Medical subject guide

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Scope

This subject guide is designed to provide the students and staff of the University of Sydney with information about available Medical resources.

Information Sources

*E-Books - online textbooks
*Ready reference - dictionaries | pharmacopeas | journal abbreviations ....
*Medical databases - online indexes to medical literature
*Medical internet guide - links to online resources
*Medical search engines and directories

Questions

* Ask a Librarian - an email reference service for teaching and research staff, and students of the University of Sydney.

Medical Library contacts

Classes

*Finding Medical and Health Information
Assignment survival skills for: Medline | PubMed | EBM | Australian Resources | EndNote |

Tutorials

*Online Medline Tutorial
*OvidSP (Medline, CINNAHL, PsycINFO etc) Short Video Tutorials
       Basic Search (2mins:28sec)
       Personal Account/ Creating Auto Alerts (3mins:24sec)
       Medline Advanced Search:
              Introduction
(2mins:12sec)
              Searching using MeSH
(2mins:27sec)
              Explode, Focus and Subheadings(3mins:23sec)
              Combining searches and limiting(4mins:08sec)
*Online MPH/MIPH literature searching tutorial
*Online EBM tutorial

  Contact Phone Number
Manager, Medical Sciences Libraries Jill Denholm +61 2 935 15314
Assistant Manager, Medical Sciences Libraries/Faculty Liaison Librarian (Medical Sciences) Jeremy Cullis +61 2 903 67678
Faculty Liaison Librarian (Medicine) Kathy Thorncraft +61 2 935 15317
Faculty Liaison Librarian (Medicine) Elizabeth Pigott +61 2 935 15315
Director, Health and Medical Libraries Elizabeth O'Reilly +61 2 9351 3618