Resources for the Healthcare Professions

Dental Related Internet Resources
Provides links to information on current issues, subspecialities and residencies in dentistry; dental education, case studies, grants and list serves; and virtual reference. Compiled by the New York University College of Dentistry.

WHO Collaborating Center for Oral Health Sciences at Lund University, Sweden
Provides links for dental education resources on the web; dictionary of dental terms and other resources. Also links to useful treatment procedures, guides, charts and diagrams for dental subspecialties.

Virtual Dental Centre
Provides links and information of dentistry worldwide; teaching files and cases; courses, tutorials and databases; dictionaries and encyclopedias; dental journals and conferences.

Dental Practice Board (National Health Service - UK)
Provides details on dental policies, statistics and publications as well as links to helpful information for practitioners and patients.

American Dental Association (ADA)
British Dental Association
Canadian Collaboration on Clinical Practice Guidelines in Dentistry
Canadian Dental Association
FDI World Dental Federation

SELECTED FREE FULLTEXT JOURNALS FOR DENTISTRY
Journals of the International & American Associations for Dental Research (free after 12 months
Journal of Applied Oral Science
Journal of Contemporary Dental Practice
Journal of the American Dental Association / JADA
Journal of the Canadian Dental Association / JCDA
The Online Angle Orthodontist

Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM)
NEMA Disaster Management Tobago
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA---U.S.)
National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians
Injury Control Resource Information Network

SELECTED FREE FULL TEXT JOURNALS FOR EMERGENCY CARE
Emergency Medicine Journal Online (free after 12 months)
BMC Emergency Medicine
Journal Of Trauma Management & Outcomes

EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Emergency Medicine Journal - BMJ (selected free full text: 2000 + )

OTHER RESOURCES FOR HEALTHCARE INFORMATION

European Healthcare Management Association
European network which seeks to improve health through better management. Includes links to EHMA publications and activities; and to related websites.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (U.S.)
Provides links to information on evidence-based practice, preventive services, quality of care, data and surveys, selected research topics, quality assessments, and public health preparedness.

Health Policy Action Committee
Extensive listing of links for all aspects of health care policy, quality improvement and health information; including community and public health, global health, minority health and women's health.
The Committee is a division of the American Medical Students Association.

Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Provides resources and links for conferences, collaboratives and courses "to help health care organizations make dramatic and long-lasting improvements that enhance clinical outcomes and reduce costs".

IFHRO - International Federation of Health Records Organizations
A non-governmental organisation with official relations with WHO. Provides information and links relating to the management training and information technology of health records.

Hospital Management.Net
Official site of the International Hospital Federation. Provides links to publications and statistics; hospital technology and services; hospital supplies and catalogues; and other topics on health management.

European Agency for Safety and Health
Provides access to guidelines, statistics, research, training and other topics regarding occupational health and safety within the European Union.

Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.)
Includes links to full-text of manuals, forms, legislation, drug plan information and other aspects of Medicare and Medicaid such as statistics, research, data & systems, and outreach & education.

American Hospital Association
Extensive links to resources on health care policy, hospital certification guidelines, disaster readiness, workplace issues and patient safety.

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
Provides newsletters, reports, guidelines and procedures for hospital accreditation (in the U.S.); disease care certification; performance measurement; and other quality issues for healthcare facilities.

The Joint Commission International (JCI)
provides the same services and resources for international health facilities.

Healthcare Financial Management Association
Provides information on guidelines for record-keeping, vendors and other aspects of healthcare financing.

SELECTED FREE FULLTEXT JOURNALS FOR HEALTHCARE FINANCE & MANAGEMENT
International Journal for Quality in Health Care (2002 to previous 12 months)
Health Policy and Planning (free after 12 months)
Health Promotion International (free after 12 months)
Quality and Safety in Health Care / QSH C (free after 12 months)

The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education
This web resource includes over 1900 images along with text, tutorials, laboratory exercises, and examination items for self-assessment that demonstrate gross and microscopic pathological findings associated with human disease conditions. 

BLOODLINE.net
Important links to Hematology education and news, including case reports, CME activities, image atlas, and clinical trials.

SELECTED FREE FULLTEXT JOURNALS FOR LABORATORY MEDICINE & RADIOLOGY

Archives of Pahtology & Laboratory Medicine (1999 to date)
Biology of Blood & Marrow Transplantation
JC: Journal of Clinical Investigation (1996 to date)

Doctor's Guide to the Internet
American Medical Association
National Medical Association
Royal College of Physicians (U.K.)
American Board of Medical Specialties
The Student Doctor Network
Clinical Practice Guidelines (U.S.)
E-MEDICINE: Instant access to the minds of medicine
Cyberounds: InterMDnet
List of Medical Schools in the U.S. & Canada
Medical Schools of the World
Galaxy: Medicine

Health Services/Technology Assessment Text
A free, Web-based resource of full-text documents that provides health information and support health care decision making by health care providers, health service researchers, policy makers, payers, consumers as well as the information professionals who serve these groups.

PATHOLOGY & LABORATORY MEDICINE

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Online (1998 +)
JCI - The Journal of Clinical Investigation (1924 +)
JCP Online – Journal of Clinical Pathology incorporating Molecular Pathology BMJ (selected free full text:2000 +)

RADIOLOGY
Radiographics (1999 +)

SELECTED FREE FULLTEXT JOURNALS FOR MEDICINE
GENERAL MEDICINE

BMJ - British Medical Journal ( Jan 1994 + )
Bombay Hospital Journal ( Jan 1996 – Apr 2007 )
EBM - Evidence Based Medicine Online ( 2000 + )
eCMAJ- Canadian Medical Association Journal ( 1999 + )
NEJM - New England Journal of Medicine ( selected free full text: 1993 + )
PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences-USA ( 1996 + )
PLoS - Public Library of Science: Clinical Trials Hub ( 2006 + )
The Lancet (1996-Present)
World Health Organization Bulletin ( 1947+ )

ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY

AIDS Research and Therapy ( 2005+ )
BMC Immunology - Biomed Central ( 2000+ )
The Internet Journal of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology ( 1999+ )

ANAESTHESIOLOGY

British Journal of Anaesthesia - BMJ (selected free full text: 2000 +)

CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE

Heart - BMJ (selected free full text: 1997+)
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders - Biomed Central ( 2001+ )
Cardiovascular Diabetology ( Apr 2002+ )
Cardiology Today ( 1998 + )

GASTROENTOROLOGY

Gut Online - BMJ (selected free full text: 1997+)

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Emerging Infectious Diseases ( 1995 + )
Clinical Infectious Disease - BMJ (selected free full text: 1997 + )
Infectious Disease News (1996 +)
JECH Online - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health - BMJ (selected free full text: 1998+)
MMWR - Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ( 1983 + )
STI Online - BMJ (selected free full text: 2000 +) WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record (1926 +)

NEUROLOGY

Journal of Neurology - BMJ (selected free full text: 1997 +)