RCGP
Useful resources
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Clinical images
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DVLA
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DWP (Department of Works and Pensions)
- Statistics
- Clinical
- Resources
- BMJ Trish Greenhalgh, articles, “How to Read a Paper” (serialised 10 parts)
www.bmj.com
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http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/collections/read.shtml
- all articles useful especially, papers that report diagnostic and screening
tests. Explains basic statistics, sensitivity, specificity, positive
predictive value
Assessing the methodological quality of papers (for Written paper)
Usual techniques for critically reading papers.
- GP Online (comic)
www.gponline.com
- Louise Newson’s Passnotes, a “Hot Topics” short article series
Registrar news articles, advice on MRCGP modules incl video, tricky
situations, Q & A section.
- Evidence sites
- Clinical dilemmas. Best training is to experience them.
- MDU (need to be member and register)
www.the-mdu.com - case
histories (both give actual cases, outcomes, recommendations backed by
points in law, MDU charter or GMC guidance)
- Pulse (comic need to register)
www.pulse-i.co.uk
- “heart sink scenarios”
- GP Online (comic need to register)
www.gponline.com
- GMC www.gmc-org.uk
Important Tools for Internet use
- Adobe acrobat reader.
Reads pdfs, a type of document. Common format, easy to use single file for
text and graphics.
Download free from, also available from many sources, CDs in magazines/junk
maill.
Easy to setup.
www.adobe.com
- Google
www.google.co.uk
www.google.com
Useful and powerful search engine which easily finds medical sites.
- GMC website
http://www.gmc-uk.org/
- Winzip
www.winzip.com
Compression utility. Often needed to “unzip” or uncompress files downloaded
from internet.