ERI: Continuing Medical Education Resources
American Academy of Family Physicians
Has resources for members, as well as residents, patients and medical students. Also
has educational materials suitable for high school and college students about the medical
profession. URL:http://www.aafp.org
American College of Physicians CME Index
Contains an index of resources for CME including information about the Medical Laboratory
Evaluation Proficiency Testing Program, post-graduate courses, on-line clinical problem
solving cases, etc. URL:http://www.acponline.org/catalog/cme/index.html?idx
Doctor's Guide to the Internet
A comprehensive internet database for physicians giving medical news, webcasts, case
reports. Includes e-mail access, dictionaries, Medline searching, and other resources.
URL:http://www.docguide.com/dgc.nsf/ge/Unregistered.User.545434?OpenDocument
Electronic CME: Online and Software Resources
A comprehensive list of reviews and articles for physicians and educators, including
software reviews. Categories include Medical Education, Medical Informatics, Clinical
Computing, and The Internet. Also includes many links organized by medical specialty.
URL:http://www.medicalcomputingtoday.com/0listcme.html
Medscape offers students and health professionals the Web's most robust and integrated
multi-specialty medical information and education tool. You may choose a personal
Medscape home page from an assortment of specialty sites, primary care medicine sites,
and nonclinical sites such as "Money & Medicine" or "Humor & Medicine."
URL:http://www.medscape.com/px/urlinfo
Medschool.com is an e-learning company bringing medical school quality education to
healthcare organizations and professionals worldwide. We offer a revolutionary e-
learning platform that enables personalize delivery of engaging multimedia-rich healthcare
education. Medschool.com hosts a worldwide medical student community and e-learning
site. The site has links for medical student and continuing medical education.
URL:http://www.medschool.com
An website that is organized into Live Events (webcasts, etc) and Archived Events.
Events include audiocasts, slide shows, conference reports. Most are freely available,
although some require health professionals to register online. Many of the events are
sponsored directly or indirectly by pharmaceutical companies.
URL:http://www.medicalcomputingtoday.com/0listmedev.html
This site is designed to deliver state-of-the-art multimedia presentations on various
important medical topics. For each Private Lecture, respected clinicians and
researchers deliver a short talk (15 min) on a specific medical topic. Many include video
and audio of the lecturer and a synchronized slide program to simulate a live educational
event. URL:http://www.privatelectureseries.com/
Sites for Continuing Medical Education Online
An alphabetical listing of over 80 sites offering ACCME-accredited CME. Updated May and
June 2000. Includes information about how the sites were chosen and described.
URL:www.cmelist.com
This site delivers networked professional development (NPD) for primary health care,
using Internet technologies for information sharing and communication. Current
subheadings of information include: Health Informatics, Evidence-based Practice,
Primary Care Group Organisation, Change Management, Clinical Governance and Quality
Assurance. Also includes an archives, learning resources and library.
URL:http://www.wisdomnet.co.uk
Using the Internet Effectively
This program is intended for anyone who is interesting in using the Internet as an effective
medical resource. It includes a complete 25 minute RealAudio lecture with synchronized
slides by Richard Rathe, MD, Director of Medical Informatics at the University of Florida.
URL:http://cme.ufl.edu/media/inet2/
Virtual Internet Patient Simulation
VIPS is a novel software tool for automated continuing medical education (CME) operating on
the Internet and in isolated environments. Designed by a Swiss expert physician in CME and
medical informatics, VIPS is the result of a collaborative effort of database engineers, software
developers and a medical webmaster.
URL: http://www.swissvips.ch/