Physicians Resources

With the vast amount of information out there and the fact that new scientific discoveries are being made all the time, finding quality information you can use in your practice is far from easy. It doesn’t matter whether you are trying to navigate through the medical research that exists, locate unbiased medical education, enhance your current knowledge base, or learn new skills that will allow you to offer your patients the most up-to-date treatments, being an informed medical practitioner is a job unto itself.

The following list consists of resources and guideposts that have helped me on my own path to becoming an informed doctor. I would like to humbly share them with you in the hopes they may serve you the way they have served me.

There are new opportunities in medicine all the time: new forums for education, new journals being published, new research that helps us uncover the mysteries of how the human body functions. Keeping it all in context, especially when you are trying to treat patients is difficult. On this page you will find an every expanding and changing list of resources that I hope will help you incorporate this information into your medical practice so you can continue to be an intelligent and compassionate health care practitioner.

Organizations

Journals

Conferences

Training Programs

Physician Websites

Databases, Research, and Scientific Resources

Intute: Health and Life Sciences Medicine Gateway (Formerly known as OMNI)
www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/medicine/
The medicine gateway for Intute: Health and Sciences offers free access to a searchable catalogue of Internet sites covering health and medicine.
Merck Manual
www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/home.jsp
This web site provides access to the 17th edition of the Merck Manual.
Harvard Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
mcb.harvard.edu/Biolinks.html
This is a web site of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University offering biological resources / links.
Rosenthal Directory of Databases
www.rosenthal.hs.columbia.edu/Databases.html
This web site provides a compilation of established sources in the USA, Europe, and Asia, designed to facilitate research by both professionals and the public. This may be clinical, biomedical, review, meta-analytical or survey research. Many of the databases listed do charge a fee.
MedWeb Plus
medwebplus.com/about.html
From the site: Our goal at MedWebPlus is to give users tools to quickly locate and assimilate good and reliable information covering the entire spectrum of healthcare. We have been described by others as a "healthcare Internet context provider." We provide the context for users to access content on the Web. There are over 50,000 Web sites dedicated to health-related topics, and an even greater number of sources in print off-line. It is often difficult to separate what is accurate, up-to-date, and reliable from what is not. Unfortunately many dubious, even blatantly fraudulent, sites exist on the Web. The task of integrating the reams of information available in a useful, simple and timely manner has become nearly impossible. There is a wealth of great information to be found, our goal is to provide the tools to find it.
National Organization for Rare Disorders-Rare Disease Database
www.rarediseases.org/
This is a web site provided by the National Organization for Rare Disorders, Inc. (NORD) that offers a database of rare diseases.
Cancer Detection and Prevention Online
www.cancerprev.org/
This is an International Society for Preventive Oncology (ISPO) web site that offers access to current and past issues of Cancer Detection and Prevention journals. $225 annual subscription fee. Some free browsing.
Pesticides, Metals, & Chemical
vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/pestadd.html
This is the US FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) web site. It provides information regarding pesticides, metals, and chemical contaminants in food(s).
Medical Biochemistry Subject List
web.indstate.edu/thcme/mwking/subjects.html
This web site offers details on specific biochemistry and medical subjects.
The ScHARR Guide
www.nettingtheevidence.org.uk/
A comprehensive introduction to Evidence Based Practice on the Internet.
NLM Clinical Trials Database
clinicaltrials.gov
Location, design, purpose, criteria and other information on NIH clinical trials.
PubMed
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
National Library of Medicine; free access to Medline.
USDA Nutrient Database
www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl
This interface allows simple searches on the USDA Nutrient Database.

General Resources

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
nccam.nih.gov
This is a NIH website which offers information regarding alternative therapies and access to Medline. Includes Consensus Reports, research, clinical trials, and database links.
NIH Office of Dietary Supplements
odp.od.nih.gov/
The International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) is a NIH web site produced by the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS). It offers a database of published, international, scientific literature on dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals. Nice feature is that search can be limited to peer-reviewed publications.
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
nccam.nih.gov/about/advisory/capcam/
This NIH Office of Alternative Medicine web site provides access to CAM methods, systems, and CAM & diseases.
Herb Research Foundation (HRF)
www.herbs.org/
This web site provides access to HRF, a nonprofit research and educational organization focusing on herbs and medicinal plants.
American Botanical Council's (ABC's) Herbal Information
www.herbalgram.org/
This web site provides information about herbs that have been compiled from a number of reputable scientific sources including the German Commission E Monographs, Botanical Safety Handbook, and numerous clinical trials that have been referenced in HerbalGram, their quarterly publication.
Healthfinder
www.healthfinder.gov
This web site provides consumer health and human services information developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It provides access to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups.
NIH Consumer Health Information
health.nih.gov/
This web site provides access to consumer publication titles specific to certain conditions/diseases.
HealthGate
www.healthgate.com/
This web site provides patient and consumer information regarding drugs and vitamins, symptoms and medical tests, and general health. It also provides access to Medline: Provider of web-enabled technology and services for healthcare organizations, including hospitals.
Medherb
medherb.com/
This web site of Medical Herbalism, a quarterly journal of clinical herbalism. It provides links to medical information and to any resource relevant to medicinal herbs or herbalism practiced in clinical settings, plus sample articles on hundreds of herbs.
HerbNET
www.herbnet.com/
This web site provides information and sales of herbs, herb products and remedies, and herb publications.
The World Lecture Hall
www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/
This web site provides links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the web to deliver university-level academic courses in any language.
Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN)
www.foodallergy.org/
This web site provides access to FAAN, a nonprofit organization established to increase public awareness about food allergy and anaphylaxis. It offers, among other things, a bimonthly newsletter, product alerts, and updates on food allergy.
Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
www.ars-grin.gov/duke/
Database of phytochemical ingredients for herbs and spices.
Essential Fats
www.essentialfats.com
This web site presents information about the role of essential fatty acids in health and disease. It includes discussions on fatty acid analysis, research results, and new diagnostic and treatment approaches of fatty acids in such areas as lipid abnormalities and inflammatory bowel disease.
Food and Drug Interactions
vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/fdinter.html
This is a consumer-oriented website that discusses food and drug interactions in common terms that will be familiar to patients.

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