Neonatology Today

The newsbulletin provides timely news and information regarding the care of newborns and the diagnosis and treatment of premature and/or sick infants. Released monthly & available for download in pdf format. Back issues from 2006 are available. You can subscribe to email alert.
http://www.neonatologytoday.net/

Happy New Year 2009

Job Positions in Neonatology

Neonatalstaff.com is a job listing service, where providers of neonatal care can advertise for doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners and other staff. Individuals seeking a position can also advertise under the category “Jobs wanted“.
All posting is free of charge!
Click on the button “Post a New Job” to advertise for neonatal staff!
Click on the staff categories to the right to view the job lists!
NeonatalStaff.com is an independent and non-commercial extension of 99nicu.org, the large Internet community for professionals in neonatal medicine.
http://neonatalstaff.com

First Signs: Early Detection of Developmental Disorders

First Signs is about early identification of and intervention for children with development / behavior related disorders. The First Signs Web site provides a wealth of vital resources, covering a range of issues: from healthy development, to concerns about a child; from the screening and referral process, to treatments for autism spectrum disorders.
http://www.firstsigns.org/index.html

Pedicases : Understanding growth, behavior & development

Is a learner-centered case-based approach providing quality case based teaching materials.
Contains over 25 modules and each module consists of a case abstract, statement of goals and objectives, a facilitator's guide to leading the discussion, a 2-3 part case narrative, annotated bibliography, teaching handouts, and evaluation forms.
The Casebooks are divided into three sections:
(1) Growth in Children and Adolescents,
(2) Case Studies for Primary Care Clinicians: Child Development and Behavior, and
(3) Case Studies for Primary Care Clinicians: Adolescent Health.
They are all designed to enable the learner to understand and translate information into clinical practice to improve the health of children and adolescents.
http://www.pedicases.org/topics/index.phtml
Prior registration is must for downloading the case studies & discussion.

Resources for child nutrition

Training, learning and policy papers on nutrition in child and mother for free download.
Some topics include -
1. Initiation of Breastfeeding by Breast Crawl
2. Community-based management of severe acute malnutrition (WHO)
3. The WHO Child Growth Standards
4. Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child FeedingWHO - UNICEF
5. Management of Severe Malnutrition: A Manual for Physicians and Other Senior Health Workers
6. City Initiative for Newborn Health - Mumbai - Overview and Protocol
7. Severe malnutrition: report of a consultation to review current literature Geneva, World Health Organization, 6-7 September 2004
8. Guidelines for the inpatient treatment of severely malnourished childrenGeneva, World Health Organization, 2003.
9. Training course on the management of severe malnutritionGeneva, World Health Organization, 2002
10. Pocket book of hospital care for children: guidelines for the management of common illnesses with limited resources Geneva, World Health Organization, 2005
11. Training courses in malnutrition
12. World Food Programme Presentations
13. Mother-Child Protection Card
14. Dr. R. K. Anand's Guide to Child Care
15. The Management of Diarrhoea and Use of Oral Rehydration Therapy - Second Edition - A Joint WHO/UNICEF Statement
16. National Guidelines on Infant and Young Child Feeding
17. Training of Doctors on Nutritional Care During Diarrhoea
18. Preventing and Controlling Iron Deficiency Anaemia Through Primary Health Care
19. Better Care During Diarrhoea
20. Management of Critically Sick Child
21. Where There Is No Doctor
22. Where Women Have No Doctor
..................Much More
http://hetv.org/resources/nutrition.html

Malaria

A comprehensive site on everything you wanted to know about malaria. The journal section has uptodate articles from premium journals for free download.

http://www.malariasite.com/index.html

pdf Search Engine

Search for any pdf document across the web at
http://www.pdf-search-engine.com

e Books Collection

Directory of e books across the globe on various subjects & topics
http://www.e-book.com.au/main.html

e Books Directory

e-Books Directory is a daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet. You can submit and promote your own ebooks, add comments on already posted books or just browse through the directory below and download anything you need.
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com

Food For Thought : 3

We make them cry who care for us................
We cry for those who never care for us...............
We care for those who will never cry for us...............
This is the truth of life, it's strange but true,......
once you realize this, it's never too late to change...........

Food For Thought : 2

Don's make promise when you are in joy...........
Don't reply when you are sad............
Don't take decision when you are angry.....
Think twice....., Act wise..........
ENJOY EVERY MOMENT OF LIFE..... I
NSPIRING YOU FOR A BETTER TOMORROW...............

Food For Thought : 1

I was dying to finish my high school and start college .....and then I was dying to finish college and start working,... then I was dying to marry and have children. ..And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough, so I could go back to work,..... but then I was dying to retire and now I'm dying and suddenly realized,forget to live...
PLEASE DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU,.........
APPRECIATE YOUR CURRENT SITUATION AND
ENJOY EACH DAY....

Medical Entrance Exams

This website provides all the information needed to prepare for Medical Entrance Exams across India for UG /PG. Acess is free but registration mandatory.
http://www.netmedicos.com

World Newspaper's Front Page

This blog contains all the front pages of National newspapers across the globe.
You could see them by language or nationality.
http://www.newspaperindex.com

Children Pre School Education

Starfall high-quality educational products are an inexpensive way to make the classroom more fun and inspire a love of reading and writing. You can use Starfall and recommend it to parents to prepare their children for school, and to support them once they are there. Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children.
Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. Starfall is perfect for home schooling.
At www.starfall.com

Dermatology Atlas

Compiled, reviewed, scored and updated by physicians of the Johns Hopkins University, USA. Currently more than 10,777 images with their description have been included in this collection. It is also possible to contribute images to this collection.

Indexed by category, diagnosis and body site.

http://www.dermatlas.com/derm

Disability India Network

A one-stop portal for disability related issues in India.

The Network has a dynamic Register of Services that is free for the use of all - Nationally and internationally. Thus, organizations have the benefit of being accessible to those who require their services within the country, and additionally, have the advantage of being visible to the world outside.

Organizations already on the web, with their web sites, have the supplementary convenience of a link, enhancing their site visibility. More than 3000 organizations are already part of this growing database.An interactive Discussion Board provides a platform for debates on topical issues.

The Disability India Journal is a quarterly e-journal that presents original articles on thematic issues.

http://www.disabilityindia.org

Neonatal Formulary

This is the online version of the popular neonatology drug book authored by the Northern Neonatal Network of United Kingdom. The formulary contains comprehensive information on various drugs along with latest references. Sample chapters from the formulary can be downloaded on to the PC or the Personal digital assistant. The complete eBook can be downloaded after payment.
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/medicine/bmj/nnf5/

Flesh & Bones

Flesh and Bones is a useful teaching guide for medical students. It contains a collection of MCQ's on various specialties, an image bank, and free online chapters from popular medical textbooks. 'Survival guides' give clinical information that will be of use on clinical rotations. A reading room, bookshop, links to other websites and a fun and games page with medial quiz and contests are also available.
http://www.medicaltextbooksrevealed.com/home

MedCalc 3000 Calculator

MedCalc 3000 is a unique computerized medical reference and tool set. MedCalc 3000 encompasses a wide array of pertinent medical formulae, clinical criteria sets and decision tree analysis tools used every day by clinicians, medical educators, nurses and health care students of all types. With the growing emphasis and application of Evidence Based Medicine, there has never been a greater need for a system such as MedCalc 3000. Medical error detection and elimination are also hot topics in the new millennium. MedCalc 3000 can help in these areas as well.
http://medcalc3000.com

Visualstat Package

Visualstat permits the full complement of statistical analysis and generation of graphs. However, the help menu is inadequate and the software is not very user friendly. The positive feature of this software is that it is a freeware.
http://www.visualstats.org

Statistix Package

Statistix is convenient to use with data entry made in the excel format. Most statistical tests can be carried out using this package. This is a trial version and the complete features can be used free of charge for a month .This package is popular with medical researchers for their analysis.
http://www.statistix.com

Graphpad Statistical Package

This software is useful for those with an ‘always on’ Internet access through cable, DSL or satellite. The data entry has to be done online through their website and immediate analysis is possible. The version available for download permits free use for one month only.
www.graphpad.com

Minitab Statistical software

Minitab Statistical Software permits various basic and advanced statistical analysis and generation of graphs. The demo version is available for download from their website.
http://www.minitab.com/

Analyse it : Statistical Package

Analyse-it is an add on to the popular MS-Excel. Analyse-It loads with Excel and performs various statistical tests including parametric and non-parametric procedures, descriptive statistics, testing normality, comparing groups, correlation, and regression. Using the software has been made easy by the provision of tutorials. Data entry through MS Excel is a useful and user-friendly feature of this package.
http://www.analyse-it.com

Pediatric Imaging Teaching Files

By University Hospitals of Cleaveland, index of cases available at
http://www.uhrad.com/pedsarc.htm

Radiology Cases In Pediatric Emergency Medicine

View online or Download Radiology Cases In Pediatric Emergency Medicine to run on your PC.
This is free software. Click on the volume number you want transferred to your PC.Enter "anonymous" as your login. Enter your E-mail address as your password.This FTP server is very busy. If you can't get in, try again later (early morning is best).
http://www.hawaii.edu/medicine/pediatrics/pemxray/pemxray.html

Google Images

This is a lesser known feature of google, the popular search engine. This website offers a specific search of images in any topic in-cluding medicine and its all subspecialities. The thumbnail (miniature) images are displayed rapidly on entering a search query which then leads on to the enlarged image. Various types of images including clinical photographs, ECGs, X-rays are available here free for download. Enter your search image name and get plethora of images.
http://images.google.com

Scirus: The Science Specific Search Engine

This search engine, developed by the Elsevier Science publishing group, searches the web specifically for science content. In addition to medline, it searches other databases and sources that are both free and subscription based. Another feature of this search engine is the ability to recognize and retrieve documents which are not in the conventional html format - like the pdf format. Scirus is user friendly and can be customised according to user’s needs. Elsevier Science claims that the search performed is more comprehensive and specific as compared to other general search engines.
http://www.scirus.com

Epi Info Package

Statistical calculations and analysis have now been made easy by the use of this statistical package developed by the Center for Diseases Control, Atlanta. The latest version, Epiinfo, is available free and can be downloaded. The user’s guide and help files are also available for free download. Instructions for installing and use of the software are given in the user’s guide. The website also provides a webinstall feature - that makes it possible to resume broken downloads. This is a necessity considering the fact that uniterrupted internet connection is still not possible in small towns.
http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo

Powerpoints

View, upload, download powerpoints on various topics and subjects following once time registration at

www.slideshare.net

Growth Charts

Growth charts for infants, children and adoloscents .
By Indian Academy of Pediatrics
http://www.iapindia.org/IAP_Growth_Charts.pdf

Rare Disorders Organisation

Contains information about rare diseases with information about support groups. The index is available at
http://www.rarediseases.org/search/rdblist.html

General Pediatrics

General Pediatrics is a internet tool to access information about various following topics-
Case Studies and Patient Simulations
Continuing Medical Education Courses
Evidence Based Medicine Resources
Journals and News
Policy Statements and Clinical Practice Guidelines
Professional Societies
Textbooks
Internet Directories, Search Engines, and Handheld Computer Resources
http://www.generalpediatrics.com/

Learn Pediatrics

From the University of British Columbia's Medical Undergraduate and Pediatrics Departments. The goal is to create a free, universally accessible resource for medical students studying pediatrics. http://www.learnpediatrics.com/page/home.aspx

Neo PIX

NeoPIX is a collection of photographs and images meant to be used freely by professionals caring for newborns.They have been categorised system based and easy to download.
http://www.pedialink.org/pedialink/neopix/index2.cfm

Critically apprasied Topics

Critically appraised Topics, Journal Club in Pediatrics /Neonatology.
University of Michigan's Evidence-Based Pediatrics web site. This page serves as a resource for our residents and faculty who are developing skills in the practice of evidence-based pediatrics.
http://www.med.umich.edu/pediatrics/ebm/index.html

Manitoba Newborn Care Guidelines

University of Manitoba, Neonatology Clinical Policies http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/medicine/units/pediatrics/sections/neonatology/clinical_guidelines/index.html

Learning Disability

For comprehensive information about learning disability & ADHD for parents, teachers and health care providers.
http://www.ldonline.org/index.php

India : Health Statistics

For comprehensive India related health statistics, UNICEF site
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/india_india_statistics.html

RPA Newborn Care Protocols

Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Newborn Care Protocols.
On more than 60 newborn care problems.
http://www.cs.nsw.gov.au/rpa/neonatal/

Neonatal Handbook, RWH, Australia.

The Royal Women's Hospital is Australia's largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health of women of all ages and newborn babies.
All the newborn care related guidelines are indexed in alphabetical order.
http://www.netsvic.org.au/nets/handbook/index.cfm

Developmental Behavioural Pediatrics Online

This site is aimed at professionals interested in child development and behavior, especially in the medical setting.This site is closely connected with the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics and has a multidisciplinary Professional Advisory Committee.
http://www.dbpeds.org/index.cfm

BioInfo Bank Library

A excellant site for fast and uptodate literature search for medical papers.
This site is aimed at supporting and promoting the scientific activity of students and scientists. The site facilitates fast publication of research results through short and concise reports, exchange of ideas and comments through dedicated forums and blogs and provides space to place structured resumes. The site also offers useful search capabilities such as the selection of similar papers to a group of papers.
http://lib.bioinfo.pl/

Iowa Neonatology Handbook

Iowa Neonatology Handbook
By -Edward F. Bell, MDProfessor of Pediatrics; Jeffrey L. Segar, MDProfessor of PediatricsDirector, Division of Neonatology. The University of Iowa.
http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/pediatrics/iowaneonatologyhandbook/index.html

WHO Maternal & Perinatal Health Resources

WHO Maternal/ Perinatal Health Resources
Complete index. Can be downloaded.
http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/publications/maternal_newborn.en.html

Healthy Child Care

Healthy Child Care provides up-to-date, easy-to-understand materials and guidance on how to create healthy and safe environments for young children. On this website you will find trustworthy tools, tips and techniques for you and others who care for children. Whether you are a parent, a relative, a housekeeper, or a care provider in a home or large child care facility, Healthy Child Care gives you information to make caring for children safer and healthier.
http://www.globalhealthychildcare.org

Humpath.com

humpath.com is a website dedicated to human pathology, the morphological and molecular study of human diseases. This study takes place at any level of organization of the human body (molecules, cells, tissues, organs, systems, body).
http://humpath.com/

The Internet Pathology Laboratory

The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education
This popular web resource includes over 1900 images along with text, tutorials, laboratory exercises, and examination items for self-assessment that demonstrate gross and microscopic pathologic findings associated with human disease conditions.
http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/webpath.html#MENU

Supercourse Lectures

Supercourse is a repository of lectures on global health and prevention designed to improve the teaching of prevention. Supercourse has a network of over 55000 scientists in 174 countries who are sharing for free a library of 3504 lectures in 26 languages. The Supercourse has been produced at the WHO Collaborating Center University of Pittsburgh.
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/index.htm

Clinical Material

Examination Videos
http://www.somalidoc.com/video.htm
Powerpoint Presentations
http://www.somalidoc.com/ppt.htm

Genetics

Information for genetic professionals, University of Kansas Medical Center, with clinical, research, and educational resources for genetic counselors, clinical geneticists, and medical geneticists
http://www.kumc.edu/gec/geneinfo.html

Perinatology.com

Perinatology.com is an excellent resource page for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialists. It has a comprehensive list of Web sites for virtually everything, plus some amazing calculators to use in your practices.
http://www.perinatology.com/

Neonatology On the Web

Complete resources for Neonatal Perinatal Medicine
http://www.neonatology.org/index.html

NICUniversity

NICUniversity provides neonatologists and other members of the professional neonatology community with continuing education credits, as well as cutting edge neonatology research and information.

You need to register once to access all lectures.

http://www.nicuniversity.org/index.asp

eNeonatal Review

Presented by John Hopkins University School of Medicine & the Institute for John Hopkins Nursing

• Concise review of the relevant journal literature, with access to available abstracts and full text articles
• Authored and peer-reviewed by an expert panel of NICU healthcare professionals
• 12 monthly issues and 6 podcasts (audio interviews on related topics), from January through December 2007
• Delivered directly to your email box
• Fully accredited – earn your CME credits online
• Provided completely without charge or prerequisites

http://www.hopkinscme.net/ofp/eneonatalreview/index.html

Guideline Resources

The following Web sites as containing information and/or links to guideline-related information that may be complementary to NGC content.
for Healthcare Research and Quality
National Guideline Clearinghouse = http://www.ngc.gov/browse/guideline_index.aspx
AGREE Collaboration
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine NHS
Conference on Guideline Standardization (COGS)
German National Guideline Clearinghouse
Guideline Elements Model (GEM)
Guidelines International Network (G-I-N)
International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment (INAHTA) Health Technology Assessment (HTA) database
National Library for Health
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
National Library of Medicine Health Services/Technology Assessment Text (HSTAT) database
National Library of Medicine LocatorPlus
National Library of Medicine PubMed database
New Zealand Guidelines Group (NZGG)
Guidelines Advisory Committee (GAC)
Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)
Task Force on Community Preventive Services

Critical Care Medicine Tutorials

Critical Care Medicine Tutorials
Good understanding on topics like approach, respiratory failure, shock, renal failure with lots of diagrams and illustrations.
http://www.ccmtutorials.com/index.htm

University of Heidelberg Library

Audio, ebooks, pictures, animations and much more from University of Heidelberg Library

http://www.ma.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/bibl/KELDAmed/index_e.html

Health Education Assets Library

The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners.

http://www.healcentral.org/index.jsp

Videos on procedures and anatomy

Videos of procedures and skill building from Dalhousie University.

The common currency project initiative.

http://currency.medicine.dal.ca/video.htm

Great Books on line

Great Books on line by Bartleby.com
The preeminent Internet publisher of literature,reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information online free of cost.
http://www.bartleby.com/

Swiss Society of Neonatology

Swiss Society of Neonatology
Check out the case of the month and recomendations.You can subscribe to the case by registering your email.
http://www.neonet.ch/

Neonatal e Community

Welcome to 99nicu, the virtual meeting place and community for professionals in neonatal medicine! You have to register as a member for access to all features of the 99nicu community. Registration is free
http://99nicu.org/pageone/index.php

Newborn Care Protocols

Newborn Care
STATEMENTS, CPGS, PROTOCOLS AND INFORMATION
From Children & womens health centre of British Colombia.
http://www.cw.bc.ca/newborncare/Clinical.asp

Neonatal Case studies

Neonatal Case Studies
Teaching files from Childrens & womens Health Centre ofBritish
Colombia.
http://www.cw.bc.ca/newborncare/teaching.asp

Breast feeding protocols

Breast feeding protocols

By Academy of Breastfeeding

http://www.bfmed.org/index.asp?menuID=139&firstlevelmenuID=139

Newborn Respiratory Care

Newborn Respiratory Care
From Auckland, Newzealand.
http://www.adhb.govt.nz/newborn/TeachingResources/Ventilation/Ventilation.htm

Newborn Protocols Online

Newborn Protocols, Online
Auckland Hospital, Newzealand
http://www.adhb.govt.nz/newborn/Guidelines.htm

Neonatology Protocol -Online

Neonatology Protocol
From: Royal Women's Hospital,Australia
http://www.rch.org.au/nets/handbook/index.cfm

Acid Base Balance in newborn

Acid Base Balance in Newborn
The module is available at
http://www.capefearvalley.com/outreach/outreach/modules/AcidBase/index.htm

Pediatric Education

PediatricEducation.org is a Pediatric Digital Library and Learning Collaboratory intended to serve as a source of continuing pediatric education.
http://www.pediatriceducation.org/

eMedicine

eMedicine –
The original open access comprehensive medical textbook for all clinical fields.
Browse by speciality.
http://www.emedicine.com/

RxMed

RxMed
RxMed is a resource for physicians, patients and their families. This health-care web site provides valuable, thorough, illness and medication information, as well as access to various medical products and services. It is our goal to provide a health care site which is reliable and current; we aim to do so by ensuring our information is authored and peer-reviewed by physicians. In addition we regularly update all medication and illness information on the site.
http://www.rxmed.com/
RxMed is one of the most popular health-care sites on the Internet.

Biomedical Journals from India

Indian Biomedical Journals
One point resource of peer reviewed Indian biomedical literature covering full text of IndMED journals. It has been designed to provide quick and easy access through searching or browsing.
http://medind.nic.in/

e Medical Learning

IVIMEDS is an international not-for-profit partnership of medical schools and institutions working to develop the full potential of e-learning in medical education. In partnership with its members IVIMEDS aims to provide an effective means of developing and sharing a range of quality digital learning resources and value-added educational services across the continuum of education. Primary development efforts are focussed on the undergraduate medical curriculum, though strategic opportunities for developments at postgraduate and continuing professional development level are being explored.
How does it help you?

• Learning assets such as anatomical illustrations, clinical images, CT scans, ECG traces, pathology slides etc which can be downloaded
• Flash animations that focus on specific concepts and principles and include a degree of interactivity or self-assessment features.
• A range of video resources
• Guided learning modules

http://www.ivimeds.org

Medical Multimedia Library

The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners.
The resources are free to download and of great help for learning and teaching purposes.

http://www.healcentral.org/index.jsp

How to perforn CNS examination

How to perform neurologic exam?
Step by step approach with video demonstration of cranial nerves, motor, sensory examinations is available at- for pediatrics / adults
http://icarus.med.utoronto.ca/NeuroExam/

Newborn Care Resources in India

Clinical protocols in newborn care
http://www.newbornwhocc.org/clinical_protocols.htm

Essential newborn nursing
http://www.newbornwhocc.org/essential_newborn_nursing%20.htm

Newborn Care teaching aids
http://www.newbornwhocc.org/nnf.htm

Newborn Resuscitation slide set
http://www.newbornwhocc.org/nrp.htm

Newborn Equipments
http://www.newbornwhocc.org/book_on_new_able.htm

PubMed Central

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature containing over half a million articles in full text. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov

Statistics at Square One - eBMJ

Statistics at Square One - eBMJ (TDV Swinscow - revised by MJ Campbell)A well-known introduction to statistics with full text chapters on: Data display and summary; Mean and standard deviation; Populations and samples; Statements of probability and confidence intervals; Differences between means: type I and type II errors and power; Differences between percentages and paired alternatives; The t tests; The chi-squared tests; Exact probabilty test; Rank score tests; Correlation and regression; Survival analysis; Study design and choosing a statistical test. http://www.bmj.com/collections/statsbk/index.dtl

Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy

Provides useful clinical and prescribing information for healthcare professionals. It includes detailed information on paediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics, gynaecology, dermatology, pharmacology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, and a number of special subjects.Arranged under 23 numbered browseable sections with 308 chapters and thousands of topics. http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/home.jsp

NCBI Bookshelf

A growing collection of biomedical books that can be searched directly by typing a concept into the search textbox. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Books

International Association for Maternal and Neonatal Health

An important source for educational materials containing sections on education, publications and presentations, databases and links, with full text manuals from the Perinatal Education Programme on maternal care and neonatal care. http://www.gfmer.ch/000_IAMANEH.htm

How to Read a Paper - eBMJ (Trisha Greenhalgh)

A classic series of full text articles published in the BMJ and as a book on reading journal articles critically. http://www.bmj.com/collections/read.dtl

Maternal and Child Health Library - A virtual guide to MCH information

Developed at Georgetown University (US), it provides an MCH Alert, resource guides, full text publications, databases, and links to quality MCH sites. http://www.mchlibrary.info

International Association for Maternal and Neonatal Health

An important source for educational materials containing sections on education, publications and presentations, databases and links, with full text manuals from the Perinatal Education Programme on maternal care and neonatal care. http://www.gfmer.ch/000_IAMANEH.htm

Child Health and Paediatrics Specialist Library - UK National Library for Health

Addresses a wide range of topics related to the health and well being of children. Navigation is via a topic hierarchy menu which, among many others, includes cardiology, infectious diseases, ENT, gastroenterology, nutrition, haematology. Each of these topics presents the latest evidence-based information from guidelines, systematic reviews and educational resources. http://www.library.nhs.uk/childhealth

Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research

An extensive collection of resources devoted to health education and research programmes that can be applied by developing countries, and countries in economic transition. http://www.gfmer.ch/000_Homepage_En.htm

Free Medical Journals

1460 medical journal titles (in several languages) available free either immediately after publication or after 6 months, 1 year or 2 years and searchable by subject or title. http://www.freemedicaljournals.com

Free Books 4 Doctors

Over 650 books available free and searchable by subject specialty and title. http://www.freebooks4doctors.com

Directory of Open Access Journals - Lund University

Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. http://www.doaj.org/

Amedeo - The Medical Literature Guide

An easy method of receiving timely, up-to-date and relevant information within respective specialties. http://www.amedeo.com/