Brick and Mortar
Section of the library for swapping any books from home, or taking books others have left.
Leisure Reading
Book exchange
Community Library
This section of the library includes medical textbooks, medical encyclopedias and dictionaries, facts and statistics relating to business and finance, physician demographics, medicine, CPT and ICD directories, etc.
Reference
Where you should go to find anything cataloged in the library's collection
AIR (Academy information resources) online library catalog
Established in 1811 and published by the Massachusetts Medical Association, this core medical journal is frequently used by family physicians.
NEJM
To check an item out of the library, simply do this . . .
What is leave a note on the librarian's desk with your name and the title of the item(s)
Where you will find project management, business, motivational, and workplace-related literature
What is the life and career section of the library
Where you will find the user names and passwords to AAFP online periodical subscriptions, or other online resources paid for by the library
AIR (online library catalog)
The first issue of GP rolled out in 1950, and today it is called this . . .
AFP American Family Physician
Unlike books, these items do not circulate. Scan or copy the articles you need and return them to the shelf.
What are:
Periodicals
serials
serial monographs
Here is where you will find the newsletter from the CAFP, Colorado AAFP among others.
State Chapter Section
Market Research reports regarding member demogrphics, CPD needs assessments, etc. can be found here:
What is AIR
This Elsevier database links to several dozen Elsevier journals, textbook chapters, etc.
ClinicalKey
Popular at universities for squishing freshmen and unwhitty bystanders, this equipment should be used carefully.
What are movable shelves/shelving/stacks
Here you will find ongoing scholarship regarding family practice, family medicine, and internal medicine.
Periodical Section (mobile shelving)
Some AAFP subscriptions authenticate users via IP address from the AAFP buildings. During COVID, this has been set up to help you access these materials working remotely.
What is the AAFP portal.
This is the primary online (subscription-based) drugdex:
Clinical Pharmacology (Elsevier)
Another non-circulating section of the library that includes among other things, Grey's Anatomy.
Reference
Where you will find information related to the history of family practice and the AAFP
AAFP Foundation Archives
Need anything from the library? Visit this website and fill out a quick form.
CPD Service Desk
JIRA ticket
Harrison's Textbook of Internal Medicine, the primary textbook used in medical school curricula, was edited by this immunologist.
Anthony Fauci