Physiotherapy Subject Guide
ClinicalKey Student - overview and creating an account
ClinicalKey Student is a collection of textbooks, images and videos covering clinical specialties, including Medical Physiology and Physical Therapy (Physiotherapy). The link to sign in for this resource can be found under C in our Databases A-Z page, and also below:
ClinicalKey Student - St George's students and staff
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.
ClinicalKey Student - searching and saving items
Once you have logged in via your institution, use the search bar to search for healthcare concepts and keywords across the entire book collection.
Results will also contain links to individual chapters.
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.