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CME - Along with providing a list of accredited providers, new formats of CME, and tools to support implementation of the council's standards for the commercial support, the ACCME also hosts workshops and courses on the site. Tools for CME providers, and state medical societies are also available.

http://www.accme.org/

American Cancer Society - Content includes both journal-based and multimedia CME activities. Course offerings are free, however registration is required to access the site.

http://cme.amcancersoc.org/

American Medical Association Continuing Medical Education - The site offers a variety of online courses. JAMA and Archives journal CME allows AMA members and subscribers to earn credit for reading articles and completing an online quiz. There is no charge to access the site. Journal CME's are only available to members and subscribers.

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2797.html

Baylor College of Medicine Continuing Education - CME is offered for thirteen topic areas at no cost

http://www.baylorcme.org/

Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education - More than 70 free online CME activities, as well as live CME, on demand Webcasts, and medical publications are offered at no cost to the user.

http://www.clevelandclinicmeded.com/

CME Podcasting - CME formats include satellite broadcasts, Webcasts, telephone audio-conferences, CD-ROMS, videos, monographs, MP3 downloads, and Podcasts. The site is accessible for free to registered users.

http://www.cmeoutfitters.com/

CMEweb.com - To date, 844 cases are being offered on a wide variety of topics. Courses are fee-based.

http://www.cmeweb.com/gindex.php

Johns Hopkins Medical Office of Continuing Education - The site offers approximately 530 online and live CME courses in all branches of medicine at no cost to registered users.

http://www.hopkinscme.net/

Mayo School of Continuing Medical Education - Self-study CME's using videos and DVD's allow participants at their own pace. The site is available at no cost to users.

http://www.mayo.edu/cme/

Medscape CME - 30 CME specialties, such as Critical Care, General Surgery, Hematology-, Oncology, etc at no cost to users.

http://cme.medscape.com/cme/welcome?src=hdr

PedsEducation.org - Adolescent health, behavioral medicine, cardiology, and neurology are some of the topics at no charged to registered users. The courses are offered using Macromedia Flash and PDF files.

http://www.pedseducation.org/online_education/

Yale CME - Grand Rounds Online

http://www.cme.yale.edu/

Anatomy - Whether you’re here to study anatomy, or here for that quick refresher before an exam, or you’re simply interested in looking at stunning, state-of-the-art illustrations of human anatomy, WinkingSkull.com is the interactive study aid that is designed to let you study anatomy and test yourself on must-know concepts.

http://www.winkingskull.com/navigation.aspx

Glossary of Terms - This site, from the UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine Health Services Library Information Center, contains links to glossaries of health terms and acronyms.

http://depts.washington.edu/hsic/refdesk/glossaries.shtml

Institute of Medicine

www.nas.edu/iom

PaperChase - widely used for patient care, clinical teaching and medical research

www.paperchase.com

National Guideline Clearinghouse - a public resource for evidence based clinical practice guidelines

http://www.guideline.gov

U.S. Census Bureau - site contains various news, tools and statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau. The site also includes the statistics from the last Census

http://www.census.gov/

Information on Copyright material

http://www.copyright.com/

PubList - a database of 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters, & other periodicals. Find FREE in-depth information on familiar and hard-to-find publications from around the world, representing thousands of topics.

http://www.publist.com/

Rittenhouse book distributors

http://www.rittenhouse.com/

The Almanac - online version of this old classic. Offers a number of interesting home and gardening tips. The site also includes the Almanac’s short and long range weather predictions.

http://www.almanac.com/index.php

Center of Health Administration Studies.

http://www.chas.uchicago.edu

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society

http://www.himss.org

Medical Dictionary

http://www.onelook.com/

Medical Database

http://www.e-medicine.com/

American College of Physicians Ethics Manual

http://www.acponline.org/ethics/manual.htm

Johns Hopkins’ Antibiotic Guide

http://hopkins-abxguide.org/

Association of American Medical Colleges

http://www.aamc.org

Fellowship & Residency Programs Search – FREIDA Online

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2997.html

National Guideline Clearinghouse - a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.  It is sponsored by the agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans.

http://www.guideline.gov

National Library of Medicine - provides a wide variety of resources to the biomedical and health sciences.  The format of these resources are searchable databases, citations and full-text (when available).  For consumer health consider using MEDLINEplus.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/index.html

History of Medicine - National Library of Medicine’s website contains the history of medicine collection.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/hmd.html

Profiles in Science - contains archival collections of prominent twentieth-century biomedical scientists available to the public through modern digital technology.

http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/

Merckmedicus - is a free medical portal providing medical news, a wide variety of scientific learning resources and professional development.

http://www.merckmedicus.com

PubMed - From the National Library of Medicine citations and author abstracts to articles covering medicine, nursing, dentistry and health care system, and the preclinical sciences are available.  When you search PubMed you are searching about  3,900 journals abstracts going back to 1966.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/

Mayo Clinic Health -  Easy-to-understand information on health topics.

http://www.mayohealth.org/

National Women’s Health Information Center- Sponsored by the U.S. Public Health Service.

http://www.4women.gov

NOAH - New York Online Access to Health, State, Local and Federal Resources selected by editors with consumers in mind.

http://www.noah-health.org

Herbmed.org – Herbmed.org is an interactive electronic herbal database with hyperlinked access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health.

http://www.herbmed.org/

Oncolink - Cancer information from University of Pennsylvania

http://www.oncolink.upenn.edu

Online Clinical Calculator

http://www.intmed.mcw.edu/clincalc.html

Physician Locator

http://www.ama-assn.org/

Family Practice Online

http://www.familypractice.com/centers/center_learning/center_learn.htm

Critical Reviews of WEB Products

http://www.charlestonco.com

Health World Online Village - This is an interesting site organized around the concept of a community. A collection of various health care resources  represented by community institutions. Among other resources, you will find some good information on alternative and complementary medicine here.

http://www.healthy.net/index.asp

American Hospital Directory

http://www.ahd.com/

New York State Virtual Research Library

http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/reference/

Health Care Advisory Board - provides recent news items and reports that they have prepared on pertinent topics.

http://www.advisory.com

The Department of Health and Human Services - The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) site has useful policies, fact sheets, healthcare statistics.

http://www.hhs.gov

Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality

http://www.ahcpr.gov

Health on the Net Foundation

http://www.hon.ch

Health Leaders

http://www.healthleaders.com

NY Times Health Page

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/health

Reuters - Reuters has a health news page with some free news, but some you have to pay for.

http://www.reutershealth.com/en/index.html

Hospitalsoup

http://hospitalsoup.com

Healthcare Intelligence Network - Healthcare Intelligence Network

http://www.hin.com/

Medical Matrix - Medical Matrix - Healthcare Management, Managed Care, and Policy (fee based).

http://www.medmatrix.org/_SPages/Healthcare_Management,_Managed_Care,_and_Policy.asp

Business: Healthcare. Open Directory - Business: Healthcare: Healthcare Management.

http://dmoz.org/Business/Healthcare/Healthcare_Management/