Health Sciences
General Health Sciences
The resources guide to Public Health (for BHS students and others) is available here
Last updated June 2009 by Mick Draper
Advice For Students
MBBS students should contact Mick Draper for help finding information.
Advice on individual assignments are usually found on the web site of the Discipline concerned. (see below)
Medicine Web Sites
There are thousands of medical sites on the internet, with many new sites added each week. Sites listed below are those that have links to a large number of sites using search engines or indexes.- Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources Called a Meta directory because it is a list of links to sites that have links to other sites. From Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa
- Health Insite Consumer level information from a category list or search engine. From The Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing.
- Health on the Net This database has access to many documents, definitions, illustrations etc. Includes a search engine. From Health On the Net Foundation..
- Intute: Health & Life Sciences Search for information on all aspects of health and life sciences
- Librarian's Index to the Internet: Health A collection of links to many internet sites on most aspects of medicine. Some are at practitioner level, lots are for consumers.
- List of Medical Wikis Info on a range of medical topics. Each wiki comes with a description, intended audience, who can contribute, and editorial policies. Compiled by David Rothman.
- Martindale's Health Science Guide Teaching files, case studies, movies, glossaries, sites by disease or discipline. By Jim Martindale
- Medlinks Best medical sites on the internet according to Stanford University Medical Center.
- Medpedia An edited medical encyclopaedia with articles produced by medical doctors or those with a PhD in a biomedical field. Still in Beta phase 2009.
- World Health Organization Home Page Includes summaries and figures from World Health Reports, contacts, mission statements, policies etc.
Online Dictionaries
- MedicineNet.com 16,000 medical terms
- MedlinePlus Dictionary Link to Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary. From (US) National Library of Medicine.
- The On-line Medical Dictionary Browse a long list of terms with cross indexing. UK and North American spelling. From CancerWEB.
- MedBioWorld Links to online dictionaries and glossaries. From BioMedWorld (Sciencekomm, Inc.)
- whonamedit.com Medical eponyms. Names of conditions, and brief biographies of those who named them, or for whom they were named.
Australian Sites
Directories
Organisations
Other Australian Sites
Clinical Toxinology Resources Toxinology information from around the world covering venonous and poisonous animals, plants and mushrooms. From Women's and Children's Hospital Adelaide, and University of Adelaide Dept of Paediatrics.
Conferences
Foreign Cultures and Health
Ethnomed Home Cultural aspects of various groups and how this might impinge on consultation and treatment. From University of Washington & Harborview Medical Center.HealthWeb Minority Health Mainly bibliographies on health among minorities in the USA.
US Office of Minority Health
Evidence Based Practice
Uni of Adelaide Undergraduate Student Online Resources
Anatomy tv Click on the Resources tab to get access to Anatomy tv. Interactive human anatomy to view multiple layers. Includes quizzes.
Australian Medicines Handbook Online access to information on drugs approved for use in Australia
Harrison's online Harrison's principles of internal medicine online. University of Adelaide users only.
MDConsult Searches clinical ebooks, ejournals, review journals, a drugs database, news, practice
guidelines, patient handouts, and cases on a wide area of clinic medicine from
specific tabs or from a single search engine.
Stat!Ref 8 online med texts. Click on Table of Contents to see the book titles.
Uni of Adelaide Faculty of Health Sciences Undergraduate Tutorials
Databases for finding Journal Articles
MEDLINE
- Medline from ScienceDirect For Uni of Adelaide community. Includes an alert service. No explosion.
- MedlinePlus A consumer database that includes a list of more than 600 of medical topics to search, drug info, a medical distionary, and a medical encyclopaedia. From U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- NLM Gateway Provides simultaneous searching in MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, HSR Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE.
- PubMed A fast, free version of Medline with links to some full text journals.
- Uni of Adelaide PubMed Detailed Tutorial Covers the main points of searching PubMed.
Basic PubMed Tutorial with added info on how to Import to EndNote
- PubMed Tutorial from National Library of Medicine. How to use PubMed efficiently.
Journal Title Abbreviations
Open Access Journals
Biomed Central Some free journals, meeting abstracts.
freemedicaljournals.com Free medical journals
Highwire Press Includes some journals which are free to all.
MedicalStudent.com This site includes free medical texts, journals, simulations etc. Run and curated by Michael P. D'Alessandro, M.D.
PubMed Central A free journal archive.
Publication Aids
Citation Linker Enter details of the item you want and the linker will try to find the full text for you through University of Adelaide Library. Uni of Adelaide community only.
Other Barr Smith Library Resource Guides
Finding Authors and Affiliations
Cancer sources for public users outside and inside The University of Adelaide Library
Maureen Bell's Homepage
Mick Draper's Homepage
Univeristy of Adelaide Faculty of Health Sciences This page was produced by Mick Draper
Mick Draper is the Research Librarian for the following disciplines in the Faculty of Health Sciences: Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Anatomical Sciences, Dentistry, General Practice, Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Orthopaedics and Trauma, Paediatrics, Pathology, Pharmacology, and Surgery.
Maureen Bell is the Research Librarian for Clinical Nursing, Mental Health/Psychiatry, Psychology and Public Health.
Email to: Maureen Bell Email to compiler: Mick Draper
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