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General Practice Resource Guide

Last update July 2011 by Mick Draper

Table of Contents

Australian Sites Obesity Evidence Based Practice
with dental examples
General Practice Sites Rare Diseases PubMed searches of Discipline of General Practice research topics
Patient Education Rural Practice Indigenous Health (2nd Year MBBS 2010)
Bereavement and Palliative Care Find Current Information Psychotherapy Workshop 2013 including using Scopus and EndNote
GP Registrar Supervisors Journal Abbreviations  
Mental Health & General Practice Publication Aids  

 


 

Australian Sites

General Practice Sites

 

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

  • Specialist Sites

    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

    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.
    Medline
    • 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

    Publication Aids


    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