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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/

Not on campus ?

Log in here with

your UWO

username

drwho@uwo.ca

& password

Follow the Program Guides

link to get to Family

Medicine Program Guide

Different views of

information

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

• PubMed

• Embase

• Cochrane Library

• Scopus

• CINAHL

• PsycInfo

• AMED: Alternative

Medicine

Articles

tab

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

Click here for

electronic books &

journals

To search in a more

structured way for

titles, authors, etc.

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

Good short

(~ 2 min.)

video tutorials

Clinical Queries to

search quickly for

systematic reviews

Free MyNCBI

cubby to save

search strategies

and results

Link to Advanced

Search page

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:

• Webform

• e-mail clfm@uwo.ca

• Tel 519.661.3170

• Fax 519.661.3880

Pulldown

Resources tab

to get to Library

pages

CFPC Library Services

(from Resources tab at top of screen > Library Services)

http://www.cfpc.ca/LibraryServices/

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 - clfm@uwo.ca

519.661.3170