Internet Public Library Ready Reference Collection 
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/ref00.00.00

Martindale’s: The Reference Desk 
http://www.martindalecenter.com/

MEDICAL REFERENCE—DICTIONARIES

Deciphering Medspeak 
http://www.mlanet.org/resources/medspeak/index.html

MedBioWorld: Medicine Reference Tools  
http://www.medbioworld.com/MedBioWorld/TopicLinks.aspx?type=Reference Tools&&category=(All)&&concept=Medicine

Medterms Medical Dictionary/Medicinenet 
http://www.MedTerms.com/script/main/AlphaIdx.asp?p=A_DICT

MEDICAL REFERENCE—DIRECTORIES—PEOPLE

AMA Phsycian Select 
http://www.ama-assn.org/iwcf/iwcfmgr206/aps?2852326399

American Board of Medical Specialties/Who’s Certified? 
http://WWW.ABMS.ORG/newsearch.asp

DocFinder/Association of State Medical Board Executive Directors 
http://www.docboard.org/

MEDICAL REFERENCE – DIRECTORIES—ORGANIZATIONS

For these links, refer to large, cooperative efforts (see GENERAL MEDICAL COLLECTIONS) with listings by specialty or search for the organization name on a search engine such as Google <http://www.google.com>. 

MEDICAL REFERENCE – DIRECTORIES—INSTITUTIONS

American Hospital Directory 
http://ahd.com

HospiceDirectory.org 
http://www.hospicedirectory.org/

Best Hospitals (U.S. News Online) 
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/health/best-hospitals/tophosp.htm

MEDICAL REFERENCE – DIRECTORIES—MEETINGS/CONFERENCES

Congress Resource Centre – Doctor’s Guide 
http://www.docguide.com/crc.nsf/web-bySpec

Medical Meetings Web Search 
http://www.doctorsreview.com/cgi-bin/medical_conferences
Worldwide meetings and CME 

MEDICAL REFERENCE—DRUG RESOURCES

American Association of Poison Control Centers 
http://www.aapcc.org/index.htm

Drug InfoNet 
http://www.druginfonet.com/
Includes details from package inserts and consumer pamphlets for many drugs, links to manufacturers’ sites and an "ask an expert" section.

Electronic Orange Book- Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations 
http://www.fda.gov/cder/ob/default.htm

FDA Drug Approvals List 
http://www.fda.gov/cder/da/da.htm
Updated weekly. 

Johns Hopkins Antibiotic Guide 
http://hopkins-abxguide.org/
A peer-reviewed database aimed at medical professionals offers frequently updated information on antibiotics and their proper use. Searchable by diagnosis, pathogen, antibiotic type, or keyword. Free registration is required. 

New Medicines in Development 
http://www.phrma.org/medicines_in_development/
Search for information about medicines in development by disease, indication or drug name. 

Recently Approved Drugs or Indications- Doctors Guide 
http://www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/Drugs-Indications 

RxList 
http://www.rxlist.com/
Features the Top 200 list of drugs prescribed in the U.S 

SafeMedication.com
http://www.safemedication.com/
The drug information in this searchable database is based on ASHP’s Medication Teaching Manual: The Guide to Patient Drug Information. " People taking several or complex medications will find this guide particularly useful." 

US Pharmacopeia 
http://www.usp.org/
Resource for drug standards, drug information, dietary supplements and veterinary medicines. 

MEDICAL REFERENCE—HANDBOOKS

CDC National Center for Infectious Diseases Travelers’ Health 
http://www.cdc.gov/travel/

eMedicine 
http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/

Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy 
http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/sections.htm

Merck Manual of Geriatrics 
http://www.merck.com/pubs/mm_geriatrics/

Merck Manual of Medical Information 
http://www.merckhomeedition.com/home.html
Consumer health information in 2 versions, text-based or interactive. 

National Health Observances 
http://www.healthfinder.gov/library/nho/nho.asp

MEDICAL REFERENCE—NEWS

Biomedicine and Health in the News 
http://library.uchc.edu/bhn/
Quick access to the biomedical, scientific and health journal literature referenced in the New York Times. 

CNN.com HEALTH 
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/

Reuters Health Information 
http://www.reutershealth.com/
For the consumer, the health industry and the professional. 

MEDICAL REFERENCE—INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences 
http://mulford.meduohio.edu/instr/
Links to Web sites providing instructions to authors for over 3,000 journals in the health and life sciences. All links are to "primary sources," i.e. publishers or organizations, with editorial responsibilities for particular titles. 

MEDICAL REFERENCE - STATISTICS

CDC Data and Statistics 
http://www.cdc.gov/scientific.htm

Census Bureau State Data Centers 
http://www.census.gov/sdc/www/

FedStats 
http://www.fedstats.gov/
Gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies. 

Finding and Using Health Statistics 
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/usestats/index.htm
An excellent self-study course that explains a lot of the "why and why not" questions regarding health statistics. 

Health Statistics 
http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/guides/internet/stats
A guide to health statistics on the Web and in the library. Includes organizations and associations that collect statistics as well as government agencies. 

National Center for Health Statistics 
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/

Statistical Abstract of the United States 
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/

World Health Organization Statistical Information System 
http://www.who.int/whosis/

GENERAL MEDICAL COLLECTIONS

These sites are provided in lieu of lengthy lists of specialty or disease specific sites. Hospital libraries may want to provide specific links to those sites depending upon their clinical specialties or patient mix. 

Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics (from Karolinksa Institute, Stockholm) 
http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/
MeSH classified list of free resources. 

Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources 
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/
This is a list of lists for health subjects from Hardin Library for Health Sciences at Univ. of Iowa. Extensive and interdisciplinary links include selections from other metasites, indexes and specialized quality sites which might be overlooked by the larger indexes. 

Health Care Information Resources 
http://hsl.lib.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/top.html
A series of lists compiled by Tom Flemming, McMaster Univ.Health Sciences Library 

HealthLinks: Diseases and Common Conditions 
http://healthlinks.washington.edu/conditions/
Developed by the University of Washington Health Sciences Libraries in 1995. Patient Toolkit has nice collection of links for consumers. 

MedWeb 
http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb/
Catalog of health related sites maintained by Emory Univ. Health Sciences Center Library 

Medscape 
http://www.medscape.com/
Reliable, multi-specialty, clinical information for providers and consumers. Free registration is required. 

National Library for Health 
http://www.library.nhs.uk/
The NLH Program is working with NHS Libraries to develop a digital library for NHS staff, patients and the public.

Virtual Pediatric Hospital 
http://www.virtualpediatrichospital.org/
Digital health sciences library created at the University of Iowa for both health professionals and patients.  A related site is the Virtual Naval Hospital, a service of the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.

MEDLINEplus 
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
Topics, accessible by browsing, searching or selecting a category, contain comprehensive lists of links to authoritative sources of full-text information. Includes current health news, dictionaries, ADAM health encyclopedia, drug info and directories. 

MEDLINEplus Tutorials 
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials.html
Interactive health education resources from the Patient Education Institute. Using animated graphics, each tutorial explains a procedure or condition in easy-to-read language. Audio is also available. 

Healthfinder 
http://www.healthfinder.gov/
A gateway sponsored by the US Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion leading to consumer information, online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and self-help groups.

NORD 
http://www.rarediseases.org/
The National Organization for Rare Diseases, Inc.is a federation of more than 140 not-for-profit voluntary health organizations serving people with rare disorders and disabilities. A Rare Disease Database, an Organizational Database and an Orphan Drug Database are provided on this site. Fees are charged for full-text reports. 

Michigan Electronic Library: Disease & Specific Condition Resources 
http://web.mel.org/SPT--BrowseResources.php?ParentId=614
MEL’s resources are evaluated for ease-of-use, authoritative source of content, reliability of access and currency of information. 

Medem 
http://www.medem.com/
Information provided and approved by a cooperating group of medical specialty societies. 

NOAH (New York Online Access to Health) 
http://www.noah-health.org/
NOAH seeks to provide high quality full-text health information for consumers that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased in both English and Spanish. 

NIH Health Information 
http://health.nih.gov
NIH Health Information Index 2000 as well as other useful, authoritative health links. 

Healthcentral 
http://www.healthcentral.com/home/home.cfm
One of the many consumer sites that look increasingly similar, featuring personalized interactive tools, risk assessments, etc. Notable for the presence of the popular Dr. Dean Edell as well as medical librarian Rochelle Schmalz and other interesting columnists. 

WebMD 
http://www.webmd.com/ and its companion consumer site 

WebMD Health 
http://my.webmd.com/provide materials from contracted suppliers as well as some original material from their own professional staff. 

ALLIED HEALTH

American Occupational Therapy Association 
http://www.aota.org/

American Physical Therapy Association 
http://www.apta.org/

National Rehabilitation Association 
http://www.nationalrehab.org/

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

Alternative Medicine Homepage 
http://www.pitt.edu/~cbw/altm.html

The Alt Med Primer 
http://www.veterinarywatch.com/Primer1.htm

HerbMed 
http://www.herbmed.org/
An evidence-based herbal database with  hyperlinked access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health. 

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine 
http://nccam.nih.gov/

NIH Office of Dietary Supplements 
http://dietary-supplements.info.nih.gov
Information and links including IBIDS Dietary Supplements database. 

CLINICAL TRIALS

Centerwatch Clinical Trials Listing Service 
http://www.centerwatch.com/

ClinicalTrials.Gov 
http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui
Produced by NIH and NLM as a resource for patients and families. 

DIET & NUTRITION

American Dietetic Association on the Net 
http://www.eatright.org/

Center For Food Safety And Applied Nutrition (FDA) 
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/list.html

Center for Science in the Public Interest 
http://www.cspinet.org/
CSPI is a nonprofit education and advocacy organization that focuses on improving the safety and nutritional 
quality of the food supply. 

Cyberdiet 
http://cyberdiet.com/
Cyberdiet features peer-reviewed nutritional information, interactive tools and discussion groups. 

Food and Nutrition Information Center 
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/
FNIC, located at the National Agricultural Library (NAL), collects and disseminates information about food and human nutrition. Includes 

Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2005
http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/

Nutrition.Gov 
http://www.nutrition.gov/
A portal to the extensive, online nutrition information available through the agencies of the Federal Government. 

American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition 
http://www.clinnutr.org/

DIVERSITY & MULTICULTURAL HEALTH

Cultural Competency in Medicine 
http://www.amsa.org/programs/gpit/cultural.cfm 
Materials from the American Medical Students Association for use in training and with patients. 

DiversityRX 
http://www.diversityrx.org/HTML/DIVRX.htm
Promoting language and cultural competence to improve the quality of health care for minority, immigrant, and ethnically diverse communities. 

Ethnomed 
http://ethnomed.org/
Information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants to Seattle, many of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world.

Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Health Webpages 
http://www.metrokc.gov/health/glbt/ 
A public health resource from Seattle and King County Board of Health. 

NIH Office of Research in Minority Health 
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/funding/minorities_and_disabilities.htm

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

BioMed Central 
http://www.biomedcentral.com/
An online publishing site for research articles in all areas of biomedical research with full peer review and no barriers to access of any kind. Submission is online and authors retain copyright. All original articles are published in one of the BioMed Central journals, posted without delay on PubMed Central and indexed in PubMed. 

Free Medical Journals 
http://www.FreeMedicalJournals.com/
The Free Medical Journals Site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet. 

HighWire Press 
http://highwire.stanford.edu/
HighWire, the Internet imprint of the Stanford University Libraries, produces 250 sites online, with many more planned. The electronic versions provide enhanced versions of the information provided in the printed journals. A list of free titles is provided. 

New Jour Electronic Journals and Newsletters 
http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/NewJourWel.html

An Announcement List for new serials on the Internet. NewJour Archives are available at 
http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour.

PubList.Com / The Internet Directory of Publications 
http://www.publist.com/
A database of information on over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters and other periodicals. 

PubMed Central 
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ 
A free access, web-based archive of journal literature the life sciences. It is being developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) 

ETHICS

Bioethics.Net 
http://ajobonline.com/ 
The Internet’s first and largest site on bioethics, visited (according to Medical Matrix) more than any other bioethics site on the Internet. Produced and supported by the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Bioethics for Clinicians 
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/collection/bioethics_for_clinicians_series
This CMAJ series is intended to elucidate key concepts in bioethics and to help clinicians to integrate bioethical knowledge into daily practice. 

Ethics in Medicine - University Of Washington 
http://depts.washington.edu/bioethx/
Includes topics, cases and resources useful for teaching medical students. 

National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature 
http://www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/

EVIDENCE BASED HEALTHCARE

Bandolier Evidence-Based Health Care 
http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine 
http://www.cebm.net/

JAMA Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature 
http://medicine.ucsf.edu/education/resed/articles/ref_articles.htm

New York Academy of Medicine Evidence-Based Medicine Resource Center 
http://www.ebmny.org/index.html

Understanding and Evaluating Medical Information (Evidence-based) (NOAH)
http://www.noah-health.org/en/ebm/

HEALTH INFORMATICS

American Medical Informatics Association 
http://www.amia.org/

HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations 
http://www.jcaho.org/

LEGAL/LEGISLATIVE RESOURCES

CMS Regulations & Guidance
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/home/regsguidance.asp

GPO Access 
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/
A service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to information products produced by the Federal Government. (Includes Federal Register, CFR, US Code full text) 

GovSpot 
http://www.govspot.com/
"A non-partisan government information port designed to simplify the search for the best and most relevant government information online." 

Health Hippo 
http://hippo.findlaw.com/
A large collection of policy and regulatory materials related to health care from advance directives and BBA to HIPAA to wired health. 

Health Law – Findlaw 
http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/19health/index.html
A source directed to lawyers and law students with FindLaw Resources, Health Law Web Guide, Related FindLaw Guide Pages. A primer of doing legal research online is available at http://www.findlaw.com/info/helpers/primer.html

Health Law – Legal Information Institute 
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/health.html

Thomas Legislative Information on the Internet 
http://thomas.loc.gov/
A service of the Library of Congress 

WashLaw Web – Washburn Law Library 
http://www.washlaw.edu/

MEDICAL IMAGES

Bristol Biomed Images Archive 
http://www.brisbio.ac.uk/
A collection of medical, dental and veterinary images for use in teaching. 

Gray’s Anatomy 
http://www.bartleby.com/107/
The Bartleby.com edition of Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index 

HONmedia/Health on the Net 
http://www.hon.ch/cgi-bin/HONmedia
HONmedia is a repository of over 6,800 medical images and videos on 1,7000 topics and themes. This peerless database has been created manually by HON; new image links are constantly being added from the Web. 

Medical Images and Illustrations (Karolinska Institute) 
http://www.mic.ki.se/Medimages.html
Covers both general and many specialty areas. 

Medical Images Dictionary (FindLaw) 
http://medpics.findlaw.com/index.cfm
These illustrations were developed for such legal matters as medical malpractice, personal injury, and worker’s compensation. Each illustration was prepared by a professional medical illustrator to medically accurate standards. 

Webpath Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education 
http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/webpath.html

NURSING

American Nurses Association-Nursing World 
http://www.ana.org/

NursingCenter (formerly known as AJN Online) 
http://www.nursingcenter.com/

Martindale’s Health Science Guide Virtual Nursing Center 
http://www.martindalecenter.com/Nursing.html

Nursing Sites on the World Wide Web
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/hsl/internet/nsgsites.html
Maintained by librarians at SUNY-Buffalo. 

Worldwide Nurse 
http://allnurses.com/
International nursing resources with wide variety of categorized resources in many different nursing specialties, plus links to nursing schools, career information, boards of nursing, and nursing humor. 

PRACTICE GUIDELINES

National Guideline Clearinghouse 
http://www.guideline.gov/

Health Services/Technology Assessment Text 
http://text.nlm.nih.gov

Practice Guidelines Websites  
http://medicine.ucsf.edu/education/resed/ebm/practice_guidelines.html

QUALITY INDICATORS

Best Hospitals (U.S. News Online) 
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/health/best-hospitals/tophosp.htm

HealthGrades 
http://www.healthgrades.com/consumer/
Grades the performances of hospitals, physicians, health plans, nursing homes and other health care facilities. 

JCAHO Quality Check 
http://www.jcaho.org/QualityCheck/

NCQA 
http://www.ncqa.org/
NCQA is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to evaluate and report on the quality of the nation’s managed care organizations. 

RESIDENTS/STUDENTS

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education 
http://www.acgme.org/

American Medical Student Association 
http://www.amsa.org/

Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) 
http://www.aamc.org/, also includes 

Medical Schools
http://www.aamc.org/medicalschools.htm
Includes the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) 
http://www.aamc.org/students/eras/start.htm

Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) 
http://www.ecfmg.org/
Includes application information, residency requirements, contacts, and useful links. 

FREIDA Online/ Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database 
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2997.html

National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) 
http://www.nrmp.org/

ResidentWeb 
http://www.residentweb.com/
The "for residents, by residents" site. Residency and Fellowship finding aids are featured. 

WEB TUTORIALS

Bare Bones 101: A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web 
http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml
"You can zip through these lessons in no time, any time. They are very short and succinct; each can be read in a few minutes. Feel free to jump in wherever you like, skip what you don’t want to read, and come back whenever you need to." 

Finding Information on the Internet 
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
This tutorial presents the substance of the Internet Workshops offered year-round by the Teaching Library at the University of California at Berkeley. Handouts, Powerpoint slides, and other class materials are available online. 

A Guide to the Internet for Medical Practitioners (BMJ) 
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/archive/7019ed.htm

Net.TUTOR 
http://gateway.lib.ohio-state.edu/tutor/
Offers interactive tutorials on basic tools and techniques for becoming an effective Internet researcher. 

SEARCHING THE INTERNET

There should be a section of links to your favorite search engines, directories, metasearch engines and medical search engines. Search Engine Watch <http://searchenginewatch.internet.com/>, Search Engine Showdown <http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/> and the University of California, Berkeley tutorial <http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html> should be checked every few months to keep up-to-date in this area. 

EVALUATION

Finding Quality Health Information on the Internet (Internet Healthcare Coalition) 
http://www.ihealthcoalition.org/content/tips.html
Ten tips for evaluating health information. Designed for health consumers. 

Code Of Conduct for Medical and Health Web Sites (Health On The Net Foundation) 
http://www.hon.ch/HONcode/Conduct.html
Eight principles that make up a good health-related web site. Available in 13 languages. 

International eHealth Code of Ethics 
http://www.ihealthcoalition.org/ethics/ehcode.html

Web Site Evaluation Checklist 
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/articles/evalr1.pdf
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/courses/WebEvalNew.pdf
Two checklists to print and use when looking at any Web site. With criteria and questions to ask about content, design, and access. The first uses a 5-point ranking system and the second uses weighted yes/no answers. Pages can score up to 80 points on each checklist. 

Web Site Evaluation Criteria 
http://www4.umdnj.edu/camlbweb/webeval.html
Based upon questions related to a site's credibility, intended audience, ease of access, currency, sources, design and comparability to other sites. 

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