Medical and Research Technology Resources

Accreditation and Certification

• American Certification Agency for Health Care Professionals
  (http://www.acacert.com/)
  
• American Medical Technologists
  (http://www.amt1.com/)
  
• American Society for Clinical Pathology Board of Registry
  (http://www.ascp.org/bor/)
  
• American Society of Phlebotomy Technicians
  (http://www.aspt.org/)
  
• COLA
  (http://www.cola.org/)
  
• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Facilities (JCAHO)
  Select "Pathology and Clinical Laboratory Services" under "Accredidation
  Programs"
  (http://www.jcaho.org/htba/index.htm)
  
• Medical Laboratory Evaluation
  from The American College of Physicians and the American Society of Internal Medicine
  (http://www.acponline.org/mle/)
  
• National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences
  (http://www.naacls.org/)
  
• National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards
  (http://www.nccls.org/)
  
• National Credentialing Agency for Laboratory Personnel (NCA)
  (http://www.nca-info.org/)

Associations and Organizations

American Association for Clinical Chemistry
(http://www.aacc.org/)
American Association of Bioanalysts
(http://www.aab.org/)
American Association of Blood Banks
(http://www.aabb.org/)
American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science
(http://www.ascls.org/)
American Society for Clinical Pathology
(http://www.ascp.org/)
American Society for Cytotechnology
(http://www.asct.com/)
American Society for Microbiology
(http://www.asm.org/)
American Society of Hematology
(http://www.hematology.org/)
American Society of Parasitologists
(http://asp.unl.edu/)
Association for Molecular Pathology
(http://www.amp.org/)
Association of Genetic Technologists
(http://www.agt-info.org/default.aspx)
Association of Medical Laboratory Immunologists
(http://www.amli.org/)
Association of Public Health Laboratories
(http://www.aphl.org/)
Clinical Cytometry Society
(http://www.cytometry.org/)
Clinical Immunology Society
(http://www.clinimmsoc.org/)
Clinical Laboratory Management Association
(http://www.clma.org/)
College of American Pathologists
(http://www.cap.org/)
International Federation of Biomedical Laboratory Sciences
(http://www.ifbls.org/)
International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
(http://www.ifcc.org/)
National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry
(http://www.nacb.org/)
National Society for Histotechnology
(http://www.nsh.org/)
Society for Hematopathology
(http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nlevy/wwwx.html)

Consumer Resources

• Consumer Laboratory Testing Information
  (http://www.ascls.org/labtesting/)
  
• Diagnostic Tests
  (http://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/diagnostics.shtml)
  
• Lab Tests Online
  (http://www.labtestsonline.org/)
  
• Laboratory Tests that Detect Cancer
  (http://www.cancure.org/tests_to_detect_cancer.htm)

Databases

The following is a selected list chosen from the HS/HSL list of Databases. These databases are available at the Library.

• CINAHL
• Medline
• Science Citation Index

Electronic Books

• Pathology Laboratories Handbook from the University of Michigan Department of Pathology
  (http://www.pathology.med.umich.edu/handbook/)

Electronic Journals

The following were chosen from the HS/HSL list of electronic journals. These journals are available at the Library.

• American Journal of Hematology
• Annals of Hematology
• Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
• Archives of Microbiology
• Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry
• Biochemistry
• Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease
• Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research
• Biochemical Journal
• Bioconjugate Chemistry
• Biotechnology Advances
• Biotechnology Progress
• Biosystems
• Blood: Journal of the American Society of Hematology
• Blood Weekly
• BMC Biochemistry
• BMC Biotechnology
• BMC Blood Disorders
• BMC Chemical Biology
• BMC Clinical Pathology
• British Journal of Haematology
• Cancer Biotechnology Weekly
• Chemico-Biological Interactions
• Clinical & Laboratory Haematology
• Clinical Biochemistry
• Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology
• Current Microbiology
• Current Opinion in Microbiology
• European Journal of Biochemistry
• European Journal of Haematology
• Haematologica
• Histochemistry and Cell Biology
• Histopathology
• International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
• Journal of Applied Microbiology
• Journal of Biological Chemistry Online
• Journal of Biomedical Materials Research
• Journal of Cellular Biochemistry
• Journal of Cellular Physiology
• Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology
• Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis
• Journal of Clinical Pathology
• Journal of Clinical Pathology - Clinical Molecular Pathology Edition
• Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry
• Journal of Molecular Medicine
• Microbiology Online
• Molecular Biology of the Cell
• Molecular Cell
• Molecular Microbiology
• Molecular Pathology
• Pathology - Abingdon
• Pathology International
• Pathology - Research and Practice
• Process Biochemistry
• Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
• Trends in Biochemical Sciences
• Trends in Biotechnology
• Trends in Microbiology

The following journals are available free to the public, directly from the publisher.

• ADVANCE for Administrators of the Laboratory
  (http://www.merion.com/publications.asp?pub=AL)
  
• ADVANCE for Medical Laboratory Professional
  (http://www.merion.com/publications.asp?pub=MT)
  
• Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
  (http://arpa.allenpress.com/arpaonline/?request=index-html
  
• CAP today
  (http://www.cap.org/apps/cap.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=patho_cap_today_page)
  
• Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
  (http://www.degruyter.de/journals/cclm/)
  
• Hemofiltr@tion: International Journal of Hemofiltration and Blood Purification Techniques
  (http://www.invivo.net/hemofiltration/journal/)
  
• Medical Laboratory Observer
  (http://www.mlo-online.com/)

General Resources

• Clinical Laboratory Science Internet Resources
  from Louis B. Caruana of Southwest Texas State University
  (http://members.tripod.com/~LouCaru/index-5.html)
  
• Clinical Laboratory Science WWW Site List
  from the University of Nebraska Medical Center Division of Medical Technology
  (http://www.unmc.edu/AlliedHealth/medtech/labwww.html)
  
• LabExplorer
  (http://www.labexplorer.com/)
  
• WebPath: The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education
  (http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/webpath.html)

Journal Information

• Citing Information
  (http://www.hshsl.umaryland.edu/resources/citing.html)
  
• Journal Abbreviation/Information
  (http://www.hshsl.umaryland.edu/resources/journabb.html)

Tutorials

• Blood Banking Tutorial
  from WebPath
  (http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/BLDBANK/BLDBANK.html)
  
• Blood Types Tutorial
  from the University of Arizona's Biology Project
  (http://www.biology.arizona.edu/human_bio/problem_sets/blood_types/Intro.html)
  
• Plebotomy Tutorial
  (http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/PHLEB/PHLEB.html)
  

UMB Resources

• Department of Medical and Research Technology
  (http://medschool.umaryland.edu/dmrt/)
• Medical Biotechnology Center
  (http://www.umbi.umd.edu/~mbc/)