About DocLink
DocLink is a free, hand-curated index of the clinical resources an Australian GP, GP registrar or medical student actually reaches for. It holds 3,622 links across 27 specialties and 448 conditions.
Where it came from
Stuart Arbuckle started DocLink in 2005 as a medical student at the University of Dundee. There was plenty of good medical information online even then. The hard parts were finding the relevant pages among hundreds of thousands, and getting back to them quickly from a ward computer or a GP surgery. DocLink was his answer: one page of categorised links, built in Dreamweaver with collapsible panels and a row of search-engine icons under each condition. It ran until 2013, and its Specialties column was always marked (in progress).
Stuart is now a GP and GP supervisor in Perth, Western Australia. In 2026 he rebuilt DocLink for Australian general practice and finished the Specialties column. The 2013 original is preserved here, broken links and all.
What goes in
- Free resources only. Nothing that needs a paid subscription. Free sign-up is fine, and those links are marked Login*.
- Australian first. Australian guidelines, peak bodies and government sources come first, then the best freely available international ones (DermNet, StatPearls, Radiopaedia, LITFL, the MSD Manual and Cochrane).
- Clinician and patient material together. Links written for patients are marked Patient, so you can find something to hand over.
- Checked weekly. Every link is tested automatically, and dead or moved pages are reviewed.
A link here isn't an endorsement, and nothing on DocLink replaces clinical judgement or local guidance. See the terms.
How to use it
- Press / and start typing. The search covers every condition, category and link.
- On a specialty page, open a condition to see its links. You can filter the page, or copy a link straight to a condition.
- Below each condition is the modern version of the old icon row: one-click searches of Healthdirect, RCH Clinical Practice Guidelines, Australian Prescriber, Therapeutic Goods Administration, PubMed, Cochrane Library, Google Scholar, Google, Wikipedia, YouTube. Some specialties add their own, such as DermNet for dermatology or Radiopaedia for imaging.
- Create a free account to ★ star links and conditions and keep your own shortlist.
Help improve it
If you know a better resource, or find a link that's broken, suggest it or use the ! next to any link. Suggestions are reviewed before they go live.