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Reviewed Resources:
41.Key to Lab Images
This site includes an image database from the Bacteriologic Lab.
Purpose: Learning, Simulation.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Medical Students.
Reference index:8
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.medinfo.ufl.edu/year2/mmid/imagky.html
42.The Merck Manual of Medical Information - Home Edition
This excellent health reference and comprehensive in-depth medical
information and resource is brought by a service from Merck & Co. on a not-
for-profit basis.
Provides two versions: text-based version and a new interactive version
with photos, animations, videos, pronunciations and illustrations.
The print version of the Home Edition is available for $29.95, and CD-ROM
for 39.95
Purpose: Learning, Reference, Simulation.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Medical Students, Nurses, Patients.
Reference index:1121
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.merckhomeedition.com/
43.Medicines Control Agency (MCA)
The UK Medicines Control Agency (MCA) is an Executive Agency of the Department of Health given the mission to protect and promote public health through the regulation of the quality, efficacy, and safety of human medicines. It is also empowered to apply relevant controls to the use and distribution of medicines and to provide information about their safe use. Plenty of reports are available online, as are job vancancy listings, conference details, background information on the agency, news reports in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format, and links.
Purpose: Reference.
Audience: Medical Doctors.
Reference index:511
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.mca.gov.uk/
44.MD4Sure.com -- CSA, USMLE Exam Preparation, Study Guides, Educational Resources
Failing memories are revived at MD4sure.com, a site that advertises the service of a former med student turned memory-improvement expert. Site advertises publications that make medical physiology easy to remember through the use of mnemonic themes. The diagnosis for de Quervain thyroiditis is taught to the tune of grunge rocker Kurt Cobain. One gem: "Kurt Cobain¦s Pain (Pain rhymes with Cobain) was alleviated by the sound of rock music flowing from his Hardwood Guitar (Firm Goiter)." Less-than-perfect English makes the site difficult to decipher, but services could be useful to med students preparing for exams.
Purpose: Learning.
Audience: Dentists, Medical Doctors, Medical Students, Nurses.
Reference index:100
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.md4sure.com/
45.Active Learning Centre Home
The Active Learning Centre is a compilation of self-assessment tests in different areas of knowledge, including Microbiology, Pharmacology and Vaccines.
Purpose: Learning.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Medical Students.
Reference index:335
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.med.jhu.edu/medcenter
46.Histology
LUMEN--the Loyola University Medical Education Network--is designed to present medical education resources on the Web. Among the goals of the project are to improve the integration of basic and clinical science curricular content, enhance access to the explosive increase in medical information enabled by the Internet, and encourage self-directed learning. Site includes plenty of interesting original content, from a picture atlas of dermatological conditions to a guide to pediatric seizure disorders. All is designed to support efforts of undergraduates, graduates, and those professionals seeking continuing medical education.
Purpose: Learning, Simulation.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Medical Students.
Reference index:6165
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen
47.Histology Slide Series
This is very good educational material for self-directed learning about histology of the skin. Resources includes an image database and clinical cases related to histology of the skin from Loyola University Education Network.
Purpose: Learning, Simulation.
Audience: Medical Students.
Reference index:24
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/Histo/frames/h_fram13.html
48.Dermatology Medical Education Contents
The material on these pages has been composed to aid in the teaching of dermatology.
Purpose: Learning, Reference.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Medical Students.
Reference index:177
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/medicine/dermatology/title.htm
49.Library of the National Medical Society
This site is library of the National Medical Society. Offers full text medical books and journals, online medical diagnosis with treatment options. Created by specialist physicians, includes treatment options for 1200 diseases and 1900 symptoms. Includes 1100 images. Contains excellent drug dosages and drug information for physicians.
Purpose: Learning, Reference, Simulation.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Medical Students, Patients.
Reference index:2290
Price:9.9500
URL:http://www.medical-library.org/
50.Medicsinfo.co.uk
Excellent resources for medical students and physicians in residency.
Divided in several topics. Clinical section tests knowledge of disease and
illness. Skills Center contains documents and links with tendency to help
with personal and professional development, study and presentation skills.
Multiple Choice Questions Section on basic medical sciences such as
anatomy, biochemistry, embriology, genetics, histology, immunology,
pathology, pharmacology, and physiology. Links Section is a compilation of
links and is divided into topics such as evidence based medicine, first aid
and emergency medicine, neurology and neuroscience, nutrition and
metabolism, public health, radiology and medical imaging, psychology,
virtual simulation, etc.
News Section contains health and pharmaceutical news.
Search engine -- searches the site or the web.
Several broken links.
Section for Patients is a broken link.
Purpose: Learning, Reference.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Medical Students, Nurses.
Reference index:14
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.medicsinfo.co.uk/
51.Medi-Dose, Inc
This site advertises a product line of unit-dose packaging products for medications, which producers claim to be simple, quick, tamper-evident, and moisture resistant. Online catalog displays the company's wares. No online ordering is available, but there is a toll-free telephone number available for this purpose.
Purpose: Learning, Reference.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Nurses.
Reference index:17
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.medi-dose.com/
52.The Internet Medical Products Guide
This site provides extensive listings of products that are available for healthcare professionals, providing up-to-date information on the latest items to hit the market. Information about each item is provided by the company that produced it, which means there is little critical appraisal of the products. However, listings are very comprehensive, and the service helps healthcare professionals locate obscure products that may benefit their practices and their patients' health.
Purpose: Reference.
Audience: Medical Doctors.
Reference index:6
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.medmarket.com/index.cfm?id=product_guide
53.Stedman's Plus 4.0
Stedman's Plus 4.0 has over 343,000 new and current medical and pharmaceutical terms.
It includes the latest terminology in cardiology, orthopedics, oncology, pathology/lab medicine, OB/GYN, radiology, genetics, statistics and epidemiology, over 40,000 surgical terms, and over 20,000 trade and generic drug names.
Purpose: Learning, Reference.
Audience: Dentists, Medical Doctors, Medical Students, Nurses.
Reference index:3
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.medproda.demon.co.uk/stedplus.html
Order CD-ROM URL:http://www.medproda.demon.co.uk/order.html
54.Diagnostic Procedures Handbook
This Diagnostic Procedure Handbook details 294 common and less common procedures. The information contained within a book is quickly accessible to the user.
All procedures covered in this reference are logically structured, with specifications of the procedure presented in a functional and consistent format. Most important points of information relevant to each major aspect of the procedure are provided: procedure name, abstract, patient care/scheduling, method, specimen (when appropriate), interpretation, footnotes, and references.
Purpose: Reference.
Audience: Medical Doctors.
Reference index:152
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.healthgate.com/dph/html/
55.The Journal of Immunology
This site describes problems related to immunology. Non-registered users may access all parts of the web site except full text articles of the Journal of Immunology. Only registered users may access these articles. Membership is available through the web site.
Purpose: Reference.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Medical Students.
Reference index:1584
Price:16.0000
URL:http://www.jimmunol.org/
56.European Cytokine Network : Molecular biology, Immunology, Oncology, Hematology, Rhumatology
European Cytokine Networkß is the official journal of the European Cytokine Society and covers all disciplines relating to cytokines, i.e., molecular biology, immunology, oncology, hematology, rhumatology. It is available in both print and online versions, the latter offering 4 years of archives that can be accessed through a pay-per-view option or by subscription. Site features news as well as journal and book information, and allows for searches via discipline or subject keyword. Site also has subscription information and is available in English and French.
Purpose: Reference.
Audience: Medical Doctors.
Reference index:28
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.john-libbey-eurotext.fr/en/revues/ecn/
57.Arterial Blood Gas Interpretation
Interactive educational program that teaches the principles of ABGs, sampling techniques, gas transport concepts, and provides extensive practice examples using a variety of data for interpretation.
Purpose: Learning.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Nurses.
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.lww.com/cgi-bin/wwonline.storefront/2143404494/Product/View/0&2D683&2D40163&2D7
58.med411.com - medical portal and search engine
Becoming internet¦s premiere medical community, med411 promises to be a functional tool as it builds the future telemedical communication. Med411, the commercial, medical search engine, values its medbookstore with over 90,000 medical titles, thousands of medical software, supplies and journals. It offers both doctors and patients simplified medical record keeping, third party billing, office management and appointment schedules.
Purpose: Learning, Reference.
Audience: Dentists, Medical Doctors, Medical Students, Nurses, Patients.
Reference index:1917
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.med411.com/
59. Medscape
Medscape is the leading interactive, multi-specialty, commercial Web service for clinicians and consumers. At this site you will find thousands of articles that are Web-enhanced for online browsing. The articles can also be easily downloaded if you prefer to do your reading offline.
Purpose: Reference.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Patients.
Reference index:38924
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.medscape.com/
60.Medscout (sm)
A Web portal through medical news in a lot of medical fields including aging, alternative, CME, death, education, employment, imunization, informatics, labaratory, medicare, mental health , nutrition, pharmacy, physical fitness, physica theray, public health, smoking cessation, speech pathology, telemedicine, travel medicine and more.
Purpose: Reference.
Audience: Medical Doctors, Patients.
Reference index:827
Price:Web site is free
URL:http://www.medscout.com/
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