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Medical Sites

• WSU WWAMI Medical Education: http://www.wsu.edu/~wwami/
  Washington State University is the one of five sites where University of Washington School of Medicine students spend their first year learning the basics of medicine in a rural setting.
  
• AAMC Medical Education - Association of American Medical Colleges: http://www.aamc.org/meded/start.htm
  Part of the AAMC site contains a list of medical schools, sections on medical education,
  community and minority programs, research in medical education, and curriculum management and evaluation.
  
• Alternative Medicine - MEDLINEplus: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/complementaryandalternativemedicine.html
• Alternative Medicine Homepage - University of Pittsburgh: http://www.pitt.edu/~cbw/altm.html
  Jumpstation for sources of information on unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, or alternative, complementary, innovative, integrative therapies.
  
• Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC): http://www.aamc.org/
  
• Cancer.gov - National Cancer Institute: http://www.cancer.gov/cancer_information/
  Cancer information, clinical trials, statistics, research programs and research funding.
  
• CareerMD.com: Information for Medical Students, Residents and Fellows: http://www.careermd.com/
  Features ResidencyFIND, FellowshipFIND and EmployerFIND databases.
  
• Doctor's Guide to the Internet: http://www.docguide.com/
  
• End of Life Physician Education Resource Center (EPERC) - Medical College of Wisconsin: http://www.eperc.mcw.edu/
  
• Evidence-Based Healthcare Resources - University of Rochester Medical Center: http://www.urmc.edu/hslt/miner/
  
• Evidence-Based Health Care - Yale University: http://www.med.yale.edu/library/ref/ebp/
  
• FreeMedicalJournals.com: Promoting Free Access to Medical Journals: http://freemedicaljournals.com/
  880+ journals sorted by specialty, title, or any of 15 languages.
  
• FREIDA Online: Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2997.html
  Database of 8,200+ graduate medical education programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, as well as 200+ combined specialty programs. Search for training institutions, medical schools, aggregate training statistics by specialty and workforce information on recent graduates.
  
• Hardin MetaDirectory of Internet Health Sources - University of Iowa: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/index.html
  Hundreds of megasites in medicine and health sciences.
  
• Healthlinks - University of Washington: http://healthlinks.washington.edu/
• LOCATORplus: http://locatorplus.gov/
  The National Library of Medicine's catalog of medical research tools.
  
• Medical Matrix: Ranked, Peer-Reviewed, Annotated, Updated Clinical Medicine Resources: http://www.medmatrix.org/reg/login.asp
  Free directory of selected Internet medical sites reviewed and evaluated by a panel of physicians and medical librarians. Free registration required.
  
• MedWeb - Emory University: http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb/
  Catalog of biomedical and health-related web sites.
  
• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine - National Institutes of Health: http://nccam.nih.gov
  Supports research in complementary and alternative medicine through training of researchers. And provides information to the public about which complementary and alternative medicine modalities work and which do not work, and why.
  
• National Guideline Clearinghouse - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: http://www.guideline.gov
  Public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Features keyword and detailed search options, also browsing by disease, condition, treatment, intervention or organization.
  
• National Library of Medicine, USA: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
  The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials in all areas of biomedicine and health care, as well as works on biomedical aspects of technology, the humanities, and the physical, life, and social sciences
  
• National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) - Association of American Medical Colleges: http://www.nrmp.org/
  A private not-for-profit corporation, providing a uniform date of appointment to positions in graduate medical education in the United States.
  
• NIH Clinical Alerts and Advisories: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/alerts/clinical_alerts.html
  Links to findings from the NIH-funded clinical trials that could significantly affect morbidity and mortality.
  
• OMIM Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=OMIM
  This database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders. It contains textual information,
  pictures, and reference information. Copious links to MEDLINE articles and sequence information are provided. The OMIM Morbid Map, a catalog of genetic diseases and their cytogenetic map locations arranged alphabetically by disease, is also available.
  
• OncoLink - University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center: http://oncolink.upenn.edu/
  Helps cancer patients, families, health care professionals and the general public get accurate cancer-related information at no charge.
  
• Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine: http://www.rosenthal.hs.columbia.edu
  Contributes to the informed research and practice of complementary and alternative medicine and to foster the development of a more comprehensive and inclusive medical system.
  
• United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE): http://www.usmle.org/
  Find explanations of the USMLE, sample questions, and information on scheduling and taking the tests.
  
• The Visible Human Project - National Library of Medicine: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html
  This project entails the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies. Acquisition of transverse CT, MR and cryosection images of
  representative male and female cadavers has been completed. The data sets consist of MRI, CT and anatomical images.
  
• Washington Medical Quality Assurance Commission: https://fortress.wa.gov/doh/hpqa1/hpqamain.htm
  Health Professions Quality Assurance (HPQA) is an office within the Department of Health responsible for protecting public health and safety by regulating the competency and quality of more than 250,000 health care providers.
  
• WWAMI Program - University of Washington: http://depts.washington.edu/uwrhrc/
  University of Washington School of Medicine's community-based teaching and rural healthcare program.
  WWAMI provides community-based medical education for the five states after which it is named: Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho. Details application, research and residency opportunities.

Government Sites

• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR/CDC): http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/
  The mission of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), is to serve the public by using the best science, taking responsive public health actions, and providing trusted health information to prevent harmful exposures and disease related to toxic substances.
  
• Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC) - USDA:http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/
  AWIC provides information for improved animal care and use in research, teaching, and testing. Includes information on searching for alternatives to use of animals in research.
  
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): http://www.cdc.gov/
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people.
  
• Clinical Trials.gov - NIH & NLM http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/home
  Current information about clinical trials from NIH and NLM. Search by disease, location, treatment, sponsor, or browse by funding organization.
  
• Code of Federal Regulations http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html
  The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government. It is divided into 50 titles that represent broad areas subject to Federal regulation.
  
• Current Clinical Research Studies - NIH: http://clinicalstudies.info.nih.gov/
  Searchable collection of research studies being conducted at the NIH Clinical Center.
  
• Disaster Recovery and Environmental Health, NLM http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/disasterrecovery.html
  A list of web sites that provide information on preparation for and recovery from disasters.


• Environmental Health Information Service (EHIS): http://www.ehponline.org
  Access to EHIS Publications: Environmental Health Perspectives, EHP Chinese edition, NTP Reports.
  
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA): http://www.fda.gov/
  
  • FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research: http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/default.htm
    Access new prescription drug approvals, link to major drug information pages, find prescription drug, consumer drug, over-the-counter drug and clinical trials information. Also covered: drug safety & side effects; public health alerts & warning letters.
    
  • FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine: http://www.fda.gov/cvm/
    Includes the Green Book (listing of all FDA-approved animal drugs and methods for use 1989-) and other FDA/CVM regulatory materials.
    
  • FDA Forms: http://www.fda.gov/opacom/morechoices/fdaforms/fdaforms.html
    Online catalog of all FDA forms organized by subject. Many are available electronically and pertain to human drugs, animal drugs, clinical investigations and medical devices/radiological health.
    
• Idaho State Government & Information Resources: http://www.state.id.us/
  
• International Data Base (IDB): http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbprint.html
  U.S. Census Bureau's computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic and socioeconomic data for 227 countries and areas of the world.
  
• Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/
  The data in the weekly MMWR are provisional, based on weekly reports to CDC by state health departments. The reporting week concludes at close of business on Friday; compiled data on a national basis are officially released to the public on the succeeding Friday.
  
• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine - National Institutes of Health: http://nccam.nih.gov
  Supports research in complementary and alternative medicine through training of researchers. And provides information to the public about which complementary and alternative medicine modalities work and which do not work, and why.
  
• National Institutes of Health (NIH): http://www.nih.gov/
  The NIH, comprising 27 separate Institutes and Centers, is one of eight health agencies of the Public Health Service which, in turn, is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
  
• National Library of Medicine (NLM): http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
  The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials in all areas of biomedicine and health care, as well as works on biomedical aspects of technology, the humanities, and the physical, life, and social sciences
  
• NIH Clinical Alerts and Advisories: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/alerts/clinical_alerts.html
  Links to findings from the NIH-funded clinical trials that could significantly affect morbidity and mortality.
  
• Office of Animal Care and Use - NIH: http://oacu.od.nih.gov/
  Information resource for scientists on NIH policy and assistance for institutional Care and Use committees.
  
• Travelers' Health - National Center for Infectious Diseases: http://www.cdc.gov/travel/
  
• Vital Records - National Center for Health Statistics: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/howto/w2w/w2welcom.htm
  Alphabetical directory of information on where to write for copies of certificates of birth, death, marriage, divorce and other vital statistics for all US states/territories.
  
• Washington State Department of Health: http://www.doh.wa.gov/
  
• Washington State Government & Information Resources: http://access.wa.gov/
  
• Washington State & Local Government Documents: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/govdoc/main.htm

Reference Resources

Please contact us if you have a specific question. Vetref@mail.wsu.edu

• Abbreviations and Acronyms: Veterinary - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: http://petcaretips.net/veterinary-abbreviations.html
  
• ACQWEB Directory of Publishers and Vendors: http://acqweb.org/pubr.html
  Global list of book publishers and vendors, organized alphabetically and by subject, with links to their web sites and email addresses. Also includes many other organizations related to the publishing industry.
  
• Acronyms and Initialisms for Health Information Resources: http://www.geocities.com/~mlshams/acronym/acr.htm
  An index of acronyms for organizations that produce health, medical, and veterinary sciences information with many links to corresponding organization websites. Information in English and French.
  
• Agrigator - University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences: http://AgriGator.ifas.ufl.edu/
  Index of links for agriculture, the environment, weather, biotechnology and Internet searching tools.
  
• Altweb: Alternatives to Animal Testing on the Web: http://altweb.jhsph.edu/
  Altweb, the Alternatives to Animal Testing Web Site, was created to serve as a gateway to alternatives news, information, and resources on the Internet and beyond.
  
• American Hospital Directory: http://www.ahd.com/
  Click on the Free Services button. Searchable by hospital name or state. Each record lists location and contact information with some statistical information such as visits, financials, bed count, etc. from public data sources.
  
• Calculator.com: Online calculators: http://www.calculator.com/index.html
  Features basic and scientific calculators, plus a directory of "calculators" for specific fields i.e. radiotherapy equivalent dose, as well as converters for currency, units, and time zones.
  
• Calculator.org: Online Conversions and Constants: http://www.calculator.org/properties.html
  Alphabetical list of 50+ types of converters organized alphabetically from acceleration to wave number.
  
• Child & Family WebGuide - Tufts University: http://www.cfw.tufts.edu/
  Describes, evaluates and links to websites that contain research-based information about child development.
  
• Contacting Congress: http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
  Congressional contact information: email and ground mail addresses, homepage links.
  
• Currency Exchange Rates Using the Universal Currency Converter: http://www.xe.com/ucc/
  Allows online interactive foreign exchange rate conversions with live rates.
  
• Dictionary of Alternative Medicine-Methods - American Council on Science and Health: http://hsl.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/altmed.html
  Brief definitions of 1,000+ alternative "mystical, supernaturalistic, and/or vitalistic methods."
  
• DocFinder - Association of State Medical Board Executive Directors: http://www.docboard.org/
  Index of links to all of the state medical licensing authorities with online services for physician credential verification.
  
• eICD: The Electronic International Classification of Disease: http://www.eicd.com/
  Provides free access to current ICD-9-CM and HCPCS medical coding data. Select eICD Online or eHCPCS Online.
  
• Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, 7th edition: http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/labrats/
  Full text 125-page book, published in 1996 by the National Research Council's Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources.
• Health Hippo: http://hippo.findlaw.com/hippohome.html
  Collection of policy and regulatory materials related to health care.


• Instructions for Authors, Veterinary Medical Library University of Minnesota http://www.vetmed.lib.umn.edu/node/1175
  Instructions for authors of vetmed/health science journal articles


• Institute for Laboratory Animal Research: http://dels.nas.edu/ilar_n/ilarhome
  Provides technical information on laboratory animals and other biological research resources to the scientific community, the federal government, and the public.


• Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences, Medical College of Ohio: http://mulford.meduohio.edu/instr/
  Provide instructions to authors for over 3,500 journals in the health and life sciences. All links connect to publishers or organizations with editorial responsibilities for the titles.


• Instructions to Authors, Veterinary Medicine Library Virginia Tech http://www.lib.vt.edu/services/branches/vetmed/authors.html
  Specific veterinary medical journals.


• Journal Database Browser - PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed
  Searcheable index of journals indexed in PubMed. Journals can be searched by journal title abbreviation.
  
• Laboratory Animal Research: Online books from the National Academy Press: http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/records/LA.html
  Links to over 10 full-text books on aspects of laboratory animal welfare.
  
• Material Safety Data Sheets: http://www.ilpi.com/msds/index.html
  
• Medical Dictionary Online: http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd/
  Includes more than 46,000 definitions of medical terms with some biological and other scientific terms.
  
• Medical Subject Headings / MeSH Browser - PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=mesh
  Search the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary used for indexing articles in PubMed. MeSH terminology provides a consistent way to retrieve information that may use different terminology for the same concepts.
  
• MedTerms: http://www.medterms.com/
  Commercial site features medical dictionary, as well as indexes to in-depth, easy-to-read consumer level information on diseases, conditions, procedures, tests and medications.
  
• Pharma-Lexicon Medical and Pharma Abbreviations Dictionary: http://www.medilexicon.com/
  A database of 40,000+ medical & pharmaceutical acronyms and abbreviations. English/Spanish interfaces. Updated daily.
  
• UCCAA (University of California Center for Animal Alternatives): http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/Animal_Alternatives/mission.htm
  The Center places special emphasis on disseminating information concerning models, computer programs, and other animal alternatives in education through every level of public and private education.
  
• Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: http://www.icmje.org
  Hosted by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.
  
• World Health Organization (WHO): http://www.who.int/en/
  The World Health Organization, the United Nations specialized agency for health, was established on 7 April 1948. WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
  
• WHO Pesticide Evaluation Scheme (WHOPES): http://www.who.int/whopes/en/
  The WHO Pesticide Evaluation Scheme, is the only international program which promotes and coordinates the testing and evaluation of new pesticides proposed for public health use.

Sites for Pet Owners

• WSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital: http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/depts-vth/hospital.html
  The College of Veterinary Medicine at Washington State University is dedicated to excellence and innovation in teaching, scholarship and outreach in the veterinary and other medical sciences for the benefit of animal and human health.
  
• Acmepet: http://www.acmepet.com/
  Provides a wide variety of sites and links. Also useful for accessing bulletin boards and chat rooms for pet owners with specific interests.
  
• American Kennel Club: http://www.akc.org/index.cfm
  A good source of information on dogs, especially the recognized breeds.
  
• Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement (APLB): http://www.aplb.org/
  The APLB is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people during this very special kind of bereavement.
  
• Care for Animals - AVMA: http://www.avma.org/careforanimals/default.asp
  Includes pet care recommendations, owners' stories and plenty of information for kids with worksheets and animation.
  
• Cat Owner Resources: http://www.vet.cornell.edu/fhc/
  
• Consultant: A Diagnostic Support System for Veterinary Medicine: http://www.vet.cornell.edu/consultant/consult.asp?#
  Search Cornell University's database to retrieve suggestions of possible diagnoses or causes for clinical signs and symptoms and to provide a brief synopsis of the diagnosis/cause.
  
• The Humane Society of the United States: http://www.hsus.org/index.html
  
• Model Pet Ownership Policy - ASPCA: http://www.aspca.org/media/modelpetpolicy.pdf
  
• Pet Care Bibliography - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/vex/readypetcare.htm
  
• peteducation.com: http://peteducation.com/
  Created by veterinarians Dr. Race Foster and Dr. Marty Smith, this site provides a dictionary of veterinary terms, a table of abbreviations/acronyms, information on common drugs and nutraceuticals and a list of weights, measurements and conversions.
  
• Waltham World of Pet Care: http://www.waltham.com/
  Covers a wide range of information from breed and selection to behavior and feeding practices.
  
• Whitman County Humane Society: http://www.whitmanpets.org/
  
• Vetinfo: A Veterinary Information Service: http://www.vetinfo.com/
  Veterinary health information relating to dogs and cats.

Citation Help

• National Library of Medicine Style Guide: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/electric/quickguides/docs/nlm.html
  
• EndNote Web: http://wiki.wsu.edu/wsuwiki/Endnote_Web
  
• How to Avoid Plagiarism: Selected Resources for Students: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/general/plagpage.html#students
  
• WSU Plagiarism Information Site: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/plagiarism/main.html
  
• Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (Vancouver Style): http://www.icmje.org/index.html
  
• WSU Libraries Tip Sheets on Style: http://www.systems.wsu.edu/bin/libdocs/style/Style_Guides.pdf