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General IM/Hospital and Consultative Medicine: http://www.jhcme.com/site/ce.cfm: This website contains “modules” from the Johns Hopkins University Consultative Medicine Service about topics germane to hospital medicine. Some of these modules include perioperative cardiac risk assessment, perioperative cardiac risk modification, perioperative anticoagulation management, the role of the medical consultant, hospital pain management, etc. There are pretests and post-tests associated with these modules. You will need to register but it’s free. Cardiology: http://ecg.bidmc.harvard.edu/maven: This is an excellent site from Harvard Medical School with ECGs for review. This can be done either in a “review” formal or a “quiz” format. http://www.pacep.org: A website that endeavors to teach you everything that you ever wanted to know about pulmonary artery catheters. The site is free but registration is required. (I’m not sure why anyone needs to know that much about pulmonary artery catheters anymore—maybe more historical interest). Pulmonology/CCM: http://www.sccm.org: This is the home page for the Society of Critical Care Medicine. There are a number of clinical practice guidelines for everything from training critical care fellows, to conscious sedation in the ICU to hemodynamic support in sepsis. You can also access RICU lectures here. http://www.ccmtutorials.com/rs/index.htm: This is an on-line tutorial that deals with different aspects of mechanical ventilation. May be more in-depth than necessary for a family medicine resident. Other tutorials for critical care topics are available. www.thoracic.org/sections/career-development/fellows-and-fellowships/ats-reading-list-intro.html: This is an extensive, current annotated bibliography on the ATS website (called the 2008 Reading List). This list contains more clinical research studies but is a helpful source for specific important clinical studies. This is a resource primarily directed at fellows studying for pulmonary and critical care boards but can be useful for more in-depth study. http://www.chestnet.org: This is the web site for the American College of Chest Physicians. Includes online Pulmonary and Critical Care Update (PCCU), which are clinically relevant review articles and associated “post-tests” which require a fee for CME. Consensus statements (including ACCP guides on anticoagulation) and clinical practice guidelines from the ACCP can be accessed here. Hematology/Oncology: www.hematology.org/education/teach_case: This website contains interactive cases about a number of common hematological conditions. These are actually both very fun and educational. www.nccn.org/index.asp: This is the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Website. This site contains up to date information about the diagnosis and treatment of many malignancies. Gastroenterology: www.gastro.org: This is the website of the American Gastroenterology Association. This website includes clinical practice guidelines for a number of GI conditions and also a number of links to other pertinent GI sites. www.gastrohep.com: This is a very fun website (contributors are gastroenterologists from around the world) which includes lectures, case studies and review articles about a number of GI topics. Endocrine: www.diabetes.org: This is the website of the American Diabetes Association. The professional section includes clinical practice guidelines for treating patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. There is also a lot of patient education materials available. www.aace.org: This is the website of the American Association of clinical endocrinologists. This website also has clinical practice guidelines for a wide range of endocrine disorders (including diabetes). www.endo-society.org: This is the website of The Endocrine Society and also has a number of useful clinical practice guidelines. Infectious Disease: www.cdc.gov: This is the website for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This website is the definitive source for recommendations about immunizations, travel medicine (immunizations and malaria prophylaxis) and public health issues. It is also a place to access CDC journals, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) and Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID). http://hopkins-abxguide.org: This is a free site (requires registration) which provides information on antibiotics, including indications, dosing, complications etc. There is also information on various pathogens and “modules” which are very brief reviews of clinical conditions. http://www.hopkins-hivguide.org: This is a free site (requires registration) which provides current recommendations regarding HIV care (both HAART and care of opportunistic infections). There is also available CME on this site. www.idsociety.org/Content.aspx?id=9088: This is the portal for all the clinical practice guidelines for the IDSA (Infectious Disease Society of America). Nephrology: www.kidney.org: This is the website of the National Kidney Foundation. The professional section includes a number of calculators (CrCl, FENA etc), web-based lectures (free, but require registration) and a number of clinical practice guidelines. This is also the site of the NKF-KDOQI guidelines—which are evidence based guidelines for the care of patients with renal disease. www.hdcn.com: HDCN is an acronym for Hypertension, Dialysis and Clinical Nephrology. This site requires registration (two tiers, a free tier and a paid tier) and provides access to a number of lectures from nephrology meetings and full text articles about a number of nephrology topics. http://fitsweb.uchc.edu/student/selectives/TimurGraham/Welcome.html: This is an online acid-base tutorial from the University of Connecticut. It is a useful review and covers concepts such as the delta anion gap. There are also acid-base cases for review. Rheumatology: http://www.hopkins-arthritis.org/physician-corner/case-rounds/case.html: This is a website from the Johns Hopkins arthritis center. This is a collection of rheumatology cases—each with relevant films and even a supplemental bibliography. Similar cases, focused primarily on the radiologic findings can be found at http://www.hopkins-arthritis.org/physician-corner/radiology-rounds. http://www.rheumatology.org/educ/hir/index.asp: This is the “High Impact Rheumatology” website, which is an educational endeavor by the American College of Rheumatology, designed to teach basic rheumatology to primary care physicians. There are a number of very nice power point presentations, unfortunately without audio. Neurology: http://www.aan.com/familypractice/default.htm: This is a wonderful resource from the American Academy of Neurology which is a curriculum designed specifically for family medicine residents. This has 13 handouts which covers most areas of neurology and also has videos of the neurologic examination. An excellent place to start your neurology review. Radiology: www.med-ed.virginia.edu/courses/rad/cxr/index.html: This is an outstanding web-based tutorial for chest x-ray interpretation. ENT: http://www.entnet.org/EducationAndResearch/cool.cfm: This is an educational program of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgeons for non-ENT physicians and physician assistants. This is called COOL (Clinical Otolaryngology Online) and there are multiple interactive cases about a number of ENT topics. Ophthalmology: http://webeye.ophth.uiowa.edu/eyeforum/cases.htm: This is an interesting website with a number of cases in ophthalmology. There are very nice pictures, and all are clinically relevant. The target audience is ophthalmology residents, so it may be more in depth than necessary for regular review. http://dro.hs.columbia.edu: This is another website primarily for ophthalmology residents with a number of interesting cases. Urology: www.auanet.org/content/education-and-meetings/med-stu-curriculum.cfm: This is a web-based curriculum designed for third and fourth year medical students from the American Urological Association. There are reviews on common urological problems (pediatric and adult), videos of the GU examination and on urethral catheterization, and several interactive cases. A nice place to start for basic urological information. Critical Appraisal: www.poems.msu.edu/infomastery/default.htm: “Introduction to Information Mastery by Dr. Mark Ebell.” A tremendously useful site from the master of information mastery. Divided into sections that essential parallel our Critical Appraisal Week. An extremely useful and basic resource. www.poems.msu.edu/infomastery/default.htm: A site committed to supporting evidence based practice in critical care medicine. This site also has an extensive tutorial (Critical Appraisal I) which starts with what we are covering in our Critical Appraisal week (including the same reference materials) but goes into much greater depth. Tutorials include Basic and Intermediate Statistics for Clinicians”, “Critical Appraisal II” (which covers systematic reviews and clinical decision analyses) and “Critical Appraisal III” (which covers clinical utilization audits, health related quality of life measurements and outcomes research). www.ebm.med.ualberta.ca/ebm.htm: A site from the University of Alberta with a collection of tools “dedicated to identifying, assessing and applying relevant evident for better health care decision-making.” http://hsl.mcmaster.ca/resources/ebpractice.htm: This is an extensive WEB-based bibliography from McMaster University (the birthplace of EBM). This can serve as a hub for finding virtually all important EBM sites on the internet. www.cche.net/usersguides/main.asp (free) or http://jamaevidence.com (paid): This is a complete set of the Users’ Guides which was originally published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). This is available for free through the UK Centre for Health Evidence or paid (available also with AMA membership/JAMA subscription). The paid version includes calculators, worksheets and additional educational materials. Other: EKGs: www.mrcppart1.co.uk/ecgs/ecghome.html |