Some useful Online resources (put them in your Favorites)
Great site to supplement your textbooks for that extra information you’re seeking for your write-ups. Some articles may have too much information so use carefully.
http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/sections.jsp
Merck manual and Medscape serves similar purposes as emedicine.com. Medscape also has a student section and provides useful links.
http://app.moh.gov.sg/abo/abo0202010301.asp
Local Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG). In my words a “Must see Must know”. You’ll be given the hard copies as they’re printed.
Detailed guidelines on some specific diseases:
Ginasthma – Asthma
Gold COPD – COPD
American Heart Association (AHA) – many cardiac guidelines.
British Thoracic Society – Tuberculosis control and prevention
American Thoracic Society – Community-acquired pneumonia
American College of Rheumatology – rheumatoid arthritis
If the CPGs don’t have the guidelines you want, you may want to search here.
http://www.mcds.gov.sg/web/serv_dss_main.asp?szMod=serv
MCDS Directory of Social Services. Useful for COFM and your future practice.
Detailed drug information.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
PUBMED. This is a search engine for research papers and journal entries from all over the world. It takes a while to get used to papers but once you learn how to look for the right papers you will have entered a new phase of your medical career.
There are also other search engines, eg MEDLINE.
http://mednet.nus.edu.sg/resources/e-library/e-library.htm
I’m really starting to love the stuff here. Explore! E-journals allow you to find papers from many many papers. E-textbooks redirects you to sites that enable you to read reference texts online (and extract pictures and diagrams for presentations!). One such fantastic site is MDconsult. Unfortunately some registration process is required the first time you try to log-in, and I’ve forgotten how to do it. If you figure out, let me know. If you use it, remember to log off after use – there are limited licenses. Next time I can’t log in I’ll grumble… “M3 student…”
http://www.geocities.com/miantiao18/ and http://www.geraldtan.com/school/
Practicalities. I need not say more.
Index Overview of M3 Basics General Hospital Layout General pointers in clinical work
Main Objectives of the various postings Books Case Write-ups Presentations
On-line resources General Tips for Exams Ethics