Internet Resources for Family Physicians

Author: Richard Rathe, MD / rrathe@dean.med.ufl.edu Location: http://www.medinfo.ufl.edu/cme/inet/inetres.html Created: April 11, 1997 Modified: August 18, 1999

Search Engines

Internet Address Finder: http://www.iaf.net/	WhoWhere?: http://www.whowhere.lycos.com/
Alta Vista: http://www.altavista.com/	InfoSeek: http://infoseek.go.com/
HotBot: http://www.hotbot.com/	Lycos: http://www.lycos.com/
WebCrawler: http://webcrawler.com/	Northern Light: http://www.northernlight.com/
Tile.Net/Lists: http://tile.net/lists/	Deja.com: http://www.deja.com/

Directories

CliniWeb - An Index of Clinical Information on the World Wide Web: http://www.ohsu.edu/cliniweb/
Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/
Hospitals on the Web: http://neuro-www.mgh.harvard.edu/hospitalweb.nclk
List of Family Medicine-Related Internet Resources: http://views.vcu.edu/views/fap/volc-r.html
List of Family Practice Residency Programs on the Web: http://www.webcom.com/wooming/residenc/famprac.html
Martindale's Health Science Guide - Primary Care: http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/~martindale/MedicalClinical.html
Medical Matrix - Guide to Internet Clinical Medicine Resources: http://www.medmatrix.org/
MedWeb - Biomedical Internet Resources: http://www.cc.emory.edu/WHSCL/medweb.html
MedWeb - Electronic Newsletters and Journals: http://www.emory.edu/WHSCL/medweb.ejs.html
MedWeb - List of Medical Centers and Medical Schools: http://www.cc.emory.edu/WHSCL/medweb.schools.html
WWW Virtual Library - Biosciences Ų Medicine: http://www.ohsu.edu/cliniweb/wwwvl/all.html
Yahoo! - Health Top Level Directory: http://dir.yahoo.com/health/
Tile.Net/Lists - Listserv Directory: http://tile.net/lists/

Journals

American Family Physician: http://www.aafp.org/afp/
Family Practice Management: http://www.aafp.org/fpm/
The Journal of Family Practice: http://www.jfp.denver.co.us/
Journal of the American Medical Association HIV/AIDS Information Center: http://www.ama-assn.org/special/hiv/hivhome.htm
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA): http://www.amia.org/pubs/jamia/default.html
New England Journal of Medicine: http://www.nejm.org/content/index.asp
The British Medical Journal: http://www.bmj.com/ Full Text!

Reference

Clinical Pharmacology Drug Monographs: http://www.cponline.gsm.com/
Electronic Textbook of Dermatology: http://www.telemedicine.org/stamfor1.htm
History and Physical Checklists: http://www.medinfo.ufl.edu/year1/bcs/clist/
Hypertext Webster's Dictionary: http://work.ucsd.edu:5141/cgi-bin/http_webster
The Internet Drug Index (RxList): http://www.rxlist.com/
Grateful Med (Free MEDLINE): http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/
NLM PubMed (Free MEDLINE): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/mmwr.html
OncoLink - University of Pennsylvania Cancer Resource: http://cancer.med.upenn.edu/
University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook: http://www.vh.org/Providers/ClinRef/FPHandbook/FPContents.html
National Guideline Clearinghouse: http://www.guidelines.gov/

Other

American Medical Informatics Association Family Practice/Primary Care Working Group: http://dragon.labmed.umn.edu/~john/fppcwg/
The Interactive Medical Student Lounge: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/1756/lounge.html
Residencies on the Web: http://www.webcom.com/wooming/residenc/famprac.html
University of Iowa Virtual Hospital: http://www.vh.org/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): http://www.cdc.gov/
Healthcare Source on the Business of Medicine: http://www.medsource.com/
Medical Applications for the Palm III: http://www.palmcentral.com/section.shtml?sectionId=186
Medscape Clinical Medicine Online Resource (CME credit available): http://www.medscape.com/
Physician Recruitment/Continuing Education (CME credit available): http://www.medconnect.com/
Using the Internet Effectively (CME credit available): http://www.medinfo.ufl.edu/cme/inet/
Weekly Review of the Medical Literature: http://www.fafp.org/public/review/current.html
Guidelines for the Clinical Use of Electronic Mail with Patients: http://www.amia.org/pubs/pospaper/positio2.htm
Family Physicians and the Year 2000 (Millennium Bug): http://www.aafp.org/fpnet/y2k/

Resources for Patients

Health information for patients from the AAFP: http://familydoctor.org/
Clinical Pharmacology Drug Monographs: http://www.cponline.gsm.com/
The Internet Drug Index (RxList): http://www.rxlist.com/
PubMed (Free MEDLINE): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
Internet Grateful Med (Free MEDLINE): http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/
Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/
OncoLink - University of Pennsylvania Cancer Resource: http://cancer.med.upenn.edu/
Medical Matrix - Guide to Internet Clinical Medicine Resources: http://www.medmatrix.org/
Your Health And The Internet: http://www.medinfo.ufl.edu/other/health/
Thrive Online: http://www.thriveonline.com/