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Medical Reference Resources
General Textbooks
Baron's
Medical Microbiology Textbook***
A book on medical microbiology that covers bacteriology, organisms,
structure, classification, mycology, and infectious diseases.
eMedicine
Free online textbooks (including Gold Standard textbooks listed below)
and links to journals.
Medical
Textbooks from Gold Standard Multimedia (text
only version)
Free online access to peer-reviewed textbooks including:
- Emergency Medical and Family Health Guide
- Consumer Treatment Guidelines
- Emergency Medicine
- Medicine, Ob/Gyn, Psychiatry, and Surgery
- Neurology
- Orthopedic Surgery
- Otolaryngology and Facial Plastics
- Pediatrics
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Sports Medicine
- Wilderness Emergencies
Modern
Malaria Control Handbook
A 101-page handbook written by Physicians for Social Responsibility,
available for download from their web site.
General Health Resources
CDC
National Prevention Information Network
Contains a wealth of information on HIV/AIDS, STDs and TB, including
searchable databases for information, resources, conferences, funding
opportunities and news.
Clinical
Tools
Click on Hot Links for pull down pick list access to calculate dosages,
conversions, pregnancy dates, and more. Site includes an Emergency Medicine
textbook searchable by keyword.
Crotalid
Snakebite Severity Score Acute Care Decision Tool**
Pull down pick list access to a calculator that reports severity
of illness. Users enter clinical parameters such as organ system symptoms.
Doctornet
Online Medical Clip Art*
Black and white and color images for download.
Indexed
Visuals
Searchable online index of stock medical illustrations and visuals available
for purchase.
MDLinx
MDLinx.com is a network of 34 professional Web sites for physicians.
Each site within the network focuses solely on one medical specialty,
and provides daily updates of all journal and medical news articles
in that specialty (and its 10-15 sub-specialties). Also provides free
daily e-mail newsletters and e-mail discussion lists.
Medical
Organization Acronyms
MedWeb:Biomedical
Internet Resources
Extensive list of links to sites on the Web by keyword or subject maintained
by Emory University.
Medical
Matrix
An excellent, reviewed and ranked resource containing health information
for professionals as well as access to various MEDLINE search programs.
Medical
World Search
The site contains valuable information that is useful for medical
professionals in clinical practice. To a more limited extent, information
that is useful for patients has been included; the quality of those
sites has to be particularly high. Information that has been peer-reviewed
is viewed as particularly valuable and is more likely to be indexed
by Medical World Search.
National Center for Infectious Diseases
This site
includes an alphabetical index of diseases, conditions and other topics,
containing definitions, causes, symptoms and treatment information
National
Guideline Clearinghouse
Hundreds of clinical practice guidelines on common medical conditions
and treatments.
Omni
The UK's gateway to high quality biomedical Internet resources
Spellex
Medical Spell Checker***
Users enter words into the search window. The service offers possible
corrections from a dictionary of thousands of medical words covering
over 50 medical specialties.
Spine-health.com
Information for helping patients understand, prevent and seek treatment for back pain and neck pain.
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