Links to Internet Web Sites
The National
Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
www.niddk.nih.gov
This site offers disease information on a variety of diseases, statistics on
digestive diseases in the United States, and links to other useful government
Web sites. It also provides information about clinical trials and practice
guidelines. NIDDK publications can be ordered from the Web site.
PubMed
www.pubmed.com
A service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million
citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from
MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many
sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
eMedicine.com, Inc.
www.emedicine.com
The eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base contains articles on 7,000 diseases and
disorders (including many with CME credit). The evidence-based content is
updated daily and provides the latest practice guidelines in 62 medical
specialties. eMedicine's professional content undergoes four levels of
physician peer review plus an additional review by a PharmD. The Clinical
Knowledge Base contains 30,000 multimedia files and features the largest online
repository of medical education credits for physicians, nurses, pharmacists,
and optometrists.
Medscape
www.medscape.com
This Web site provides medical information for physicians and other health care
professionals. There are sections for news, treatment updates, clinical
management, practice guidelines, CME, and conference information. A daily,
specialty-specific e-mail newsletter is available.
The Cleveland Clinic Medical Education Web Site
www.clevelandclinicmeded.com
This Web site offers access to CME including Selected Topics in Gastrotherapy.
The Disease Management project provides current information on treating 120
commonly seen diseases. The “One Minute Consult” comprises brief answers to
questions on current clinical controversies. The site also offers information
on pharmaceuticals, a pharmacy newsletter, and more.
MDlinx
www.mdlinx.com
MDlinx has both a professional and a patient section. The professional section
is a network of 34 medical specialty Web sites, including a GI Web site,
http://www.mdlinx.com/GILinx/ . There are daily updates on specialty
news, daily e-mail newsletters for each specialty, e-mail discussion lists, and
CME. MDlinx will also help you set up your own Web site for free.
Doctor’s Guide
www.docguide.com
Doctor's Guide is a comprehensive source for peer-reviewed literature, case
studies, Webcasts/CME, and more. It provides a daily update on news and can be
customized for your personal interests.
Feldman’s GastroAtlas
www.gastroatlas.com
Feldman’s GastroAtlas is the ultimate online gastroenterology image resource.
It contains over 4,000 clinical, radiologic, pathologic, and histologic images.
You can create and maintain your own named files of slides based on the Feldman
Atlas image collection. These files become part of the central GastroAtlas
database and can be accessed, on login, from any computer anywhere in the
world.
The Visible Human Project
www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html
The Visible Human Project® is an outgrowth of the National Library
of Medicine's 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is the creation of complete,
anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and
female human bodies. Acquisition of transverse CT, MR, and cryosection images
of representative male and female cadavers has been completed. Information on
the site includes how to get image data, an update of the Virtual Human’s
initiatives, information on other National Library of Medicine initiatives,
information from the contractors for the Project proceedings from project
conferences, and publications.
MediClicks
www.MediClicks.net
MediClicks is a free e-mail medical newsletter sent every two weeks. It
provides information about the latest trends in technology and how they relate
to the field of medicine. Insights about health care as it relates to the
Internet are provided, as are tips on how to use the Internet, computers, and
other electronic devices. There is an original cartoon that illustrates the
lighter side of medicine with each issue.
For links to medical journals including GI-specific journals, professional
organizations Web sites, and CME sites
click here.