ERI: Scholarship Resources
10 Leading Causes of Death in the United States 1993-95
Based on CDC data, this site is useful for medical students and residents doing
epidemiologic research. Presented are the 10 leading causes of death in the United States
between 1993 and 1995. Many of the cells in the table serve as links to even more
detailed information. URL:http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars/default.htm
Bayer Institute for Health Care Communication
The mission of the Bayer Institute For Health Care Communication is to enhance the quality
of health care by improving the communication between clinician and patient through three
major activities: education, research, and advocacy. The site offers information about
opportunities in continuing education, student education, research and patient education.
URL:http://www.bayerinstitute.org/
CDC WONDER provides a single point of access to a variety of CDC reports, guidelines,
and numeric public health data. URL:http://wonder.cdc.gov/
The electronic journal Current Issues in Education is designed to: foster, encourage,
advance, and communicate scholarly thought by publishing articles which promote
discourse, research, practice, and policy within education; promote the intellectual life of
the graduate scholar while developing a community of scholarship; and nurture
professional development among educators. URL:http://cie.ed.asu.edu/index.html
Electronic Journals in Education
Supported by AERA, this site only lists links to electronic journals that are scholarly,
peer-reviewed, full text and accessible without cost. Excluded are professional magazines
that are not refereed, and commercial journals that may only allow access to a very limited
number of articles as an enticement to buy. URL:http://aera-cr.ed.asu.edu/links.html
This site, currently under development, provide a large selection of on-line reference
material for physicians and students. Each reference volume has 4 levels of physician
peer-review. Users are invited to submit their own materials for inclusion. The topic list is
comprehensive. IN association with Gold Standard Multimedia.
URL: http://www.emedicine.com/cgi-shl/foxweb.exe/onlinebooks@d:/em/ga
Free Full-Text On-Line Medical Journals
This is a selected list of free full-text online electronic medical journals, with an emphasis
on journals that are included in PubMed Medline and have current issues available. Most
of them have no trial period stated by the publisher; some are available on free trial basis.
Also included is are links to back issues (archives), links to a representative recent
issue (with all articles full-text unless noted as selected), and a sample article from the issue.
URL: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/ej.html
Instructions for Authors in Health Sciences
These pages contain links to Web sites which provide instructions to authors for over
3,000 journals in the health and life sciences. All links are to "primary sources," that is to
publishers or organizations with editorial responsibilities for the titles.
URL:http://www.mco.edu:80/lib/instr/libinsta.html
Medical Education Online (MEO)
MEO is a peer-reviewed electronic journal for disseminating information on educating
physicians and other health professionals. In addition to manuscripts, MEO provides a
repository for resources such as curricula, data sets, syllabi, software, and instructional
material developers wish to make available to the health education community.
URL:http://www.Med-Ed-Online.org/
This collection of annotated links to internet resources provides a general view of what is
accessable and available online in the field of Medical Terminology.
URL:http://www.medinf.mu-luebeck.de:80/~ingenerf/terminology/Index.html
This claims to be the first search engine on the World Wide Web especially developed for
the medical field. Medical World Search can aid medical practitioners, researchers, or
anyone with basic knowledge of medicine, to formulate an optimally precise query to
search the World Wide Web and find exactly the information they need.
URL:http://12.33.94.36/goals.html
Containing over 3000 entries, Medicine in Quotations is the most comprehensive collection
of its type published in over 30 years. Quotations are organized by topic and is fully
referenced. Subject and author indices make it easy to find quotations of interest.
URL:http://www.acponline.org/medquotes/index.html
Medicine On-Line is a peer reviewed on-line medical journal launched in March 1995. It is
UK-based and is seeking articles/papers and section editors.
URL:http://www.priory.com:80/med.htm
National Center for Health Statistics
NCHS data systems include data on vital events as well as information on health
status, lifestyle and exposure to unhealthy influences, the onset and diagnosis of
illness and disability, and the use of health care. These data are used by policymakers in
Congress and the Administration, by medical researchers, and by others in the health
community. URL:http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/netpubs.htm
Numerous links to information about research programs, library resources, and of course,
MEDLINE. URL:http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
OMD is a searchable dictionary and contains terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology,
chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science and
technology. It includes: acronyms, jargon, theory, conventions, standards, institutions,
projects, eponyms, history, in fact anything to do with medicine or science.
URL:http://www.graylab.ac.uk/omd/index.html
Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
Three search types available: Drug Search, Medical Dictionary, and Diseases & Conditions.
URL:http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH?t=8805&p=~br,IHW|~st,408|~r,WSIHW000|~b,*|
An on-line drug index, it is searchable by drug name. Also has resources for patient
education information, alternative medicine, a medical dictionary as well as others.
URL:http://www.rxlist.com/
The Psyche is a review journal focusing mainly on on core biomedical subjects. Review
journals contain the current state of knowledge or practice, integrating recent advances
with accepted principles and practice, or summarizing and analyzing the consensus view
of controversial issues in knowledge or practice.
URL:http://www.med.umkc.edu/thepsyche/
Using New Media in Teaching Anatomy
The New Anatomist: Volume 261 Issue 2, 2000: the focus of this journal issue is the use of
new media in anatomical teaching. The whole journal is available on-line. The issue
includes an editorial, information about the use of animation, animation software,
storyboarding etc.
URL:http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/72001092/FTSTART