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

Best of the Web - http://botw.org/top/Health/Medicine/

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

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

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/

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

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

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/

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.

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

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

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