Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, 2^nd edition, 1996

Online searchable textbook from the Agency for Health Policy and Research (AHCPR), available through the National Library of Medicine's HSTAT service.

Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy

NOTE: The 17^th edition is now available online.

Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR)

Full-text available free to all physicians currently eligible for free copies of printed version. Requires registration.

University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook

Full-text electronic clinical reference book accessible through the Virtual Hospital with the permission of the authors (MA Graber MD, RJ Allen MD, & BT Levy MD) and Mosby-Year Book, Inc.

American Family Physician

Excerpts from current issues of the official clinical journal of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Includes tables of contents and searchable abstracts.

Archives of Family Medicine

Table of contents, searchable abstracts, and selected full-text articles from this AMA family medicine publication are available at this site.

Evidence-Based Medicine

A joint publication from the British Medical Journal Publishing group and the American College of Physicians which includes summaries of recently published articles with commentaries by clinical experts. The site includes table of contents and selected summaries and reviews from the recent issues.

Family Medical Practice On-line

An online international journal of family medical practice and primary care published by Priory Lodge Education Ltd.

Family Medicine

The Official Journal of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. Provides links to tables of contents and abstracts.

Family Practice

Oxford University Press' family practice journal site which includes table of contents, a searchable index and abstracts of recent volumes.

Family Practice Management

The official practice management journal of the American Academy of Family Physicians provides this site which includes excerpts from the current and recent issues. Searchable index of tables of contents.

JAMA

One of web editions of the AMA's Scientific Publications provided as a public service of the AMA. Table of contents of all issues. Abstracts of major manuscripts and selected full-text with one-time free registration.

Journal of Family Medicine On-Line

Published by Current Clinical Strategies Publishing, this is a peer-reviewed journal with full contents of the current issue.

Journal of Family Practice Online

Provides the journal's table of contents, and a link to the JFP Journal Club with full-text of the discussions.

Journal of Primary Care On-Line

Another online journal from Current Clinical Strategies Publishing, this is a peer reviewed and provides full contents of the current issue.

New England Journal of Medicine

On-line edition of weekly journal owned and published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. Tables of contents, abstracts, some full-text.

 

National Guidelines Clearinghouse

The National Guideline Clearinghouse^TM (NGC) is a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC is sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans.

Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines

A clinical practice guideline resource for primary care providers. Clinical or practice guidelines are "quality-improving strategies". Sackett, DL et al in Evidence-based Medicine define them as "user-friendly statements that bring together the best external evidence and other knowledge necessary for decision-making about a specific health problem. From the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine.

Patient Information Handouts from the AAFP

Covering more than 250 health topics, these patient information handouts were originally published in American Family Physician, the AAFP's clinical journal. The patient handouts are conveniently arranged into four main categories: The Body, Common Conditions/Diseases/Disorders, Treatments, and Healthy Living.

The National Library of Medicine's MEDLINEplus

A large, selective listing of patient information sites available on the Web.

Following are links to CME resources. Online CME sources as well as conferences and publications are listed at these sites.

Doctor's Guide to Medical Conferences & Meetings

Health on the Net: Conferences & Events

AMA CME Select

CME Calendar

cmeWeb

CME Gateway

Medscape - CME Center

PubMed

PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that provides access to over 10 million citations in MEDLINE and PreMEDLINE, with links to participating online journals.

These sites are useful for finding medical information on the Web, as opposed to search engines and indices used for finding for all types of information.

Medical Matrix

A premier index to medical information available on the web. Well-organized and easy to navigate.

Doctor's Guide to the Internet

This site lists medical resources on the Internet specifically for the physician. Information on conferences, new drugs, and new Web sites of interest are available, as well as a virtual medical bookstore.

Health On the Net Foundation

MedHunt, Health on the Net [HON]'s search engine, lists reviewed sites (when available). Topics may be searched by keyword.

Medscape

Pharmaceutical information, a career center, a bookstore and a CME locator are among the features of this site. Information organized by medical specialty is available.

Medical World Search

The site allows the user to search for a topic among "major medical websites," the National Library of Medicine's PubMed interface to MEDLINE, or commercial web search engines. A useful place to start a comprehensive search for medical information.

American Hospital Directory

Comparative statistics and information is available for most hospitals in the U.S. Hospitals can be searched by region or city. Information includes # of beds, contact information, services provided, etc.