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Paula Osachoff
The College Library has updated our clinical practice guidelines web page (www.cpsbc.ca/registrants/library/clinical-practice-guidelines) to curate current sources of clinical practice guidelines and ensure they are... Read More
Awareness and assessment of social determinants of health are important to ensure high-quality patient care, but it can be daunting to find information sources to ground one’s practice in evidence. The College Library... Read More
Staying current to provide the highest level of patient care is an ongoing challenge. The College Library has many options to help, including curated reading lists. Reading lists are designed to support physicians’... Read More
College registrants planning to catch up on reading or working on projects can look to the College Library for support. The Library participates in several sharing networks with both larger and smaller institutions... Read More
Internet access and online resources have come a long way to providing additional support for rural physicians. While using online databases, point-of-care tools, textbooks, and journals has never been easier, rural... Read More
Keeping up-to-date with your reading and research is a challenge at the best of times. The College Library provides both self-serve and full-service ways to access the articles you want. Self-serve options start with... Read More
The College Library offers the Clinical Handbook of Psychotropic Drugs (CHPD) in two online volumes—one pertaining to adults, and another for children and adolescents. The CHPD contains authoritative drug information... Read More
“When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras.” This well-worn medical aphorism attributed to Dr Theodore E. Woodward addresses the clinician’s most essential skill—differential diagnosis. Drawing on all of a... Read More
Medline is the largest medical database in the world with more than 20 million article citations, using a controlled vocabulary of subject headings—MeSH terms—which are organized in a hierarchical structure of broader... Read More
It is nearly impossible to keep up with the volume of medical literature published in your areas of interest and expertise without some help. Read by QxMD is part of the College Library’s growing collection of apps that... Read More