM Housestaff Handbook)
- 🔓 OpenEvidence — GenAI Medical Knowledge Platform
- 🔒 UpToDate — includes UpToDate Expert AI; use the Hospital Medicine table of contents
- 🔒 ClinicalKey — Elsevier texts, Clinical Overviews, Procedures Consult
- 🔒 BMJ Best Practice — good second opinion when UpToDate is equivocal
- 🔒 AccessMedicine — Harrison’s, CMDT, Diagnosaurus
- 🔒 VisualDx
- 🔓 MedlinePlus — plain-language explanations to use with patients
- 🔓 DermNet — rash lookup
- 🔓 Life in the Fast Lane ECG Library
- 🔓 Radiopaedia — imaging findings and cases
2. Calculators & scores
- 🔓 MDCalc
- 🔓 QxMD Calculate
- 🔓 ClinCalc — drug and renal-dosing calculators
- 🔓 GlobalRPh — pharmacy conversions
- 🔒 UpToDate calculators — note Hospital Medicine specific options
3. Drugs & antimicrobials
- 🔒 Lexidrug (Lexicomp) — VUMC’s primary drug reference
- 🔒 Micromedex — toxicology, IV compatibility
- 🔒 Sanford Guide
- 🏥 VUMC Antibiogram — 2025 Edition
- 🏥 VUMC Antimicrobial Stewardship guidelines — Dosing and Safety, Inpt Clin Guidance/Pathways
- 🔓 Epocrates
- 🔓 FDA MedWatch
4. Guidelines
Society guidelines that hospitalists reference most often.
Aggregators
By society/organ system
- 🔓 IDSA
- 🔓 SHM / Journal of Hospital Medicine — Clinical Guideline Highlights for the Hospitalist series
- 🔓 ACP
- 🔓 ACC · AHA
- 🔓 CHEST · ATS · GOLD
- 🔓 Surviving Sepsis Campaign
- 🔓 KDIGO
- 🔓 ADA Standards of Care
- 🔓 ASH
- 🔓 AASLD · ACG
5. Clinical reasoning
“You must be connoisseurs of reasoning!” Sapere aude!
- 🔓 Diagnostic schemas → — HIMbook’s own schema library by presenting problem (in progress)
- 🔓 The Four-Square Prioritized Differential → — the framework used in the “How Doctors Think” course
- 🔓 The Clinical Problem Solvers — schemas, illness scripts, virtual morning report
- 🔓 Human Dx — case-based diagnostic practice
- 🔓 Community Improving Diagnosis in Medicine, CIDM
- 🔓 Deranged Physiology website
- 🔓 NEJM Clinical Case Series — abstracts open; full text 🔒
6. Core texts
- 🔒 Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine (AccessMedicine)
[rid needed] - 🔒 Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine, McKean et al. (AccessMedicine)
[rid needed] - 🔒 Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics
[confirm platform; Ovid vs ClinicalKey] - 🔒 [Marino’s The ICU Book]
- 🔒 Ferri’s Clinical Advisor — ClinicalKey
- 🔒 Conn’s Current Therapy — ClinicalKey
- 🔒 Mandell, Douglas & Bennett — ClinicalKey
- 🔓 Teaching Inpatient Medicine, Houchens/Harrod/Saint
7. Procedures & POCUS
- 🔒 Procedures Consult (ClinicalKey) — step-by-step video
- 🔒 NEJM Videos in Clinical Medicine
[VUMC NEJM access via EBL] - 🔓 The POCUS Atlas
- 🏥 VUMC procedure service / POCUS credentialing
[internal link]
8. Communication, transitions & systems
- 🔓 VitalTalk — serious illness conversations, code status
- 🔓 I-PASS Institute — handoffs
- 🔓 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality — safety, discharge tools (RED, IDEAL)
- 🔓 Society of Hospital Medicine — clinical topics, quality toolkits
9. Literature & evidence
- 🔓 PubMed · Clinical Queries
- 🔒 Cochrane Library
- 🔓 Wiki Journal Club — landmark trial summaries
- 🔓 TheNNT — absolute-risk framing
- 🔓 ClinicalTrials.gov
- 🔓 OpenEvidence — AI literature synthesis; free with NPI; verify citations before acting (see AI at the bedside → for how to use these well)
10. Lifelong learning
- 🔓 Core IM podcast
- 🔓 The Curbsiders
- 🔓 Clinical Problem Solvers VMR — live virtual morning report
- 🔒 MKSAP
[institutional access varies] - 🔓 What’s new →
11. The VUMC shelf
- 🔒 Eskind Biomedical Library — Clinical Resources guide — the canonical licensed list
- 🔒 CKM Knowledge Hub — full A–Z of VUMC-licensed resources
- 🏥 VIMBook.org 8th Edition
- 🏥 Order sets · Pathways
[internal links] - 🔓 ASK BIOMEDICAL — librarian help
- 🔒 EBL Document Delivery
About. HIMbook is edited by Chase J. Webber, DO, FACP, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. It is an independent educational project and does not speak for VUMC or Vanderbilt University.
License & disclaimer. Text © CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Linked resources belong to their publishers. For education only; not medical advice; verify at the point of care. Portions of the licensed-resource list adapted from Vanderbilt University Libraries ResearchGuides (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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