Physicians Assistant & Medical Science Web Resources
The library as a subscription to MD Consult, the online medical database. It is an outstanding resource. Inquire with Mr. HB Kelly or Christopher Schlegel in the library for more information. There is also a Medical Topics File located in the file cabinet along the back wall of the library. Click here for Medical Topics File Complete Listing.
Faculty Suggested Sites
Organizations
Journals (more journal links below)
Financial Aid
PA Related Sites
Indexes to Medical Sites
- Health A to Z
- Accenthealth.com Information for healthy living.
- American Health Care Association
- Doctors Guide to the Net Medical news, updated daily.
- Hardin Meta-Directory of Internet Health Sources Most frequently cited and linked souces.
- HealthFinder Gateway consumer health information web site from the Department of Health and Human Services.
- Life Extension Foundation
- Medical Matrix: a Guide to Medical Resources on WWW
- MedWeb Excellent guides to all aspects of medicine, including physical therapy and sports medicine.
- Mr. Long-Term Care
Neurosciences on the Internet Neuroanatomy, biochemistry, medicine, and cognitive neurosciences.
Journals and Journal Indexes
- Annual Reviews of Biomedical Sciences Free through the end of 1998, you can do keyword, author or title searches through the archives and current issues of 17 annual reviews, and retrieve the full text articles. By subscription as of 1999.
- Biomedical Journal Title Search After you've searched Medline, you can look those abbreviated journal titles up here to find out what the full journal titles are.
- Combined Health Information Database NIH and CDC have combined their databases of bibliographic records.
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Citation Search Similar to Medline for alternative medical practices. Browseable and keyword searchable.
- Medical Computing Today Valuable resource for clinical computing, medical education, medical informatics, and telemedicine, this contains news updates, bibliographies, and backfiles of articles.
- Medical Journal Finder Links to home pages of medical journals, to free Medline, medical dictionaries, publishers, web medical indexes, and more.
- Medical World Search Indexes the full contents of major medical web sites, and allows you to search through all of them with a search engine that will automatically look for related terms. Also links you to free Medline at HealthGate and some other search engines so you can automatically run the same search. Registration is free.
- Medline from PubMed Free Medline searching, with links to the full text journals on PubMed. If you find an article that is exactly what you want you can click on SEE RELATED ARTICLES to get more just like it.
- Medscape Offers Medline searching free with registration, as well as annotated links and a database of full-text peer-reviewed articles.
- MDChoice.com Useful for doctors and patients alike, with free Medline (they promise the best search engine on the net for Medline), a patient education center, drug database, and interactive tutorials for doctors
- WebDoctor Online medical journals.
WebMedLit Text of current articles from 16 major medical journals, arranged by broad subject category (AIDS, Cardiovascular, Neurology, Women's Health, etc.). No archive, but an excellent current awareness source.
Medical Image Sites and Multimedia Instruction
- Global Spinal Cord Project Web edition of the neuroanatomy coursebook used at University of Wisconsin School of Medicine.
- Guided Tour of the Visible Human
- Human Anatomy and Physiology Case Study Project
- Images from the History of Medicine Collection of nearly 60,000 images from the National Library of Medicine.
- Krantz Tutorial on Basic Neural Processes
- Medical Images Index of web sites.
- Martindale Health Science Guide Includes more than 17,500 teaching files, over 26,500 cases, over 327 courses/textbooks, and thousands of graphic displays and animations.
- Virtual Hospital, University of Iowa
WebPath Archived images of pathological findings associated with human diseases.
Career Preparation
- Healthcare Employment Resources Excellent set of links prepared by a hospital administrator.
- MCAT Practice Questions and Answers
- Medical Student Resource Guide Provides Med students with guides to science tutorials and practice exams, info on how to find a residency programs, USMLE test information and reviews, physical exam summaries, case studies, online journals, medical websites, PubMed, and more.
- Medical Schools and MCAT Information from Princeton Review
- Medi-Match Matches health care professionals with health care employment opportunities
- Monster.Com: Health Care Job hunting and career information in health sciences
RehabWorld Job postings, information, and links for occupational therapy and physical therapy.
Drug Information Sites
- Medication Information Index Guide for laypersons for prescribed purposes, side-effects, drug interactions, storage information, etc., for any medications.
- US Pharmacopeia Drug Information section contains a searchable and browseable database of descriptions, precautions, and side effects of over 750 generic drugs; medication counseling behavior guidelines and Just Ask!, a set of consumer brochures on proper medicine use, accidental poisoning, and understanding medications.
Virtual Pharmacy Contains a reference desk, drug databases, interactive anatomy browsers, genetic maps, and more.
Health Policy, Law, and Economics Issues
- Agency for Health Care Policy and Research This division of Health and Human Services offers info on outcomes research, medical treatment effectiveness, health technology assessment, clinical practice guidelines, info on health care costs and use, insurance coverage. There are also patient education files on various conditions and treatments.
- Disabilities and Managed Care Page From the Dept. of Health and Human Services.
- Find Law: Health Law
- Health Economics Resource Page
- Health Law Resource Deals with topics like confidentiality of patient records, healthcare mergers, patient care ethics, physicians' financial relationships, health care provider transactions, legislation affecting health care businesses and current issues affecting the technology and changing economics of the health care system.
- Health Policy Information Includes an FAQ file, glossary, backgrounder on the healthcare system and entitlements, updates, needs assessment, and statistical data.
- Intergovernmental Health Policy Project How individual states are dealing with medical care and financing.
- Milbank Quarterly Journal of public health and health care policy.
- Multinational Comparisons of Health Care Summary data.
- Patient Care Issues and Bioethics Includes articles, congressional testimony, reports, and related links.
Healthcare and Hospital Administration
- Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Prime government source, particularly useful for giving access to the Clinical Practice Guidelines, the Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, the Medical Treatment Effectiveness Program, Outcomes Research, and the Health Technology Assessment program.
- American Accreditation Health Care Commission Sets standards of care for managed health care. In Iowa, compliance with these standards is mandatory.
- American Hospital Association
- AHA News
- American Hospital Directory Look up hospitals and find their general characteristics, services, financial information, utilization statistics
- America's Top HMOs From US News and World Report.
- Catholic Health Association of the United States Deals with public policy, long term care, and other issues, and provides daily news and related links.
- Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care
- Disabilities and Managed Care Page From the Dept. of Health and Human Services.
- HealthCare Administrator' and Recruiters' Guide to the Internet
- Health Care Financing Administration Resource for Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance initiative.
- Health Care News Server News for professionals in health care, managed care and policy making.
- Hospital-Acquired Infection Rates
- Hospitals and Health Networks One of the premier trade magazines, with article archive.
- Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
- Materials Management in Health Care Monthly trade publication.
- Methodist Health Care Home Page
Nutrition Information Sites
- Arbor Nutrition Guide a Yahoo! Internet Life 4 star site
- Arizona Health Science NUTRITION Page
- Diet Analysis Tell the program what you ate today and see how much of your RDAs you've consumed. More generally a site that allows you to assess the weaknesses of your dietary habits.
- Medicinal Food News
- Nutrition Analysis Tool Follow the step-by-step process to analyze your foods for specific nutritional content.
- Nutrition Electronic Journals/Newsletters
USDA Nutrient Base Program that will analyze the complete nutritional content of any food item.
Physiology, Biomechanics, Anatomy
- Biomechanics Home Page Outstanding set of links to ergonomics, motor control, computer simulations, gait and locomotion, muscle action, and more.
- Biomechanics Lab, Johns Hopkins Lab projects include gait analysis, virtual-reality computer-aided preoperative planning, bone defect modeling, the biomechanics of pitching, etc.
- Human Anatomy Online Over 100 illustrations of the human body, including animations.
- San Francisco Spine Center Contains articles, statistical data, outcome studies, and more.
Statistical Data
- Hospital-Acquired Infection Rates
- National Center for Health Statistics
Statistical Information in the Health Sciences Links to all important government data collection sources.
Other Useful Sites
- Acronyms for Health Information Sources Tells you what the acronyms stand for (including acronyms for medical journals) and links to relevant web sites when available.
- ALS Association Information on Lou Gehrig's disease.
- Alternative Medicine Internet Links Guide to chiropractic, acupuncture, homeopathy, osteopathy, holistic medicine, herbal medicine, and other alternative therapies.
- Brain Disorders Network Research into neurological, mental, and addictive disorders. Includes for many disorders info on its incidence, diagnosis, accepted treatment, pharmaceutical products, promising research, and ongoing clinical trials.
- Clinical Practice Guidelines Searchable guide.
- Family Caregiver Alliance Links to resources and information for the families caring for victims of Alzheimers, stroke and other debilitating long-term illnesses. Fact sheets on the conditions, reading lists, and guides to assistive equipment.
- GeroWeb From the Institute of Geriatrics at Wayne State University.
- HIV-AIDS Information Center From the American Medical Association, the latest research, news updates, clinical guidelines, patient education materials, prevention fact sheets and more.
- Macular Degeneration Partnership
- Mental Health Home Page
- MedicineNet General medical reference desk, including a medical dictionary, drug info, and basic info on diseases and treatments.
- Merck Manual Full text online companion and always up to date.
- Online Medical Dictionary Alphabetical arrangement and keyword searchable, with hypertext links within definitions.
- PedBASE Pediatric database which describes over 500 childhood illnesses, symptoms, treatments,
- Reuters Health News Current health news stories, backfiled stories, medical web sites, and a "case of the week" to practice your diagnostic skills on.
- Resources in Social Gerontology Documents, statistics, bibliographies, full texts of research on many aspects of aging: community impact of aging, the elderly and religion, ageism in the workplace, Medicare and the medicalization of old age, stereotyping of the elderly, and much more.
- STDs: the Complete Facts
- US Dept. of Health & Human Services
- Virtual Medical Center
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