Subject Guide to Journals in MEDLINE

Use this to find out which journals MEDLINE covers on the topic you're interested in. These subject categories were created by the National Library of Medicine. Note: the UC's MEDLINE/Healthstar service from the California Digital Library covers additional titles in health planning & hospital administration.

Note: clicking on a subject takes you to a section within a 40+ page longdocument. Use caution before printing!

AIDS
Allergy & Immunology
Anatomy
Anesthesiology
Anthropology (Physical)
Antibiotics
Antineoplastic Agents
Audiology
Bacteriology
Behavior
Biochemistry
Biology
Biomedical Engineering
Biophysics
Biotechnology
Brain
Cancer (Medical Oncology)
Cardiology
Chemistry
Communicable Diseases
Critical Care
Cytogenetics
Cytology
Delivery of Health Care
Dentistry
Dermatology
Diagnostic Imaging
Drug Therapy
Education
Embryology
Emergency Medicine
Endocrinology
Environmental Health
Epidemiology
Ethics, Medical
Family Planning
Family Practice
Gastroenterology
Genetics
Genetics, Behavioral
Genetics, Biochemical
Genetics, Medical
Geriatrics
Gynecology
Health Services
Health Services Research
Hematology
Histocytochemistry
Histology
History of Medicine
Hospitals
Internal Medicine
Jurisprudence (Incl Forensics)
Laboratory Techniques
Medical Informatics
Medical Oncology
Medicine
Medicine, Oriental
Mental Disorders
Metabolism
Microbiology
Military Medicine
Molecular Biology
Neoplasms, Experimental
Nephrology
Neurology
Neurosciences
Neurosurgery
Nuclear Medicine
Nursing
Nutrition
Obstetrics
Occupational Medicine
Ophthalmology
Optometry
Orthodontics
Orthopedics
Osteopathic Medicine
Otolaryngology
Parasitology
Pathology
Pediatrics
Perinatology
Pharmacology
Pharmacy
Photography
Physical Medicine
Physiology
Podiatry
Psychiatry
Psychology
Psychopharmacology
Psychophysiology
Public Health
Pulmonary Disease
Radiology
Radiotherapy
Rehabilitation
Reproduction
Rheumatology
School Health Services
Science
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Social Medicine
Social Sciences
Speech-language Pathology
Sports Medicine
Statistics
Substance-related Disorders
Surgery
Technology, Medical
Teratology
Therapeutics
Toxicology
Transplantation
Traumatology
Tropical Medicine
Urology
Vascular Diseases
Veterinary Medicine
Virology
Vital Statistics

If you want to know if a particular journal is included in MEDLINE, you can also...

  • just connect to MEDLINE and do a journal title search, or
  • use the National Library of Medicine's Journal Browser.


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