Library orientation guide

This section contains information for all users of the ANZCA Library. For subject- or user-specific resources, please expand the relevant section below.

College websites

• Library home page
• WorldCat Discovery – search all ANZCA Library articles, journals, books, e-books and more...
  • Available with a Māori language interface
• Library help – access and search help for the many ANZCA Library resources
• About the library

Library guides

Subject-specific guides that bring all resources together (books, e-books, journals, websites).

• Overview
• Anaesthesia essentials
• Pain medicine basics
• Artificial intelligence in health
• Doctor's health and wellbeing
• Drug information
• Environmental sustainability
• Gender equity
• Indigenous health
• Safety & advocacy hub​:
  • Critical incident debriefing (CID) toolkit
  • COVID-19 resources
  • Doctors' health and wellbeing
  • Drug information
  • Safety & quality
• App-related guides:
  • Apps guide
  • BrowZine – access the entire library e-journal collection via your PC or smart device
  • ClinicalKey – access the library’s largest e-book/journal collection, also includes Procedures Consult
• Multimedia guide
• Podcast guide

E-resource access

• Access anywhere – enable access to ANZCA full-text anywhere on the web
  • Full-text via browser extensions
    • LibKey Nomad
    • EndNote Click
  • Google scholar
  • PubMed
• E-books – extensive medical title list plus key anaesthesia and pain-medicine related titles (online)
• Journals – extensive medical title list plus key anaesthesia and pain-medicine related titles (print/online)
  • BrowZine – access the entire library e-journal collection via your PC or smart device
• Databases – specialised health and education databases and websites
  • AusDI – drug database
  • ClinicalKey - includes access to Procedures Consult and AMH Online
  • Ovid Medline/PubMed
  • Trip Pro

Services

Note: These services are not available to applicants.

• Borrowing - borrow from our extensive print collection (courier delivery free-of-cost)
• Request an article – can’t find an article via BrowZine or WorldCat Discovery? Then request it via the library (free-of-cost)
• Request a literature search – specialised topic-based searches undertaken by library staff (free-of-cost)

Feedback/queries

• Feedback/queries via the ANZCA Library feedback form

Library guides

Subject- and user-specific guides that bring all resources together (books, e-books, journals, websites).

• Training & examinations hub:
  • Anaesthesia training resources
  • PEx recommended reading list
  • Exam preparation
  • Self-assessment tools
  • Roles in practice, including Scholar role
• Anaesthesia essentials
• Audio-Digest – online lectures you can listen to via your PC or smart device
  • Pre-test
  • Summary and readings
  • Post-test
  • Evaluation

Study space

Located in Melbourne or Wellington? Study space available – a quiet space for up to five (5) people with free wi-fi access.*

Library guides

Subject- and user-specific guides that bring all resources together (books, e-books, journals, websites).

• Training & examinations hub:
  • Rural generalist anaesthesia (RGA)
  • Exam preparation
  • Self-assessment tools
  • Roles in practice, including Scholar role
• Anaesthesia essentials
• Rural - anaesthesia specialist guide
• Audio-Digest – online lectures you can listen to via your PC or smart device
  • Pre-test
  • Summary and readings
  • Post-test
  • Evaluation

Study space

Located in Melbourne or Wellington? Study space available – a quiet space for up to five (5) people with free wi-fi access.*

Library guides

Subject- and user-specific guides that bring all resources together (books, e-books, journals, websites).

• Training & examinations hub:
  • Pain medicine training
    • FPM Essential Topic Areas (ETAs)
  • Conceptual basis of pain medicine
  • Procedures in pain medicine
  • Exam preparation
  • Self-assessment tools
  • Roles in practice, including Scholar role
• Pain medicine hub:
  • Pain medicine basics
  • Specialist guides – acute pain, cancer pain, chronic pain, medicinal cannabis, paediatric pain, regional anaesthesia, neuromodulation and many more
• Audio-Digest – online lectures you can listen to via your PC or smart device
  • Pre-test
  • Summary and readings
  • Post-test
  • Evaluation

Study space

Located in Melbourne or Wellington? Study space available – a quiet space for up to five (5) people with free wi-fi access.*

Library guides

Subject- and user-specific guides that bring all resources together (books, e-books, journals, websites).

• Training & examinations hub:
  • Diving & hyperbaric medicine
  • Exam preparation
  • Self-assessment tools
  • Roles in practice, including ;Scholar role
• Audio-Digest – online lectures you can listen to via your PC or smart device
  • Pre-test
  • Summary and readings
  • Post-test
  • Evaluation

Library guides

Subject- and user-specific guides that bring all resources together (books, e-books, journals, websites).

• Supervisors of Training support hub
• ​ANZCA educators program
• Training & examinations hub:
  • PEx recommended reading list
  • Exam preparation
  • Self-assessment tools
  • Roles in practice, including Communicator role and Scholar role
  • Medical education – access resources specifically aimed at medical educators and SoTs.

Library guides

Subject- and user-specific guides that bring all resources together (books, e-books, journals, websites).

• Professional development hub:
  • ANZCA & FPM CPD Program resources
    • Practice evaluation
    • Knowledge & skills
    • Emergency response
  • CPD for clinical support roles
    • Support across work roles
    • Research
    • Medical education
    • Clinical leadership & medical management
    • Other expertise
  • Keeping current
    • Read by QxMD
    • CME resources
    • Courses
  • Self-assessment tools
• Anaesthesia essentials
• Pain medicine hub:
  • Pain medicine basics
• Special interest group (SIG) hub
• Research support hub:
  • Research Support Toolkit (RSTK)
  • Literature searching
  • Databases
  • Referencing
  • ​AIRR (research repository)

Library guides

Subject- and user-specific guides that bring all resources together (books, e-books, journals, websites).

• Training & examinations hub:
  • SIMG resources
  • Exam preparation
  • Self-assessment tools
  • Roles in practice, including Scholar role
• Anaesthesia essentials
• Audio-Digest – online lectures you can listen to via your PC or smart device
  • Pre-test
  • Summary and readings
  • Post-test
  • Evaluation

Study space

Located in Melbourne or Wellington? Study space available – a quiet space for up to five (5) people with free wi-fi access.*

- COMING SOON!

Applicants have full access to all online content subscribed to by the ANZCA library.

• E-books – extensive medical title list plus key anaesthesia and pain-medicine related titles (online)
• Journals – extensive medical title list plus key anaesthesia and pain-medicine related titles (online)
  • BrowZine – access the entire library e-journal collection via your PC or smart device
• Databases – specialised health and education databases and websites
• Library guides - online content only

What's excluded:

• Print loans
• ILL and document delivery
• Literature searches