MEDICAL RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET

Taken from Dr. Thibault's Medical Resources on the Internet, US Navy, 6^th Edition, October 2000.

Clipart...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2

Continuing Medical Education............................................................................................................................................................ 2

Dental....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3

Dermatology............................................................................................................................................................................................ 3

Ear, Nose, and Throat............................................................................................................................................................................ 4

Emergency Medicine............................................................................................................................................................................. 4

Ethics........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 5

Family Practice...................................................................................................................................................................................... 5

Internal Medicine................................................................................................................................................................................... 6

AIDS:.................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6

Allergy:................................................................................................................................................................................................. 7

Cardiology:.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 7

Endocrinology:.................................................................................................................................................................................... 7

Gastroenterology:............................................................................................................................................................................... 8

Hematology/Oncology...................................................................................................................................................................... 9

Infectious Diseases.......................................................................................................................................................................... 10

Pulmonary:......................................................................................................................................................................................... 11

Rheumatology:.................................................................................................................................................................................. 12

Journals On-Line................................................................................................................................................................................ 12

Laboratory............................................................................................................................................................................................ 14

Medical History................................................................................................................................................................................... 14

Medical Humor..................................................................................................................................................................................... 15

Medical Reference Databases........................................................................................................................................................... 15

Clinical Practice Guidelines:............................................................................................................................................................ 15

Evidence Based Medicine:.............................................................................................................................................................. 16

Medical Database Searching:......................................................................................................................................................... 16

Medical Links:................................................................................................................................................................................... 17

On-Line Books:................................................................................................................................................................................. 18

Well-rounded General Medical Resource Sites........................................................................................................................... 19

Defence Sites:...................................................................................................................................................................................... 20

Nursing Sites....................................................................................................................................................................................... 22

Obstetrics and Gynaecology.............................................................................................................................................................. 22

Ophthalmology..................................................................................................................................................................................... 23

Parenting.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 23

Patient Education................................................................................................................................................................................. 24

Pediatrics.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 26

Pharmacology Databases................................................................................................................................................................... 28

Preventive Medicine............................................................................................................................................................................ 29

Psychiatry/Psychology....................................................................................................................................................................... 30

Radiology............................................................................................................................................................................................... 30

Search Engines.................................................................................................................................................................................... 31

Social Services/Support Groups....................................................................................................................................................... 31

Sports Medicine/Orthopedics........................................................................................................................................................... 32

Surgery/Anesthesiology.................................................................................................................................................................... 33

Telemedicine........................................................................................................................................................................................ 33

Urology.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 34

Clipart

About.com’s Clipart Index for Medical and Disabilities

A collection of websites dealing with medical topics—anatomy, body parts, disabilities, medical, science, etc. Very nice collection, easy to navigate, reviews.

Address: http://webclipart.about.com/internet/webclipart/msubmenu30.htm

The CDC Clipart Gallery

A collection of mainly black and white clipart with emphasis on diabetes, but a number of other medical topics.

Address: http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/gallery.htm

The Clipart Connection

Links to a wide variety of clipart, web page clipart, a few medical. Most are animated for use with a webpage.

Address: http://www.clipartconnection.com/index.html

GraphyxKingdom’s Medical Clipart

A site with a new but growing collection of color cartoon-type medical clipart, mostly icons at this point.

Address: http://www.graphxkingdom.com/shtml/medical1.shtml

Graphyx by GeoNurse—nursing and medical graphics

A nice site with nursing borders and backgrounds for web pages as well as nursing and medical clipart.

Address: http://www.geocities.com/geonurse/geographix2.html

Image Paradise

A large set of links to websites with free clipart. A large variety of clipart, most non-medical.

Address: http://desktoppublishing.com/cliplist.html

Jerry Ming’s Medical Clipart

Very nice black and white medical clipart

Address: http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/2497/

Studivereniging GEWIS--Clipart Library Index

Variety of clipart with a lot of medical, all black & white. Also has a lot of comics, such as dozens of Calvin and Hobbes.

Address: http://www.gewis.win.tue.nl/general/clipart/index.html

Continuing Medical Education

Cyberounds CME Online

Online CME on recent topics in the news.

Address: http://www.cyberounds.com/

Doctors Guide to Medical Conferences, Congresses & Meetings

A list of medical conferences being given worldwide, with addresses to write to for further information, sorted by date/location or subject (your choice). The AAFP annual meeting is listed, as well as most CME conferences I know about.

Address: http://www.docguide.com/crc.nsf/web-bySpec

Federal Practitioner CME

Online free CME from our Federal Practitioner journal.

Address: http://www.fedprac.com/

MedConnect

A Continuing Medical Education resource with Q&A quizzes, cases of the month, pearls, interactive case studies, etc.

Address: http://www.medconnect.com/

Medscape Multispecialty Conference Schedules

Click on a specialty, date range or location and get a list of conferences.

Address: http://www.medscape.com/Home/Topics/multispecialty/directories/dir-MULT.ConfSchedules.html

Medscape--Exam Room

Has picture tours, journal club, medical self-assessment quizzes, other educational tools.

Address: http://www.medscape.com/Home/Topics/PrimaryCare/directories/dir-PC.ExamRoom.cfm

On-line Continuing Medical Education

A webpage from ProMedica Health Systems, has links to sites that offer CME on-line.

Address: http://www.promedicare.org/online_cme.htm

Dental

Dentists Guide to the Internet—from U Seek U Find

Websites/links dealing with dentistry

Address: http://www.useekufind.com/medent.htm

Hardin MetaDirectory: Dental Links

Many links to links for Dental resources, a virtual “catalogue of catalogues.”

Address: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/dent.html

Smiledoc

An award-winning website with a fascinating dental history page, many patient education materials including "Dentistry and Scuba Diving", "Temporomandibular Joint Syndrome", "Halitosis", "Latex Allergy", and others, and resources for dentists.

Address: http://www.smiledoc.com/smiledoc/

Tooth or Consequences

Dental Humor (you have to be a dentist to appreciate it!)--From Dentists for Dentists Online.

Address: http://www.d4d.com/toothorconsequence.htm

Dermatology

DermIS: Dermatology Online Atlas (DOIA):

An excellent Dermatology database from the Dermatology Internet Service It has >1600 derm pictures on-line, and is growing. The database is partly latin (ex. vitiligo) and partly German (ex. varizella) but you will see that that does not detract from its usefullness--the German is recognizable in most cases.

Example: Four pictures of Acanthosis nigricans

Address: http://www.dermis.net/index_e.htm

Hardin MetaDirectory: Dermatology Links

Many links to links for Derm resources, a virtual “catalogue of catalogues.”

Address: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/derm.html

University of Kansas Dermatology Image Database

A new and growing collection of Derm pictures sorted by diagnosis.

Example: Pictures of gangrene, keratoacanthoma, SLE, etc.

Address: http://www.kumc.edu/instruction/medicine/cont-ed/infotech/der-main.htm

University of Wales College of Medicine Dermatology Links

A large list of websites/links dealing with Dermatology.

Address: http://www.uwcm.ac.uk/uwcm/dm/dermlink.html

Ear, Nose, and Throat

Cleft Palate and Other Oral/Facial Disorder Links

Has links to the listserves concerning oral/facial disorders, support groups, physician information, journals, associations and patient education.

Address: http://www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/comdis/kuster2/sldisorders/cleftpalate.html

Dr. Quinn’s Online Textbook of Otolaryngology

A collection of grand-rounds handouts from the University of Texas has now become and on-line textbook. Written for ENT residents, this collection is very well done and easy to understand. Many chapters were written in 1999. I particularly liked one entitled “ Non-neoplastic Diseases of the Thyroid Gland,” from Feb 99.

Address: http://www.utmb.edu/oto/Grnds.dir/Grnds.html

Hardin MetaDirectory: Otolaryngology Links

Many links to links for ENT resources, a virtual “catalogue of catalogues.”

Address: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/oto.html

HNOnline Gallery

From the Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery Department of Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany. A nice gallery of ENT pictures.

Address: http://www.med.uni-muenchen.de/~hno/hnonline/gallery/homepage.eng.html

Kuster’s Speech and Language Disorders

A nice collection of links dealing with speech and language disorders, grouped as fluency disorders, voice disorders, child language disorders, speech sound disorders, prevention of communication disorders, etc.

Address: http://www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/comdis/kuster2/splang.html

MedMark: Otorhinolaryngologic Disease Links

A huge list of websites/links dealing with ENT topics

Address: http://medmark.org/orl/

On-Line Airway Atlas

A promising collection of pictures of vocal cord, largyngeal and other airway lesions and devices. Pictures are a bit small, but clear.

Address: http://users.rcn.com/jsherry/airwaymap.html

Virtual Otolaryngology Clinic, Japan: ENT Atlas

Another nice collection of ENT pictures, particularly ear/TM pathology. (Each picture comes with a cute little penguin!)

Address: http://www.apionet.or.jp/~yoishizu/E_version/LecE_index.html

Emergency Medicine

Common Simple Emergencies

Treatment guidelines for simple emergencies--foreign bodies in various orifices, colored urine, URIs, dental emergencies, etc.

Address: http://www.clark.net/pub/electra/cse0.html

Disaster Preparedness: Radiation Exposure

Information and links to information on what to do in the event of radiation exposure

Address: http://radefx.bcm.tmc.edu/ionizing/ionizing.htm

The Emergency Medicine and Primary Care Homepage

Provides some wonderful educational resources—a radiology library, CT scan library, Medical Photography library, Pediatric Emergency Medicine clinical cases (multi-media), Megacode simulator, “EKG of the month” quiz, and PALS Megacode simulator.

Address: http://www.embbs.com/

Hardin MetaDirectory: Emergency Medicine Links

Many links to links for emergency medicine resources, a virtual “catalogue of catalogues.”

Address: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/emerg.html

Internet Public Library: Poison Control Centers

Lists phone numbers for each state’s poison control centers. (The Internet Public Library at www.ipl.org is a great site in and of itself.)

Address: http://www.ipl.org/youth/poisonsafe/pcenters.html

MedicCom's Library of Disaster Links: the Homepage of Disaster

Links to all the important websites to know in a disaster, including the National Disaster Communications Response Team, the American Red Cross, FEMA, etc.

Address: http://mediccom.org/public/links.html

Ethics

Centre for Applied Ethics: BioEthics and Healthcare Ethics Resources on the WWW

A site from the University of British Columbia, Canada lists online publications with ethics information,.on-line forums for discussing ethics, topical WWW resource on ethics, organizations, courses, etc.

Address: http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/resources/biomed/

The Christian Medical and Dental Society

A Christian site for doctors and dentists. Includes a large list of position papers on various ethical issues, domestic and foreign mission opportunities, Christian medical conferences, practice opportunities, and information sheets on health and ethical issues from a Christian physician’s perspective, such as Stress Management, Alternative Medicine and Nutrition.

Address: http://www.cmds.org/

Codes of Ethics Online: Health Care

Has a large list of links to ethics resources online, organized by topic and by medical association or organization authoring the codes.

Address: http://csep.iit.edu/codes/health.html

The Institute for Jewish Medical Ethics

Provides the Jewish viewpoint on medical ethics with a series of well-written articles on a wide variety of topics—abortion, death &dying, artificial insemination, etc.

Address: http://www.ijme.org/

Family Practice

American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)

This website has a section for members called American Family Physician On-line, and a section free for anyone called Family Medicine On-line. The journal American Family Physician is now on-line, in the free section.

Address: http://www.aafp.org

American Board of Family Practice (ABFP)

Has information on Residency Training Requirements, Certificates of Added Qualifications, general contents of the Family Practice Board Exam.

Address: http://www.abfp.org

Child Preventive Care Timetable

The latest immunization timetable for children

Address: http://augusta.webpoint.com/health/timekid.htm

Family Practice.com

Reference guides and decision flow charts in various areas of family practice, decision support tools, educational modules, patient simulators, in-training exams, and original articles. American Board of Family Practice and Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.

Address: http://www.familypractice.com/index.htm

Hardin MetaDirectory: Family Medicine Links

Many links to links for family medicine resources, a virtual “catalogue of catalogues.”

Address: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/fam.html

Hardin MetaDirectory: Geriatrics Links

Many links to links for Geriatrics resources, a virtual “catalogue of catalogues.”

Address: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/ger.html

MatWeb: Links to Internet Websites with Medical Images

X-rays, CT scans, Histo, Dermatology, lots of neat pictures--links to many of the websites in the world that have medical images.

Address: http://matweb.hcuge.ch/matweb/Medical_search/Medical_images.htm

MDChoice: The Ultimate Medical Information Finder.

Formerly called NetMedicine, this site now has both medical provider access and patient access. The medical provider access area has Medline, EKG of the Month, Radiology, Photo Rounds, etc.

Address: http://www.mdchoice.com

MDChoice Photo Rounds

Test your mettle with some nice clinical cases and color photos.

Address: http://www.mdchoice.com/Photo/photos.asp

University of Iowa FP Handbook

A GREAT reference for FP docs, very detailed--hard to believe it is free On-line!

Address:

http://vh.radiology.uiowa.edu/Providers/ClinRef/FPHandbook/FPContents.html

World Organisation of Family Doctors (WONCA)

Updates, a newsletter, and membership information regarding this international physician organization dedicated to improving the quality of life.

Address:http://www.wonca.org/wonca_home.htm

Internal Medicine

AIDS:

AIDS Research Information Center Homepage

Nicely organized site with all of the latest, up-to-date info.

Address: http://www.critpath.org/aric/

AIDS Treatment Information Service

Newspaper-style with the latest new on AIDS Treatments

Address: http://www.hivatis.org/atisinfo.html

CDC National Prevention Information Network (formerly National AIDS Clearinghouse)

AIDS publications, posters, database on-line, latest “straight from the horse’s mouth.”

Address: http://www.cdcnpin.org/

Allergy:

Allergy, Asthma and Immunology On-line

Nice site from the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. Has patient, physician and employer information as well as allergy topics “in the news.”

Address: http://allergy.mcg.edu/

American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology On-line

Has slide educational slideshows, pollen & spore counts, Health News, info on food allergies and an assortment of other topics

Address: http://www.aaaai.org/

MedScout’s Allergy Links

A large list of links to allergy-related websites.

Address: http://www.medscout.com/diseases/allergies/index.htm