Oxford Specialist Handbooks Online
Training Presentation Notes
Background information
A collection of handbooks, divided into 10 sub-series, each providing
advanced information of a subject area within medicine: the information
needed when training as, or working as, a specialist in a distinct medical
field (eg. medical and surgical sub-specialties)
Designed to give an overview of clearly defined procedures, skills,
guidelines and technologies, also provide practical tips and case studies to
supplement hands-on experience.
Readership: Senior doctors and consultants, and specialist nurses: for
use when training and working in a medical specialty
Size online: 72 pocket handbooks, divided into 10 sub-series (March
2013)
Free content: Free abstracts available on a title and chapter level
Updates: Text is not updated; each title is replaced when a new edition
comes out. New titles are launched throughout the year.
Launched online 2009. The full text of books available via
www.oxfordmedicine.com. Content is cross-searchable via the medical
platform for all Oxford medical content
Fully enabled, XML , COUNTER compliant, Open URL, DOI, citation export,
pdf, email, social networking, My Work area (save content & searches,
annotate), QR codes (on print and pdf versions of content pages)
Images are zoomable and downloadable into PowerPoint
Links to primary sources mentioned in the references
Links to recommended websites.
Home Page of Oxford Medicine Online
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Browse: Specialty, Career stage, Series Browsing
Quick & Advanced Searches
Search within my specialty
Browse all titles included in your subscription (on the left)
Latest news with rss feed – on the right
Recently added titles (at the bottom of the homepage)
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7. News (on the right)
8. About
a. Browse all titles in your subscription
b. What’s New Guide and Migration Pack, online tutorial
c. Current series included in the portal
d. Other resources of interest
e. Latest news from Oxford Medicine Online - RSS
f. Frequently Asked Questions
9. What’s New – updates (new content added)
10.Subscriber services
a. account management, accessibility, MARC records, FAQ
b. complete title list
c. promotional materials, link to live demos, help
11.Contact Us
12.Take a tour – PowerPoint & PDF site demos
13.Help – use menu on left to immediately click for guidance on
specific functions
14.Sign in – private work area (save your content, searches,
annotations)
Browse
1. See the full list of titles in a OSHO series, by clicking the name of
the collection.
2. Featured books
a. Scroll across the editors’ choice carousel, show titles in:
OSHs in Anaesthesia, OSHs in Cardiology
3. Complete title lists for OSHO collection ; RSS – right hand side,
beneath the featured books.
Results list
1. Refine search result list:
a. by recently published
b. by specialty
c. by career stage
d. by series
e. publication year
2. Full text access (left hand side icon)
3. Search within results box
Quick search
1. anaesthesia
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Narrow your choices to OSHO
Search/browse trail
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books/chapters.
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i. Views (3 options: Title, First lines of abstract, Full abstract)
2. sedative hypnotics :
Search within: Benzodiazepine
3. premature birth:
Search within my Specialty: Emergency Medicine
Go to : OSH Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
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Cover, abstract, publishing history, DOI, ISBN
See authors’ academic position, affiliation and web-page if available
Related content books, Subjects in Oxford Medicine Online
Full text page
1. Show chapter:– Chapter 18 Suicide and deliberate self-harm –
clinical example (case study), recommended reading
2. Contents - left column
3. One chapter per html page. Can be viewed as pdf (one chapter per
book)
4. Show chapter in pdf, QR code
5. Save, email, cite, bookmark & share, change contrast and font size
6. End matter – Index, click on ‘anorexia nervosa, prognosis ‘
(another clinical example)
Go to: OSHs in Surgery
Book: OSH Liver and Pancreatobiliary Surgery
Chapter 5: Liver Transplantation
Section: Split liver transplantation
Oxford Specialist Handbooks Online
Training Presentation Notes
(instructions on how to split a donated liver into two segments and insert
into two transplant patients)
Go to: OSH Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Chapter 3: Surgical dermatology
Show the content; further reading, online resources (at the end of the
chapter)
Advanced Search
1. Restrict search to series, keywords, index, bibliography, author
name etc.
Example of Advanced search
Series: OSHO
1. Abstract: ‘congenital heart disease’
2. Figure caption : ‘iron lung’
(OSH Advanced Respiratory Critical Care, Invasive ventilation
basics)(historical approach)
3. Figure caption:’ implantable defibrillator’
(OSH Heart Disease in Pregnancy, Arrhythmias) (current practice)
4. OSH Interventional Radiology, Chapter 19 Biopsy and drainage;
copy DOI
DOI : ‘10.1093/med/9780199547722.003.0019’
5. Author: Henk Giele
AND Series: Oxford Specialist Handbooks