This month we present the latest in our academics without titles series. We research, review and present the Australian Hospitals social media networks for 2012
Emergency Medicine and Critical Care FREE podcasts
December 1, 2010 By 4 Comments
Introducing Life in the Fast Lane’s new searchable and sortable online Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Podcast Database
Top Medical Search Resources 2009
February 7, 2010 By 4 Comments
Physicians, health professionals and the general public are increasingly turning to the internet as a source of medical information. Rapid and unimpeded access to validated, accurate, digestible and easily retrievable health information is an essential tool in the care-giving belt of the astute medical professional. We have previously looked at some of the most useful [...]
Australasian Health and Medical Blogs
December 9, 2009 By 32 Comments
In response to @NickdMillar I am trying to collate and maintain a list of Australian Health and Medical blogs, and their related twitter accounts. As with @DrCris from Scalpel’s Edge, it is often difficult to pick Aussies from their blog postings – so leave a comment on this post so that I can make the list as accurate as possible…
Information overload
July 8, 2009 By 12 Comments
A question asked at the 2009 ACEM Winter Symposium following our presentation on ‘The Web 2.0 Rollercoaster’ was: How can emergency physicians deal with information overload?
Web 2.0 for Emergency Physicians
July 7, 2009 By 3 Comments
Many Emergency Physicians are unfamiliar with the concept of Web 2.0, the diversity of Web 2.0 resources, and how to use these resources to enhance their clinical practice and professional development.
How and Why Junior Docs use Web 2.0
July 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment
@DrShock has highlighted a recent paper looking at how and why junior physicians use Web 2.0 tools and resources in an interesting blog post – it is well worth a read (find it here). The paper of concern is: Hughes, B., Joshi, I., Lemonde, H., & Wareham, J. (2009). Junior physician’s use of Web 2.0 [...]
Laika's MedLibLog: 10+1 PubMed Tips
July 1, 2009 By 1 Comment
Here at ‘Life In The Fast Lane’ we have preached the virtues of some of the alternatives to PubMed, but in many ways the old warhorse is still the gold standard. Thankfully, however, I didn’t waste my time, or yours for that matter, because @laikas has done the job definitively with her blog post titled 10 + 1 PubMed Tips for Residents (and their Instructors).
Medical Search for Physicians
June 16, 2009 By 2 Comments
Rapid and unimpeded access to validated, accurate, digestible and easily retrievable health information is an essential tool in the care-giving belt of the physician
MedConnect – Where Medicine Connects
February 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Elsevier Australia has long been associated with publishing textbooks and journals for the Australian and New Zealand markets. Until recently, the Australasian arm of the Elsevier publishing giant had been content with their role as ‘hard copy’ publishers of high quality health related literature, leaving the internet and software based platforms to their US counterparts.
