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Here
are some links I hope you'll find helpful. Some go to web pages “inside
the U of M” -- other UM schools, other course pages, etc. The rest
are to the real world (anything not part of the U of M, which often doesn't
even come close to reality). Here's an overview:
Updated 3-16-14 Have an educational link you'd like to see here? Find one of my links that doesn't work? If so, send E-mail to me at: mshlafer@umich.edu. Don't forget to include a complete, accurate and valid URL for new links. |
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Learn more about Nursing at the U of M Health System: job opportunities, educational resources, research, nursing management leadership, and more. |
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| NursingCenter.com | Links, content, for many journals, other resources; find CE offerings, full text articles, and more, on pharmacology. Site run by Lippincott publishers |
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The definitive place to start exploring on-line nursing education and career opportunities, scholarships, nursing organizations, much more! Gotta see this if you plan moving up the ladder. |
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The School's Home Page |
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Find information about the journal, other good stuff, on the organization's home page |
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Important resource for USMLE 1 and 2 |
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Our med school's “home” |
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Your entry point to our med school's Learning Resource Center and all that's there. |
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The
Dental School's Home Page |
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The College's Home Page |
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...interactive grand rounds [and more] ...for docs, med students, and other health professionals; sign up (free). It's good. |
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| Drugs that prolong the QT interval | From the Arizona Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics. A comprehensive site, with many useful tables that include lists of drugs that may prolong the QT interval and/or induce torsades de pointes. |
| DrugWatch.com | Comprehensive resource dedicated to educating the public about prescription and OTC medications, and protecting patients and consumers through solid information. Good info on drugs, side effects, recalls, approvals, developments, and features on current drug alerts. |
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A super site from the Univ of Utah Health Sciences Center: introduction to the ECG and electrocardiography; a library of ECGs, self-tests, more! |
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| Facts and Comparisons | Probably my most turned-to site for info on drugs, Rx and OTC; lots of good information about actions, uses, and all the other good stuff; great information on drug interactions. Free if you log on from a UMMS/UM Hospitals computer, a "modest" $300 - $500/year if you want your own account. |
| Family Practice Notebook | “An ongoing compendium of the diagnosis and management of common medical problems in Family Practice...” is what the site title states. Highly recommended; take a look. |
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Visit for monthly updates of new drugs approved by the FDA |
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Comprehensive coverage of causes and ways to prevent med errors; alerts, urgent advisories, error reporting, more; a must see for anyone with patient care responsibilities |
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Drab looking but useful guide to info on drugs, dosage schedules; lab tests; diagnostic procedures; more |
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“An Internet Guide to Computerized Medical Resources” |
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Claimed to be the #1 free internet medical site. Tons of info on a host of topics from AIDS to Women's Health; health news; clinical pearls; a daily case study to solve; and more — all well done. A must see! |
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| MedWatch | The FDA's safety information and adverse reporting program; how and what to report re: adverse drug effects; latest warnings that are a “must read -- and often” -- for every health care provider |
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Try this if you need the definition of a medical term, or learn how to pronounce it; brought to you by InteliHealth |
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Herbal and dietary supplement information; authoritative, scientific; synonyms, uses, safety, efficacy, interactions, much more; by paid subscription, but you can log in free from a U of Mich computer |
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| QuackWatch | “Your guide to health fraud, quackery, and intelligent decisions” |
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Need info about a drug? You might try here. Useful, but I'd give it only a B grade. |
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The UM med library's gateway |
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Free log-in from U Mich workstations |
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...from RxList |
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The gateway to our fine health system, or whatever it's being called today |
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My department's home page. |
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| Women's Health Information Resources | ...from the Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Columbia University; a great place to start a search on the subject of women's health issues |
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A handy table published by University of Michigan Hospitals' Pharmacy Services (Acrobat PDF file); posted with permission |
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...from the U. Michigan Health System Drug Information Service. A must-see, given the growing use of herbal remedies nowadays (PDF file); posted with permission |
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Another reference from the U Mich Drug Info Service. Lists ingredients in weight-loss products; their potential effects; evidence about weight-loss efficacy; more; rich text format file; posted with permission |
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| Darwin Awards | Read about how hapless (ok, just plain stupid) human beings cleanse the gene pool and make the world a better place for the rest of us by doing themselves in -- in some of the most incredible (and incredibly dumb) ways |
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The Annals of Improbable Research home page; just for fun! |
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...just in case your spelling checker isn't good enough, not to mention the possibility you might learn something by using a real dictionary |
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Read the latest news, sports, and scuttlebutt during the Fall and Winter terms, from the often left-leaning U Michigan student rag. |
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For when you're searching for that perfect word. And then you'll need.... |
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Strunk & White's classic. Let's face it, dunce: even if you find the right words in a thesaurus you need help putting them all together correctly so you'll pass as literate. |
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M. Shlafer, except Weather Underground logo |
