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Reviewed Resources:
101.Fetal Echocardiography Gold
This 2 CD-ROM set contains 12 tutorials designed to enhance the imaging and diagnostic skills of those physicians who evaluate the fetal heart. It includes over 500 video clips, images of pathological specimens, and 60 full-text articles from medical literature. Site lists CD-ROM contents, provides information on CME credits, and allows users to order the product.
Purpose: Learning, Reference.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Medical Students.
Reference index:82
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.fetalecho.com/
Order CD-ROM URL:http://www.fetalecho.com/
102.MEDstudents
The goal of this site is to provide medical knowledge to medical students.
It includes some medical case studies, an online journal, basic science information and clinical medicine with some rare disorders. This is a Brazilian version on English and some translation mistakes are found.
Purpose: Learning.
Audience: Medical Students.
Reference index:100
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.medstudents.com.br/english.htm
103.MedWEb(Emory University Health Sciences Center Library)
MedWeb allows users to quickly search a large selection of medical and biomedical web sites.
Purpose: Reference.
Audience: Medical Doctors.
Reference index:4494
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://WWW.MedWeb.Emory.Edu/MedWeb/
104.Tier II Premier
This site advertises a distance education program that is designed to assist career-changing healthcare professionals (RN, ART, MA, etc.), especially those who aim to be home-based transcriptionists. It teaches working knowledge of medical terminology, laboratory procedures, and anatomy.
Purpose: Learning.
Audience: Medical Doctors.
Price:525.0000
URL:http://www.mtecinc.com/cgi-bin/checkitout/checkitout.cgi?mtecincSTORE:prod204+
105.Welcome to Brain Biodiversity Bank
The Brain Biodiversity Bank provides educational images and information of hundreds of different mammalian brains. This collection is associated with the Comparative Mammalian Brain Collection.
Purpose: Learning, Reference.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Medical Students.
Reference index:13
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.msu.edu/~brains/
106.Future Optometrists
Like eyes? This site is a comprehensive resource for all future optometrists, especially current optometry students. It has links to associations, journals, online resources. It also offers reviewed links to sites covering the various components of optometric education, such as anatomy, histology, pathology, microbiology, and much more.
Purpose: Learning, Reference.
Audience: Medical Students, Patients.
Reference index:128
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.futureoptometrist.com/
107.The Ultimate 3D Skeleton
State-of-the-art multimedia technology in The Ultimate 3D Skeleton will take children and their parents on a 3D tour of the entire skeletal system. Children will examine every bone from any angle and view movies showing how each bone enables humans to walk, run and even swim. It is possible to flip and rotate each bone.
Purpose: Learning.
Audience: Patients.
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.dkonline.com/dkcom/dk/4cat16.html
Order CD-ROM URL:http://www.dkonline.com/dkcom/dk/ord_dk.html
108.The Ultimate Human Body
This CD-ROM provides real-time animation and manipulation of fully textured 3D models of the body's major organs. Users can move the models 360 degrees in full, fluid, real-time motion and view full-screen videos and graphics with lifelike color and clear 3D audio. This CD-ROM is designed for children ages 10 and up.
Purpose: Learning.
Audience: Patients.
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.dkonline.com/dkcom/dk/4cat4mx.html
Order CD-ROM URL:http://www.dkonline.com/dkcom/dk/ord_dk.html
109.OhioHealth
OhioHealth is a non-profit organization providing healthcare in 46 Ohio counties. Fact sheets with pictures educate about orthopedics, the brain, the spine, sleep disorders, pregnancy, and fitness; guide to programs provides sweeping list of services; and the "Find a Doctor" and "Facilities" sections link Ohio residents to their nearest healthcare providers. This high-quality site is aimed at those in the region served by the organization.
Purpose: Learning, Reference.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Patients.
Reference index:73
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.doctors-10tv.com/
110.WebMD Health
Healthon/Webon is an Internet healthcare company connecting various parties in healthcare-from patient to physicians to hospitals to insurance and other healthcare organizations.
User has two options for search: by disease or by topic (alternative medicine; diet and nutrition; emotional wellness...)
Contains easily understandable self-care advisor, which originate from the American Institute for Preventive Medicine's Self-Care Guide, listing symptoms and ways to treat them. Includes news, diseases, med.tests, herbs&vitamins, drugs, lab.tests, interviews with experts, medical research.
Drug database has 3 subdivisions: 1 Prescription drug reference-to fined a drug you can look for it under its brand or generic name. 2 PDR Family guides to over the counter drugs-lists more than 340 frequently used over the counter remedies. 3 PDR Family Guide to Natural Medicine and Healing Therapies. Information on 300 herbal remedies (kava, St.John Wort )
Provides Rush-Presbyterian St Luke's Medical Center Med.Encyclopedia. Covers more than 2000 topics including disease conditions, treatments, medical terms and anatomy.
On this site the Yale University School of Medicine provides Patient's Guide to Medical Tests. Excellent comprehensive description of the most common diagnostic procedures (CT, MRI, bronhoscopy, laparoscopy...) Explains how to prepare for a test, what to expect during the test and how you may feel afterward. Also explains to patient how doctor diagnoses hypertension, an infectious disease, neurologic disorders, pregnancy...
Purpose: Learning, Reference.
Audience: Patients.
Reference index:142
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.mywebMD.com
111.National electronic Library for Health
Excellent electronic library for health offers interactive anatomic atlas with 3D details and explanations, and well selected internet resources with educative purpose.
Purpose: Learning, Reference.
Audience: Medical Doctors.
Reference index:4766
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/
112.pathology of congenital heart disease
This page consists of a small collection of photographs of hearts with congenital defects. Click the "Back to Almanac" link, and you'll find yourself at the homepage of the Pediatric Cardiology Almanac, which contains a hearty assortment of resources related to cardiological problems that affect young people (especially congenital heart diseases).
Purpose: Reference.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Medical Students, Nurses.
Reference index:13
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.neosoft.com/~rlpierce/path.htm
113.Pediatric Cardiology Almanac
The Pediatric Cardiology Almanac is a collection of educational resources on pediatric cardiology. Though design is a bit amateurish, site abounds with information on multimedia resources, angiographic anatomy, ECG interpretation, heart murmurs, echocardiography, and more. A pathology and radiology atlas is available.
Purpose: Learning, Simulation.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Medical Students.
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.neosoft.com/~rlpierce/pc.htm
114.Neuromuscular disease center
This site provides information related to neuromuscular disorders. It includes a pathologic image database, common syndromes, clinical and laboratory evaluations and an alphabetically ordered directory search interface.
Purpose: Learning, Reference.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Medical Students, Patients.
Reference index:177
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.neuro.wustl.edu/neuromuscular/index.html
115.Brain Collections
Brainmuseum.org is just what you'd expect--and more. Besides providing a slew of images from one of the world's largest collection of well-preserved, sectioned, and stained brains, this site offers factual information on brain sections, evolution, and circuitry. Brace yourself: very detailed pictures of fleshy, rubbery, cauliflower-like brains may be off-putting to those unfamiliar with the sight. Users who go forth and explore this site are richly rewarded, however, as it is well designed and packed with fascinating content.
Purpose: Learning, Simulation.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Medical Students.
Reference index:749
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.neurophys.wisc.edu/brain/
116.Basic Brain Functions and Structures
This site provides a brief synopsis of an interactive software package that teaches about brain functions. Site links to homepage of company that produces the software. CD-ROM introduces general neuroanatomy with speech, text, and graphics. It provides easy-to-understand explanations of the interrelations among neuropsychological functions and brain components.
Purpose: Learning, Reference.
Audience: Medical Students, Nurses, Patients.
Reference index:2
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimh/aback.htm
117.Color Atlas of Anatomy
This book is a photographic study of the anatomy of the human body. It consists of two parts: the first part describes the anatomical structure of the organs in a systematic manner, the second part describes regional anatomy. Photos and drawings abound. Book can be ordered online.
Purpose: Learning, Simulation.
Audience: Medical Students.
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://lww.com/cgi-bin/wwonline.storefront/2000895833/Product/View/0-683-30492-5
118.Cell City
With their own transportation and communication systems, cellular structures are essentially microcosmic metropoli. Such is the thinking of Cell City, a CD-ROM that emphasizes the similarities between cells and cities to help students understand microbiology. Site provides a few glimpses of the product and links to ordering information.
Purpose: Learning, Simulation.
Audience: Medical Students.
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.anglia.co.uk/catalogue/Science/CellCity.shtml
Order CD-ROM URL:http://www.anglia.co.uk/shop/index.htm
119.Basic of the thyroid gland
The side provides a brief review of anatomy, physiology and common disorders of the thyroid gland.
Purpose: Learning.
Audience: Patients.
Reference index:2
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.empharma.com/thycare/o_basics.htm
120.Medical Terminology Simplified: A Programmed Learning Approach by Body Systems
This software reinforces word building by presenting root words, combining forms, prefixes and suffixes according to a body system.
Purpose: Reference.
Audience: Medical Students.
Reference index:3
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.fadavis.com/catalog/Health_Professions/MEDICAL%20TERMINOLOGY/0344-4.htm
Order CD-ROM URL:http://www.fadavis.com/info/ord_form.htm
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