Lectures

A range of resources to help health professionals keep up with rapidly growing medical knowledge and technological change.

Podcasts

Podcasting is a digital recording of a presentation, radio broadcast or other recording that is made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player or a computer. The great advantage of podcasts is being able to listen presentations, radio shows and more whenever you want - whether it's while out walking, driving to and from work or working out.

To listen to Podcast feeds on your computer, you need to download Podcasting software. There are many free or commercial podcasting applications available for download such as iTunes, Juice, Doppler, SmartFeed.

Examples of health-related podcasts include:

Tools for Practice from the Alberta College of Family Physicians

Medical 

Medical Mneumonics is a free, non-profit, online searchable database of medical mnemonics to help remember important lists.

Video presentations

Eating disorders: Improving care – University of California TV – UCTV, 2015

Instant anatomy

The Instant Anatomy website includes a range of podcasts, video podcasts, health apps and brain games to help any health professionals or students refresh their knowledge of anatomy. Website developed by Dr Robert Whitaker, a paediatric urological surgeon who now teaches anatomy to students and doctors.

Critical appraisal

Answering clinical questions with literature searches

Do you have a clinical question and wondering how to find a reliable, up to date article that answers your question?

For a brief search, one can start with PubMed. PubMed is a service of the US National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals. In most cases, an abstract is available and some even link to the full article.

To assess an article properly, one then needs to apply the principles of clinical epidemiology and evidence-based medicine. To remind yourself how to evaluate the literature, review the resources located on the EPIQ website. EPIQ stands for Effective Practice, Informatics & Quality Improvement and is a NZ group that has developed some great resources used throughout the world.

Journal reviews

Sign up for regular emails of the most relevant and useful Evidence Updates tailored to your areas of interest. This unique service is provided by BMJ Group and McMaster University's Health Information Research Unit. "All citations (from over 170 premier clinical journals) are pre-rated for quality by research staff, then rated for clinical relevance and interest by at least 3 members of a worldwide panel of practicing physicians." 

Popular journals

Receive emails of the table of contents of your favourite journals – BMJ, Lancet, Family Practice etc.

British Medical Journal

Bio Med Central  Publisher of 200 peer-reviewed open access journals

BMC Family Practice

BMC Nursing

BMC Public Health

Clinical Diabetes (open access)

Free Medical Journals  over 1214 journals available

Journal American Board of Family Medicine (free access)

Nutrition Journal  (open access)

Journal of Primary Healthcare NZ

NZ Medical Journal  (open access to articles over 6 months)

Preventing Chronic Disease journal from CDC focusing on public health research, practice and policy 

 Professional requirements

Nursing Council of NZ Continuing Competence Framework

RNZCGP College Educational Programmes including AVE and MOPS

Cornerstone - "is a combined quality improvement and quality assurance process which uses a set of measurements collated in the publication Aiming for Excellence."