PHILADELPHIA, August 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ —
$1 for every medical textbook activated on Student Consult from
August through November will go to International Medical Corps,
dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health
care training and relief and development programs
Elsevier, the world-leading provider of scientific, technical
and medical information products and services, announced today that
it will contribute to International Medical
Corps through its ‘
Act to Save a Life’ campaign, an initiative dedicated to
providing medical assistance and support to numerous people around
the world.
“International Medical Corps is extremely grateful to Elsevier
for its support,” said Margaret Aguirre, Director of Global
Communications for International Medical Corps. “The generosity of
Elsevier and the students who purchase Student Consult textbooks
during this campaign will enhance our health care training and
development programs around the world.”
Elsevier will donate one dollar for each medical textbook
activated by U.S. medical school students at Student
Consult, an online resource center from Elsevier, between Aug.
1 and Nov. 30, 2011. Elsevier aims to raise $25,000 for
International Medical Corps.
Student Consult, an online resource center from Elsevier, allows
students to access the full contents of the medical textbooks they
purchase, along with images, multiple choice practice questions,
clinical cases and more. Student Consult’s titles are the core
medical textbooks students use in their courses and training,
including renowned best sellers Netter’s Atlas of Human Anatomy,
Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, Gray’s Anatomy for
Students, Rapid Review Pathology by Edward Goljan, and
Guyton and Hall Textbook
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