General Practice Resources

Last update June 2008 by Mick Draper

Sites Compiled by Search Engines or Directories

• Hardin Meta Directory - Family Medicine General practice sites organised by size
• Intute Family Practice Sites from a UK service
• Martindale's Clinical Medicine, Family Medicine & Primary Care Center Dictionaries, journals, cases, guidelines etc. From Jim Martindale.
• WiserWiki US based Wiki style source of info on health with some emphasis on general practice. Authors are restricted to U.S.board certified doctors

Australian Sites

• Australasian Cochrane Centre Evidence based medicine database infromation. Includes reviews
• Australian Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care Media releases, publications, and links to related sites
• Australian Medical Association
• Australian Web servers - Medical A directory of some Australian web sites
• Doctors Reform Society Includes articles on current issues.
• National Divisions of General Practice Australian gp divisions
• PHC RED South Australia 
• Population Health Division From Federal Govt Dept of Health and Ageing
• Primary Care Research and Information Service Australian general practice and primary health care research, evaluation and development.
• Public Health Association of Australia Inc Policies, current issues, and Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
• The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Includes immunisation schedules and CME events
• University of Sydney Medical Internet Guide Links to a quality Australian sites organized by topic. From University of Sydney Medical Library
• University of WA Department of General Practice Stuff on rural practice

General Practice Sites

• Department of Family and Community Medicine Medical College of Wisconsin Meetings, journals, organisations etc
• Doctor's Guide to the Internet News, medical links, conferences, drug information. Includes a search engine
• DrsReference Site General Practice Links Links to a range of Australian gp sites covering accreditation, directories, practice management, articles
• HealthWeb Family Practice/Primary Care Links to selected clinical sites, electronic journals, mail groups, and practice management sites. From Uni of Wisconsin-Madison Health Sciences Libraries
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (USA) Cardiovascular Information Includes info for practicioners and patients
• Primary Care Internet Guide Includes mail lists, organisations, online books, and university departments worldwide. From Univ of Bergen
• Primary Health Care Research and Information Service Includes free publications including JournalWatch where the editor scans more than 30 journals to write bibliogrpahic essays on important Australian issues in general practice.

Conferences

• Doctor's Guide to Medical Conferences and Meetings A big list of conferences arranged by place to be held

G P Tools

DrsReference Site Free textbooks, journals, NH&MRC publications, govt publications, patient education materials, Australian practice management sites, medical supplies, Oz hospitals, locums, software and computing, 

General Practice Computing Group Doctor's Toolkit Case studies in how GPs have computerized their practices

General Practice Research Database An aid for decision making in general practice. From Medicines and Health Care Products Agency U.K.

NH&MRC Publications Full text online documents from National Health and Medical Research Council

Tobacco Cessation Guideline Documents on drugs and counselling. From the Office of the Surgeon General U.S.A.

Patient Education Sites

Better Health Channel Health info from the Victorian govt

HealthInsite Australian Commonwealth Govt site on life styles, and medical conditions

informedhealthonline Patient access to Cochrane Library research. From Health Research and Education Foundation Ltd

MedlinePlus Patient access to the Medline database. Includes a topical list of more than 600 medical conditions, a medical dictionary and encyclopaedia

National Institutes of Health Health Information USA health information by body region, demographic group, procedures or common conditions

NHS Direct Online UK site includes a medical encyclopaedia

Discipline of General Practice, The University of Adelaide

Bereavement and Palliative Care

GP Registrar Supervisors

Mental Health and General Practice

Obesity
Uni of Adelaide Library Obesity Links. Includes tips on how to search Medline as well as Australian and other links. Compiled by Maureen Bell.

Rare Diseases

• Genetic and Rare Conditions Site
• MedlinePlus Rare Diseases
• NORD National Organization for Rare Disorders Inc Searchable database. Lists interested organisations
• Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) Info on research, practice, and patient ed. From Nationial Institutes of Health USA Includes a link to the following site
• ORPHANET

Rural Practice

• BSL Sources for Rural Health Students
• Hardin Meta Directory - Telemedicine A list of lists of telemedicine sites
• Telemedicine Information Exchange US sites covering news and links to other telemed sites

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Search for Current Information

• Uni of Adelaide Health Sciences information sources Most of these are restricted to Uni of Adelaide staff and students and "walk in" users.
• Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences A long list of instructions pages for journals. In alphabetical order by journal title. From Raymon H. Mulford Library Medical College of Ohio.
• NLM Gateway The U.S. National Library of Medicine database for MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, MEDLINEplus, DIRLINE, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, Space Life Sciences Meetings, and HSRProj (research projects in progress).
• POPLINE Citations with abstracts to world literature on population, family planning and related health issues. From Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs.
 

• 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 University of Adelaide customized version of Medline and PreMedline. From the U.S. National Library of Medicine
• PubMed A customised version for Uni of Adelaide community to search millions of health science and life science citations
• Uni of Adelaide PubMed tutorial Covers the main points of searching PubMed. 
• PubMed Tutorial The official PubMed tutorial from U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Journal Title Abbreviations

• Journals in Index Medicus DOS text or WordPerfect 6.1 listings of the journals indexed by abbreviated title, full title, subject, and country of publlication
• PubMed Journals Datbase Type in the abbreviated title and click on Go to get the full title

Publication Aids

• Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences Instructions from a long list of health sciences journals. From University of Toledo (USA)
• Publishing in the Life Sciences Covers selecting a journal, and manuscript preparation. From McGill University

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.

A course on Evidence based practice With dental examples

PubMed searches of Discipline of General Practice research topics

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