General Practice Resource Guide

Last update July 2011 by Mick Draper

Australian Sites

• Australasian Cochrane Centre Evidence based medicine database infromation. Includes reviews
• Australian Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing Media releases, publications, and links to related sites Includes Population Health Division which promotes health in the population.
• Australian Medical Association
• 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, 
• Doctors Reform Society Includes articles on current issues.
• NHMRC - National Institute of Clinical Studies includes Evidence Uptake Guides Covers the gaps in evidence based practice in general practice in Australia
• Primary Health Care Research and Information Service (PHC) Australian general practice and primary health care research resources.
  • PHC Focus on ... (formerly Journal Watch) Research for primary health care policy in Australia.
• 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

General Practice Sites

• CKS Clinical Knowledge Summaries Evidence-based information and practical 'know how' about the common conditions managed in primary care. Includes NHS Evicence.
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (USA) Cardiovascular Information Includes info for practicioners and patients
• Primary Health Care Research and Information Service Includes free publications including Focus on ... where the editor scans more than 30 journals to write bibliogrpahic essays on important Australian issues in general practice.

Patient Education Sites

Better Health Channel Health info from the Victorian govt

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

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

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
• Office of Rare Diseases Research(ORDR) Info on research, practice, and patient ed. From Nationial Institutes of Health USA Includes a link to the following site
• ORPHANET

BSL Sources for Rural Health Students

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 A customised version for Uni of Adelaide community to search millions of health science and life science citations
• Uni of Adelaide basic PubMed tutorial Covers the main points of searching PubMed.
• Uni of Adelaide advanced PubMed tutorial Includes more detail and comes with dental examples 
• PubMed Tutorial The official PubMed tutorial from U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Journal Title Abbreviations

• U.S. National Library of Medicine Journals referenced in the NCBI Databases Enter an abbreviated title and (hopefully) get the full title for a journal

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 Library.

Introduction to Evidence based practice With dental examples

PubMed searches of Discipline of General Practice research topics

Indigenous health (2nd year MBBS course 2010)
Help for second year students doing this option. Covers use of the Catalogue, Databases, and AusStats