Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Atlas of Avian Diseases


This is a Veterinary resource from the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine:

Atlas of Avian Diseases

It contains pictures and brief summaries of different avian diseases and their symptoms, and you can search by disease name, lesion location or exam finding.

As an atlas, it focuses more on providing a clear picture of the condition in relation to the bird's basic anatomy than giving in-depth information.

That said, disease profiles are given, which include:
  • Etiology
  • Host Range
  • Epidemiology
  • Clinical Signs
  • Post-Mortem Lesions
  • Differential Diagnosis
  • Diagnosis
  • Prevention and Control
  • Selected References
Along with a brief description of the condition and a list of differentials, this information is quite informative.

Clicking on the "normals" tab at the top of each image takes you to a picture of a chicken's innards. It's just one picture, but everything is laid out in a way that is very clear and straightforward.

The images are very chicken centric. I guess they found a lot of sick chickens...

Thursday, October 22, 2009

MD Consult

MD Consult is one of the resources we have available both on our databases page and as a link from a lot of our Subject Resources page.

You may have been introduced to MD Consult as a source of drug information. Perhaps you were shown MD Consult as a place to find Current Awareness information regarding conditions and treatments. Maybe you know it as a resource for Patient Information, a place where you can find fact sheets to hand out to your patients regarding their conditions...

Did you know JCU also uses it to supply a number of eBooks?

Head over to MD Consult and click on the link to books in the blue bar at the top of the page. It will take you to a list of the books that are available to you, as JCU staff and students, anywhere in the world.

These books cover a variety of topics, including (but not restricted to) Anaesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Hematology, Neurology, Pathology, Psychiatry... The list goes on.

While it is an incredibly useful resources to have while you are on prac or if you are studying via distance education, it is also worth keeping in mind even if you are on campus. A number of these books are works we only have electronically, via MD Consult, and this is one of the easier platforms for reading a book online (it's much easier to use than NetLibrary, if you've ever used that system for an eBook).

If you are studying any of the medical disciplines, I thoroughly recommend you take a closer look at MD Consult. It's one of our most useful resources, and I'm sure you'll get a lot out of it.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

More on Credo

We've managed to secure a great deal with Credo for next year. We've managed to swing a few more titles into the list of reference works you can search through with the database.

And, by "few" I mean several hundred.

There is a large number of topics covered by the new resources (mind you, we already have a large number of topics covered by Credo), but the new books that might be of particular interest to this faculty include:

* Macmillan Dictionary of Toxicology
* The Royal Society of Medicine: Medicines
* The Royal Society of Medicine Health Encyclopedia
* Webster's New World™ Medical Dictionary
* International Dictionary of Homeopathy
* Natural Medicine Instructions for Patients
* Baillière's Midwives' Dictionary
* Pharmaceutical Medicine Dictionary
* The Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease
* Mosby's Dictionary of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
* Black's Medical Dictionary, 41st Edition
* Mosby's Emergency Dictionary
* Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
* The American Heritage Medical Dictionary
* Mosby's Handbook of Herbs & Natural Supplements
* Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary
* Churchill Livingstone's Dictionary of Nursing
* Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary, Revised Edition
* Collins Dictionary of Medicine
* New Harvard Guide to Women's Health, The
* Black's Veterinary Dictionary
* Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
* Dictionary of Medical Terms
* Jablonski's Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations
* Mosby's Dental Dictionary
* Dictionary of Optometry and Visual Science
* The Human Body Book: An Illustrated Guide to Its Structure, Function and Disorders
* Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, & Health Professions

Now, don't you think those look useful? Make sure you get plenty of use out of them - the more you use our resources, the more likely they are to survive budget cuts.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

HSVMA Alternatives Database

The Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association has developed a database to provide alternatives for educational practices that require harming or killing an animal.

For example, they have links to retailers for models, manikins and simulcra that can be used instead of live animals for practising tasks such as venipuncture and catheterisation.

This is of interest both to educators in the field, and to practitioners who might have students and trainees working in their practices.

You can find the HSVMA Alternatives Database here:

http://alted.hsvma.org/

Monday, July 27, 2009

National Health Survey 2007-08

The Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest National Health Survey 2007-2008 in May this year. The survey provides information on long term conditions, risk factors and health related actions. It also provides new information on self management of conditions such as consultations with health professionals about healthy lifestyle, checkups with GPs, whether cholesterol, blood pressure and bone density tests have been done, and occupational exercise and sitting time. Information is also available on physical measurements of persons aged 5 years and over, including height, weight, waist and hip circumference. This is particularly useful for comparison with physical measurements, which were last collected in the 1995 National Nutrition Survey.

Copyright 2009 ABS

Thursday, July 23, 2009

AVMA Media Library

The American Veterinary Medical Association has put together a collection of multimedia resources, including pod-casts, radio interviews and videos.

Most of it seems designed for use in "patient education", giving pet owners a better idea of what they should be doing with their pets.

It's more PR than anything else, but still worth taking a look:

AVMA Media Library

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

MedEdPORTAL

MedEdPORTAL "is a free peer-reviewed publication service and repository for medical and oral health teaching materials, assessment tools, and faculty development resources".

This resource is clearly going to be of most interest to faculty, or those students who are thinking of following an academic path. However, the material held on this site would definitely be useful in the classroom, as it includes a lot of teaching materials.

It is, essentially, a repository for all sorts of tutorials and learning modules from various sources around the world, which have been peer-reviewed prior to being made available on this site.

There are "Featured Publications" and "Featured Collections", but you can also look for publications on specific topics or browse through all of the topics available - most of which have been divided into Medical or Dental topics.

Looks like a keeper.