Medicine: EBM for General Practice: Useful sites

Although intended for the general public, there is useful information here for students. "We offer expert advice on oranga taihema, your sexual and reproductive health. This section includes advice on everything from contraception, to STIs, the body, relationships, pregnancy, abortion, sexuality education, and more."

Family Planning: A global handbook for providers is provided by the International Planned Parenthood Association. Can be read on screen or downloaded as a 5MB PDF.

"The UK Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use (UKMEC) offers guidance to providers of contraception regarding who can use contraceptive methods safely."

Clinical guidance and service standards from the site above.

"A public access website provided by the NHS (Scotland)", it "gives travel health information for people travelling abroad"

A WHO site which "provides information on health risks for travellers"

From the US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)

As well as over 1200 medical texts, articles from more than 500 journals, etc., you can limit your search to FirstConsult, a resource with summaries similar to those found in UpToDate, DynaMed and Clinical Evidence. Use the 'filter' list on the left side of the results screen to limit results to e.g. FirstConsult (which includes differential diagnoses), texts, guidelines, etc.

A "continually updated clinical reference" from Medscape.

From the UK, "GPnotebook is an online encyclopaedia of medicine that provides a trusted immediate reference resource for clinicians in the UK and internationally."

"Merck has created The Merck Manuals, a series of healthcare books for medical professionals and consumers." "The content of The Manuals is now available in enhanced online versions as part of The Merck Manuals Online Medical Library. The Online Medical Library is updated periodically with new information, and contains photographs, and audio and video material not present in the print versions"

"iMedicalApps is an independent online medical publication for medical professionals, patients, and analysts interested in mobile medical technology and health care apps. Our physician editors lead a team of physicians, allied health professionals, medical trainees, and mHealth analysts in providing reviews, research, and commentary of mobile medical technology. Our publication is heavily based on our own experiences in the hospital and clinic setting."

"Find medical articles and other resources written by health professionals for professionals and medical students."

Patient and professional resources

A New Zealand dermatology resource site

"The purpose of the Immunisation Handbook 2014 is to provide clinical guidelines for health professionals on the safest and most effective use of vaccines in their practice."

Based at the School of Population Health at The University of Auckland,it provides "New Zealanders with a local source of independent, factual information based on international and New Zealand scientific research regarding vaccine-preventable diseases and the benefits and risks of immunisation, information and training for health professionals, national immunisation coordination and policy advice and research into many aspects of vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases."

"The goal of this website is to hold the numbers that a brain just can't. These numbers are important: the strength to rule-in or rule-out disease of any "thing" that is done upon a patient should be known. Useful tests should be pursued and less useful investigations should not. "

From the University of California San Diego, "A comprehensive physical examination and clinical education site for medical students and other health care professionals"

"This website is designed to serve as a practical guide to health care providers, planners and consumers for determining the inclusion or exclusion, content and frequency of a wide variety of preventive health interventions, using the evidence-based recommendations of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC)"