These resources along with books and multimedia on reserve at the science library aim to provide good starting points for the semester poster assignment. Be sure to check out Professor Amador Kane's course website for many more interesting and useful resources as well.
For resources on epidemiology and global health, see course guide under Mediciine in the Tricollege Subject Portal.
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Physic 108b : Resources in Imaging, Surgery and Therapy (HC)
Basic Information in Diseases, Treatment and Ethics:
MedlinePlus - Health Topics (National Library of Medicine)
Search alphabetically by topic or browse categories to find your topic.
Each topic is comprehensive, with basic information, news, specific conditions, related issues, and research articles, dictionaries, directories and organizations. Also look at the Diagnostic Test page for links to various technologies.
Each topic is comprehensive, with basic information, news, specific conditions, related issues, and research articles, dictionaries, directories and organizations. Also look at the Diagnostic Test page for links to various technologies.
National Cancer Institute
Explore their Cancer Topics with consumer and professional level information for explanation of the condition, therapy and genetics.
Merck Manual Online
Basic information on diseases and their causes and treatment. Medical dictionary and multimedia supporting materials also available.
Bioethics.net
The home of AJOB (American Journal of Bioethics), daily public health news and primers on all the important biomedical issues.
Basic Information on Radiology priniciples and techniques:
National Cancer Institute Cancer Imaging Program
The site contains an introduction on the uses and how the various technologies work.
RadiologyInfo
Radiology Info for Patients – a website whose content is reviewed and approved by experts in the American College of Radiology (ACR) and Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
RadiologyEducation.com
A collection of digital radiology textbooks and teaching files, anatomical and embryology atlases and lots of case studies from credible medical school sources. Maintained and curated professionally and with high standards.
Radiology on e-Medicine
Basic medical plus imaging all in one file for each condition.
Let's Play PET
A e-text on PET with case file images, from the UCLA Molecular and Medical Pharmacology Department
Videos, Image Collections and Atlases:
WebSurg – Virtual Surgical University
Boasting the largest collection of laparoscopic surgery, this site presents state-of-the-art surgical techniques,protocols and equipment in all surgical specialties.Created by surgeons for surgeons with videos, lectures, references and reviews about surgical procedures and techniques.
Atlas of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
The Whole Brain Atlas - From the Harvard Medical School
A neuroimaging primer accompanies this ever-growing, large library of normal and diseased brain scans (MRI, PET and SPECT).
Obstetrics Ultrasound website by Dr. John Woo
Introduction of the theory, use and application to many pregnancy scenarios. Now includes news and historical sections.
The Virtual Human Embryo
3D reconstruction and stages of development and library of online media.
Laparoscopy.com
This very interesting and detailed site explains some specifics about laparoscopic surgery of various types, and includes case studies, movies and images drawn from a variety of areas.
AnatQuest
A 3D anatomical viewer with cryosectional color images of human anatomy. One implementation of the Visible Human Project
Anatomy Atlases
Image Search Engines:
ARRS GOLDMINER
From the official description: ARRS GoldMiner® provides instant access to 209,282 radiological images published in 261 selected peer-reviewed journals. You can search by findings, anatomy, imaging technique, and patient age and sex.
SearchingRadiology.com
Searching radiology peer-reviewed information from AJNR, AJR, Anatomy Atlases, BJR, eMedicine, Gray's Anatomy, Medcyclopaedia, Radiographics, and Radiology
Google Image Search
Bibliographic Databases - finding articles:
PubMed
Provider: NCBI
Includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.
LexisNexis academic
Provider: LN
Full-text of thousands of newspapers, magazines, news transcripts, reference works, and legal materials. Includes NY Times (1980-current)
Safety Information:
FDA's Radiological Health Program
Radiation Safety - EPA
Radiation Health and Safety Information- Department of Labor (OSHA)
Organizations:
Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
Founded in 1915 with over 40,000 imaging professionals, the RSNA is a professional membership society committed to excellence in patient care through education and research. Members include radiologists, radiation oncologists, medical physicists and allied scientists.
American College of Radiology (ACR)
The American College of Radiology (ACR) is a professional society whose purpose is to improve the health of patients and society by maximizing the value of radiology and radiologists by offering professional development, encouraging volunteerism to increase public awareness of the profession. They have a industry-focused and health-focused news center on their homepage.
Worldwide Directory of Radiology Organizations
A comprehensive listing from the RNSA.
Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA)
MITA provides leadership for the medical imaging industry on legislative and regulatory issues at the state, federal, and international levels.
MITA is also a leading standards-development organization for medical imaging equipment. These standards are voluntary guidelines that establish commonly accepted methods of design, production, testing and communication for imaging and cancer treatment products.