Useful Medical Links
Medical Search Engines:
Medexplorer:
Engine specially designed to search medical sites.
Medical Directories:
Doctor's Guide to
the Internet
Doctor's Guide was designed to help physicians cost-effectively
harness the resources of the Internet and the World Wide Web.
Hardin
Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources
From the University of Iowa, this directory calls itself
"the site that list the sites ... Hardin Meta Directory
pages have pointers to the most complete and frequently cited
lists in each subject.
Medical Matrix
Sites are reviewed by an editorial board of members of the
Internet Working Group of the American Medical Informatics
Association. Criteria include "utility for point of care
clinical application, quality, currency, and unrestricted
access."
MedWeb
Created by Emory University Health Sciences Library staff, this
is a subject guide to thousands of medically-related sites.
WebDoctor
WebDoctor provides a "comprehensive, peer-reviewed index of
Internet medical resources" arranged by specialty and by
disease.
Physician's Guide to the
Internet Physician Links
Includes physician lifestyle, professional opportunities,
personal finance, physician health and well-being, family life,
and clinical practice issues.
CME & Information Sites:
Avicenna Medical Information
Resource
Includes free medline, medical databases, a pharmaceutical index,
and medical products.
BioMedNet
"The World Wide Club for the Biological and Medical
Community"
GeoHealthWeb
Produced by the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, GeoHealthWeb is
designed to serve "the educational, professional, and
information needs of pharmacists, physicians, nurses, allied
health care professionals, and consumers on a global scale."
Healthgate
Known for its free Medline
services, Healthgate also offers access to a number of other
databases for a fee. Other services include continuing medical
education opportunities and online consumer health information.
Housecall
for Healthcare Professionals
Research, continuing education, and references for physicians,
nurses and pharmacists.
MedConnect Information
Services
CME, cases of the month in Pediatrics, Family Medicine, and
Toxicology, Pearls in Primary Care, Board Reviews and an
interactive bulletin board of job opportunities for physicians.
MedNexus Internet Medical
Community
Mednexus offers physicians and other medical care providers
medical news, information from local and national medical
organizations, conference information, listings of professional
opportunities, full electronic library services, a slide
preparation service, and interactive CME. Registration.
Medscape
Medscape "pools information from clinical journals, medical
news providers, medical education programs, and material created
expressly for Medscape." Free Medline access.
Netmedicine Medical
Information Source
Offers a medical site search engine, a clinical image database, a
patient education center, an employment service, and radiographs.
NUS Medical SignPost
Disease categorized articles, image libraries, outline format
treatment protocols. National University of Singapore.
Pharmametrics
Physician's Resources WWW Server
Offers discussion groups, clinical practice guidelines, patient
education information, diseases briefs, and a guide to
medications.
Physicians' Corner at
Columbia/HCA Healthcare
Grand Rounds, medical news, research and developments within the
Columbia Healthcare system. Original articles cover new drug
approvals, infectious diseases, risk management, etc.
Physicians'
Home Page at SilverPlatter
Services for practicing physicians include access to Medline, a
searchable prescription drug database, and a web based forum for
primary care questions.
Physicians' Online Medical Reference
Online Service
Access to free use of the medical reference services: MEDLINE,
AIDSLINE, CANCERLIT & HEALTH, Physicians and Foreign GenRx
and QMR using dial up proprietary software. Online forums hosted
by medical societies, managed care organizations and physicians,
daily Medical Tribune News Service stories.
The CoMed
The CoMedCommunications Internet Health Forum Provides
information selected diseases and issues related to the delivery
of healthcare services.
Journals & Textbooks
BioMedNet
Electronic Press
British Medical Journal
Journal
of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
Modern
Medicine
New England Journal of Medicine
The
Intern On-Call Handbook
The Lancet
Multimedia Medical Sites
Martindale's
Health Science Guide
A 'Multimedia Specialized Information Resource' currently
containing over 32,600 teaching files, over 40,300 medical cases,
537 multimedia courses/textbooks, 773 tutorials, over 1846
databases and over 9860 movies.
Multimedia Medical Reference
Library
This site provides subject-based access to the Web, as well as
medical school information.
Prime
Practice
Offers multimedia papers, cases studies, realistic patient exam
simulations, and reference information on selected topics. IVI
Publishing.
The
Virtual Hospital
Produced by the University of Iowa, the Virtual Hospital was one
of the first sites directed at physicians. It includes
"textbooks" written especially for the WWW.
Medical News
WHO Home Page
Center for Disease Control
UNAIDS page
CNN Health News