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Organizational Links

Georgia Statewide Area Health Education Centers

Georgia Free Clinic Network

 South Georgia Farmworker Health Project

Good Samaritan Health Center

 

Emory Links

(many of these links require a valid Emory ID for access)

Emory University  home page

Emory Med Web

Learnlink

Webmail

Black Board

Emory Medical Library

Free Plug in Links - http://www.web.emory.edu/services/blackboard/freeplugins.htm

EJournals at Emory

Free Electronic Journals at Emory

Electronic textbooks at Emory

Evidence Based Medicine EBM Resources

 

PA Links

AAPA

GAPA –  Georgia Association of Physician Assistants

Georgia Composite State Board of Medical Examiners

        Rules of the Board (PDF file)

        PA Law - Georgia (PDF file)

D.E.A.  On-line Application

The American Association of Surgical Physician Assistants (AASPA)

PAEA- The Physician Assistant Education Association

NCCPA

JAAPA

PA World

Advance for PAs

Physician Associate.com

 

Medical Links

Medscape

MDConsult

NLM Gateway

CDC

Drug Information

Free Evidence Based Medicine handbook and CD-ROM  http://www.unitedhealthfoundation.org/ebm.html

Virtual Pediatric Patients: Common Clinical Problems in Pediatrics

Virtual Hospital: Patient Simulations

MerckMedicus  Multiple online medical references and free PDA resources.

The Auscultation Assistant

Normal and abnormal EKGs and heart sounds

NetMedicine Radiology Library

Professional Education, Brigham and Women's Hospital Radiology

ECG Introduction

EKG of the Month- MDChoice

Public Health and Terrorism (CDC)

Smallpox Resources (CDC)

 

CME Links

Emory PA Certification / Recertification Review

The American Association of Surgical Physician Assistants (AASPA)

AAPA CME programs

NIH - NIH Consensus Development Program

University of Texas Medical Branch

CME Pipeline

MedConnect

Medscape

Baylor CME site

Medical Rounds Medical Multimedia on Demand

Pediatrics Online

University of Wisconsin

 

PDA Links

ePocrates (Free)

www.doctorsgadgets.com
This site has news, animated tutorials, software listings (free and commercial) and a discussion forum.

Differential Diagnosis Mnemonics for the Palm by Allan Platt, PA-C.  If you are a PDA user, we encourage you to download and install it. This free palm application is a downloadable zip file that requires you to download it and save it to your PC, use an unzip program, and then follow the directions in the "Read me first" text file.

               

Avantgo Web clipper - (Free)

Avantgo is a program that allows you to view web-pages "channels" on your handheld. It usually comes as standard software with Palm handhelds, but can be downloaded from http://avantgo.com/ Useful channels include: -Clinical Evidence You have to go to the Clinical Evidence website to download this channel. Produced by the BMJ publishing group. Online Lab Studies Guide (free) is a useful eBook found in the medical channels area of AvantGo.

Eponyms  (Free )

Mnemonics  (Free)

Adobe reader for Palm OS  (Free)

CspotRun Doc reader   (Free)

Free C-Tools 2.0 provides important cancer-related health information such as: Cancer Screening
Guidelines/Calculator, Tobacco Cessation Tool, Pain Medications Dictionary, Drug Calculator, Pain/Symptom Management Tool, Detecting Cancer in Children, Specific Antigen Information, BMI Calculator for Adults, Skin Cancer Screening Tool, Communicating with Your Patients about Bad News, and Questions Patients ask about Cancer.

Diagnosaurus  (Free Differential Diagnosis Reference)

Johns Hopkins Antibiotic Guide  (Free)

Ebm2Go - Evidence Based Medicine  (Free)

Palm PDR

Immunization guide

NIH Asthma Guidelines

NIH COPD Guidelines

American College of Cardiology guides

Evidence Based Medicine Info Retriever

Journal To Go

Clinical History and Physical Exam

Palm EKG

Lexicomp medical texts

Usamriid's Medical Management of Biological Casualties Handbook

Redi-Reference

PEPID - Portable Emergency and Primary Care Information Database.

Skyscape Books 5 minute Clinical Consult series

.911 Emergency Responder Resource  (OCM/911/ CDC resources, including bioterrorism; Free)

NIH obesity guidelines

Sanford Medical Guides

Franklin Electronic Publishers website :  Medical Letter Handbook of Adverse Drug Reactions, Washington Manual, Harrison's, and others.

Medical Calculators - With the addition of a variety of software packages that are available, your PDA can quickly perform many essential medical calculations such as drip rates, Aa Gradient, BMI, and dozens of others.

MedCalc

Evidence Based Medicine Calculator

ABG calculator

PDAMD

Pediatric Pilot Page

Ectopic Brain

Washington University Palm Medical Page

Jim Thompson's Page

Emory University School of Medicine Palm Page of links

MDBook LLC

pdaMD.com

Healthy Palm Pilot

Cleveland Clinic Palm page

ACP-ASIM PDA Portal American College of Physicians PDA Portal

CollectiveMed.com Medical Software, PDA Hardware and Books

DocMD.com PDA Software reviews

EMSZone Journal of Nursing Mobile Informatics Home Page

HandheldMed Medical Software web site

Memoware Medical Downloads palmMD Palm Pilot Medical Software Download Site

PalmPilotArchives.com Palm Pilot Medical Software Download Site

PDAs for Health Care Providers Healthcare resources from the Arizona Health Sciences Library

Missing Link eBrain PDA Resource maintained by the University California San Francisco Medical Students

Yale ITS-Med Palm OS Computing PDA Resource maintained by the Yale University - Information Technology Services

Evidence Based Medicine Tools for the PDA This web page contains a collection of hyperlinks to applications and services for use on personal digital assistant (PDA) devices in the education and practice of evidence based medicine

Peripheral Brain

Handango

Evidence Based Medicine for PDAs: A Guide for Practice

 

Patient Communication Links

 

This video module consists of two parts. Part One features a panel discussion of three clinical vignettes involving medical error.  Part Two of the tape presents a host of empathic communication techniques that can be useful to health professionals when they conduct bad news conversations.

 http://ethics.emory.edu/media/error.htm

 

A Practical Guide to Clinical Medicine - The History and Physical Exam

http://medicine.ucsd.edu/clinicalmed/introduction.htm

 

Conversations in Care. This is an on-line book with several new chapters on patient communication topics.

http://www.conversationsincare.com/

 

International Center for the Integration of Health and Spirituality is an educational and research organization committed to exploring and communicating the dynamic relationship of spirituality with health.

 http://www.nihr.org/

 

Religions and health care. This is a wonderful resource of what different faiths teach about healing and health.

http://jmahoney.com/tableof.htm

 

ETHNOMED- Ethnic Medicine Guide Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington This is a site with communication guidelines for clinicians and patients from many ethnic backgrounds.

http://ethnomed.org/

 

The Intercultural Communication Institute (ICI) is a non-profit, private foundation designed to foster an awareness and appreciation of cultural difference in both the international and domestic arenas.

http://www.intercultural.org/

 

Diversity Rx: promotes language and cultural competence to improve the quality of health care for minority, immigrant, and ethnically diverse communities.

http://www.diversityrx.org/HTML/DIVRX.htm

 

Center for Cross Cultural Health The mission is 'to integrate the role of culture in improving health.' Our vision is to ensure that diverse populations receive culturally competent and sensitive health care.

http://www.crosshealth.com/

 

The Cross Cultural Health Care Program. Since 1992, the CCHCP has been addressing broad cultural issues that impact the health of individuals and families in ethnic minority communities in Seattle and nationwide. They have videos and books.

http://www.xculture.org/

 

University of Maryland Diversity Database.

http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/Diversity/

 

Diversity, Healing and Health Care. A web-based resource for clinicians who work with patients whose cultures and religions are different from their own.

http://hale.pepperdine.edu/~bdnapier/diversity.htm

 

The Cultural Competence Compendium (1999), is a collection of resources for physicians and the public.

 http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/4848.html

 

CHISPA website includes an e-pocket book for Hispanic patient care, Hispanic care resources,and Spanish language links as well as a discussion forum for students and AH professionals to share their experiences and thoughts. The e-pocket book includes an index with alphabetical links to helpful cultural/linguistic AH pages on the Web as well as original Web pages created by CHISPA content experts.

http://itdc.lbcc.edu/chispa

 

Cultural Competence Online - This website explores the importance of culture in the delivery of services to all segments of the population.

http://www.culturalcompetence2.com/

 

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