Databases

Organizations

Search Engines

Patient Information/ Consumer Health Sites

Teaching Resources

 

 

Databases

    ( ** Access limited to MCPHS community )

 

** The Cochrane Library

http://ezproxy.mcphs.edu/login?url=http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/mrwhome/106568753/HOME 

A collection of evidence-based health care databases, including Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Register of Controlled Trials, and others.

 

** Expanded Academic Index

http://ezproxy.mcphs.edu/login?url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/mcp_main?db=EAIM

Covers material from all academic fields; Can be used to find information in popular or science journals

 

** Health Reference Center Academic  

http://ezproxy.mcphs.edu/login?url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/mcp_main?db=HRCA

Covers material from health-related fields and popular journals; Very good for social aspects of diseases or pharmaceuticals 

 

** MEDLINE

http://ezproxy.mcphs.edu/login?url=http://gateway.ovid.com/

Indexes and abstracts all of the major medical literature; Multidisciplinary

 

MedlinePlus

http://medlineplus.gov/

Created by the NIH and National Library of Medicine, especially prepared for patients; Clear authoritative presentation of health topics

 

** PubMed 

http://ezproxy.mcphs.edu/login?url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?holding=mcplib

Indexes articles, with links to full-text MCPHS licensed journals

 

PubMed

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

Indexes articles, limited to free resources only; Very few full text articles

 

** Science Direct

http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezproxy.mcphs.edu/

Provides more than 2000 full text peer-reviewed journals and e-books in life, physical, health, and social sciences

 

TRIP database

http://www.tripdatabase.com/index.html

Evidence-based medicine articles, medical images, and some patient information leaflets

 

 

 

Organizations

 

Biomedical Research Foundation of Northwest Louisiana

http://www.biomed.org/

PET Research Center; Resources for both physicians and patients

 

International Commission on Radiological Protection  (ICRP)

http://www.icrp.org/

Provides radiation protection guidance. radiation safety documents, and lists of topics in the Annals of ICRP; Created by an advisory commission based in Sweden

 

International Radiation Protection Organization (IRPA)

http://www.irpa.net/

Information about international cooperation in radiation protection

 

Radiation Internal Dose Information Center

http://dwb.unl.edu/Teacher/NSF/C03/C03Links/www.orau.gov/ehsd/ridic.htm

Information about radiation dosimetry; Compendia of dose estimates for adults, children and pregnant women; Instructions to join an internal dosimetry online discussion group

 

Society of Nuclear Medicine

http://interactive.snm.org/index.cfm?pageid=10&rpid=1977

Good information on basic nuclear medicine, patient information, terminology, and links; Quick Reference for Technologist page includes a procedure guidelines section

 

UIHC Positron Emission Tomography Imaging Center

http://pet.radiology.uiowa.edu/

General information on PET, as well as some case studies and protocols used at the University of Iowa PET Imaging Center

 

 

 

Search Engines

 

Google Scholar  

http://scholar.google.com/schhp?hl=en&tab=ws

Search scholarly publications through the Google search engine

 

Scirus

http://www.scirus.com/

Search engine developed by Elsevier Science that indexes science-related web pages, including journals

 

 

 

Patient Information/ Consumer Health Sites

 

MedlinePlus

http://medlineplus.gov/

Created by the NIH and National Library of Medicine, especially prepared for patients;

Clear authoritative presentation of health topics

 

RadiologyInfo

http://www.radiologyinfo.org/index.cfm?bhcp=1

Information for patients and their families on nuclear medicine procedures and radiology; From the RSNA (Radiological Society of North America)

 

 

 

Teaching Resources

 

Brigham and Women’s Radiology Dept and Harvard Medical School Cases by Title

http://brighamrad.harvard.edu/Cases/jpnm/hcache/title-index.html

Case files in Nuclear Medicine

 

Hardin MD Radiology & Medical Imaging

http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/rad.html

Lists of links, sorted by size provided by the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa

 

Harvard Radiology Brain

http://www.brighamrad.harvard.edu/education/online/BrainSPECT/BrSPECT.html

Brain Perfusion SPECT Atlas

 

Harvard Radiology Myocardial Perfusion

http://www.brighamrad.harvard.edu/education/online/Cardiac/main.html

Myocardial Perfusion SPECT Atlas

 

Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine

http://www.jpnm.org/elr.html

Teaching files from Nuclear Medicine divisions of various Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospitals

 

My PET

http://www.geocities.com/~ameripet/mypet.html

PET imaging teaching cases

 

Nuclear and SPECT Imaging teaching files 

http://www.uhrad.com/spectarc.htm

University of Cleveland

 

Nuclear Medicine Technology

http://webhome.idirect.com/~lgoodin/nmgi/gi_home.htm

Nuclear Medicine Imaging and Function Studies of the Gastrointestinal System

 

Royal United Hospital, Bath, UK - Nuclear Medicine Dept.

http://www.ruh.nhs.uk/archive/nm_training/training_home_page.htm

Case-Based Learning Archive of Nuclear Medicine Training

 

Scintigraphy of the Pediatric Skeleton

http://www.medical-atlas.org/

An online aid to effective diagnosis

 

University of Kansas

http://www.rad.kumc.edu/nucmed/

Teaching files including information on PET

 

Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine

http://gamma.wustl.edu/home.html

Teaching Files from Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology Nuclear Medicine

 

 

 

 This page created by Kathy Krathwohl and Joanne Doucette.  This  page last modified on September 30, 2009.