Internet links

General Medical Council Resources

• Tomorrow's Doctors - Standards set out by the GMC for the knowledge, skills and behaviours that medical students learn at UK medical schools: these are the outcomes that new UK graduates must be able to demonstrate.
• Good Medical Practice -  sets out the principles and values on which good medical practice is founded.

Gateways to resources for Medicine

•  Medicine (formerly OMNI), Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health, BioethicsWeb - biomedical ethics, MedHist - history of medicine and allied sciences and Psci-com - public engagement with science and technology
• SearchMedica - A medical search engine which searches websites selected by healthcare professionals
• Ecto- and Endo-Parasites - a directory of academic links to ecto- and endo-parasite resources in medical and veterinary parasitology
• BUBL (Bulletin Board for Libraries) - links to high-quality web pages, indexed by subject. Includes many medicine related links
• SciCentral - a gateway to science resources on the Internet, including the life sciences
• Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources - offers access to comprehensive resource lists in health related subjects. Sites chosen for inclusion are the most frequently cited by those in the field.
• Google Directory - Health - selected Internet resources for Health which can be searched or browsed.

Organisations and institutions

• Health Information Resources (formerly National Library of Health)
• Department of Health - the home page of the UK's Department of Health, for official health related information
• World Health Organisation - information on a wide variety of WHO publications and health related topics, including epidemiologic and demographic data, diseases and conditions
• BMA Library Online - offers a wealth of information on its catalogues, collections and other library services. In addition there are reference fact sheets on a wide range of topics with useful contact information included
• United States National Library of Medicine - the World's largest medical library, giving access to health information, library services, research programmes, etc
• Institute of Food Science and Technology

Using the Internet

The following tutorials are provided by the Virtual Training Suite. Written by a team of UK university lecturers and librarians they will help you to use the Internet effectively:

• Internet for Medicine
• Internet for Veterinary Medicine
• Internet for Nursing
• Internet for Health & Social Care
• Internet Detective

Data sources and statistics

• World Health Organisation Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) - health and health-related statistical information from the WHO Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy
• UNICEF statistical data - country by country health data including population, mortality rate and immunisation statistics
• Department of Health Statistics and Surveys - a DoH/ National Statistics-produced resource of UK health data
• HSE Statistics - provides access to official Health & Safety Executive data
• National Center for Health Statistics - US-specific site featuring a range of medical data

Medical History resources

• MedHist - gateway to evaluated, quality resources relating to the history of medicine and allied sciences
• Images from the History of Medicine - US site providing access to the nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM)
• Historical Anatomies on the Web - Selected images from anatomical atlases in the US National Library of Medicine's collection
• Wellcome Trust Medical Timeline - illustrated tour through the history of medicine
• Today In Health History - medical history throughout the calendar year, updated daily
• The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online - a site containing "every Darwin publication as well as many of his handwritten manuscripts"

Other useful resources

• Medicdirect - an interactive website hosted by UK medical consultants providing consumer health information online
• MedicalStudent - a digital library of authoritative medical information for all students of medicine
• Medstudentdirect - a comprehensive multimedia educational resource. Medstudentdirect is now a subscription only service, the subscription for individual subscribers is £4.99 including VAT per year.
• MedlinePlus encyclopedia
• HighWire Press - an American site offering access to biomedical Electronic journals, including archives of past issues, instructions to authors and subscription information
• Netting the Evidence - a ScHARR introduction to Evidence Based Practice on the Internet. A comprehensive UK based site detailing resources on evidence-based health care.
• Trawling the Net - links to 30 plus medicine related databases offering free access
• Booth's Bookmark's - links to several hundred websites both medicine-related and of general interest, and including Electronic journals. Arranged by subject
• On-line Medical Dictionary - a searchable dictionary of biomedical terms, acronyms, eponyms, history and much more
• BioTech's Life Science Dictionary - a searchable dictionary of terms dealing with biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cell biology and genetics
• Ecto- and Endo-Parasites - a directory of academic links to ecto- and endo-parasite resources in medical and veterinary parasitology
• Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society - a local society, open to Medical Practitioners, Medical Students and others with allied interests
• HEALTHmap - an interactive map showing where infectious diseases have been reported around the world, produced by the Children's Hospital Informatics Program (Boston) and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
• Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatments (DUETs) - a database established by the NHS and other UK contributors to "publish uncertainties that cannot currently be answered reliably by referring to up-to-date systematic reviews of existing research evidence"
• Wellcome Images - a wide-ranging collection of biomedical images from the Wellcome Library

Other online resources

Quick search on the Library homepage includes the Library Catalogue, eJournals catalogue, Google Scholar, and through the 'Articles & Databases' tab access to many other resources via MetaLib: your resource gateway.