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Doctor's Guide to the Internet - Another award winning medical site with the latest medical news, a searchable database of medical conference and CME listings, information for patients, and new medical web sites.

HospitalWeb (consumer) - Links to hospital and medical center sites.

JCAHO Directory of Accredited Organizations

MedicalStudent.com

MedicineNet - Medical Resource guide including information on diseases and treatments, medical dictionary, medications, clinical trials, medical news, etc.

Medscape -Includes daily headlines and articles on issues in clinical practice. Also contains FDA reports on drugs and technology, research news from government agencies, federal policies and clinical practice guidelines, and issues of CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Provides full-text articles from selected journals.

Other Medical Web Sites

HealthPathfinder - From the Health Law and Policy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center. HealthPathfinder contains hundreds of annotated links from the Health Law and Policy Institute's Web site to informative Web sites pertaining to health law, health policy, and general health.

Martindale's Health Science Guide - A Health Science Multimedia Education and Specialized Information Resource Guide.

Merck Manual of Geriatrics (geriatrics) - A complete online version.

Online Coding Resources - Contains links to coding resources of all types, including ICD-9, hospital inpatient DRGs, outpatient CPT codes, and relative value units.

The Virtual Autopsy - An interesting site designed for medical students. Each case contains the patient history, autopsy findings with pictures and lets the viewer try to solve the cause of death.

The Virtual Hospital - The Virtual Hospital is a multimedia medical database at the University of Iowa. It includes multimedia textbooks and teaching files, patient simulations (including recorded sounds, pictures, and film clips), consumer health brochures, and other professional and patient medical information. There are also three electronic journals in radiology.