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Applying for an NHMRC grant?

Published: Wed, 2012-05-02 09:50 by Amy Cross
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Applications for NHMRC Program Grants for funding commencing in January 2014 are now open. Closing dates for applications are June 5, 2012, and, the UQ internal closing dates for full applications is Friday May 18th, 2012.

Know someone who wants to give up smoking?

Published: Thu, 2012-03-08 13:15 by Jill McTaggart
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The LIVESTRONG MyQuit Coach is an application that has been reviewed by a smoking cessation specialist, a nicotine addiction specialist, a psychologist and a cardiologist and internal medicine specialist. It costs $4.49.

Data linkage - how does it work?

Published: Wed, 2011-12-14 09:47 by Belinda Weaver
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Use this link to locate a slection of Health and Medical eBooks

Published: Thu, 2011-10-13 15:44 by Jill McTaggart
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A subject guide to selected medical eBooks has been created to help you locate them more easily.

Look for eBook list under the Textbook heading on the Medical Information Resources website or you can access it directly from http://www.library.uq.edu.au/mbbs/ebooks.html

Mental Health

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Encyclopaedias: 

The Gale encyclopedia of mental disorders 2003 edited by Ellen Thackery and Madeline Harris

Assessment and therapy resource : specialty articles from The Encyclopedia of mental health / editor-in-chief, Howard S. Friedman

Mental Health - my virtual encyclopedia (US) resource

Addiction : a reference encyclopedia 2010

Handbooks: 

The SAGE handbook of mental health and illness 2011 resource

The mental health handbook : a cognitive behavioural approach 3rd edition 2009 by Trevor Powell.

Grief counseling and grief therapy : a handbook for the mental health practitioner 4th ed 2009 by J. William Worden

Oxford handbook of mental health nursing 2006 edited by Patrick Callaghan, Helen Waldock.

Oxford handbook of psychiatry

Handbook of complementary and alternative therapies in mental health 2002 edited by Scott Shannon.

Handbook of clinical rating scales and assessment in psychiatry and mental health 2010 resource

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-IV-TR

DSM IV TR online

Dictionaries: 

Campbell's psychiatric dictionary 2004 by Robert Jean Campbell

Dorlands illustrated medical dictionary

The language of mental health : a glossary of psychiatric terms 2011 by Narriman C. Shahrokh ... al.

Dictionary of ethical and legal terms and issues : the essential guide for mental health professionals 2007 by Len Sperry.

Psychiatric dictionary

Lexicon of psychiatric and mental health terms

The language of mental health : a glossary of psychiatric terms

Clinical Practice
Clinical Practice: 

Essentials of psychiatry

Foundations of clinical psychiatry

Kaplan & Sadock's comprehensive textbook of psychiatry

Evidence Based Practice
Evidence Based Practice: 

Evidence-based policy and practice in mental health social work 2011

The evidence-based practice : methods, models, and tools for mental health professionals 2005

BMJ Best Practice - Database

In a single source BMJ has combined the latest research evidence, guidelines and expert opinion - presented in a step-by-step approach, covering prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Best Practice provides a second opinion in an instant, without the need for checking multiple resources. At its core, Best Practice contains the BMJ's Clinical Evidence

Practice Guidelines - RANZCP

Cochrane Library - information on the effects of interventions in health care, designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care.

Centre for Evidence-Based Mental Health

Evidence-based mental health (e journal)

Evidence-based mental health care by Simon Hatcher, Rob Butler, Mark Oakley-Browne.

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles: 

PsycINFO - Journals, books & book chapters, reports, theses & dissertations in psychology & related fields.

PsycArticles - Journals published by the APA, Canadian Psychological Association plus Hogrefe & Huber Publishers.

BMJ Clinical evidence - Directory of evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions

Cochrane Library - Information on the effects of interventions in health care, designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care.

CINAHL - Contains citations with abstracts to articles published in nursing and allied health journals.

Embase.com - A database which provides access to the biomedical literature with over 2,000 biomedical titles not currently offered by MEDLINE.

Informit Collections - Set of Australian databases including Australasian Medical Index (AMI), A+Education (AEI), Health & Society, APAIS-Health, Health Collection & more.

Medline - Ovid version of Medline. Provides citations and abstracts to biomedical literature including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and healthcare services

MEDLINEplus - Specialising in medical diseases & conditions, non/ & prescription drugs, medical encyclopaedias & dictionaries & links to clinical trials.

PubMed - PubMed comprises over 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences.

Scopus - Abstracting database covering scientific, technical, medical & the social sciences.

Web of Knowledge - Includes Current Contents - ranging from social & behavioural sciences, life sciences, arts & humanities

Journals
Journals: 

Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry - Australian psychiatry journal published by the Australian and NZ College of Psychiatrists

Archives of general psychiatry - a highly ranked mental health journal

Current opinion in psychiatry

Journal of neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry

BMC psychiatry

Psychiatry online journals

A list of UQ Mental Health Journals

Legislation
Australia: 

Mental Health Act - Queensland

Related Guides
Related Guides: 

Counselling

Psychological and educational tests

Psychology

Secondary Materials
Secondary Materials: 

Books

Psychiatric secrets 2nd ed

A handbook for the study of mental health : social contexts, theories, and systems 2010 edited by Teresa L. Scheid et al

Community mental health for older people 2010

Addiction medicine resource : science and practice 2011

Browsing the shelves

You can also browse the catalogue or the shelves at the following call numbers:-

BF176 - Psychological testing

HM1106-1171 - Interpersonal relations. Social behavior

RC435-571 - Psychiatry

RC440 - Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

RC451 - Geriatric Psychiatry

RC455 - Mental Health Services and Ethics

RC480 - Emergency Psychiatry

RC554-569.5 - Personality disorders. Behavior problems including sexual problems, drug abuse, suicide, child abuse

RC564 - Addiction Medicine

Specialised Resources
Specialised Resources: 

DSM-IV-TR : Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders resource

Current diagnosis & treatment psychiatry resource

Fish's clinical psychopathology : signs and symptoms in psychiatry 2007

Handbook of clinical rating scales and assessment in psychiatry and mental health 2010 resource

Online counselling resource : a handbook for mental health professionals 2010

Psychiatry Online - books, journals & multimedia on psychiatry, mental health & behavioural sciences from APPI (American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.)

Disorders resource

Internet Mental Health (US) resource

Internet Mental Health is a free encyclopedia of mental health information created by a Canadian psychiatrist, Dr. Phillip Long.

Web Sites
Web Sites: 

Australian Department of Health and Ageing - Mental Health

American Psychiatric Association

Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) - Mental Health

Centre for Evidence-Based Mental Health - a UK website focussing on EBM and mental health providing information about trials in which they are involved, an EBM toolkit, information on critical appraisal and a CATmaker

Grieflink - Grieflink is an information resource for the berieved and grieving, their carers, friends and colleagues, and for health and welfare workers

Mental Health Association QLD (MHAQ) - MHAQ provides quality early intervention mental health services and programs that support the community to make mental health connections, develop mental health literacy and participate in employment as a foundation for recovery.

Mental Health Council of Australia - The Mental Health Council of Australia (MHCA) is the peak, national non-government organisation representing and promoting the interests of the Australian mental health sector, committed to achieving better mental health for all Australians.

Queensland Health - Mental Health

Psychiatry - Research, School of Medicine, University of Queensland

RANZCP - The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

Health Economics

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Encyclopaedias: 
Handbooks: 
Dictionaries: 

Browse the shelves

  • Places to browse on the shelves: RA410-RA413 Medical economics
How-to Guides: 

Updated by Fei Yu, 30 January 2013

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles: 

Access to all databases is via the Library site.

Topics include health and medicine in Australia and in particular the legal, social, economic and ethical aspects of health

Topics include international literature in economics

Topics include advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation and companies

Topics include research and clinical practice in administration, policy issues, and healthcare services

Topics include economic evaluation, health care cost, health care insurance

Updated by Fei Yu, 30 January 2013

Statistics
Statistics: 

Full range of ABS statistical and reference information

Statistical data for more than 900 development indicators and time series data from 1960 onwards for more than 208 countries and 18 country groups on social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators

Updated by Fei Yu, 30th january 2013

Web Sites
Web Sites: 

Updated by Fei Yu, 30 January 2013

Medical Ethics

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Encyclopaedias: 

Encyclopedia of bioethics resource

Encyclopedia of bioethics

Handbooks: 

A handbook of bioethics terms resource

A handbook of bioethics terms

The Oxford handbook of bioethics resource

Medical ethics manual resource

Medical ethics today : the BMA's handbook of ethics and law 2004

Medical ethics today: the BMA's handbook of ethics and law 3rd ed 2012 and Online 2nd ed 2011

The SAGE handbook of health care ethics resource

Books:

Ethics and law for the health professions

Psychiatric ethics - edited by Sidney Bloch, Stephen A. Green

Clinical ethics - a practical approach to ethical decisions in clinical medicine

Dictionaries: 

Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary

Evidence Based Practice
Evidence Based Practice: 

Cochrane Library - information on the effects of interventions in health care, designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care. Search or browse the database to find the literature.

Evidence-based medical ethics : cases for practice-based learning

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles: 

Biosis previews - A comprehensive database for life science and biomedical research. It consists of Biological Abstracts, an index to the journal literature in experimental, pure and field life sciences and non-clinical literature in the biomedical sciences.

Cochrane Library - information on the effects of interventions in health care, designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care.

Health and Society database - Health policy and services and the social, psychological, legal and ethical issues associated with health are a core subject area of this database.

PubMed - PubMed comprises over 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences.

Medline - Ovid version of Medline. Provides citations and abstracts to biomedical literature including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and healthcare services

Scopus - abstracting database covering scientific, technical, medical & the social sciences.

Web of Knowledge - includes Current Contents - ranging from social & behavioural sciences, life sciences, arts & humanities

Journals
Journals: 

Journal of medical ethics - London 1975-

American journal of bioethics - Cambridge, Mass 2001-

AJOB neuroscience - Philadelphia, Pa. 2010-

AJOB primary research - Philadelphia, Pa. 2010-

Clinical ethics - London : Royal Society of Medicine Press 2006-

BMC medical ethics - London 2000-

Secondary Materials
Secondary Materials: 

Secondary resources, such as books, ebooks, print journals and multimedia can be found via the Library Catalogue or by browsing the shelves at the relevant library.

R723 - R726 Medical ethics (including bioethics)


RA427.25 Moral and ethical aspects


RD27.7 Surgical ethics

Web Sites
Web Sites: 

Australian Medical Association - Ethics and Professionalism

British Medical Association - Medical Ethics

NHMRC: National Health and Medical Research Council - Australia - Health Ethics

NIH: National Institutes of Health - Bioethics Resources on the Web

Bioethics Research Library at Georgetown University

Medical Imaging

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Encyclopaedias: 

Encyclopedia of Diagnositic Imaging

Handbooks: 

Index of Medical Imaging

Clinical imaging : an atlas of differential diagnosis: electronic copy | print copy

Applied radiological anatomy for medical students: electronic copy | print copy

Dictionaries: 

Churchill Livingstone pocket radiography and medical imaging dictionary

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles: 

PubMed

Web of Science

Scopus

Journals
Journals: 

Radiology

Investigative Radiology

Medical Image Analysis

BMC Medical Imaging

Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

European Radiology

European Journal of Radiology

Web Sites
Web Sites: 

Hardin MD radiology, medical imaging and MRI

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists

Royal College of Radiologists

American College of Radiology

Physiotherapy

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Handbooks: 

Topical issues in pain. 3

Dictionaries: 

Mosby's dictionary of medicine, nursing & health professions

Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary

Quick Reference Dictionary for Physical Therapy

Dictionary of Physiotherapy

Stedman's orthopedic and rehab words

How-to Guides: 

Avoiding plagiarism

Evaluating Information Resources

Internet resource evaluation

Evidence Based Practice
Evidence Based Practice: 

Assignment help for evidence based practice

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles: 

PEDro

Cochrane Library

PubMed

CINAHL

EMBASE.com

Sport discus

Scopus

Web of Science

Multimedia
Multimedia: 

Online tutorials

Web Sites
Web Sites: 

einet.net

Physical Therapy Resources

Hardin MD - Physical Therapy / Physiotherapy

Australian Physiotherapy Association

PT Central

StopPain.org

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