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The Health Sciences Library provides the following links as a resource to hospital physicians, staff and the community. Please let us know if you find any of these links are out of date.

Select . . . Alternative & Complementary Medicine Consumer Health Government Sources Health Care Resources Hospital Administration Legal References News: Newspapers & Current Medical News Patient Safety Research Links General References Universities, Medical Centers Other Organizations Physicians' CME

Alternative & Complementary Medicine

Acupuncture.com | Traditional Chinese Medicine
EMEA
HerbNET
MedlinePlus | All Herbs and Supplements
National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine | National Institutes of Health
Natural Medicine Comprehensive Databases
Rosenthal Center for Alternative & Complementary Medicine (Columbia University)

Consumer Health

Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
AMA Physician Select
ClinicalTrials.gov | Linking patients to the medical research
Consumer & Patient Health Information
HealthFinder
Heart Center Online
MedlinePlus
Neighborhood Safety Network
Patient & Family Learning Center (MGH)
Physicians Profile | All states
Physicians Profile | Massachusetts

Government

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Centers for Disease Control
ClinicalTrials.gov | Linking patients to the medical research
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Department of Health & Human Services
Food & Drug Administration
FedWorld Information
Federal Register
Library of Congress
National Guideline Clearinghouse
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine
Statistical Abstracts
U.S. Government's Official Web Portal

Health Care

ACS: American Cancer Society
ADA: American Dietetic Association
AHA: American Hospital Association
AMA: American Medical Association
American Psychiatric Association
APA: American Psychological Association
Bioethics
Mayo Clinic Health
Maternal & Child Health Library
Medscape
US Health Care Associations & Societies

Hospital Administration

Health Care Advisory Board
Health Grades | The Health Care Quality Experts
HospitalWeb
The Joint Commission
Massachusetts Health Quality Partnership

Legal References

Code of Massachusetts Regulations
Cornell Law School
FindLaw
Massachusetts General Laws
Massachusetts Legal Service Program
Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries
Southern New England School of Law

News

Newspapers
Boston Globe (current day's news)
Boston Globe (full text) (Contact Library staff for full text)
Fall River Herald News
Google News
New Bedford Standard-Times
New York Times
New York Times (full text) (Contact Library staff for full text)
Newsbank (Contact Library staff for full text)
Proquest (Contact Library staff for full text)
Providence Journal
Providence Journal (full text) (Contact Library staff for full text)
USA Today
Wall Street Journal (Contact Library staff for full text)
Washington Post

Current Medical News
CNN Health
Ivanhoe: Medical Breakthroughs
WebMD Health
Reuters Health

Patient Safety

Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
Institute for Safe Medication Practices
Massachusetts Hospital Association
National Patient Safety Foundation

Research Links

Cine-Med (Contact Library staff for full text)
EBSCO
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
eLibrary (ask Library for UI and PW)
Freida Online: Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive database
HealthWeb
InfoTrac Gale Group (click here if connecting from Southcoast Library)
InfoTrac Gale Group (click here if connecting from home)
Literary Reference Center
MedBioWorld
Merck Manual
National Library of Medicine Gateway
Nursing World (ANA)
OncoLink
PubMed: Advanced MedLine Search
WebMD

General References

All-in-One MetaSearch
CEO Express
Dr. Koop
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Expedia.com | Online travel planning and flight bookings
Hotsheet
Internet @ddress Finder
Internet Public Library
Libraryspot.com
MapQuest
MassAnswers
Merriam Webster Online
MSN
NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
Switchboard
Virtual Flowers
Zip Code lookup

Universities & Medical Centers

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Harvard Medical School Countway Library
HealthWeb
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Mayo Clinic
UMass Dartmouth
UMass Medical School Library

Organizations

ARIHSL | Association of Rhode Island Health Sciences Libraries
MAHSLIN | Massachusetts Health Sciences Library Network
MBLC | Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners
NAHSL | North Atlantic Health Science Libraries Inc.
NN/LM NEW ENGLAND
SEMCO | Southeastern Massachusetts Consortium of Health Sciences Libraries
SEMLS | Southeastern Massachusetts Library System
US Health Care Associations & Societies

Physicians' CME

CME Requirements
Click here for Massachusetts CME Requirements for Physician License Renewal

CME Offered by Southcoast

• CME Lectures

  Click here for Southcoast CME calendar

  • Charlton Memorial Hospital: Tuesdays
  • St. Luke's Hospital: Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays
  • Tobey Hospital: Fridays

• Library Materials
  • NCME tapes
  • Journal articles
  • Risk management tapes and forum (risk management credit)
  • Audio digest tapes for CME program
  • Board of Registration in Medicine Regulations (234 CMR, 243 CMR)

• CME Website Recommendations
  • CME Web-based and online courses
  • CME conferences and courses

• Clinical Privilege Requirement Resources Available on Southcoast Intranet
  • Conscious Sedation: available on Southcoast intranet and PC in Physician Lounge
  • TPN: request at Medical Staff Office
  • Vent Management: check with Medical Staff Office (forthcoming on Southcoast intranet)

CME Web-based & Online Courses

• American Academy of Family Physicians | Contains list of online CME sites and traditional resources related to family practice.

• Annotated List of Online CME Sites | An alphabetical listing of websites offering ACCME-accredited CME. Updated frequently. Contains links to more than 200 Online CME sites offering more than 4,000 courses and more than 8,000 hours of CME credit.

• Armed Forces Institute of Pathology | The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.

• CME Online | Online distance learning program offered by the National Institutes of Health. Each of the quizzes have been accredited for 1 hour of CME credit towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. You will be able to print your CME certificate from this online site.

• eMedicine CME/CE | Peer-Reviewed Online CME and CE from EMedicine.

• HealthStream CME Search | Conduct a national search for CME courses by specialty, date and location. May search for live events or CD-ROM/video.

• Massachusetts Medical Society Online | Click on Continuing Medical Education for access to a list of upcoming CME programs sponsored by the Massachusetts Medical Society.

• Medical Crossfire | Medical Crossfire is a national health care education program produced by Liberty Communications Network, a business of Cardinal Health.

• Medscape CME Center | Medscape offers a selection of free, continuously updated continuing education activities for physicians, registered nurses, pharmacists and other health professionals. All activities marked "CME" have been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), and have been produced in collaboration with ACCME-accredited CME providers.

• NEJM Weekly CME Program

• Perspectives on Clinical Risk Management | Sponsored by MMS, 1 AMA PRA. Category 1 Credit™, risk management study.

• Risk Management Resource | Audio publication presenting interviews with experts in patient safety and risk management, case abstracts and legal reports. Qualifies for 1/2 Category 1 CME in Risk Management. Audio and transcripts are now available online.

CME Conferences & Courses

• AMA CME Select | AMA resource for continuing medical education.

• Mayo Clinics CME Courses | The Mayo School of Continuing Medical Education catalog is designed for easy use. Courses may be viewed by Specialty or chronologically.

• Congress Resource Center: Medical meeting database from Doctors Guide | The Congress Resource Center is a one-stop site of organised links and information designed to facilitate planning and scheduling for a featured congress.

• Upcoming Medical Meetings from the publisher of NEJM | A search system for upcoming medical events from New England Journal of Medicine.