These resources are designed to be useful to the fifth-year medical students and academic staff involved in the one-year-long Rural Medical Immersion Programme (RMIP) of the Otago Medical School, University of Otago.
Please make sure that you use the Library resources that relate to which of the three clinical schools of Otago School of Medicine you are affliated with; Dunedin, Wellington or Christchurch.
If you host a student in your General Practice, you are eligible to have access to Library resources. Once you are signed off you have access to Library resources for two years before it needs to be renewed. Please contact Ms Elise Velenski (details below) and she will be able to help you with this.
Ms Elise Velenski
elise.velenski@otago.ac.nz
Lead Administrator
Dunedin School of Medicine
University of Otago | Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo
Mobile/Waea pūkoro +64 021 279 0501
Hours/Haora puare Mon-Fri | 8:45am - 4:30pm
If you're on placement you can use the Distance Library Service and find out more about this service here: Students on Placement
You can request:
In order to make sure the Library sends items to the correct address:
These are non-library resources but have been mentioned by past students as being useful.
Ackland's Anatomy (only available to Dunedin campus users) and LWW Health Library both offer quiz questions and remdiation as a part of their content. Students will need to create a self-registration personal account which will allow them to use the quiz.
We are pleased to announce the latest Toolkit curated by the Elsevier team. This Toolkit focuses on Rural and Remote Health.
Within this ClinicalKey for Nursing toolkit you will find links to some of the latest journal articles, books and drug information relevant to Rural and Remote Health in Australia and New Zealand
The importance of rural and remote health in the Australian and New Zealand region stems from the ethical obligation to provide equitable healthcare services to all populations, regardless of their geographic location. Addressing these concerns requires policy initiatives, innovative healthcare delivery models, increased investment in healthcare infrastructure, and a comprehensive approach to Indigenous health. By focusing on rural and remote health, the ANZ region can strive towards achieving better health outcomes for all its residents.
ClinicalKey - Rural and Remote Health Toolkit
It's best to download these apps for the first time whilst you are on campus and connected to the university network. Then you'll need to make sure you connect at least once every 3 months in order to keep the app active and for the updates. Please ensure that you are accessing the resources from the correct Library webpage e.g. a Dunedin student should go through the Dunedin databases page.
AccessMedicine: John Murtagh’s General Practice Collection, or Murtagh Collection for short, provides an indispensable source of information for medical professionals and students alike. For more than 20 years, John Murtagh’s General Practice has been regarded throughout Australasia as the authoritative reference for practicing and aspiring GPs. The seventh edition of John Murtagh’s General Practice includes updates to sexual health and cervical cancer screening, mental health diagnosis and treatment, and chronic disorders which forms the backbone of this digital collection.
Developed over 20 years, the success of this collection stems from the fact that the content is written from the point of view of an experienced general practitioner, underscored by John Murtagh’s diagnostic strategy model. The easy-to-read texts in this collection are coupled with numerous illustrations and photographs and are invaluable, trusted references.