Family Medicine

Background information

Key textbooks

• 5-minute Clinical Consult
• Color Atlas of Family Medicine
• Conn's Current Therapy
• Current Diagnosis and Treatment in Family Medicine
• Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics
• Oxford Textbook of Medicine
• Primary Care Medicine: Office Evaluation and Management of the Adult Patient
• Principles of Medicine in Africa
• Textbook of Family Medicine

Video

• Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination, Part 1 (2005)
  Note: Does not work in all browsers; IE recommended
• Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination, Part 2 (2005)
  Note: Does not work in all browsers; IE recommended

e-Book collections

• AccessMedicine
• AccessPediatrics
• ClinicalKey (was MD Consult)
• STAT!Ref
• Books@Ovid (books on all subjects; browse subjects under "Clinical Medicine" in left column)
• More information on e-books and media available at McGill - includes information on borrowing e-books and audiobooks)

Point of care tools, including sources of evidence-based medicine

• DynaMed - evidence-based clinical reference tool; systematically identifies and appraises the literature; provides levels of evidence
• UpToDate
  
• ClinicalKey - online search tool that allows you to quickly access First Consult, journals, textbooks, videos, and more
• ACP Pier - contains over 425 modules that provide information and guidance on more than 300 diseases and conditions
• Clinical Evidence (point of care tool from BMJ)
• Essential Evidence Plus
• e-CPS: Compendium of Pharmaceuticals & Specialties - Canada's leading pharmaceutical database (also available in French)
• GIDEON (Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network) - covers infectious diseases, microbiology and toxicology worldwide
• PubMed Clinical Queries
• McGill Life Sciences Library Health Science Mobile Guide - many point of care tools are available for mobile devices; more information here

Clinical practice guidelines

• Canadian Medical Association Infobase: Clinical Practice Guidelines
• US National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC)
• Center for Disease Control (US) - search for prevention guidelines
• Clinical Knowledge Summaries - Summaries of the current evidence and practical guidance by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, UK
• Clinical Decision-making (Evidence-based Health Care) - McGill Library guide with more exhaustive list of sites (scroll down to "Clinical practice guidelines")

Other sources of evidence-based medicine (non-point of care)

• EvidenceUpdates (formerly BMJUpdates) Free registration required
• Cochrane Library- a collection of databases that provide high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Contains the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  
• TRIP: Turning Practice Into Research- allows users to rapidly and easily identify high quality medical literature from a wide range of EBM sources

Sources about evidence-based medicine

• JAMAEvidence: Using Evidence to Improve Care
  Note: Limited number of simultaneous users
• Users' Guides to the Medical Literature (JAMA) 2nd edition - authored by EBM experts, these series of chapters provide an excellent introduction to evidence based practice
• JAMA article series on the Rational Clinical Examination
• How to Read a Paper
• Clinical Decision-making (Evidence-based Health Care) - McGill Library guide

Core databases for finding articles

• PubMed (1946 -) - Free access to bibliographic information from MEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, other non-indexed citations, and NCBI Books. Start here!
• MEDLINE via Ovid (1996 -) - The full range of biomedical sciences, with clinical medicine at the core. Preferred interface for MEDLINE when building a systematic review search. See other MEDLINE database segments on OvidSP.
• Embase, (1996 -) - Biomedicine. Broad coverage of the European literature. NOTE: Only allows five simultaneous users
  Embase, 1947 -
• Cochrane Library - Cochrane and other reviews (DARE), clinical trials (CENTRAL), methods studies, economic evaluations, technology assessments
• Google Scholar - Restricts Google results to authoritative articles and websites. To combine synonymous concepts, capitalize OR

Additional databases for finding articles

• SCOPUS (1823 -) - multidisciplinary. Provides citation indexing, patent searching, H-index indicators etc.
• Web of Science (1900 -) - multidisciplinary. Features citation indexing, h-index indicators and access to Journal Citation Reports for journal impact factors
• CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature - provides comprehensive coverage of the English language journal literature related to nursing and the allied health disciplines
• PsycINFO (1987 -) - Psychological, behavioral and emotional impact of disease; complements MEDLINE / PubMed for mental health
• Health & Psychosocial Instruments (1985 -) - health instruments, surveys, questionnaires, etc. Click here for a McGill Library guide on finding instruments, etc.
• McGill Library Global Health Resource Guide - created as a wiki, this resource guide promotes collaboration in the field of global health. Free for everyone to view; sign in with your McGill ID and password to contribute information to the site
• McGill Life Sciences Library wiki on systematic reviews - An in-depth guide for researchers planning, undertaking and publishing a systematic review of the literature

Journals

• American Family Physician
• Annals of Family Medicine
• Canadian Family Physician
• Evidence-Based Medicine Bimonthly selection of articles in all aspects of family medicine judged clinically relevant and methodologically sound by clinical selectors; includes commentary for context and implications for change in practice
• Family Medicine
• Family Practice Management
• Journal of Family Practice
• Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
• Search for other eJournals

Keeping up-to-date: Current awareness tools

• EvidenceUpdates (Via BMJ Group and McMaster University's Health Information Research Unit; requires free registration) - E-mails of citations in various specialties (you choose) from 120 key clinical journals selected by clinicians as clinically relevant
• Medical Letter on Drugs & Therapeutics - Evaluations of new and previously approved FDA drugs, unbiased reviews of drug classes for common disorders
• Daily POEMs - Via Essential Evidence Plus
• Current Awareness Resources - McGill Library guide

Selected web sites

Information to share with patients

• Finding Information to Share with Patients - McGill Library guide

Consumer health information centres

• Centre d'Information sur la Santé de l'Enfant
  Hôpital Sainte-Justine
• Jewish General Hospital Patient and Family Resource Centre
  Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital
• MCH Family Resource Library
  Montreal Children’s Hospital, McGill University Health Centre (MUHC)
• MUHC Patient Resource Centre
  Montreal General Hospital & Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University Health Centre (MUHC)
• Neuro-Patient Resource Centre
  Montreal Neurological Hospital, McGill University Health Centre (MUHC)

Professional organizations

• La Fédération des médecins omnipraticiens du Québec (FMOQ)
• College of Family Physicians of Canada
• American Academy of Family Physicians
• WONCA: World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians

Other resources

• Publishing in the Life Sciences
• McGill Department of Family Medicine