Resources for Patient Care

• Centers for Disease Control -- http://www.cdc.gov/travel/
  Medical information for travelers and their physicians.
  
  
• Dermatologic Internet Service -- http://www.derma.med.uni-erlangen.de/index_e.htm
  Includes Dermatology On-line Atlas.
  
  
• DynaMed (Dynamic Medical Information System) -- http://www.DynamicMedical.com/
  DynaMed is an interactive, real-time medical information system designed for use at the point of care. It consists mainly of a vast clinically organized reference covering basic information and is updated daily from developments in the literature.
  
  
• Familypractice.com
  Portal for family physicians online, offering tools and information on family medical care, including the latest research, educational modules, practice guidelines, decision tools, and more.
  
  
• Family Medicine Resources -- http://griffin.vcu.edu/~dimlist/
  An extensive collection of medical links for health professionals.
  
  
• GeneralPediatrics.com -- http://www.generalpediatrics.com
  GeneralPediatrics.com is a pediatric digital library that identifies and organizes high quality, authoritative General Pediatrics Web sites. It contains over 1700 links to more than 375 Web sites concerning 387 common pediatric problems.
  
  
• Health Education Program -- http://www.aafp.org/hep/
  Database from the AAFP - much information on where to get patient education information.
  
  
• Medical Matrix -- http://www.medmatrix.org/
  The Medical Matrix Project is devoted to posting, annotating, and continuously updating "full content, unrestricted access, Internet clinical medicine resources." Our target audience is primarily United States physicians and healthworkers who are on the front line in prescribing treatment for disease conditions.  
  
  
• Patient education handouts -- http://familydoctor.org/handouts/
  Handouts written and reviewed by the physicians and patient education professionals at the American Academy of Family Physicians. The information is regularly reviewed and updated.
  
  
• Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines -- http://medicine.ucsf.edu/resources/guidelines/
  Clinical resources: Guidelines, clinical review, cross-cultural health, teaching and more....
  
  
• Putting Prevention Into Practice -- http://www.ahcpr.gov/ppip/index.html
  Put Prevention Into Practice (PPIP) is a national campaign to improve the delivery of clinical preventive services such as screening tests, immunizations, and counseling for health behavior change.
  
  
• Virtual Library of Medicine -- http://www.ohsu.edu/cliniweb/wwwvl/
  Indexes of various medicine subfields: AIDS, Anesthesiology, Epidemiology, Nursing, Pharmacy, Stress, and Veterinary Medicine.
  
  
• MedicalStudent.com -- http://www.medicalstudent.com
  MedicalStudent.com is a digital library of authoritative medical
  information designed to help all students of medicine in their
  studies. The goal of MedicalStudent.com is to identify authoritative
  medical World-Wide Web sites that can teach, illuminate, and inspire.
  MedicalStudent.com thus provides a starting point for entry into
  medical places of enlightenment, entertainment and education on the
  Internet.

• Virtual Pediatric Hospital -- http://www.virtualpediatrichospital.org/
  Virtual Pediatric Hospital is a pediatric digital health sciences library that has been uniquely committed since 2006 and through its predecessors since 1992: To educate patients, healthcare providers, and students in a free and anonymous manner; For the purpose of improving patients' care, outcome, and lives; Using current, authoritative, trustworthy health information; While serving as a platform for research into the challenges facing world-wide information distribution.
  

The STFM Communications Committee has reviewed the following list of
Web sites that may be of interest to STFM members.
These links do not imply STFM endorsement or content
review for sites that do not carry STFM's name.
Send requests for additional links to Traci Nolte at tnolte@stfm.org.