Health Information Resources on the Internet

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Drugs & Pharmacotherapeutics | Education, CME & Professional Resources | Government Agencies

Drugs & Pharmacotherapeutics (links checked 04/02/2003)

• Antiretroviral Drugs
  http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite.jsp?page=ar-drugs
• Drug Information (FDA: Center for Drug Evaluation and Research)
  http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/default.htm
  Drug Approvals, Consumer info, etc.
• FDA Newly Approved Drug Therapies
  http://www.centerwatch.com/patient/drugs/DRUGLIST.html
• RxList
  http://www.rxlist.com
  Contains information on more than 4,000 brand name and generic drugs, and also lists the "Top 200 Drugs," a link describing the top 200 medications most often prescribed.
• Top 200 Prescriptions
  http://www.rxlist.com/top200.htm
  List of the United States most commonly prescribed drugs: action, usage, contraindications, interactions, toxicity, dosing.

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Education, Cme & Professional Resources (links checked 04/02/2003)

EDUCATION

• Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database Access (FREIDA) System
  http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2997.html
  "FREIDA Online is a database with over 7,800 graduate medical education programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, as well as over 200 combined specialty programs. Besides searching for specialty and subspecialty programs, you can also search for training institutions, medical schools, aggregate training statistics by specialty, and career plans of recent graduates."
• Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
  http://www.aamc.org/
  "The Association of American Medical Colleges is a non-profit association founded in 1876 to work for reform in medical education. Originally representing only medical schools, the AAMC represents the nation's 126 accredited medical schools, nearly 400 major teaching hospitals, more than 105,000 faculty in 98 academic and scientific societies, and the nation's 66,000 medical students and 97,000 residents. Additionally, the administrative leadership of medical schools and teaching hospitals are served by a variety of professional development groups housed within the AAMC."
• American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM)
  http://www.aacom.org/
  The American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) exists to serve the administration, faculty, and students of the 19 member osteopathic medical schools through its centralized application service (AACOMAS), government relations, finance, communications, and research/information departments.

• On-Line Interactive Patient Simulators
  http://www.nyerrn.com/simulators.htm
  "Free on-line patient simulators for physicians, PA's, nurses and others. Simulated adult and pediatric trauma, cardiac and metabolic emergencies. Your complete on-line resource guide to inter-active patient simulations and moulages. These Interactive World Wide Web Programs allows the user to simulate an actual patient encounter. Interactive simulated traumas, simulated patient emergencies, surgical simulations, neurologic simulators, medical calculators and various emergency room patient scenarios for medical professionals."

• Patient Simulations/Virtual Patients from The Virtual Hospital
  http://www.vh.org/welcome/tour/patientsimulations.html

  CME & OTHER PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES

• Medconnect
  http://www.medconnect.com/
  "An online hub for physicians and other health care professionals, MedConnect has published medical information since 1994. A group of emergency medicine, primary care, and pediatric physicians recognized the potential of the World Wide Web to encourage communication between colleagues and make educational materials interactive. The first provider of CME on the web, MedConnect has grown to include literature reviews, cases of the month, featured articles, journal clubs, board reviews, free Medline, teaching files with ECGs, x-rays, and CAT scans, and more. This information is presented in separate journals of emergency medicine, pediatrics, managed care, and primary care. Journals in women’s health, mental health, geriatrics, and cardiology are in development. The focus is clinical and practical."
• CMEweb
  http://www.cmeweb.com/
  Online CME/CE for heaalth professionals, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and veterinarians.
• Medscape - CME Center
  http://www.medscape.com/cmecenterdirectory/Default
  "Medscape offers free, continuously updated continuing education activities for physicians and other health professionals. These activities have been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), and have been developed by ACCME-accredited organizations."
• University of Washington: radiology & anatomy CME
  http://uwcme.org
  "This site will allow you to view our growing collection of online CME courses and earn Category I CME credits, all via the World-Wide Web and your browser."

Government Agencies (links checked 04/02/2003)

• Bureau of Primary Health Care
  http://www.bphc.hrsa.gov/
  Over 43 million people in the United States lack access to primary health care. The Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) assures that underserved and vulnerable people get the health care they need. BPHC is one of four Bureaus of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services. If you need primary health care you can use this resource to find out if there is a BPHC - supported Health Center near you. If you are a Clinician you can find out about the provision of Primary Care services.
• National Institutes of Health
  http://www.nih.gov/
• Centers for Disease Control
  http://www.cdc.gov
  Health bulletins, travel information, publications, data & statistics
• National Library of Medicine
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
• National Center for Health Statistics
  http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/

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