Guidelines and Resources
Evidence Based Medicine and Downloadable Guidelines
Athens: For all your lovely searches but with no log-in try Pub Med
Bandoleir: Evidence based health care reviews. Very good.
Cochrane Collaboration: More evidence based reviews
NICE: Check the latest guidelines.. essential to any PowerPoint presentation
PubMed: Free and easy searching
SIGN: Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network
The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination: Systematic evidence based reviews
Societies And Their Guidelines
AAN: American Academy of Neurology guidelines
AACE: American association of Clinical Endocrinologists with guidelines here
BAD: British association of dermatologists with guidelines here
BOA: British Association of Orthopaedics with guidelines here
BSR: British Society of Rheumatology, clinical guidelines here
BTS: British Thoracic Society, clinical guidelines here
EAU: European Association of Urology guidelines here
ESC European Society of Cardiology: nice source for cardiovascular guidelines list here
Fitness to Drive: British Driving and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) downloadable PDF ‘at a glance’ guide on fitness to drive
RCOG Royal College of obstetrics and gynaecology guidelines here
The Renal Association. source for chronic kidney disease and eGFR guidelines here
Organistations
MMC: They have such pretty videos but there’s some important stuff here
The Foundation Programme: Useful resource especially for writing those personal statements
BMA The British medical association
GMC: Useful free publications for review
BNF: online prescribing (login using an Athens password)
CDC Atlanta: Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
WHO: Again useful source of references
NIH: The National Institute of Health (US)
Some Royal Colleges
Obstetrics and Gynaecology with guidelines here
Some of the medical journals we’re currently reading….