MD & DO UpToDate vs DynaMedPlus vs ???

[Henry101]

I've been using UpToDate (through my school) for the past 2 years but got a DynamedPlus subscription through ACP around Thanksgiving. This thing is awesome!! Much better organized than UTD and seems like they take the "evidence based medicine" slogan pretty hardcore seriously as everything is published with a grade on the amount of research that supports/denies various claims.

Anyone have a preference? Love using point-of-care tools alongside classes and happy to hear what others use as well.

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[ortnakas]

Was not aware UpToDate even had a competitor.

 

[ninjaman22]

I use both of them. Dynamed doesn't have certain topics that uptodate covers. I definitely think Dynamed is more organized and less opinionated than uptodate.

 

[FrkyBgStok]

some of the newer up-to-date topics have similar research support. i started with up-to-date, went to dynamed, and now get most of my stuff from up-to-date. there are a lot of useful graphs and tables that dynamic doesn't have and often times i feel like dynamed's quick summary up top is too short while the whole article is too long. my go to has been 5minuteconsult. it isn't super in depth and if i want a physiology review, i don't get it, but i can look up the pertinent information in the few minutes it takes me to walk to a room.

 

[jm192]

In residency, we started with up to date and then wound up with Dynamed. The hospital I'm at now is in the same network as my residency and thus has Dynamed.

My CME $$ went straight to Uptodate. I can see what you're saying about the organization. But Uptodate information wise is a much better resource. There have been things I couldn't find on Dynamed.

 

[Kkshake]

You guys are lucky, my school doesn't believe in using the internet as a resource 🙁

 

[68PGunner]

Read the summary portion on the bottom if you are too lazy to read everything from uptodate.

 

[JamesPotterMS-3]

The charts and graphs on uptodate are clutch but I also agree that it's annoying to go through 3-5 different articles for a single disease (UTD have a separate article for diagnosis, pathophys, treatment, prognosis, etc.). Dynamed has everything on one page and it's usually pretty well organized and it's usually pretty complete.