An electrician has many tools in his/her box, but doesn't use all of them - only those appropriate to the job at hand. Likewise, as a GP it is good to have a few websites in your mind so you can select the appropriate one(s) for the particular task before you. This will make your working life tonnes easier and help the consultation to 'flow'.
Don't worry: what follows is not an exhaustive list like the Yellow Pages but rather those that I find most invaluable (and hope you will do too); each section has around 10 or less websites. Remember to use the right one for the right job; don't just rely on one. To go to the link, just click on the image/logo.
If you find anything you feel would be helpful to others, please email me here.
Ramesh
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Online Translator
World Lingo is one of the best translators I have used to communicate with patients who can read but whose command of the English language is very limited. It translates to and fro for quite a number of common languages.
Clinical Information
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iGP NOTEBOOK I love this website and consider it essential for my day to day consulting. Simple clinical information displayed in a simple way and fast. If you want a site that TELLS you exactly what to do, this is it! |
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CKS - CLINICAL KNOWLEDGE SUMMARIES CKS is a bit like GP notebook but is more evidence based. The only thing that slightly nags is that sometimes there is information overload. |
GP LINKS GP Links searches a base of reliable medical websites but if that fails, will search the net (through Google). Reason for use: it looks more professional than using Google as a last resort. |
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SEARCH MEDICA A remarkably good search engine which trawls through a large database of well know websites for the type of information you want. Clinical information? Patient Leaflets? And make the search limited to the UK. |
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SIGN - SCOTTISH INTERCOLLEGIATE GUIDELINES NETWORK SIGN was formed in 1993 and their objective is to improve the quality of health care for patients by reducing variation in practice and outcome, through the development and dissemination of national clinical guidelines containing recommendations for effective practice based on current evidence. |
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eGUIDELINES eGuidlines is an exhaustive list of all the guidelines published. Useful if you want to look up a guideline or if you want to develop one but want to see what others have done. The only snag: GMC no. needed |
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GP DESKTOP A resource providing tools and protocols for common general practice problems. |
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PROTOCOLS @ GP-TRAINING.NET Brad Cheek's collection of protocols on common problems in General Practice. Well worth a look especially if you are developing your own protocols and want a starting point. Click on a subcategory in the left hand menu. |
Patient Leaflets
Medicines on the Web
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e-BNF The electronic version of the BNF. No need to thumb pages and waste time. Just type the name of the drug you are after in the search box and press return. But you need to register first! |
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e-MIMS The electronic version of mims. Some of us prefer mims, others like the BNF (a bit like Bovril - you either love it or hate it). Anyway, for completeness, here is the online version; again you need to register first. |
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LEICESTER MEDICINES STRATEGY GROUP Great summary of the latest new medicines on the market and the guidance available. Also details recent changes to the prescribing of certain drugs. |
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e-MEDICINES COMPENDIUM Provides medication information and some good patient leaflets telling them more about a particular medication. Good for times when you've prescribed something where the patient really needs to get familair with it eg warfarin. |
Evidence Based Medicine
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PUBMED I think PubMed was Al Gore's legacy. It really is a great site if you have a query and want to see what the evidence is. It was designed for use by the public so that you can just type in your query in a layman's way. |
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DYNAMED DynaMed provides medical information for health professionals at the point of care. Type a question and get recommendations graded on the basis of the evidence supporting them. Also has 3000 clinically-organized summaries. Learn more here |
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NPCi NPCi is a new and radically different NHS learning resource designed specifically for busy health care professionals. The content covers prescribing, therapeutics & medicines management. Click on "Enter the NPCi building". |
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CLINICAL EVIDENCE Clinical Evidence is one of the world's most authoritative medical resources for informing treatment decisions and improving patient care. |
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NATIONAL LIBRARY FOR HEALTH A one stop portal including: the evidence, general guidance, images, online books and other libraries. Used to be called National Electronic Library for Health (NELH). |
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ATHENS Electronic resources at your fingertips. You can get a athens username and password from your local hospital library administrator.... just ask! |
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GOOGLE SCHOLAR A great google tool for searching only through research and evidence. However, to be able to make conclusions from a piece of research YOU need to be able to critically evaluate it. |
Miscellaneous Specific Websites
