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Family Practice

This guide directs you to a handful of key resources that will help you get started in finding information in Family Practice. With a highly selective list of books, journals, databases, websites, etc., we hope to get you headed in the right direction. You can also further explore by trying a Family Practice-related MetaFind search.


Books

Family medicine
This 3-part text covers principles, practice and applications of family medicine authored by a number of authorities in the field.

Family practice handbook
This handbook provides extensive coverage of general medicine, broken down into 23 chapters, compiled by University of Iowa professors and externally reviewed and published by Mosby.


Databases

MD Consult
MD Consult Core Collection includes the full text of 40 medical reference texts, 78 journals, more than 1000 practice guidelines, 3500 patient education handouts, and prescribing information for over 30,000 medications. Additional features include: Today in Medicine, What Patients Are Reading, In This Week's Journals, Clinical Topic Tours, Drug Updates, CME and Student Union (with practice case studies).

PubMed
MEDLINE is the United States National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database providing citations to biomedical literature in the following fields: medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, allied health, and the pre-clinical sciences.

UpToDate online
Specifically designed to answer the clinical questions that arise in daily practice by summarizing published evidence and specific recommendations made for patient care. Only available on-campus.


EJournals

Annals of family medicine

Archives of family medicine

Family practice management

Middle east journal of family medicine


Websites

American Academy of Family Physicians
This website offers numerous links (under the About Us heading) to related resources for family physicians.

FamilyPractice.com
This site for family physicians is organized into 4 sections: interactive learning (with free CME), practice management, news and patient information, with a number of links to quality resources.



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