Websites and Web Applications
The following websites cover a variety of medical, scientific, reference, and educational topics. Browse the alphabetical list or search for terms that appear in the website descriptions.Browse
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PHYSICIAN Websites
The Library has 396 websites and
23 results for the descriptor "physician".
- Provider:Johns Hopkins University
- Keywords: drugs , infectious disease , PDA access , CME , physician
- Description: Browse this website by diagnosis, drug, pathogen, management and vaccine categories. Free registration required. This site is meant for medical professionals. Also contains links to other Johns Hopkins resources- their Division of Infectious Diseases, Center for Global Health, HIV Guide and more.
- Provider:American Medical Association (AMA)
- Keywords: consumer health , health services , physician
- Description: A physician search site provided by the American Medical Association. Search either by surname and state, or by specialty, state and city.
- Provider:American Academy of Neurology
- Keywords: advocacy , clinical practice guidelines , neurology , news , CME , physician , healthcare professional , patient education , disease , brain
- Description: The American Academy of Neurology website provides a wealth of resources for the professional: an online community, CME opportunities, news, links on legislation affecting neurology, practice guidelines, position statements, podcasts, and sections devoted to neurologic specialties. Medical students, residents and fellows get special attention. Medical and PhD students who do not want a subscription to the Academy's journal can still register for free access to certain features of the website. Some resources, podcasts, for instance, are available only to AAN members. A section for patients and caregivers promotes greater understanding of neurology, and provides information on diseases and disorders, as well as links to further information.
- Provider:U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Keywords: bone , consumer health , disaster , emergency medicine , federal agencies , clinical practice guidelines , public health , radiation , syndrome , toxins , tutorial , environmental , physician , patient education , population , dosage , skin , emergency preparedness
- Description: This sector of the CDC website on radiation emergencies is a prime resource on radiation disasters for public health professionals, emergency responders and individual healthcare practitioners. It presents patient and management information, guidelines and recommendations, and links to additional online training resources, including short videos. Some fact sheets contain general information suitable for the layman: being prepared, sheltering in place and other protective measures, facts about contamination levels and substances in food and water, the difference between contamination and exposure, and more.
- Provider:CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Keywords: consumer health , federal agencies , infectious disease , public health , communicable diseases , physician , disease , podcasts , RSS feed , travel medicine , H1N1 , pandemic , epidemic , zoonoses
- Description: This web page from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maps influenza activity around the world, updated weekly. It also provides guidance for health care professionals and the public.
- Provider:Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education
- Keywords: audiology , conference , courseware , dentistry , emergency medicine , infectious disease , nursing , pharmacology , psychiatry , psychology , social work , student , surgery , video , neurology , continuing education , CME , bioengineering , physician , podcasts , dermatology , ophthalmology , allergy , cardiology
- Description: The Cleveland Clinic, certified by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, provides this website with a wide selection of (text and video) online CME units in approximately 40 medical specialties. Nursing, Dentistry and Health Care Administration are included along with medical specialties from Allergy/Immunology to Women's Health. A series of fee-based, live CME conferences is also offered.
- Provider:CureHunter Inc.
- Keywords: decision support , drugs , evidence-based practice , pharmaceutical , point-of-care , research , scientist , search , physician , reports , deep web , vaccine , biologics
- Description: This integrated search, data retrieval and analysis utility does semantic searching of the NLM Medline archive for pharmaceutical and biological-agent treatments of diseases, returning evidence-based results in seconds. Experts' names are listed in hypertext. WARNING: This search engine is NOT a free service. We provide this link for informational purposes only. An individual subscription or per-report payment is required. Available to medical professionals in research interface and mobile versions; a patient interface is also available. Individual .pdf reports can be purchased, with ongoing updates included, with access lasting for a 3-year period.
- Provider:American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychiatric Foundation
- Keywords: disaster , drugs , ethics , point-of-care , psychiatry , public health , physician , PTSD
- Description: This brief handbook, full of authoritative references and written for psychiatric health professionals, contains chapters on cultural and ethnic considerations, medico-legal issues, communicating through the media, and providing guidance for parents and caregivers.
- Provider:Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education
- Keywords: diagnosis , clinical practice guidelines , point-of-care , physician , disease
- Description: The Disease Management Project is an online medical reference designed to provide nationally established treatment guidelines for the most commonly seen diseases and conditions. This freely accessible, illustrated resource is arranged in sections by discipline, with chapters under each. A fuller version has also been published as a book. "Authored by specialists at The Cleveland Clinic, each chapter is designed to incorporate national clinical practice guidelines in a fashion which is simple, straightforward, and of maximum clinical utility."
- Provider:Administrators in Medicine (AIM)
- Keywords: consumer health , ethics , licensing , Texas , organizations, societies , physician , healthcare professional
- Description: Texas DocFinder enables the user to research individual physicians. Find the number, status, type and expiration date of a physician's license; check on whether the Texas Board of Medical Examiners has taken disciplinary action against a physician; and learn details of the physician's education and credentials for the stated medical specialty.
- Provider:EPERC (End of Life/Palliative Education Resource Center)
- Keywords: care , education , geriatrics , physician , palliative care , hospice
- Description: This site provides links to educational materials, fact sheets, and other Web resources. The purpose of the EPERC is "to share educational resource material among the community of health professional educators involved in palliative care education." Visitors who will find these materials particularly helpful include nurses, physicians, and other health care professionals. Under the Browse heading on the homepage, visitors can look over nine sections, including Cases, Presentations, and Education Manuals. Along with looking through each of these sections, users can search all of the materials for items that are most germane to their fields.
- Provider:Health Sciences Library, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington
- Keywords: creative commons , culture , psychology , society , free , physician , patient education , hospitals , clinics , special populations
- Description: "EthnoMed was designed to be used in clinics in the few minutes before seeing a patient." This website actually provides an excellent multi-faceted service, a hub of well-rounded ethnic information for those who serve diverse communities. Links to, or full text of, multilingual patient education materials constitute one solid reason for visiting this website. There are also sections that present a wealth of useful and interesting knowledge about cultures-- customs and mores, religion, health beliefs and practices-- helpful to care providers who want to take a correct and culturally competent approach when relating to their immigrant and refugee patients.
- Provider:Duke University Medical Center
- Keywords: genetics , open access , student , syndrome , physician , images , glossary of terms , eye , ophthalmology , pathology
- Description: This website is the product of a felicitous partnership between two professors, a pathologist and an ophthalmologist, at Duke University Medical Center. This is a web-based instructional environment designed as a teaching and reference tool for health professionals from first-year medical students to ophthalmic pathologists. The Eye Pathologist presents more than 5,000 diseases affecting the eye and other tissues, is illustrated with several thousand high-quality images, and also includes dynamic links to a glossary of over 6,000 definitions. Overview pages on all diseases are accessible without registration, but to see all pages and take full advantage of the program's features, free registration is required. The developers encourage user feedback via a form available from the program's menu.
- Provider:Sapiens Global Library Limited
- Keywords: cancer , consumer health , laboratory , medicine , oncology , women , peer review , physician , patient education
- Description: This website contains both open-access and restricted-access content. Available to all are 44 "chapters" written by professionals on gynecology and obstetrics, gynecologic oncology, maternal/fetal medicine, reproductive endocrinology, genetics and fertility. For medical professionals, free registration provides access to a medical atlas, laboratory tests, a video library and patient education materials. All content is said to be peer-reviewed.
- Provider:EBSCO Publishing
- Keywords: evidence-based practice , nursing , point-of-care , free , physician , patient education , H1N1
- Description: Within several of its databases, EBSCO is providing free resources on H1N1 Influenza. From this portal one can link to categories of clinical information in DynaMed, nursing information in Nursing Reference Center, and patient information inside PERC.
- Provider:U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Keywords: consumer health , federal agencies , laboratory , medical devices , products , radiation , collaborative , physician , healthcare professional , neonatal , regulations , safety , ophthalmology , cardiology , heart
- Description: MEDSUN "...is an adverse event reporting program launched in 2002 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). The primary goal for MedSun is to work collaboratively with the clinical community to identify, understand, and solve problems with the use of medical devices. Over 350 health care facilities, primarily hospitals, participate in the entire MedSun network." There are MEDSUN sub-networks for various conditions and clinical settings in which medical devices are commonly used: HeartNet, HomeNet, KidNet (neonates), LabNet, SightNet and TissueNet.
- Provider:National Institutes of Health
- Keywords: biomedical research , clinical trials , consumer health , diet , education , federal agencies , clinical practice guidelines , laboratory , research , scientist , systems biology , U.S. Government , links , NIH , physician , healthcare professional , patient education , disease , RSS feed , blood , cardiology , heart , pulmonary
- Description: "The Institute plans, conducts, fosters and supports an integrated and coordinated program of basic research, clinical investigations and trials, observational studies, and demonstration and education projects." There is a wealth of information here, through links and integral content, for patients, researchers and health care professionals. Includes information on new clinical trials and provides links to individual clinical trial websites. For consumers, there is a special Health Information Network one can sign up for, which will then feed only the information of particular interest to the individual user.
- Provider:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Keywords: consumer health , genomics , public health , U.S. Government , physician , child , population
- Description: The CDC presents links and resources for consumers and health professionals here. Topics include genetic counseling and testing, newborn screening, population research, genomics and more.
- Provider:National Institutes of Health/National Center for Research Resources
- Keywords: clinical studies , clinical trials , medicine , networking , research , science , scientist , U.S. Government , NIH , physician
- Description: This website from Department of Health and Human Service's Clinical and Translational Science Awards consortium is for researchers recruiting subjects, and for those who would like to volunteer to participate in clinical and other health studies. (University of Texas Health Science Center Houston's Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences and UT Medical Branch's Institute for Translational Sciences are members of CTSA.) Institutions and potential volunteers register here; personal information of volunteers is kept secure. "Anyone can join ResearchMatch. Many studies are looking for healthy people... while some are looking for people with specific health conditions. ResearchMatch can help ‘match’ you with any type of research study, ranging from surveys to clinical trials, always giving you the choice to decide what studies may interest you."
- Provider:Texas Department of State Health Services
- Keywords: consumer health , public health , Spanish , Texas , communicable diseases , physician , H1N1 , pandemic , epidemic , zoonoses
- Description: This page includes personal and family preparedness advice, information for health care professionals, and the Department's news on Swine Flu in the state of Texas, including school closings. Links to updated CDC information are also provided.
- Provider:Texas Medical Board
- Keywords: alternative medicine , certification , law , legal , licensing , Spanish , statistical , news , physician , reports
- Description: This is the official website of the Texas Medical Board, providing information for licensing of physicians, physician assistants, and acupuncturists in the state of Texas. Their stated mission is "to protect and enhance the public's health, safety and welfare by establishing and maintaining standards of excellence used in regulating the practice of medicine and ensuring quality health care for the citizen of Texas through licensure, discipline, and education."
- Provider:Webmed Limited, UK
- Keywords: e-publishing , journal , networking , open access , research , science , scientist , faculty , peer review , physician
- Description: A new open-access publishing venue featuring post-publication peer review.
- Provider:AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges)
- Keywords: advocacy , blog , care , graduate medical education , health sciences , healthcare , healthcare policy , healthcare system , law , management , medicine , networking , policy , quality , trend , workplace , healthcare administration , standard of care , faculty , free , news , health services , physician , healthcare professional , hospitals , HIPAA , interactive
- Description: Wing of Zock is a blog from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC.) It provides a new forum for faculty, residents and administrators at U.S. academic medical centers to share best practices in the new health care environment. Posts are to discuss issues in patient safety, innovations in the delivery of care, technology, quality of care, payment reform and other topics affecting patient treatment and medical education.
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