FINDING FAMILY MEDICINE
INFORMATION AT WESTERN
LIBRARIES AND ELSEWHERE
LYNN DUNIKOWSKI
DIRECTOR OF LIBRARY SERVICES,
COLLEGE OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS OF CANADA
BASED AT UWO TAYLOR LIBRARY, RM 106K
clfm@uwo.ca 519.661.3170
INFORMATION AT
WESTERN LIBRARIES
• Articles
• Books & e-Books
• Databases
• Point of Care Tools
• Images
• Videos
• Journals
WESTERN LIBRARIES WELCOME PAGE
http://www.lib.uwo.ca/
Different views of
information
Follow the Program Guides
link to get to Family
Medicine Program Guide
Not on campus ?
Log in here with
your UWO
username
drwho@uwo.ca
& password
OFF-CAMPUS ACCESS –
EZPROXY PROXY SERVER
• Proxy server lets Western faculty, students and staff access all
electronic resources, from any location
• You must log into the proxy server with your Western personal
computer account
• Activate your computer account at:
https://idm.uwo.ca/uwo/activate/activateAccountController.jsp
• What if I’ve forgotten my password? Reset it at:
http://www.uwo.ca/its/identity/resetpw.html
• You can add an EZProxy button to your browser's bookmarks
toolbar to start using the EZProxy server wherever you might
be on the web. Instructions at:
http://www.lib.uwo.ca/offcampus/remote.shtml
FAMILY MEDICINE
PROGRAM GUIDE
Discipline-specific lists of brief
descriptions and links to resources at
Western Libraries
To get to Family Medicine Program Guide:
Program Guide (at foot of Western
Libraries welcome page, or from
Research tab at top of screen)
Medicine & Dentistry
Family Medicine
FAMILY MEDICINE
PROGRAM GUIDE
•
Articles (Lists article databases like Medline)
•
Clinical Tools (e.g. UptoDate & Dynamed)
•
E-Books
•
Multimedia
•
Practice Guidelines
5 tabs for different
types of resources
ARTICLES TAB: LISTS AND LINKS TO
THESE DATABASES
Articles
tab
• PubMed
• Embase
• Cochrane Library
• Scopus
• CINAHL
• PsycInfo
• AMED: Alternative
Medicine
CLINICAL TOOLS TAB
•
•
•
•
DynaMed
ACP Pier
AccessMedicine
Essential
Evidence Plus
• UpToDate
• Trip Database*
• e-CPS
• Natural Standard
* free to anyone
Clinical
Tools
tab
INFORMATION FOR MOBILES
FROM FAMILY MEDICINE
PROGRAM GUIDE
Recommended tools for mobile
devices
MOBILES
LOOK FOR ANYTHING AT
WESTERN LIBRARIES FROM
‘SUMMON’ OR CATALOGUE PAGES
Go to
Catalogue
page from
here
Search Summon from here searches
books, journal articles and other formats
together – i.e. your results may be from
any of these resources
CATALOGUE TAB
To search in a more
structured way for
titles, authors, etc.
Click here for
electronic books &
journals
ANOTHER WAY TO FIND
DATABASES: BY TITLE LIST
Databases by
Title
MOST IMPORTANT
DATABASE - MEDLINE
• PubMed Medline & Ovid Medline
• Same database, different interfaces
• Medline is published by the US National
Library of Medline (NLM) & made freely
available through PubMed
• US NLM leases the Medline data to
commercial vendors like Ovid
PUBMED/MEDLINE
Link to Advanced
Search page
Good short
(~ 2 min.)
video tutorials
Free MyNCBI
cubby to save
search strategies
and results
Clinical Queries to
search quickly for
systematic reviews
PUBMED/MEDLINE
Limits or Filters –
click here to set
Want more
filters – e.g.
Search Fields?
Click here
PUBMED/MEDLINE
Video about new
advanced search
page
Select fields to
search from
pulldown
OVID MEDLINE
•
•
•
Save searches
in your private
workspace
Easy to use
checkboxes to
combine the
results of your
search
statements
“Find similar”
and “Find citing
articles” links
ONE IMPORTANT
NOTE...
When searching for articles in any database, look for the
button to link to full-text articles
in journals Western Libraries subscribes to
Get it at Western
button
USE REFWORKS TO KEEP
TRACK OF ARTICLES
RefWorks
REFWORKS
• Organize and save your references
• Create bibliographies
• Insert citations in your documents and
change citation formats with one
keystroke
• Share references with others
• Useful for research projects
REFWORKS
To find out
about the
new version.
There is a detailed
tutorial within your
account.
INFORMATION FROM
ELSEWHERE
• College of Family Physicians of Canada –
Library Services
• Other medical societies and associations
• Information from London hospital
libraries
• Learning object databases e.g. MedEd
Portal, FMDRL
• Patient information from various sources
INFORMATION AT THE COLLEGE OF
FAMILY PHYSICIANS OF CANADA
(CFPC)
Family medicine residents are members of
the CFPC and have access to CFPC Library
Services
CFPC
building in
Mississauga
CFPC HOME PAGE
http://www.cfpc.ca
For
Residents &
Students
CFPC LIBRARY
SERVICES
• CFPC library service is based at Western
Libraries
• Other CFPC staff are at national office on
Skymark Ave. in Mississauga
• CFPC librarian has dual role as CFPC
librarian & Western Libraries librarian
support for family medicine
CFPC LIBRARY SERVICES
http://www.cfpc.ca/libraryservices/
• Free literature searches, articles, and instruction for all
CFPC members across Canada
• Library web pages have links to family medicine journals,
clinical practice guidelines, evidence-based search sites,
& more
• Request services by:
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•
Webform
e-mail clfm@uwo.ca
Tel 519.661.3170
Fax 519.661.3880
CFPC Library Services
(from Resources tab at top of screen > Library Services)
http://www.cfpc.ca/LibraryServices/
Pulldown
Resources tab
to get to Library
pages
CFPC LIBRARY PAGE
LINKS TO CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES
Clinical
Practice
Guidelines
INFORMATION AT LONDON
HOSPITAL LIBRARIES
St. Joseph’s Health Care, London
Grosvenor Site, Library Services
Brad Dishan brad.dishan@sjhc.london.on.ca
(519) 646 6100 x 65727
London Health Sciences Center
University Hospital, Library Services
Erin Boyce Erin.Boyce@lhsc.on.ca
(519) 685-8500 x 35860
INFORMATION AT OTHER
MEDICAL ORGANIZATIONS &
SOCIETIES
• CMA – some public information but most in a
protected area. Don’t need to be a CMA
member, do need to register and must be
licensed to practice http://www.cma.ca/
• Provincial associations e.g. Ontario Medical
Association http://www.oma.org/ Clinical
resources at OntarioMD.ca (must be an
OMA member) http://www.ontariomd.ca
• Regulatory authorities e.g. CPSO (College of
Physicians & Surgeons of Ontario)
http://www.cpso.on.ca/ (look under Policies
& Publications and For Physicians)
LEARNING OBJECT
DATABASES – MEDED
PORTAL
LEARNING OBJECT
DATABASES – FMDRL
Includes:
• Presentations/Handouts
• PowerPoint Lectures
• Learning Modules for All Levels
• Images, Audio and Video Files
• Standardized Patient Cases
• … more
PATIENT
INFORMATION
Public Health Agency of Canada
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/index-eng.php
CFPC Patient Education Program
www.cfpc.ca > For Patients section
Medline Plus
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
Patient Education sections in many
commercial resources e.g. UptoDate
http://www.uptodate.com/patients/index.html
My favorite medicine – Dr. Mike Evans
http://www.myfavouritemedicine.com/
THANKS!
QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, SUGGESTIONS?
LYNN DUNIKOWSKI -
519.661.3170
clfm@uwo.ca