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Links

Good study links:

• PassMed.co.uk - an excellent site by Dr Jeremy Lynch from Bristol - devoted to your passing UK medical school finals, whether they are in a year or a week.
   
• QUB Clinical skills centre (www.qub.ac.uk/cskills) - an excellent site with lots of very useful clinical information and links.
   
• Scrubs @ QUB (www.qubscrubs.co.uk) - a medical student society, organises events to provide undergraduate medics with the chance to explore interests in clinical or academic medicine and surgery. Excellent site.
   
• FinalMed.com - Provide finals revision course covering Medicine, Therapeutics & Surgery. Also useful downloadable summaries.
   
• PasTest.Co.uk - provide a wide range of books, courses and online revision for medical students and postgrad exams.
   
• AskDoctorClarke.Com - Online material and Revision courses for Medical students.
   
• ClinicalTutor.Com - Many on-line MCQ's for undergrad and postgrad exams.
   
• Surgical-Tutor.Org.Uk - help with preparing for undergraduate and postgraduate surgical examinations.
   
• Flesh and Bones - excellent site with images, MCQ questions, revision tips for top 100 diseases, tips from students, survival guides and mnemonics.
   
• Yoracle.Com - Your Online Revision and Clinical Learning Environment - a website full of revision material written by medical students in preparation for their clinical and written exams.
   
• Scrubbing Up - Includes question bank, clinical Stills, e-books, power-point files, elective planning. Requires free registration.
   
• QUB Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences - Student News.
   
• StudentMedics.co.uk - many links to medical resources arranged by both module and topic.
   
• StudentDoctor.net - online community for medical students, providing free and unbiased resources.
   
• AIPPG Named Diseases List - very concise summaries of many diseases and syndromes.
   
• Medical Student Notes - a free online revision aid for medical students.
   
• Molson Medical Informatics, Student Projects - Links to lots of Web-based Resources for the Undergraduate Medical Program, including tutorials on ECG (EKG in USA) and Arrhythmias, etc - developed by McGill medical students under the supervision of the McGill Medical Faculty.
   

ECG teaching:

• The Six Second ECG - Dynamic Cardiac Rhythm Simulator. - 25 of the most common cardiac rhythms. Includes a game to test yourself on ECG rhythmes.
   
• ECG Wave-Maven ECG self-assessment for Students and Clinicians.
   
• ECG Learning Center - by Alan E.Lindsay, includes ECG outline, images, diagnosis and quiz.
   
• ECG Library - by Dean Jenkins and Stephen Gerred, the authors of "ECG by Example".
   
• 12-Lead ECG's - A "Web Brain" for Easy Interpretation.
   

GP (General Practice):

• American Family Physician - includes many articles, photo quizes, etc.
   
• GP Notebook - "an online encyclopaedia of medicine that provides a trusted immediate reference resource for clinicians in the UK and internationally."
   

House Officers - JHO/PRHO/Foundation Year

• Apply2Medicine - Providing a range of Medical CV, Application Form and Interview preparation services for individuals of all grades applying for Medical Posts in the UK.
   
• Pooh's NUS (National University of Singapore) Medical School HunnyPot - includes useful House Officer Survival Guide, Lists of Investigations, List of Drugs, and some revision MCQ's, etc.
   
• Tips on...Making radiology requests. - Very practical advice when requesting Xrays, CT scans, etc.
   
• Lab tests.
   
• www.medical-interviews.co.uk - Medical Interview Skills Courses.
   

Emergency Life Support training:

• Emergency Medicine Education Online - includes videos of acute disrhythmias and algorithms.
   
• Emergency Room ALS Medications for the Cardiac Patient.
   
• Adult Cardiopulmonary Arrest - Including Adult Advanced Life Support (ALS).
   

Some medicine and surgery reference sites:

• Medcyclopaedia.com - more than 18,000 topics and over 10,000 images.
   
• Christian Medical Fellowship - lots of helpful discussion of current ethical issues, events and literature from a christain viewpoint.
   
• GP Notebook - "an online encyclopaedia of medicine that provides a trusted immediate reference resource for clinicians in the UK and internationally."
   
• The Medical Algorithms Project - has over 8000 medical algorithms (formula, survey, or look-up table), useful in healthcare.
   
• MedicalStudent.com - is a digital library of authoritative medical information for all students of medicine.
   
• Virtual Naval Hospital is a digital library of naval medicine and military medicine and humanitarian medicine.
   
• www.qub.ac.uk/cm/sur/eval/index.html - Evaluation of several Surgical Internet Sites - a useful web-site set up by Dr Richard Thompson. It gives links and ratings to 50 internet sites that should be useful for teaching surgical topics and principles to undergraduate medical students.
   
• www.d4pro.com/diabetesguidelines/ - Diabetes & Ketoacidosis: has lots of information on Diabetes (types I and II) and guidelines on Diabetic Ketoacidosis.
   
• The Bookshop at Queen's online.
   
• MERCK - Includes on-line access to the famous Merk medical reference manuals on "Diagnosis & Theraphy", and the "Merck Index".
   
• HealthOpedia.com - a medical and health consumer information resource.
   
• MedicDirect.com - good first aid info, etc.
   
• Patient.co.uk - Health information for patients and doctors - includes guidelines, health/disease leaflets, medicine and test information, etc.
   
• www.asme.org.uk - Association for the Study of Medical Education - "Promoting Expertise in Healthcare Education and Training"
   

Interesting sites:

• ClinicalCases.org blogspot - Many interesting links.
   
• MedicalRounds - Multimedia On-Demand Medical Education - includes many free videos of upto-date teaching presentations covering many areas of medicine.
   

Journals

• BMJ.com - The general medical journal website
   
• The Lancet.com
   
• JAMA - Journal of American Medical Association
   
• The New England Journal of Medicine
   
• Student BMJ archive
   
• Medical-Journals.com - many links.
   

Finding Research Papers:

• PubMed - is a service of the National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
   
• MedLinePlus - provides information from USA's National Library of Medicine NLM, and USA's National Institutes of Health (NIH).
   

Royal College Websites:

• The Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA).
   
• The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP).
   
• The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG).
   
• The Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth).
   
• The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH).
   
• The Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath).
   
• The MRCP UK Website.
   
• The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE).
   
• The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC).
   
• The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI).
   
• The Royal College of Physicians of London (RCPLondon).
   
• The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (RCPSG).
   
• The Irish College of Psychiatrists (ICPsych).
   
• The Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych).
   
• The Royal Australian and New Zealand Colleges of Psychiatrists (RANZCP).
   
• The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR).
   
• The Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum Project (ISCP).
   
• The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd).
   
• The Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSEng).
   
• The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI).
   

Website creation tools:

• Xenu's Link Sleuth - a brilliant free program for checking your web sites for broken links.
   
• TextPad - an excellent low-cost text editor, which I use for creating and editing the webpages.
   
• Perl.org and Perl.com - information about server-side scripting using PERL.
   
• Open Perl IDE - a free integrated development environment for writing and debugging Perl scripts with any standard perl distribution under Windows 95/98/NT/2000.
   
• The Uniform Server - a compact and easily installed web-server to test your site locally on Windows OS, before uploading to the remote server. Includes PHP, MySQL, Perl, and the Apache HTTPd Server.
   
• OmniFormat - a great program for converting between different image file formats. Can also create PDF files.
   
• Ultimate Paint - great shareware image editor.
   

Bored with revising?

• Christian Medical Fellowship - lots of helpful discussion of current ethical issues, events and literature from a christain viewpoint.
   
• BMSA - Belfast Medical Student Association.
   
• SWOT - Students Working Overseas Trust.
   
• 18 Tricks to Teach Your Body - Soothe a burn, cure a toothache, clear a stuffed nose...
   
• Medical Jokes and Medical Cartoons
   
• Benita Epstein’s cartoons
   
• Andertoons - Doctor and Medical cartoons
   
• Diet, Fitness, Health and Medical Cartoons
   
• Nurse and Medical Cartoons