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• Neurology
• Information About Residencies

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University of Virginia

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• The Cavalier Daily The online newspaper gives a current picture of student life at UVa
• Neuroscience Graduate Program
• Psychology Department
• RotundaCam, a continuously updated live camera shot of "The Lawn"
• School of Medicine
• University of Virginia Main Homepage
• University of Virginia Health System Main Homepage

Charlottesville and Environs

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• Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society
• Albemarle County Public Schools
• The Boar's Head Inn, a Country Resort
• Business and Services Directory - InCharlottesville.com
• Central Virginia's Community Online
• Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport (CHO)
• Charlottesvillle-Albemarle Chamber of Commerce
• Charlottesville Tourism
• Charlottesville Guide
• Charlottesville Churches
• Charlottesville City Schools
• Charlottesville City Parks
• Charlottesville Yellow Pages
• CineVille (Movies in Charlottesville)
• City of Charlottesville Website
• The Daily Progress (newspaper)
• Family Field Guide to Charlottesville and Beyond - the web companion to an excellent book on family friendly life around Charlottesville
• Greene County Government
• Cville.org - Charlottesville Premier Online Community
• Jefferson-Madison Regional Library
• League of Women Voters of Charlottesville/Albemarle
• Town of Louisa
• Michie Tavern
• Monticello Avenue (A Community Information Server)
• Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson
• Montpelier, the home of James Madison
• Piedmont Virginia Community College
• Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission
• Virginia Discovery Museum
• Virginia Outdoor Recreation Guide at GORP.com
• Waynesboro-Augusta County Chamber of Commerce
• WCVE Public Radio and Television (Richmond)
• Charlottesville Welcome Center at University of Virginia Website
• WHTJ Public Television (Charlottesville)
• WINA News Talk Radio (Chartlottesville)
• WMRA Public Radio (Charlottesville)
• WVIR NBC 29 TV (Charlottesville)
• Yahoo! Charlottesville
• Yahoo! Interactive Map of Charlottesville

Academic and Scientific Issues

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• National Library of Medicine Database
• MedlinePlus
• PaperChase

General Medicine

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• ACLS.net, help preparing for ACLS
• Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR)
• Association of American Medical Colleges - Organizes almost every aspect medical education
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Medscape, a guide to medical information on the internet
• National Health Information Center
• National Institutes of Health
• National Organization for Rare Disorders
• NCBI/OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
• Reuter's Health Information
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Visible Human Project from N.L.M.

Handheld Computing (PDAs) in Medicine

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• GENERAL SITES
  • Ectopic Brain, Created by residents and attendings at the Riverside family practice residency associated with Virginia Commonwealth University, this site is designed to help residents locate programs, files, and other resources in order to make the most of their Palm devices.
  • handheldmed.com, a comprehensive source of information for physicians, residents, medical students, and healthcare professionals using handheld computers.
  • pdaMD.com , a cross-platform site dedicated to handheld computing in medicine.
  • Ectopic Cortex, an intro to Palms from the Duke University Department of Family Medicine.
  • Handheld resources compiled by the Oregon Health Sciences University medicine program.
  • Palm Pilot Page, "high yield-must-have-bare bones" links from the Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program at Baylor College of Medicine.
  • PDA Medicine, palmtop project using HandSpring Visors from students and faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia
  • http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/research/pda/pilot/
  • PDAs for Health Care Providers, from the Arizona Health Sciences Library.
  • University of Louisville - Handheld PCs
  • University of Minnesotta Medical School Palmpilot Page
  • Washington University Medical Palm Initiative
  • Web Sites for Palm PDA Users from UCLA.
  • Burdie's Medical Palm Site, gives advice, links, and memopad items from an internal medicine resident
  • Dr. B's PDA, a family practitioner's page of home-grown Palm OS applications and links.
  • FP Net from the American Academy of Family Physicians.
  • Healthy PalmPilot
  • Malaysian Medical PalmPilot Page, by a Malaysian physician.
  • DoctorsGadgets.com
  • Dr. Oh's Palm Med Page, favorite medical Palm files and applications from Army physician Dr. Robert Oh.
  • Palm MD
  • PocketPsych, resources for mental health professionals using the Palm and various medical applications.
  • Matt Price's Links
  • Psychology Resources for the PalmPilot, a listing of many psychology- and psychiatry-related applications, memos, and forms for the Palm handheld, maintained by Mike Brezsnyak.
  • RNpalm, Nursing and Medical PDA Software and Hardware
  • Jim Thompson's Pilot Pages, by a Canadian ER physician
• SPECIFIC SOFTWARE ITEMS
  • Current Clinical Strategies Series. FREE. The complete set of CCS pocket books in a PalmTM-friendly format.
  • ePocrates qRx. FREE. A huge, wonderful, powerful, popular drug reference program.
  • JournalToGo. FREE. Selected medical journal abstracts and healthcare news articles are automatically delivered to your Palm when you HotSync.
  • Tarascon Pharmacopoeia Free 30 day trial. An electronic version of the popular pocket drug reference book.
  • MedCalc. FREE. A medical calculator designed for rapid calculation of common equations used in medicine.
  • Patient Tracker. FREE. A searchable, sortable patient record complete with labs, medications, test results, and automated H&P/SOAP note creation.
  • CodeBlue. $10.95. A simple drug calculator designed for rapid acquisition of medication doses in a resuscitation setting.
  • Shots 2.2. FREE. A quick reference to the 2001 Harmonized Immunization Schedule. Details on each vaccine are available by clicking on the vaccine names and Info buttons. More details available on the Shots page.
  • ECG Abnormalities. FREE. Information and recommendations for common findings on ECG.
  • EKG Reference. FREE. A quick reference to aid in interpreting EKGs.
  • Herbal Reference Guide. FREE. A quick reference guide to common herbal remedies.
  • Medical Spanish. FREE. Common medical words and phrases for English-to-Spanish. A pronounciation guide is included.
  • On Call - Floor Emergencies. FREE. A quick reference to common hospital floor emergencies, designed to aid the intern on call.
  • Patient Communications. Differential diagnosis mnemonics pocket book and Palm note file
  • Acid-Base Nomogram. FREE. A representation of the classic nomogram for diagnosing acid-base disturbances.
  • Coronary Angiograms. FREE. Diagram of the coronary vasculature as commonly viewed on coronary angiograms.
  • Hexaxial System for determining electrical vectors on EKG. FREE.
  • Marik's Primer of Differential Diagnosis, Updated 12/17/00. Courtesy of Dr. Paul Marik, this manual can serve as an aid for teaching rounds and morning report and for evaluating the differential diagnoses of clinical findings.
  • ABG Pro. FREE. This program helps interpret blood gases. You plug in the data, it tells you whether you have a metabolic or respiratory acidosis or alkalosis, calculate expected PCO2 and expected HCO3, tell you if there is a concominant acid-base disorder, calculate Anion Gap and Delta-Delta, etc..
  • Automatic Call List Scheduler (ACLS). Automatically generates and tracks call schedules for residency programs. Designed by a Family Medicine Chief Rresident. You enter rotations, vacations, initial setup parameters, and a complete schedule is instantly generated. Update schedules are easy after entering changes in schedules. 30 day free trail period before the program expires without a special code (which costs $55).
  • Stat ICD-9 Coder $29. All 15,000 ICD-9 codes with interactive menu that searches by code or diagnosis.
  • Stat CPT Coder $50. All CPT codes with interactive menu that searches by code or diagnosis.

Neurology

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• CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE
  • AHCPR Post-Stroke Rehabilitation (Clinical Guide)
  • American Stroke Association
  • Aneurysm Information Project
  • National Stroke Association
  • NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
  • AHCPR Recovering After a Stroke Guide (Consumer Guide)
  • The Internet Stroke Center at  Washington University in St. Louis
• EPILEPSY
  • The Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center 
  • American Epilepsy Society
  • EEG Course and Glossary
  • Epilepsy.com
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America
• BEHAVIORAL NEUROLOGY
  • A long goodbye
  • Alzheimer Disease Education Referral Center  
  • Alzheimer Association
  • Alzheimer Research Forum
  • Blindsight Demonstration
  • Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging
  • Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania
  • Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
  • Cognitive Neuroscience Society
  • Dementia Research Group, England
  • International Neuropsychological Society (INS)
  • Lewy-Net: Dementia with Lewy Bodies 
  • Learning Services Neurorehabilitation
  • National Aphasia Association
  • Neuromedia Alzheimer Web Resources
  • Neuropsychology Central
  • Online Neuropsychology Project
  • WUSTL Alzheimer Page
• MOVEMENT DISORDERS
  • Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's: Cleveland Clinic Center 
  • Dystonia Medical Research Foundation
  • Huntington's Disease Society of America
  • Facing Huntington's Disease
  • Movement Disorders Society
  • National Parkinson Foundation
  • NINDS Dystonias Information Page
  • NINDS Huntington's Disease Research
  • Parkinson's Research: PROGENI
  • Tourette Syndrome FAQ
  • Facts about Tourette Syndrome
  • We Move: Movement Disorders worldwide education and awareness
• NEUROMUSCULAR
  • ALS Association
  • ALS Information
  • American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine
  • American Society of Neurophysiological Monitoring
  • CMTnet: Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Information Exchange
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth International
  • Guillain-Barré Syndrome Foundation International
  • Muscular Dystrophy Associaton of Australia
  • World Federation of Neurology ALS Site
• NEURO-ONCOLOGY
  • American Brain Tumor Association- ABTA
  • National Brain Tumor Foundation
  • National Neurofibromatosis Foundation
  • National Cancer Institute: Clinical Trials
  • U Penn Brain Cancer
  • U Penn Pediatric Brain Tumors
  • Von Hippel-Lindau Disease (VHL) Family Alliance
• HEADACHE & PAIN
  • Acupuncture.com
  • American Council for Headache Education
  • American Pain Society
  • National Headache Foundation
  • Ronda's Migraine Page
  • Trigeminal Neuralgia Association Homepage
  • Troost's Headache and Other Facial Pains
  • Troost's iMigraine.net
• NEURO-IMMUNOLOGY
  • Hereditary Biochemical Multiple Sclerosis Page
  • International Multiple Sclerosis Support by Jean Sumption
  • Multiple Sclerosis Crossroads by Aapo Halko
  • Myelin Project
  • UK Multiple Sclerosis Society
• NEURO-OPHTHALMOLOGY
  • American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO)
  • North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (NANOS)
• PEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY
  • Autism Biomedical Information Network
  • Autism Resources
  • Autism Primer Q&A
  • Cerebral Palsy at Virtual Children's Hospital 
  • Child Neurology Society
  • Dyslexia 2000 Network
• NEURO-OTOLOGY
  • Acoustic Neuroma Association
  • Acoustic Neuroma Resources
  • American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
  • Meniere page
  • Tinnitus FAQ
  • Troost's Neuro-Ontology at iVertigo.net
  • Vestibular Disorders Association
• INFECTION
  • Neuro Infection at Neuroland.com
  • Iowa CNS Infectious Disease Page
• SLEEP
  • National Sleep Foundation
  • Sleep Medicine
  • The Sleep Well
• NEUROANATOMY, NEURORADIOLOGY, NEUROPATHOLOGY
  • ASNR: American Society of Neuroradiology 
  • AJNR: American Journal of Neuroradiology
  • Brigham and Woman's radiology
  • Diagnostic Imaging Systems Group by Dr. Richard L. Magin
  • fMRI UCSD Information Page
  • fMRIworld.net
  • The Functional MRI Data Center
  • Functional MRI links and information
  • A laboratory of fMRI at Columbia University
  • Functional MRI Resting Brain Correlations
  • Use of Functional MRI
  • The Human Brain: Dissection, from the University of Iowa's Virtual Hospital.
  • McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
  • A Primer on MRI and Functional MRI (PDF) 
  • Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
  • Utah CNS pathology images
  • Whole Brain Atlas
• NEUROSURGERY
  • Cedars-Sinai neurosurgical center
  • Hydrocephalus Association Homepage
  • MGH Neurosurgical Service
  • Neurosurgeon.com
  • Neurosurgery On-Call
• MISCELLANEOUS
  • American Academy of Neurology
  • American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
  • ACGME
  • American Neurological Association
  • Association of University Professors of Neurology (AUPN)
  • Frequently Asked Questions about Neurologic Problems
  • MGH Neurology Web Forum
  • Neuroscience Links, maintained by the Neuroscience Program at Florida State University
  • Neuroguide.com, Neurosciences on the Internet
  • Neurologic Eye Simulator
  • Neurotrauma Law Nexus
  • Neuroscience-Net 
  • NINDS of NIH
  • Society for Neuroscience
  • UNC Neuroscience Center
  • World Health Organization Fact Sheet on Neurological Disorders

Information About Residencies

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• Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
• CareerMD.com, a compendium of information for medical career planning geared toward residents and medical students.
• National Residency Matching Program
• San Francisco Matching Program for residency programs in neurology, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, and palstic surgery, and fellowships in related fields.