Transcript Reading - Bradford VTS

Reading
Journals
• Useful to look at the BMJ, BJGP and
InnovAiT
• Ask yourself if articles are relevant to UK
GP
• Skim article and use the summary boxes
• Enjoy the narrative fillers and back
pages
Electronic information
sources
Respond to DENs (Doctor’s
educational needs)
• When you have a clinical problem,
look it up there and then
• There is a world of knowledge in
front of you at the touch of your
mouse
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A few electronic info
sources
Search engines
• Google
• Google scholar
• www.searchmedica.co.uk
MENTOR - linked with EMIS, and
on web
www.gp.notebook.co.uk
www.patient.co.uk
Symptom sorter on
www.doctorupdate.net
BMJ learning
www.wellclosesquare.co.uk
Doctors.net
• bradfordvts.co.uk
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National Electronic Library for
Health
MeReC bulletin
Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin
Bandolier
Specialist sites
• Dermnet.nz
• Univ Michigan sports
medicine
Links to guidelines in your e
portfolio
Medical Books
• Oxford Handbook of General Practice
• Consultation books
• Liz Moulton, The Naked Consultation
• Roger Neighbour, The Inner Consultation
• Peter Tate, The Doctor’s Communication Handbook
• Critical appraisal
• Trisha Greenhalgh, How to Read a Paper
• BMJ ‘ABC’ series for specialties
…..and please read non medical books too!