Medicine Subject Guide

Once you have logged in via Shibboleth, creating a free personal account will allow you to bookmark your favourite books, chapters, figures and tables. 

To create an account, click on ‘Create a free personal account’.

Complete the registration form, using your @sgul.ac.uk email address and then click on 'Save'.

To view video and audio clips, click on 'Video & Audio'.

Select your topic under the heading, 'Filter by Type' and click on the link to the video you want to view or on the link to the related text.

To take a quiz, click on 'Self Assessment'.

Select your topic under the heading, 'Self Assessment' and click on the link to the quiz you want to take.

To view a case study, click on 'Cases'.

Select your topic under the heading, 'Filter by Type' and click on the link of the case study you want to view or on the link to the related text.

Use the search bar to search for healthcare concepts and keywords across the entire book collection.

Results will contain links to individual chapters and images.

To study a Study Journal Club, click on 'Journal Club'

Select your topic under the heading, 'Filter by Type' and click on the link of the Journal Club that you want to study or on the link to the related text.

To search other resources such as 'Clinical Skills', 'Guidelines' or 'Supplemental Content', click on 'Resources' and select an option from the drop-down list.

You will need to create an account the first time you sign in, which is subject to the Elsevier Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.

Click on ‘Register Here’.

Complete the registration form, using your @sgul.ac.uk email address and then click on 'Register'.

Personalise your account by selecting that you are a student and identifying your level of education.

Once you have created an account, you can use ClinicalKey Student to save items such as books, images and videos.

To save a book to your ‘Saved books’ folder, click on ‘Books’.

You can either search by 'Specialities', for example 'Physical Therapy', or 'Filter list by title'.

Click the star icon to save a book.

Click the 'My saved' tab and select ‘Books’ from the drop-down menu to go to your Saved books folder.

To save an image to your ‘Collections’ folder, click on ‘Images’.

Then search by 'Specialties', for example ‘Anatomy and Physiology’.

Click the star icon to save an image.

Click the 'My saved' tab and select ‘Collections’ from the drop-down menu. Click on ‘Images’ to go to your saved images folder.

To save a video to your ‘Collections’ folder, click on ‘Videos’.

Then search by 'Specialties', for example ‘Clinical Examination’.

Click the star icon to save a video.

Click the 'My saved' tab and select ‘Collections’ from the drop-down menu. Click on ‘Videos’ to go to your saved videos folder.

To search for a summary of a disease or medical condition, click on ‘Summaries’.

Search for a summary by typing the disease/condition into the ‘Filter list by title’ search box, or search by alphabetical order.

Once you have logged in to ClinicalKey Student - St George's students and staff and created an account, you can download the ClinicalKey Bookshelf app. This has options such as downloading books, saving book chapters, searching figures and annotations, highlighting text and a range of other tools.

The mobile app synchronises with the ClinicalKey Student website allowing you to download titles you have already identified and 'launched' using the website. Use your device to scan the code below to download the bookshelf app.

Launch the bookshelf on the ClinicalKey Student website.

To 'launch' a book on your mobile app, search for the title on the ClinicalKey Student website.  You may need to login again.  

Find the book you want.

Click on the bookshelf icon to add it to your bookshelf.

Click on the 'Launch Bookshelf' icon in the top right-hand side of the screen.

Click on 'My Library' to see the books on your list.