Resource Links
General Medical Information sites
- The American Medical Association. Here is the home page site map: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2704.html
- Scroll down through many topics. Most relevant to medical students may be the last 2 - Public Health and Science. Individual pages include topics like adolescent health: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/1947.html
- The Mayo Clinic - It's, well, it's the Mayo Clinic - an extensive and user-friendly page: http://www.mayoclinic.com/index.cfm
- Pain is part of medicine and a common trigger of many visits to doctors. Partners Against Pain "your around-the-clock resource for pain management": http://www.partnersagainstpain.com/
- This is an interesting overview of medicine page, but notice toward the top of the page that it is not just "InteliHealth", it is "Aetna's InteliHealth", and Aetna is a major insurance company. The page is a collaboration between Aetna , Harvard and UPenn: http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH?t=331
- From Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston (a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School ), this is their "Health Topics from A-Z" page: http://healthgate.partners.org/browsing/browsecontent.asp
- Virtual Hospital ( Univ. of Iowa ) A diverse and long-used site. Among other things has heart and lung sounds on-line: http://www.vh.org/
- Also from the University of Iowa Hardin Library of the Health Science - the Hardin MD Medical Information and Pictures site. Extensive links, images and general information about medicine. Page can be slow to search: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/index.html
- National Organization for Rare Disorders - information and links to over 1,000 disorders: http://www.rarediseases.org/
- Home page for GPS/CIDP (Guillain-Barr� Syndrome and Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy - esp. good patient information as well as research updates for physicians): http://www.gbsfi.com/
- Lupus Foundation of America, Illinois Chapter: http://www.lupusil.org/index.html
- Home page for The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine: http://www.acoem.org
- American Association of Medical Colleges: http://www.aamc.org And that site has a number of helpful pages for education, not the least of which is: http://www.aamc.org/mededportal It is a little hard to described MedEdPortal, because it is new and evolving, but its purpose is to be an online publication for teaching resources that will include everything from virtual patients to lab manuals.
- MedicineNet.Com - on-line, health care media publishing company. User friendly, extensive. Some nice user guides and a good dictionary. Some entries are trying to sell you things: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/hp.asp
- Med Help International - a not-for-profit group: http://www.medhelp.org/home.htm
- WebMD Health. Extensive and user friendly. Nice section on "quizzes and calculators" that contains everything from a pregnancy calculator to diet estimates to allergy triggers. Try the "Dessert Wizard" - you tell it what you ate for dessert and it tells you what you have to do for how long to burn it off (would you believe walk an hour to burn off 2 oz of a banana split?): http://webcenter.health.webmd.netscape.com/webmd_today/home/default.htm
- Formerly associated with the AAMC, "HEAL" is now on its own - Health Education Assets Library - "is a digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching materials of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners." Extensive, international, well-organized, good search engine, a very useful page: http://www.healcentral.org/
- The Next Generation: An Introduction to Medicine and Clinical Research, from the New England Journal of Medicine. From NEJM, this "is an online publication that seeks to broaden perspectives in medicine for everyone, from premedical and medical students to general readers, by connecting them to current physicians and clinical scientists" (PODCAST):
http://www.nextgenmd.org/
- Medline Plus - You have probably already seen this, but it is an extensive and current site for everything from dictionaries to images: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
- From the Province of British Columbia , a web page from its Ministry of Health. Includes pdf files on health education for patients, for example, on hypertension: http://www.gov.bc.ca/bvprd/bc/channel.do?action=ministry&channelID=-8387&navId=NAV_ID_province
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