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SITES FOR UCHC MEDICAL AND DENTAL STUDENTS
August 2007

• Three World-Class Medical Databases:  PubMed... Scopus... Web of Science
• Key online medical texts: Harrisons' Principals of Internal Medicine...  and much more from Access-Medicine
• StatRef!... MD-Consult  and their clinical knowledge base FirstConsult
• Check out DynaMed and E-Medicine
• Excellent drug information from Lexi-Comp... Access-Medicine Drug Info... Micromedex

• List of all UCHC Databases
• UCHC Library: Electronic Textbooks Titles... UCHC Library: Electronic Journals Titles
• UConn Storrs Library
• IConn.org... a group of databases purchased by the Connecticut State Library
• IConn Related Resources

Best engines at the moment? Google... Yahoo and try this one:  Kosmix

Vimo...  a search tool for ratings of physicians and costs comparisons for healthcare or hospital services

Worldwide Directories: Dmoz... Search Engine Colossus... Beaucoup

Google Topic Directory and World Wide Web Virtual Library

World Lecture Hall - Subject Areas

Convenient but not authoritative... Wikipedia

• In a class by itself... Medical Student.com
• Medscape Medical Student page and Blog
• From Univ. of Virginia... Student Source - Software from Other Medical Schools
• A different type of medical search engine... The Diseases Database...will map your search into PubMed, Merck Manual etc.
• Diagnostic Tests and Medical Images (from AccessMedicine)
• About Gastroenterology:  Videos of Medical Procedures at The Dave Project

• MedlinePlus: Videos of Surgical Procedures... Interactive Patient Tutorials
• Starring people you know... UConn Health Center: Connecticut Tutorials on Physical Exam
• Clinical Cases & Images Blog and their links to Physical Exam Videos from U.S. medical schools

• InfoRetriever - PhotoAtlas and Hardin Meta-Directory Medical Pictures
• Student's Guide to the Medical Literature
• PubMED Books provides free  access to 40+ classic medical textbooks from the National Library of Medicine
• Online Medical Glossary
• Find a Doctor, Dentist or Hospital or Physician Profiles - Connecticut State Dept. of Public Health
• Food for thought: New York Magazines' series on Best Doctors 2007 including What's Up Docs?

• Best means of searching MEDLINE? Apply MeSH terms
• Medical Encyclopedia and Medical Dictionary and Online Medical Glossary
• AskDrWiki or Dr.WikiBlog
• Life Science Search Engine and Entrez (Life Sciences Search Engine searches all databases from NCBI)
• Chemical Structures and Other Chemical Data Sites
• WebMedTechnology has some good videos of procedures here
• Scientific Movie Library--Check it out!
• Medical Education Blog List

• Outstanding online source for genetics... GeneTests  and Illustrated Genetic Glossary
• Open OrphaNet then click (English) "Rare Diseases/Orphan Drugs" link
• Genetics Information...  a basic science site

• Information for Patients? Try MedlinePlus from National Library of Medicine
• Cancer information... Oncolink and National Cancer Institute and Cancer Dictionary
• Accurate Information found on Medscape and InfoRetriever (UCHC only)

• The Cochrane Library via Wiley (UCHC only)... and... What is  the Cochrane Collaboration?
• Search for standardized guidelines at National Guidelines Clearinghouse (NIH) and AHRQ
• How to read a Paper from BMJ... Centres for Health Evidence: Users' Guide to Evidence-Based Practice
• InfoRetriever-- Practice Guidelines... Centre for Evidence Based Medicine
• Excellent EBM sites... Netting the Evidence... EBM Toolkit... EBM Glossary

• The Student Doctor Network: Dental Student Lounge and Dental Associations
• MEDLINE database via PubMed.  Use the journal subset feature to limit your search to "Dental Literature" retrievals only.
• Dental Education Sites from DMOZ Directory
• DentalBlogs and DentalCasts... a site for dental PODCASTs

• Lexi-Comp. Read more about Lexi-Comp here
• InfoRetriever and Micromedex (UCHC only)
• Look up standard clinical reference values... Online Clinical Calculators... Lab Tests Online
• 300+ online brief rating scales or lab test data from Medical Algorithms (registration is required... but it is free!)
• Do the Math... Clinical Decision Making Calculators... Interactive Statistical Calculations Page
• MD Calc... Online Laboratory Values... Lab Test Menu

American Medical Association and American Dental Association

American Medical Student Association and American Student Dental Association

Worldwide Directory of Medical Universities

Medical Education (from AAMC)

Fellowship & Residency Electronic Interactive Database Access (FREIDA)

NATMATCH--Postdoctoral Dental Matching Program Online

NRMP--National Resident Matching Program Online

• Online Anatomy Atlases: Anatomy on Wikipedia... Cranial Nerves Atlas...  The Plastinated Brain
• Get Body Smart... Anatomy & Physiology Sites...  Anatomy Animations... The Whole Brain Atlas
• Dr. Arnolds' Glossary of Anatomy... Illustrated Glossary of Radiology, Anatomy, Exams & Procedures
• Anatomical Line Drawings from Medscape...  Register (at no cost) then sign in to use this site
• LUMEN Dissector: Structure of the Human Body and LUMEN: Cross-Section Tutorial
•  Problem solve on the Virtual Autopsy site (Leicester University, UK)... Gray's Anatomy Online
• The Whole ECG

• JayDoc HISTOWEB and Histology Tutorial
• All the Virology on the Web and The Big Picture Book of Viruses
• NetBioChem: Review Tables and NetBioChemTopics
• Medical Microbiology... Photo Gallery of Bacterial Pathogens ... Virtual Museum of Bacteria
• Biochemistry Online...  Hematology Atlas
• Google Directory: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Infectious Disease Index (CDC)

• UCHC's very own PathWeb and University of Utah's WebPath
• It's Big... Radiology Education Files and RADPATH - Brigham & Women's Hospital Radiology Teaching Files
• Radiology Picture of the Day and Anatomic Radiology Teaching File (Univ. of Washington)
• Radiopaedia
• RADSWiki... MyPacs.net  is a free shared file site with 1000's of images...  an example: Neonatal Carcinoma
• CHORUS: Collaborative Hypertext of Radiology
• Aunt Minnie is a cool free site...  tutorials ("Case of the Day") and practice exams. You must register (free) and sign in to use this site.

• Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database (UCHC only)
• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NIH)
• IBIDS: International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (NIH)
• Phytochemical & Ethnobotanical Database  - Agricultural Research Service
• Reliable CAM sites: Alternative Medicine (McMaster University)... Alternative Medicine Homepage (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
• Holistic Healing Web Page
• A goofy site about science: JunkScience

• Entrez (Cross-Search Platform for Life Sciences)
• National Human Genome Research Institute (NIH)
• Wikipedia: Molecular Biology
• Ensembl Genome Browser and Cell & Molecular Biology Online and Virtual Library: BioSciences
• Virtual Library on Genetics and BioTECH

• Want today's medical news? MedlinePlus
• EurekALERT... HealthNews... New Scientist... WikiNews... CyberRounds (registration is required but free)
• Interesting diversions... ScienceBlogs: Medicine and Seed Magazine
• MedBlog: Consider the Evidence-MedPeds Journal Roundup
• News not about medicine: Redd-It and NewsVine

 
• Looking for PODCASTS? Try Access Medicine... Johns Hopkins Medical Podcasts... Clinical Podcasts... UCTV Podcasts... UVa: Podcasts & Webcasts...  iCritical Care... TWIMS (this week in medical school)... FirstAidPod... MedKasts... NIH Research Podcasts... PODFeed Directory... Wikipedia on Podcasting

• UCHC Library PDA Page... an excellent all-purpose page for PDA info
• PDA-MD and PDA-MD Student Forum (a blog)
• PDA Websites/Software (Univ. of Florida) and Medical Pocket PC
• DoctorsGadgets and Tucows: PDA Medicine/Reference
• National Guidelines Clearinghouse for PDAs
• Information Week: News

• Bioethics Research Page and BioethicsWeb and National Institute of Health: Bioethics
• Google Directory: Applied Ethics
• The Hastings Center and The Commonwealth Fund and Center for Bioethics
• World Medical Association: Bioethics Manual
• BMJ: Informed Consent and Patients' Bill of Rights (American Hospital Association)
• National Institute for Literacy
• MedlinePlus: Interactive Health Tutorials for Patients
• End of Life Care and Hospice Care and End of Life Issues
• Video: Advanced Directives (Series: Medical Ethics and Humanities in End of Life Care list - here )
• Blog: Health Policy and Marketplace Review
• Really useful: American Sign Language Video Dictionary... pick a word or concept, watch it signed

• Micromedex... Lexi-Comp... StatRef!... for core online pharmacy texts (UCHC only)
• Drug Info at RXList
• CenterWatch: Clinical Trials Listing Service
• CDER: Center for Drug Evaluation Research and Clinical Trials
• Complementary & Alternative Medicine products...  Natural Medicines Database (UCHC only)

• UCHC Library List of Electronic Textbooks (UCHC only)
• Major scientific E-Journals sites:  Highwire Press... ScienceDirect... Blackwell Synergy... Scirus... Elsevier
• BioMedCentral Gateways (E Journals)
• Titles of E-Books via MD Consult (now with 65+ titles) (UCHC only)
• Paedipaedia: An Imaging Virtual Encyclopedia of Paediatric Disease from Virtual Pediatric Hospital
• Newspapers Online from around the World
• Bartleby: Books Online

• UConn Storrs Library Reference Shelf
• Online Dictionaries and MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia
• Medical Mnenomics List and MedTerms Medical Dictionary
• My Virtual Reference Desk and Internet Public Library and Yahoo - Reference Sources
• Online Style & Usage Manuals and Instructions for Authors
• Wikipedia List of Timelines
• TheKraftyLibrarian and Second Life Library 2.0

• LibWeb: 2700 Libraries from 70 countries and College & University Library Web Sites
• Yahoo - Libraries
• NIH Library and National Library of Medicine
• Library of Congress and its' digital archive of American life over the centuries: American Memory

• UCHC Library - Database Guides and Handouts
• Wikipedia Portal... Librarians' Internet Index... U.S. Phone-Area Codes by State
• Find 4,000 social networks to join - or create your own - on Ning
• Before you get in your car, check... MapQuest and Weather Forecasts
• International travel advisories or warnings from Dept. of State or Canada Bureau of Foreign Affairs
• Something broken?  Look it up on How Stuff Works

Sites compiled by UCHC reference librarian, Kathleen Crea, MLS, 6th Year, AHIP
Last Updated: 8/7/07
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