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Medical Education Resources
Center Watch RX Clinical Trials
***
Site enables search of thousands of current new drug clinical trials.
Special features include separate patient and professional sections. One
can also view past newsletters, professional opportunities and other site
references.
MedWeb
Education Resources - Emory University ****
Very good listing of online medical education sites that is very well
maintained. While your search will begin with a simple alphabetical look-up,
the deeper you go the better it gets. Very extensive listing with good
use of hyper-links.
New England Journal of Medicine
***
The on-line version of the weekly journal. Well organized site of use
to medical professionals. Of special interest is the First Issue - January,
1812, as well as the ability to search past issues.
Derm-infonet ***
Up-to-date information on the treatment and management of disorders
of the skin, hair, and nails. This site allows you to visit ACNE Net and
AAD, both of which contain more information (and photos) than you will
probably ever need. Very well organized - a worthwhile site.
MGMA Online ****
Consulting company whose web site allows access to library resources,
publications, communications, and surveys. This is a WELL organized site
with over 100 web links in 13 different topics-- useful to practice managers
and administrators.
WebDoctor ***
Designed to guide the practicing physician toward online medical information,
the WebDoctor is divided by specialty and disease. However, it's not all
business at this site. The good doctor keeps an current index of links
to leisure activities such as comics and sports. Doctors can also visit
the chat room or leave messages on the news bulletin board.
CyberRounds *
Interactive grand rounds moderated by distinguished academics; exclusively
for physicians, medical students, and other medical professionals. This
appears to be a great site, but some of the best categories are for members
only. Any medical professional is able to join.
Laparoscopy ****+
Site having to do with laparoscopic surgery; includes Pictures, Movies,
Radio, Case Studies, and Live Conferences. Lots to see and do here - with
the photos and movies definately not for the faint-of-heart. A must see
for anyone involved or interested in this procedure. Excellent graphics!
Marshall University School of Medicine
**
A community-based school in Huntington, WV, whose focus is on primary
care and improving health care for rural populations; site includes the
Interactive Patient. Mainly a site for those associated with Marshall;
physicians may want to visit the Interactive Patient for a challenge.
Medical Economics ***
Magazine that focuses on the nonclinical aspects of managing your professional
and personal lives. Just the basics here - meant for anyone interested
in this magazine, or information about it.
Modern Healthcare ***
Provides an opportunity to access news today, the current issue, archives,
and a link to Ulticare. Useful to just about anyone in the healthcare
industry. This site offers a no frames version.
OncoLink ***
The first multimedia oncology information resource on the Internet,
provided by the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center; includes Journals,
What's New, and Cancer News. A plethora of cancer-related information
and links - a great resource for anyone! A bonus is the Virtual Museum
of artwork, Confronting Cancer Through Art.
Virtual Hospital Home Page
Continuously updated digital health sciences library stored on computer;
providing patient care support and distance learning for physicians
AAMC Student
and Applicant Information ***
This site has information about AMCAS, the nonprofit, centralized application
processing service for first-year applicants to medical schools. Pre-med
applications cost a lot, but a pre-med can get his/her application here,
on this site. A very helpful site for pre-med students.
Interactive Medical Student
Lounge (1997) ***
This site is specifically designed for medical and pre-med students.
A student can link to an enormous amount of resources covering everything
from applying to medical schools to finding a residency and current research
to basic science refresher courses. This is a good site for the medical
or pre-med student.
Medical Education
Page ****
Medical students will find an invaluable set of links at this site,
including news groups and discussion lists, magazines, medical schools,
libraries, and much, much more. Some features include links to mnemonic
devices for medical students, and ratings for schools. This is a great
site.
CollegeNET
Page for Medical Schools ****
This site has an alphabetical list of medical schools in the United
States, from Albany to Yale, including contact information and tuition.
This site is great for any student who wants to find more about his/her
potential medical school.
Pre-Med Schools ***
This site has a list of medical schools in the U.S. and Canada, complete
with application info for each. Links provide more information on contacting
alumni an national premed organizations. A very good site for a potential
medial student.
Harvard Medical Web ***
This site has links to stacks upon stacks of Web pages in an ever-widening
spiral, including ones for Harvard's medical, dental, and public health
schools; the Countway Library; online publications, and continuing education
programs. A unique feature of Harvard's hubsite is Web Jewels, its searchable
directory of choice Internet resources.
Johns Hopkins School of
Medicine **
In addition to admissions info for Johns Hopkins medical school students,
the JHMI InfoNet has a searchable database of all Johns Hopkins affiliated
Web pages, including research, position papers, and medical news for health
professionals. Resources for patients include links to information on
making appointments or getting referrals, directions to JHMI, and the
Medical Reporter newsletter, featuring articles on general-interest topics.
Good for possible medical students.
CollegeNET for
Osteopathic Medicine ****
This site has an alphabetical list of osteopathic medical schools in
the United States, from Chicago to Texas, including contact information
and tuition. Great for students that want to pursue osteopathic medicine.
Schools of Pharmacy
***
This site lists addresses and phone numbers for pharmacy schools nationwide,
from Alabama to Wyoming. If you're looking for links, though, you're out
of luck. Good for the future pharmacist.
Duke Community and Family
Medicine **
This page has features such as Administration Intranet, biometry, diet
and fitness center, family medicine, medical informatics, occupational
and environmental medicine, physician assistant education, Duke University
primary care, and literature. The site also includes a library and a directory.
This site is good for a parent wanting to know more about his/her child's
illness, or to a medical student seeking some good medical literature.
PEDINFO Home Page
This site is helpful to medical professionals, medical students, parents,
and researchers because it is one of the most comprehensive pediatric
sites on the Web. Links on this site are divided into Institutions: Subspecialties
and Areas of Study; Conditions and Diseases; Education; Publications;
Software; and Parenting. Also available is information about subscribing
to the PedInfo mailing list, which covers computers in pediatrics.
Pediatric Surgery ***
With case studies, a job board, instructions for subscribing to several
mailing lists, and links to other relevant sites, this Website is a handy
resource for any pediatric health-care professional. Professionals can
check the calendar of meetings and abstract submission deadlines, fill
out a survey for inclusion in the American Pediatric Surgical Association's
electronic address book, and earn one hour of continuing medical education
credit at the University of Alabama at Birmingham for completing the post-test
following the spinal defects exhibit called Lumps, Bumps, and Holes.
OBGYN.NET ***
A physician reviewed page, this site includes features such as news,
events, education, clinical reference, forums, directories, product vendors
and career opportunities, special features, hot finds on the net, Roberta's
Ramblings, Rotflol, and much, much more. This site has a ton of graphics
and is worth visiting. This site is great for doctors, nurses, practitioners,
students and researchers that are locating and publishing information
globally
Medical and Scientific Information Online
This site is primarily for professionals only. It has illustrated hypertext
articles that cover findings for each trimester of a pregnancy, as well
as abnormal fetal anatomy. This page also includes a magazine, a system
of a fetus, articles, and a diagnoses. The material is somewhat limited,
but it can be very informative for health professionals.
Rheumatology at the University of
Birmingham
There's a wealth of information here for both people who have a personal
interest in rheumatology and those who are professionals in the field.
The University of Birmingham has produced a primer for non-academics to
consult, which provides basic definitions of slipped disks, sciatica,
and various forms of arthritis. Scholars can explore job listings and
read current research articles.
ADOL
Use this site to help you navigate through pertinent sites on the Web.
With sections on mental health, health-risk factors, conflict and violence,
counselor resources, and teens only, this directory is meant for kids,
parents, and professionals who deal with adolescents, form doctors and
researchers to teachers and counselors. All sections have hot links with
commentary, and the mental-health section is especially useful for linking
to information on specific conditions, such as ADD and autism. The teens-only
section focuses more on recreational sites.
Team Health ***
This site includes information on emergency medicine, radiology services,
inpatient care, occupational health, primary care, anesthesiology services,
press releases, officer profiles, current statistics, opportunities, team
health affiliates, Medpartners, and links. A great site for anyone.
Reuters Health Information Services
***
This page includes features such as: news for professionals, news for
consumers, clinical challenge, dermatology files, site reviews, internist's
casebook, Internet health watch, and a journal of reproducible results.
A good site for anyone.
HSR Health Care Information
Resources ***
This is a comprehensive list of links to federal and state health resources.
It provides information to the patient as well as the medical professional.
Drug InfoNet
Search drug information by brand name, manufacturer, or generic name
or theraputic class. Also includes disease information and links to other
healthcare resources.
RxList - The Internet Drug Index
Simply plug in the name of any drug (brandname or generic) and you'll
be rewarded with the symptoms it is designed to treat, side effects, adverse
reactions, and information on related drugs. This is a great place to
go if you ever need information on what pills to take.
Simple
Facts Sheets: protease inhibitors
A thorough, PLWA-friendly article on protease inhibitors. An overview
links to other reports on resistance, clinical trials, AZT, and other
nucleoside analogs. The page also offers separate simple fact sheets for
the Big Three: although there are more than 20 protease inhibitors, Invirase,
Crixivan, and Norvir are the most well-known. These individual fact sheets
offer trial summaries, describe side effects, warn of drug interactions,
and links to information about patient assistance programs.
sci.med.pharmacy
Archive: Prozac
At this site, there are a lot of threads from another great website
that can answer all your questions about the side-effects of Prozac. This
is not a very informative site and it has no great features. It is just
a lot of links and some information.
Project Inform AZT Fact
Sheet
This extensive article discusses how the drug works, current research,
how to get and use the drug, and the effect on children. This, again,
is a very simple site; however, it is very informative.
National Cancer Institute
***
The very latest in clinical cancer information available in two versions,
one for patients and the other for professionals. The subjects cover the
entire spectrum from AIDS-related lymphoma and adrenocortical carcinoma
to vaginal cancer and Wilms' tumor.
Cancer Treatment Centers
of America **
This organization combines traditional therapies like surgery, radiation,
and chemotherapy with medicine's newest treatments. Here, they introduce
you to their treatment teams, capabilities and methods, and its three
U.S. locations. The What's New page updates the latest in procedure and
CTCA events. A very informative site to visit, whether you are a cancer
patient or a medical professional.
Sarcoma Central
This is a web page that includes general information about sarcoma,
medical literature about it, treatment of it, articles on it, past histories/experiences,
and miscellaneous information on sarcoma. This is a very informative site
designed for patients as well as medical professionals. There is also
a place here where sarcoma patients can share their own experiences.
National Lymphedema Network
*
This site has information about support groups, about the network, and
links. That is all this site really has, but the information that it does
provide gives patients, families, and medical professionals some good
information. A good site to visit.
Columbia University Gastroenterology
Web
Columbia's Division of Gastroenterology studies an array of abdominal
dysfunctions. Its hub includes online data on diseases from ampylobacteriosis
and celiac disease to traveler's diarrhea and ulcerative colitis. Also
profiles the division's faculty members, if you're searching for an expert
digestive tract.
Digestive System Diseases
This very informative site includes information on Liver Diseases, Billary
Tract diseases, Digestive system informalities, esophageal diseases, and
gastrointestinal diseases. A very helpful site to visit, whether you are
a patient or a doctor or other medical specialist.
I.B.Details Home
Page
Twisted Tales and Loose Ends on Inflammatory Bowel Disease is what its
editors called this newsletter for Crohn's victims. Through the quarterly
journal has ceased publication, its two-and-a-half-year collection of
recovery stories, clinical trials, IBD advice columns, and physician questions
and answers archived here is still useful to IBD sufferers.
CDC - Diabetes
Home Page
The Centers for Disease Control has subtitled this page Reducing the
Burden of Diabetes and all the resources here are designed to help the
16 million Americans with the disease. Get basic information about diabetes,
read recent CDC research ,contact the diabetes-control program in your
home state, and even ask the CDC directly about any aspect of dealing
with diabetes.
Spine and
Nerve Center at MGH/Harvard ***
This site has an evaluation center, a place for peripheral nerve surgeons,
spine surgeons, information about spine tumors, a guest book and neurosurgery
home page clients. This site is primarily for surgeons and medical students,
but it can be of use to anyone interested in the field of neurosurgery.
The Aneurysm Information Project
These are articles written by doctors. The lectures and papers are dense
with research on the effects of aneurysms on mice, turkeys, and non-human
primates. A very informative and accurate site.
Bacterial and Fungal
Diseases (Non MeSH)
The Swedish Karolinska Institute gathers together all the newest research
in the bug field in a very convenient format. Both medical and regular
types will be pleased with this collection, which includes a New York
Times article on tick-transmitted illnesses as well as an Australian hospital's
tract on the Essentials of Legionellosis. This is the best place to keep
up on literature in your field or on your condition, be it cat scratch
fever, botulism, or TB.
FDA/CFSAN Introduction
to Foodborne Pathogenins
There is a lot of information on a ton of different bacterium, for example,
listeria monocytogenes, or plesiomonas shigelloides. This hypertext guide
describes each bacteria, where it can be found, and what disaster it has
wrought on humankind. Links to FDA health warnings are also provided.
You must know the name of the bug to find it, but this site also includes
food warnings familiar to all, such as shellfish and mushroom toxins or
grayanotoxin (honey intoxication).
Parasite Links
Here you can visit parasitic nematodes at their own home pages or post
a question on anything about parasites in your daily life. This site is
good for anyone, whether they are a medical professional or a concerned
citizen.
The E. Coli Index
This site is truly comprehensive. This site has a good collection of
links to microbiological research sites, companies, publishers, and journals.
It provides matter for those whose interests range beyond the little bugger.
It is great for patients as well as medical professionals.
Lyme Disease Information
Resource ***
This site includes features such as: general information, clinical information,
research and grants, organizations and support, health and medicine, online
journals, Internet resources, a search point, and file archives. This
is a very organized site. Worth visiting. This is helpful for anyone interested
in Lyme Disease.
Vaccines and
Disease news
A mixed bag of journal abstracts collected from the past several years
covering topics such as the ongoing ban on the British beef for fear of
mad cow disease and the recent discovery, gleaned form a 900-year-old
Peruvian mummy, that Columbus may not have brought TB to the Indians after
all. Each brief contains full journal citations. A must-stop for those
interested in TB and AIDS vaccine developments.
Ebola Page
Everything Ebola, form medical news groups, and mailing lists to an
assortment of associations dealing with this poster child of plagues.
Some really hot debates happen here, form discussions on Ebola in plants
to the chances for a vaccine. It is a very informative site, with a ton
of news articles. Great for all who are interested, health professionals
and regular people.
Cardiovascular Institute of the South
A virtual library of physician-written columns discussing research,
prevention, and treatment of every imaginable heartache, including stroke,
high-blood pressure, peripheral vascular disease, and irregular heartbeats.
If practice makes perfect, these doctors must be real pros. The Institute
is located in Huoma, LA, which has one of the highest incidence rates
of cardiovascular disease in the industrialized world.
Medsite Publishing ****
Medsite provides a medical information educationally oriented site with
their own on-line medicalsearch engine which has access to nine million
citations in MEDLINE with links to participating journals. Special features
include a bookstore with medical CD-ROMS, electronic titles and medical
books, ability to personalize a book review for others who visit this
site, and a free E-Mail service to professionals in the medical, pharmaceutical
and health care fields.
Business Insurance Magazine
****
Business Insurance does a good job of not only including breaking news
items but also provides more than just a site to promote their magazine.
Special features include a special demographic section related to risk,
a listing of upcoming industry meetings and events, an online discussion
forum, as well as web links. A weekly cartoon helps make the site
very enjoyable.
International
Journal of Health Care Quality ***
Online version of the journal with enough information to make a visit
worthwhile. Also, able to request additional information related to quality
assurance issues. Special features include an ability to arrange
to provide a conference on a topic of your choice, a site mailing list
and Internet conferences made available by the journal.
American College of Physicians Online
****
This internal medicine site is not for lack of subjects and information
but requires a little patience maneuvering through the resources.
Special features include news groups for ACP members, position papers,
an evidence based medicine newsletter and a guide to the latest in medical
computing.
Institute for Clinical Evaluative
Sciences Ontario ***
Site presents information on Ontario provinces initiative to provide
research information about effectiveness, quality, and efficiency in health
care. Special features include caremaps, patient information sheets,
a practice atlas and links to other relative sites.
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of Medicine
UC Irvine, College of Medicine
UCSD School of Medicine
University of Colorado Health Sciences
Center
The John A.
Burns School of Medicine
Stritch School of Medicine
Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's
Medical Center
University of Illinois
College of Medicine
Indiana University Ruth Lilly Medical
Library
University of Iowa College of
Medicine
KU Medical Center: Pulse
LSUMC Home Page
LSU Medical Center/Shreveport
Tulane Medical Center
The Uniformed Services University of the
Heal...
University
of Maryland School of Medicine
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Tufts University School of Medicine
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University of Michigan Medical
School
Wayne State University School
of Medicine
Mayo Medical School
UMD School of Medicine
The University of Mississippi Medical Center
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of Medicine
University of Missouri
Columbia School of Medicine
UMKC School of Medicine
Creighton School of Medicine
University of Nebraska Medical Center
University of Medicine New Jersey
Robert Wood Johnson Medical
School
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Columbia School of Medicine
CUMC WWW Home Page
New York Medical College
NYU Medical Center
SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse
School of Medicine
Univ of Rochester Environmental
Medicine Dept.
Wake Forest School Of Medicine
East Carolina University Division of
Health S...
UNC-CH School of Medicine Homepage
Case Western Reserve University
- School of Medicine
Medical College Of Ohio Home Page
Northeastern Ohio Universities College
of Medicine
The Ohio State University College
of Medicine
University of
Cincinnati College of Medicine
Wright State University School of
Medicine
Oregon Health Sciences University
Thomas Jefferson University Homepage
Allegheny University of the
Health Sciences
Penn State's Milton S. Hershey Medical
Center
University of Pennsylvania Health
System
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Brown University School
of Medicine
The Medical University of South Carolina
University of South Carolina School Of
Medicine
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Branch at Gal...
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Campus
UVa Health Sciences Center Home
Page
University of Washington
Health Sciences Center
Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center
Faculty of Medicine's Home Page, Hradec
Kralove
The John Curtis School of Medical Research
AIC: Home
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
McGill University School of Medicine
McMaster University Faculty of Health
Sciences
Queen's University Faculty
of Health Sciences
U of
T Faculty of Medicine Welcome
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and M...
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- Faculty of Medicine
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