Legend
- McGill users only
- In-library-use only
- Catalogue record
Sources for Background Information
Key Textbooks
- Textbook of family medicine
- Current diagnosis and treatment in family medicine
- Primary care medicine: office evaluation and management of the adult patient
- Color atlas of family medicine
- 5-minute clinical consult
- Conn's current therapy
- Harrison's principles of internal medicine
- Oxford textbook of medicine
- Nelson textbook of pediatrics
- Hazzard's geriatric medicine and gerontology
- Current diagnosis & treatment obstetrics & gynecology
- American Psychiatic Publishing Textbook of substance abuse treatment, 4th edition
Dictionaries and encyclopaedia
- McGill Life Sciences Library Online Reference Guide - Find here links to various health science dictionaries, directories, biographical tools and encyclopaedia.
e-Book Collections
- AccessMedicine
- AccessSurgery
- MDConsult
- STAT!Ref
- Books@Ovid (books on all subjects; browse subjects under "Clinical Medicine" in left column)
Point of care tools
- McGill Life Sciences Library health sciences mobile guide - Many point of care tools are available for mobile devices - more information here.
- UpToDate - is a clinical reference tool that provides current answers to patient care, diagnosis and treatment questions at the point of care. Over 200 journals are regularly scanned and synthesized into topic reviews by clinical experts. Remote access now available.
- ACP Pier - is a point-of-care decision-support tool that 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
- CPS: Compendium of Pharmaceuticals & Specialties - English version of Canada's leading pharmaceutical database
- CPSP: Compendium des produits et spécialités pharmaceutiques - French version of Canada's leading pharmaceutical database
- GIDEON (Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network) - a decision support application covering infectious diseases, microbiology and toxicology worldwide
- PubMed Clinical Queries
Sources of evidence & about evidence-based medicine
- Essential Evidence Plus
- EvidenceUpdates (formerly BMJUpdates) Free registration required
- CMA InfoBase - Canadian practice guidelines
- Cochrane Library - a collection of databases that provide high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Contains the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
Cochrane Reviews/Protocols listed by Cochrane Review Group - view a comprehensive list of systematic reviews prepared by different oncology groups - Clinical evidence (point of care tool from BMJ)
- TRIP: Turning Practice Into Research - allows users to rapidly and easily identify high quality medical literature from a wide range of EBM sources
- 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
- National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC) - international listing of clinical practice guidelines
- McGill Life Sciences Library guide to evidence-based practice
- 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
- Archives of family medicine
- Canadian family physician
- Family medicine
- Family practice management - more user-friendly:
- Journal of family practice
- Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
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
- 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
Searching the Library Catalogue
Use the basic word(s) anywhere or advanced keyword search in the library catalogue. You can search using words like - antibiotics, therapeutics, copd, etc.
Search tips for the library catalogue
| Truncation symbol: | ? | e.g. dermatol? will retrieve catalogue records containing the words dermatology, dermatological, dermatologist, etc. |
| Phrase searching: | "___" | e.g. "family medicine" will retrieve catalogue records containing the phrase family medicine |
| Boolean operators: | (), AND, OR, NOT default: AND |
e.g. family and (medicine or practice) will retrieve catalogue records containing the word family and either medicine or practice |
Get more catalogue search tips.
Search the Library catalogue: Keyword(s):
You can also browse the catalogue, or the shelves at the following National Library of Medicine Classification call numbers
| Call Number | Subject |
| WB 100 | Family medicine |
| WB | Practice of Medicine |
| WC | Communicable/Infectious Diseases |
| WF | Respiratory System |
| WG | Cardiovascular System |
| WI | Digestive System |
| WJ | Urogenital System |
| WL | Nervous System |
| WM | Psychiatry |
| WO | Surgery and Anesthesiology |
| WP | Gynecology |
| WQ | Obstetrics |
| WR | Dermatology |
| WS | Pediatrics |
| WT | Geriatrics / Chronic Disease |
| WV | Otolaryngology |
| WW | Ophthalmology |
Core and additional databases
- MEDLINE via Ovid (1996-) - The full range of biomedical sciences, with clinical medicine at the core. Start here!
- PubMed (1946 -) - free (open access) interface to MEDLINE from the US National Library of Medicine which produces MEDLINE.
- Embase, (1996 -) - biomedicine. Broad coverage of the European literature. NOTE: allows a limited number of simultaneous users.
Embase, 1947 - - Health & Psychosocial Instruments (1985 -) - health instruments, surveys, questionnaires, etc. Click here for a McGill Library guide on finding instruments, etc.
- 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.
- Google Scholar - restricts Google results to authoritative articles and websites. Use Advanced Scholar Search to limit results by date, format, etc. If phrase searching, use quotation marks to increase relevance and decrease retrieval
Google Images - remember to credit the source of the image
Many more image sites - see: McGill Life Sciences guide on finding images - Drug and lactation database (LACTMED) from US National Library of Medicine
- 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.
- PsycInfo (1987 -) - Psychological, behavioral and emotional impact of disease; complements MEDLINE / PubMed for mental health
PsycInfo (1806 -) - REHABDATA - covers physical, mental, and psychiatric disabilities
- 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
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Selected Internet Sites
Information to share with patients
MDConsult contains patient handouts which can be customized. UpToDate contains patient information, some basic and some at a more advanced level.- MedlinePLUS - an excellent resource for patient / consumer health information. Provides drug and disease related links as well as interactive tutorials
- CISMeF - Patients - Sites in French for patients
- McGill Life Sciences Library on sources of information to share with patients
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
- College of Family Physicians of Canada
- American Academy of Family Physicians
- World Organization of Family Doctors
- La Fédération des médecins omnipraticiens du Québec (FMOQ)
Other Resources