Medicine Internet Resources

Board Exams/Licensure

• Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
  (http://www.acgme.org)
  
• American Accreditation HealthCare Commission
  (http://www.urac.org)
  
• American Medical Association Licensure Online
  (http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2543.html)
  
• Federation of State Medical Boards
  (http://www.fsmb.org)
  
• JCAHO
  (http://www.jcaho.org)
  
• United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE)
  (http://www.usmle.org)

Clinical Guidelines
(http://www.hshsl.umaryland.edu/resources/clinical.html)

Clinical Trials
(http://www.hshsl.umaryland.edu/resources/trials.html)

Consumer Health
(http://www.hshsl.umaryland.edu/consumer/)

Continuing Medical Education

• American Medical Association CME Library
  (http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/5008.html)
  
• Integrated Medical Curriculum Continuing Education
  (http://www.imc.gsm.com/conted.html)
  
• Medical Simulations
  (http://medicalsimulations.com/index.html)
  
• Medsite's Interactive Grand Rounds
  (http://igr.medsite.com)
  
• Online CME Sites from Bernard Sklar, M.D.
  (http://www.cmelist.com/)

Databases

The following is a selected list chosen from the HS/HSL list of databases.

• BioMed Central
• Cochrane Systematic Reviews (via EBM Reviews in Ovid)
• Current Research at University of Maryland, Baltimore, Dissertations and Theses
• Evidence Based Medicine Reviews
• Facts and Comparisons (e-Facts)
• Journal Citation Reports
  
• MD Consult
• Medline Daily Update
• MEDLINE® In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations
  
• MEDLINE 1996 - present
• Medline 1966 - present
• Medline 1966 - 1995
  
• Micromedex
• OldMedline
  
• PubMed
  
• Science Citation Index Expanded
  
• TOXNET (Toxicology Data Network)
• UpToDate

Directories/Associations

• AAMC Medical Schools of the U.S. and Canada
  (http://www.aamc.org/medicalschools.htm)
  
• AMA Physician Select
  (http://www.ama-assn.org/aps/amahg.htm)
  
• American Board of Medical Specialties
  (http://www.abms.org/newsearch.asp)
  
• American Hospital Directory
  (http://www.ahd.com/)
  
• Council of Teaching Hospitals (AAMC)
  (http://www.aamc.org/teachinghospitals.htm)
  
• Directory of Health Organizations
  (http://dirline.nlm.nih.gov)
  
• MedChi, the Maryland State Medical Society
  (http://www.medchi.org)
  

Electronic Journals

• Electronic Journals provided by the HS/HSL
  (http://QB9TY5CH5H.search.serialssolutions.com)
  
• FreeMedicalJournals.com
  (http://www.freemedicaljournals.com)
  
• PubMed Central
  (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/)

Environmental Health
(http://www.hshsl.umaryland.edu/resources/environment.html)

Evidence Based Practice
(http://www.hshsl.umaryland.edu/resources/evidence.html)

General Resources- collections of medical resources on the internet

• eMedicine
  (http://www.emedicine.com)
  
• HealthLinks
  (http://healthlinks.washington.edu/)
  
• HealthWeb
  (http://www.healthweb.org/)
  
• Medical Matrix
  (http://www.medmatrix.org/index.asp)
  
• Medscape
  (http://www.medscape.com)

Government Resources

Federal

• Administration on Aging
  (http://www.aoa.gov/)
  
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
  (http://www.ahrq.gov/)
  
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
  (http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  (http://www.cdc.gov/)
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
  (http://cms.hhs.gov/)
• Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
  (http://www.hhs.gov/)
  
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  (http://www.fda.gov/)
  
• Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
  (http://www.hrsa.gov/)
  
• Indian Health Service (IHS)
  (http://www.ihs.gov/)
  
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) - list of agencies
  (http://www.hshsl.umaryland.edu/resources/nih.html)
  
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
  (http://www.samhsa.gov/)

State/Local

• Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
  (http://www.dhmh.state.md.us/)
  
• City of Baltimore Health Department
  (http://www.ci.baltimore.md.us/government/health/)

Human Genome
(http://www.hshsl.umaryland.edu/resources/human.html)

Journal Information

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

Medical Ethics

• Bioethics.net The American Journal of Bioethics online
  (http://www.ajobonline.com/)
  
• Bioethics Resources on the Web
  (http://www.nih.gov/sigs/bioethics/)
  
• National Bioethics Advisory Commission
  (http://bioethics.gov)

Meetings & Conferences

• Doctor's Guide Congress Resource Centre
  (http://www.docguide.com/crc.nsf/web-bySpec?OpenForm)
  
• MedicalConferences.com
  (http://www.medicalconferences.com/index.html)
• NatureEvents
  (http://www.nature.com/nature-events/)

News

• Reuters Health Information
  (http://www.reutershealth.com/)
  
• EurekAlert
  (http://www.eurekalert.org/)

Research and Funding

• Research Funding
  (http://www.hshsl.umaryland.edu/resources/research.html)
  
• Community of Science
  (http://fundingopps.cos.com/)
  
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  (http://www.hhmi.org/grants/)
  
• Human Participant Protections Education for Research Teams (NIH)
  (http://cme.nci.nih.gov/)
  
• National Information Center on Health Services Research & Health Care Technology
  (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/nichsr.html)
  
• NIH Office of Extramural Research
  (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/OER.htm)

Statistics
(http://www.hshsl.umaryland.edu/resources/statsbysub.html)

UMB Resources

• Biotechnology Institute
  (http://www.umbi.umd.edu)
  
• Complementary Medicine Program
  (http://www.compmed.umm.edu/)
  
• Department of Medical and Research Technology
  (http://medschool.umaryland.edu/dmrt/)
  
• Department of Physical Therapy
  (http://pt.umaryland.edu)
  
• Graduate School
  (http://graduate.umaryland.edu)
  
• Institutional Review Board
  (http://medschool.umaryland.edu/ors/umdirb.htm)
  
• Office of External Affairs
  (http://www.oea.umaryland.edu/)
  
• Office of Graduate and Continuing Medical Education
  (http://gcme.umaryland.edu/)
  
• Office of Medical Education
  (http://medscope.umaryland.edu/login.html)
  
• Office for Research Subjects
  (http://medschool.umaryland.edu/ors/smORS.html)
  
• Residency and Fellowship Directory, UMMC
  (http://www.umm.edu/fellowship/)
  
• School of Medicine
  (http://medschool.umaryland.edu)
  
• University of Maryland Medicine
  (http://umm.edu)