Internet for the Family Physician

All the listed links, due to the dynamic nature of the World Wide Web, are unstable, and they may vary or be suppressed at any moment. If a link does not work, please let me know by email.

Primary Care Resources

Italian Sites

Internet Guides | Search Engines | List of Family Medicine Resources |

Internet Guides

  1. Internet Tutorials for Family Physicians
  2. A Guide to the Internet for Medical Practitioners
  3. Doctor's Guide to the Internet
  4. Physician's Guide to the Internet
  5. An Introduction To The Internet For Medics - Dr Clare Sansom

Search Engines

  1. CliniWeb CliniWeb focuses on information of interest to health care professionals and students. The database organised using MeSH (Medical Subject Headings).
  2. Medical World Search Medical World Search is aimed at medical professionals in clinical practice. Its search interface uses the UMLS metathesaurus.
  3. OMNI High quality health-related internet sites.
  4. Medical Matrix
  5. HealthAtoZ The Search Engine for Health and Medicine
  6. MedWeb Plus MedWeb provides a browsable list of resources organised by topic region and country.
  7. Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics (Karolinska Institut) - "MeSH Classified" Resources on Internet for lay persons, health care professionals and researchers
  8. Health On the Net Health on the Net produces the MedHunt database, a combination of reviewed and automatically indexed sites.
  9. HealthWeb HealthWeb provides links to specific, evaluated information resources on the World-Wide Web selected by librarians and information professionals at academic medical centers in the Midwest. Selection emphasizes quality information and the service is aimed at health care professionals and consumers.
  10. MEDSITE Search engine for medical sites.
  11. MedFinder Search engine for medical sites (free Medline access)
  12. Achoo Healthcare Directory Achoo maintains a database of health care Internet resources aimed at the medical community and all other Internet users.
  13. Medis Search is a unique search engine whose only job is to index articles from journals that have content online.
  14. MedExplorer
  15. Citeline.com
  16. The MED Engine

    Meta-Search Engines

Lists of Family Medicine Resources

  1. VOLC-R Primary Care Resources on the Internet
  2. Medicina InRete
  3. Primary Care Internet Guide
  4. General Practice and Primary Care Links (mostly UK)
  5. Hardin Meta Directory - Family Medicine
  6. WebDoctor "The Internet Navigator for Primary Care Physicians"
  7. MedWeb: Family Medicine
  8. WWW Virtual Library
  9. Web Watch
  10. UK Primary Care
  11. MedMark - Family Medicine, WK
  12. Mailbase Medicine Mail Lists U.K. based discussions and archived files in various topics.
  13. High Quality Internet clinical medicine resources
  14. Health and Medical Newsgroups of the Usenet Index
  15. Dept Public Health & Primary Health Care, Univ. of Bergen, Norway
  16. The Rural Health Linx
  17. OXAMWEB "Mental health in 3 clicks!" Great list of Internet psychiatry resources.
  18. Risorse in cardiologia su Internet An index of international and italian cardiologist/medical web sites.
  19. Clinical Trials Resource Center
  20. The Best Medical Resources on the Web
  21. Meta-index to major indexes and major resources in psychiatry
  22. Hardin Meta Directory - Medical Informatics
  23. Web's Medical Resources and News
  24. MED Guide for Medical Internet Resources
  25. Family Medicine on the Web
  26. Australian General Practice Resources
  27. Family Medicine Web Resources (Journal of Family Medicine)
  28. Family Medicine, Yahoo
  29. McMaster Family Medicine
  30. Internet Mental Health
  31. W3MED-Archivio di Risorse di Internet per la Medicina
  32. MD Consult
  33. ONCO.CARE List of oncologic resources (Istituto Mario Negri).
  34. FAMILY MEDICINE ON THE WEB
  35. Trawling the Net A ScHARR Introduction to Free Databases of Interest to NHS Staff on the Internet
  36. Internet Disease Briefs and Resources Search A search of a comprehensive linked list of documents on diseases targeted for laymen, health care professionals and scientists. Karolinska Institute.
  37. Ocular Diseases Link Directory
  38. Dictionary of On-Line Medical Resources Contains about 1400 entries of medical terms with explanations and hypertext links to resources on the Internet.
  39. BUBL LINK-Medicine The BUBL tree covers all subjects; including medical sciences. Resources are selected and annotated by academic librarians, and the service is aimed at the research and education sector.
  40. Comparison of Health Information Megasites A study by medical librarians that offers comparison tables with features of Internet megasites and directories. P. F. Anderson, Michigan, et al.
    41. [From Medical Matrix]
  41. Useful Medical Weblinks
  42. Trawling the Net It aims to provide a resource page of links to free databases of interest specifically to NHS staff.
  43. CANCERLIT® Bibliographic Database
  44. Guide to InterNet Resources for Cancer
  45. The Heart of General Practice This site aims to provide rapid access to current opinion and evidence through links to original papers and authoritative reviews.
  46. National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD)
  47. CANCER Net Professionals
  48. OncoLink (University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center)