Health Sciences Reference Resource Guide
National/International
- American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
- American Dental Association
- American Hospital Association
- American Medical Association
- American Nurses Association
- American Occupational Therapy Association
- American Pharmaceutical Association
- American Physical Therapy Association
- Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries
- Association of American Medical Colleges
- Canadian Medical Association
- Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
- Medical Library Association
- National League for Nursing
- Pan American Health Organization: Country Health Profiles
- World Health Organization
State/Local
- Medical Society of Virginia
- Virginia Academy of Family Physicians
- Virginia Dental Association
- Virginia Nurses Association
- Virginia Orthopaedic Society
- Life Sciences Dictionary
- Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary
- Multilingual Glossary of Medical Terms
- Online Medical Dictionary - from CancerWeb
- Pharma-Lexicon - acronyms and abbreviations
- Pharmacology Glossary
- Specialty Medical Dictionaries
- Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
- Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education
- Medical Education and Career Information
- Medical Schools in the U.S. and Canada
- National Resident Matching Program
Federal
- Centers for Disease Control
- Food and Drug Administration
- National Cancer Institute
- National Guideline Clearinghouse
- National Institute on Aging
- National Institutes of Health
- National Library of Medicine
State/Local
- Virginia Department of Health
- Virginia Department of Health Professions includes links to regulations, legislative information and individual state boards for various health professions
handbooks, manuals and directories
- Material Safety Data Sheets
- Merck Manual Publications with links to the 17th ed. of the Merck Manual, the Home Edition of the Merck Manual and the Merck Manual of Geriatrics
- ABMS Certified Doctor Home Page
- AMA Physician Select
- DocFinder
- License Lookup from the Virginia Department of Health Professions
- Medicare's Participating Physician Directory
- American Hospital Directory
- Best Hospitals from U.S. News and World Report
- Hospitals Worldwide
- Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems from AAMC
- Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
- Quality Check from JCAHO
- America's Health Care Source
- Careers in Dentistry
- FASEB Career Resources
- Medical Careers 2000
- Occupational Outlook Handbook
- Journal Database- from PubMed
- Biological Journals and Abbreviations
- Directory of Electronic Health Sciences Journals
- Free Medical Journals
- Index Medicus: List of Serials Indexed
- Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences
- Brandon/Hill Selected Lists
- Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
- Library Catalogs
- Library of Congress Classification for R: Medicine
- Medical/Health Sciences Libraries on the Web
- Medical Library Association
- National Library of Medicine
meetings and continuing education
- Academic Medicine Meetings
- CME Center from the American Academy of Family Physicians
- CME Select (AMA)
- Congress Resource Center
- Meetings from JAMA and the Archives journals
- Physicians' Travel and Meeting Guide
- Finding and Using Health Statistics: A Self-Study Course
- HCUPnet - hospital stays and costs, from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
- Health Statistics from C&RL NewsNet, October 1997
- Health, United States
- National Center for Health Statistics
- Safety & Health Statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
- State Health Facts Online from the Kaiser Family Foundation
- State Health Workforce Profiles: Supply, Demand, Distribution
- Virginia Center for Health Statistics - selected tables, maps and charts