Table 2 List of common online information resources used by junior doctors in South Australia. The numbers and percentage of junior doctors who had accessed each resource in the month prior

Wheeless’ Textbook of Orthopaedics [20]

7

4.9 %

Australian Injectable Drugs Handbook [21]

9

6.3 %

TOXINZ [22]

14

9.9 %

Subscription Publishing Databases

16

11.3 %

Best Practice [23]

25

17.6 %

Royal Children’s Hospital Guidelines [24]

33

23.2 %

PubMed or Google Scholar [25, 26]

49

34.5 %

eMedicine.com (Medscape) [27]

65

45.8 %

Wikipedia [12]

79

55.6 %

Mims Online [28]

85

59.9 %

Random Google search [13]

108

76.1 %

Local hospital clinical guidelines

109

76.8 %

Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme [29]

113

79.6 %

UpToDate [6]

125

88.0 %

Australian Medicines Handbook [10]

134

94.4 %

Therapeutic Guidelines (electronic) [5]

135

95.1 %