Links to Other Sites

AAFP on-line student membership application also contains links to other student-oriented portions of the AAFP web site - http://www.aafp.org/studentbenefits.xml

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PRACTICE - PHYSICIAN HANDOUTS (An excellent site for obtaining many great patient education handouts on many diagnoses)- http://familydoctor.org/

The American Heart Association has a free, Web-based heart attack and stroke prevention program offering personalized advice to inform and motivate people to change behavior that could endanger their health. The One Of A Kind program focuses on the risk factors that lead to heart attack and stroke that people can change or treat - www.onelife.americanheart.org

THE AUSCULTATION ASSISTANT (tune up your listening skills on heart murmurs) – http://www.med.ucla.edu/wilkes/ntro. html

BETWEEN ROUNDS - offers online practice resources and advice, insightful reporting, and an interactive forum on the hottest topics about today's challenging practice environment. http://www.betweenrounds.com

MEDLINE PLUS - a library for consumer health from the National Library of Medicine - http://www.medlineplus.gov/

Canadian Library of Family Medicine Sites of Interest to Family Physicians. Includes links to journals and newsletters, and guidelines and evidence based medicine at http://www.uwo.ca/fammed/clfm/sites.html

CANCER BY GEOGRAPHY: The National Cancer Institute has published a resource called "The Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States, 1950-94." The Atlas is available on the Web at www.nci.nih.gov/atlas.

CBS HealthWatch – part of the Medscape Network, focuses on the needs of health care consumers. http://CBS.HealthWatch.com

The CDC has issued revised pediatric growth charts, replacing those that have been in use since 1977.  The new version figures body mass index in the calculation of the child’s growth and development. To view the charts, visit the Web site at http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts.

CDC TRAVEL INFORMATION (travel advice for anywhere with all the information you need for advising your patients, or for their own education) - http://www.cdc.gov/travel/index.htm

ClinicalTrials.gov: developed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health to provide current information about clinical research studies - http://clinicaltrials.gov/

CNN Health - http://cnn.com/HEALTH/

Core Education Guidelines for Family Medicine Residents may be reviewed, downloaded and printed from the AAFP Web site at http://www.aafp.org/eduguide.xml

Dept. of Health & Human Services Web site with Notice of Proposed Rule Making regarding Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information http://aspe.hhs.gov/admnsimp/

Doctor's Guide to New Drugs or Indications http://www.pslgroup.com/newdrugs.htm

DoctorNet Free Homepages - http://www.doctornet.com/frhoform.cgi

The Doctors of the World - http://www.doctorsoftheworld.org

THE DOCTORS' PAGE - designed by a physician for physicians, features medical links, humor, patient education, online coding resources, and Internet search tools. http://www.DoctorsPage.net/

Doctors Without Borders - http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

DR. KOOPS COMMUNITY (A good site for answering questions and finding out about almost any health topic, as well as health news for your patients) http://www.drkoop.com

FamilyPractice.com now has a comprehensive "Patient Information Center" which includes a Symptom Checker, Find-A-Doctor and Medical Dictionary. It also has a Virtual Lecture Series, "Legal and Ethical Issues Affecting Pain Management: Fact or Fiction?" which is available for free CME credit.

Fertile Thoughts - devoted to the needs of infertile couples http://www.fertilethoughts.net/

Free Medical Journals - http://www.freemedicaljournals.com

Gist of Emergency Medicine  http://erbook.com/ -- Download free the 1998 edition.

Go Ask Alice: Put together by Columbia University Health Education Program-answers questions - http://www.goaskalice.columbia. edu/index.html

HEALTHFINDER (Government resource catalogue site)-http://www.healthfinder.gov

Health on the Net Foundation - http://www.hon.ch/home.html

The Health Pages on New Jersey Online --features a wealth of articles on health and money, industry reports on medical specialties, and a search of over 22,500 doctors, dentists and other health resources, as well as articles from the Health & Fitness section of the Newark Star-Ledger newspaper. http://www.nj.com/healthfit/

HealthWeb an Internet site that directs consumers and medical professionals to Web pages of health resources, sponsored by a consortium of 22 medical centers who describe it as an entry point to the Web for educational, research and clinical purposes - http://healthweb.org

International Federation of Medical Students' Associations - http://www.ifmsa.org/

Kansas Academy of Family Physicians - http://kafponline.org

MedConnect -- 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. http://www.medconnect.com/

MEDICAL CAREERS 2000 - career links and the Nexus online job bank, users can post and view CVs for free. There are also some useful tools, such as a mortgage calculator and a moving estimator.  http://www.angelfire.com/biz/medicalcareers/mainpage.html

MedicineNet is a network of doctors producing comprehensive, up-to-date health information for the public from a doctor's perspective - http://www.medicinenet.com/

MediStaff - http://www.medistaff.com/

Medline Plus – Trusted Health Information for You. A service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health.- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

Mercy Corps International - http://www.mercycorps.org/

The Merck Manual Home Edition is available online in an interactive edition and a text edition. http://www.merckhomeedition.com/

The following titles from the National Academy Press catalog and backlist are now available online.

Public Confidence and Involvement in Clinical Research: Symposium Summary, Clinical Roundtable, September 2000 http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10155.html?onpi_listserv070601

Exploring the Map of Clinical Research for the Coming Decade: Symposium Summary, Clinical Roundtable, December 2000 http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10156.html?onpi_listserv070601

NCEMI DOSE CALCULATOR (on line algorithms, calculators, and diagrams -extensive) – http://ncemi.org

Office of the Surgeon General of the U.S. http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/

Partnerships for Quality Education: Academic health centers and managed care organizations have joined together to foster high quality patient care - http://www.pqe.org/

The PDR for Herbal Medicines is now available at the following web site: www.pdr.net.

STFM Web site has added on-line conference proceedings from previous meetings. If you are researching a particular family medicine topic or looking for a colleague with similar research interests, these proceedings may be a useful resource for you. Users are encouraged to use the search engine on the home page to find a particular topic or presenter. To facilitate networking, readers can click on presenters whose names are underlined to send an e-mail message.  URL is http://stfm.org/prevmet.html

Strolling through the Match – a guidebook to residency selection - http://www.aafp.org/x20259.xml

SuccessTypes Medical Education Page - This site was created to foster the academic success of both premedical students and medical students by extending the SuccessTypes philosophy of personal development from the printed page to the Internet. http://www.ttuhsc.edu/success/

TopicDoc -- new name for MedCite is a medical literature service www.topicdoc.com/intelihealth

Violence Education -- created by STFM Group on Violence Education to facilitate the dissemination of information and encourage discussion on the topic of violence as it relates to health care: http://www.stfm.org/bookstore/ (click on Family Systems)

Virtual Autopsy--- Aspiring pathologists can now hone their medical skills by performing a virtual reality autopsy on the Internet. Designed for medical undergraduates in early training but anyone can try it at: http://www.le.ac.uk/pathology/teach/va/welcome.html

VIRTUAL HOSPITAL PATIENT INFORMATION (A good site for more information and searches by the patient on many medical topics) - http://www.vh.org/Patients/Patients.html

VOLC-R FAMILY MEDICINE RESOURCES (many useful addresses for medical reference) - http://griffin.vcu.edu/~dimlist/

WEBMEDLIT (tracks 22 on-line journals)- http://www.webmedlit.com

Wesley Medical Center’s online CME calendar can be viewed here.