Education Resources

Online literature request form - Calgary area physicians can request copies of journal articles that are not available online.  These will be faxed directly to the physician's office.  (You must be a physician practicing in the Calgary zone to access this service)

Health Information Network Calgary (formerly Library Services)
http://hinc.ucalgary.ca

The Health Information Network is a new partnership between the University of Calgary and the Calgary Health Region. The Network provides access to thousands of journals and books, expert help in finding and retrieving information, community outreach programs, training opportunities and document delivery services. The Health Sciences Library at the University of Calgary is the hub for all information services for the Calgary Health Region. There are currently three Knowledge Centres at the hospital sites. 

Off-site access to the research databases is available for Calgary Health Region staff. For further information about this and the services and resources available to you, please contact us at the following Knowledge Centre locations or visit our Web site at: http://hinc.ucalgary.ca.

• The hospital Knowledge Centres (ACH, PLC and RGH) are open from 08h00 to 16h15 Mondays to Fridays, with 24-hour staff access. 

• The Women’s Health Knowledge Centre, a consumer health collection (located at FMC), is open Mondays to Thursdays, from 08h00 to 20h00; and Fridays, from 08h00 to 16h00.

• The Health Sciences Library is located on the 1st Floor of Health Sciences Centre, at the north end of Foothills Medical Centre. The service desk is open Mondays to Fridays, from 08h15 to 17h00, in person or by phone at 403.220.6857 or by e-mail: medlibr@ucalgary.ca.

• Weekdays after 17h00, Weekends, Holidays: Library personnel are available to take messages for service requests by phone: 403.220.6855.  These requests will be addressed on the next business day.

Locations:
Alberta Children's Hospital Knowledge Centre
2888 Shaganappi Trail N.W.
Calgary, AB T3B 6A8

Phone: 403.955.7077
Fax: 403.955.2799
Email: ach.library@calgaryhealthregion.ca or achinfo@ucalgary.ca

Peter Lougheed Knowledge Centre
3500 - 26 Avenue N.E.
Calgary, AB T1Y 6J4

Phone: 403.943.4737
Fax: 403.219.3559
Email: plc.library@calgaryhealthregion.ca or plcinfo@ucalgary.ca

Rockyview General Hospital Knowledge Centre
7077 - 14 Street S.W.
Calgary, AB T2V 1P9

Phone: 403.943.3488
Fax: 403.943.3486
Email: rgh.library@calgaryhealthregion.ca or rghinfo@ucalgary.ca

Women's Health Resource Centre
1441 - 29 Street N.W.
Calgary, AB T2N 4J8

Phone: 403.944.2267
Email: whkc.library@calgaryhealthregion.ca or whkcinfo@ucalgary.ca

University of Calgary - Health Sciences Library (FMC site)
3330 Hospital Drive N.W.
Calgary, AB T2N 4N1

Phone: 403.220.6857
Fax: 403.282.7992
Email: medlibr@ucalgary.ca

Martindale Health Sciences Guide ~2006

A "Multimedia Specialized Information Resource" currently containing over 15,700 teaching files, over 23,200 Medical Cases, 287 Courses/Textbooks, 1,000's of Graphic displays and over 3,500 (MPEG's) Movies. 

It has been awarded a POINT Communications Top 5% of all Web sites designation 

MedWeb@Emory University

A classified and sub-classified listing of medical resources 

Networked Multimedia Information Services is a project of a consortium of universities (e.g. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Dartmouth College and Medical School, and Carnegie Mellon University). This link provides a link to health services resources available at a variety of sites. 

PubMed Retrieval System 

PubMed is a service of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM). PubMed has been developed in conjunction with publishers of biomedical literature as a search tool for accessing literature citations and linking to their full-text versions at publishers' Web sites. PubMed searches the 8 million citations in MEDLINE supplemented by pre-Medline citations which do not yet have MeSH index terms and by citations supplied electronically by publishers. 

• Computer Basics (DOS, Windows, jargon...) 
• Electronic Literature Searching 
• Internet / World Wide Web 
• Email 

• Introductory Health Informatics Workshop for the Calgary Regional Health Authority 

CME Offices in Calgary

Alberta Health Services - Physician Education Services 

Contact: Fred Murray, Coordinator (403)943-2946 or 
Email: pes@albertahealthservices.ca

The University of Calgary CME Office

Contact: Dr. Jocelyn Lockyer, Associate Dean (403)220-7240

Visit the U of C Office of Continuing Medical Education web site 

 

Canadian Association of Continuing Health Education - (CACHE) is a forum for knowledge exchange and collaboration among healthcare stakeholders for professional and systems development to improve patient outcomes.  Their website provides access to useful tools and resources for development of CHE programs. 

Continuing Education in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto 

Provides a link to the Research & Development Resource Base. This is a unique bibliographic database of some 5000 references. It is an excellent starting point for CME providers confronting problems in the organization and delivery of CME, or in CME research and development. 

Office of Professional Development, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University (MDcme.ca)

Well designed webpage providing access to accredited online courses (Mainpro M1 and C), peer reviewed resources for clinical practice, library resources/links, technology resource links (e.g. Personal Digital Assistant and computer resources) and useful links for rural physicians.