Medical-Surgical Resources

 [General Medical Sites] [Medical Dictionaries] [Pathology Sites] [Teaching Aides] 

General Medical Sites

• Alternative Medicine Home Page - Links to legitimate alternative medicine information as well as information on fraud and quackery

• AMEDEO - Subscribe to abstracts of the latest medical information in several categories; free - requires free registration
• Chronic Illness - ChronicIllNet -provides information on numerous chronic illnesses
• Combined Health Information Database - Search several US government resources with one engine
• eMedicine - Search several online journals; an evolving site that appears to be free 
• eMedicine's eTools - Great site, full of algorithms, calculators, tables, scores, and much more
• FreeMedicalJournals.com - A growing list of medical journals
• g-tube.com - All about gastric tubes, by Denise Boyd.  Features extensive information and support and dedicated to Denise's daughter, Alison
• Health Information Network  - International resources; links to medical article searching
• Internurse - British online nursing journal with articles on clinical practice
• Iron Overload Diseases Association, Inc. - A nonprofit organization devoted to hemochromatosis

• LibWeb - Access libraries from 100 countries

• Medical Matrix - Medical search engine; requires paid registration

• MerckMedicus - Particularly good to access to the online Merck Manual and Praxis.md.  Unfortunately, you must be a physician to access some resources on this site (sigh!), but take advantage of the resources you can use
• Medical Algorithms Project - An astounding website with over 3500 algorithms, defined at the site as "any computation, formula, survey, or look-up table, useful in healthcare.
• MedlinePLUS - From the National Library of Medicine

• Medscape - Comprehensive information, a newsletter for nurses

• National Institute of Environmental Health

• Pathology guy - Figure out what is going on in your patient
• Help your patients who can't afford their medications:  RxAssist - From the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a means to find your patients affordable medications

• The Virtual Hospital - Fom the University of Iowa, an outstanding site

Medical Dictionaries

• Medical terms - From the Health on the Net website 
• MedSpanish - For the ER; translates medical terms

• Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary - From Intellihealth

• MT Desk - From the Andrews School of Medical Transcription - medical dictionary and more

• Multilingual Glossary of technical and popular medical terms in nine European Languages - From the Heymans Institute of Pharmacology, University of Gent and Mercator College, Department of Applied Linguistics Gent, Belgium

Lab/Pathology/Xray Sites

• Digital "Splice of Life"  - An enormous collection of digital images of diseases and systems; developed by the Knowledge Weavers Project, Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
• Internet Pathology Laboratory - From the University of Utah and Florida State University
• Lab Tests Online - Excellent, comprehensive site
• Medical Laboratory Observer - Excellent online journal

• MedPix™ - Radiology images online from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

• Pathology Online - Extensive site with surgical pathology outlines

• Pathology Lab Handbook - From the University of Michigan

• RadiologyInfo - Provides educational materials for clients preparing for various x-rays; offered by the American College of Radiology and the Radiological Society of North America.

• University of Washington Department of Radiology Online Teaching Materials - Describes common x-rays and offers lectures and films for common conditions

Teaching Aides

• Feldman's GastroAtlas Online collection of gastroenterology images
• The Medical Algorithms Project - From Quanta Healthcare Solutions, Inc.  Contains more than 3500 algorithms in all specialties as well as multiple research instruments.
• Multimedia teaching files from the Virtual Hospital, University of Iowa

• Visual Human Project - An ongoing project of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and others

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