Beginning Site Exploration
and Preliminary Searching Exercises

Beginning Site Exploration

• In your Netscape browser, hold down the CTRL key and type L. In the Open Location box type the Allina library home page address:

www.allina.com/library/index.htm

Click on Internet Resources. Scroll down to view the Internet Site Subject Guides. Click on a category of your choice. Click open a link to another site. Click on your Back button and explore other links or choose another subject.

• Specialty society pages. Link to an organization of your choice by clicking on one of the addresses below, or hold down the CTRL key, type L, and type in the address.

American Academy of Neurology
        www.aan.org
American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
        www.aapmr.org
American College of Cardiology
        www.acc.org
American College of Chest Physicians
        www.chestnet.org
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
        www.acog.org
American Urological Association
        auanet.org

Once you are at the site, explore the features of your choice. You may want to look for and/or answer the following questions:

Does the site require registration?
Are there private/members-only sections?
Is it easy to navigate?
Does it allow for communication? (i.e., is there a link to e-mail the organization?
Does it contain information of use to me in my practice?

 

• Government sites

• a. Find information for a patient traveling to the Caribbean. Connect to the Centers for Disease Control web site. Click on the link below or hold down the CTRL key, type L, and type the address.

Click on Travelers’ Health
Click on the Caribbean

• Find information on thalidomide at the Food and Drug Administration’s web site.
  Click on the link below or hold down the CTRL key, type L, and type the address.

Click on Human Drugs
Click on Drug Info
Click on Thalidomide

• Find information on the new high blood pressure guidelines at the National Institutes of Health.

www.nih.gov

Click on National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute
Click on News Alerts
Click on a document to open

• News

• Connect to the home page of the StarTribune. Click on the link below or hold down the CTRL key, type L, and type the address.

www.startribune.com

Explore the features of your choice.

• Connect to ABC News. Click on the link below or hold down the CTRL key, type L, and type the address.

www.abcnews.com

or to CNN News

www.cnn.com

Click on Health

• Journals

Connect to the British Medical Journal web site. Click on the link below or hold down the CTRL key, type L, and type the address.

Connect to the Lancet web site. Click on the link below or hold down the CTRL key, type L, and type the address.

www.thelancet.com

Connect to the New England Journal of Medicine web site. Click on the link below or hold down the CTRL key, type L, and type the address.

www.nejm.org

In one or more of these sites, open a current issue and browse the articles.

Preliminary Searching

• Find information for a patient newly diagnosed with Graves’ disease. Try the Healthfinder web site. Click on the link below or hold down the CTRL key, type L, and type the address.

Click on search
Click on G
Using the pulldown box, select Graves’ disease
Open some links

• Find a patient handout on Captopril. Try the Healthtouch web site. Click on the link below or hold down the CTRL key, type L, and type the address.

Click on Drugs.
Type the term captopril

• Find patient information on prostate cancer. Try the Oncolink web site. Click on the link below or hold down the CTRL key, type L, and type the address.

Click on Disease Oriented Menus.
Click on Adult.
Click on Genitourinary (Male) Cancer.
Click on Prostate.
Browse through listings.
Click on patient information.

• Find support group/chat group for parents of a child with Tourette’s Syndrome. Try the Family Village web site. Click on the link below or hold down the CTRL key, type L, and type the address.

Click on Library
Click on Specific Diagnosis
Click on S/T
Scan the alpha list for Tourette’s
Click open some sites

• Look for a cardiologist in Butte, Montana. Go to the American Medical Association web site. Click on the link below or hold down the CTRL key, type L, and type the address.

Click on Doctor Finder
Click on Search by name or medical specialty.
Click on ACCEPT.
Click on Medical Specialty.
Fill in form.

• Find a meeting at the Doctor’s Guide to the Internet web site. Click on the link below or hold down the CTRL key, type L, and type the address.

www.pslgroup.com/docguide.htm

Search for your specialty area.
Search for a conference in Hawaii in February

• MEDLARS searching

Go to the National Library of Medicine

Click on Search Medline free.
Click on Internet Grateful Med
Click back
Click on PubMed

Return to the Allina Library Home Page

Click on Knowledge Quest
Click access now (you will need a login and password)

Try one of the following searches on several different versions of Medline.

A. Review articles on Tourette syndrome
B. Strength training for older patients
C. Articles written by Michael E. DeBakey
D. Oregon and physician-assisted suicide
E. Valproate and pregnancy
F. Batista technique for heart reduction surgery--left partial ventriculectomy