Primary Care Resources

This guide is made for medical assistant schools.

The field of medicine is quite extensive. There are multiple areas encompassing emergency medicine, radiology, pediatrics, and others. Each of these areas requires the relevant doctors to be constantly abreast with the latest developments so they can perform their jobs better. Yet, even doctors need help with finding information in the Internet. Here you will find some great primary care resources.

Radiology Library

• University of Michigan Archive: An archive of radiology images from the University of Michigan.
• Radiology Education: Provides links to multiple sites that have radiology images archived.
• MedPix: Another archive of images divided by organ system.
• Pediatric Radiology: A collection of images of children’s bodies.
• Trauma Images: A page with many images of serious traumas.
• Stroke Radiology Images: Archive of images from patients who suffered from strokes.
• Clinical Radiology: Another site with good radiology images.

CT Scan Library

• CT Scans: A few labeled images from CT scans.
• Images: Another site with a few select images of CT scans.
• Neuroscience Images: A page with a few CT scans of heads.

EKG Library

• EK Formats: A few example images of EKGs.
• EKG Image Library: A place to find an archive of EKG images.

Medical Photograph Library

• Medical Pictures from CDC: An extensive archive of images of different types of wounds.
• Medical Disease Images: University of Iowa page with images of the results of many different diseases.
• Photographs: Another site with images of different kinds of wounds and diseases.
• Crohn's Disease: A collection of images related to Crohn’s disease.
• STD Images: Various images of sexually transmitted diseases.
• Cancer Archives: A list of links to multiple places to find images of cancers.
• Cancer Images: Another large archive of cancer images.

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

• Center for Pediatric Emergency Medicine: Provides information and links relating to pediatric emergency medicine.
• Advancements in Emergency Medicine: An article that discusses recent advancements in the field of pediatric emergency medicine.
• Stanford Page: A website with information and resources for parents with children who have been involved in pediatric emergency medicine.
• ACEP Page: A site with a lot of information relating to pediatric emergency medicine.
• Medicine Page: A place to find different types of medical information for parents.

Simulators

• Tutorial List: Provides links to multiple places to use medical tutorials.
• Emergency Room: Flash game that simulates an emergency room.
• TLC Sim: Another emergency room simulation game.
• Simulation Games: A list of links to multiple other games.

Emergency Medicine

• Emergency Room Cases: A page with a few interesting emergency room case files.
• Case #6: Report of a very interesting case from Vanderbilt.
• Interesting Cases: Provides information and images related to interesting ER cases.
• Case #16: Another true report of a very amusing case.

Toxicology

• Emergency Toxicology: Discusses the guidelines for dealing with emergency toxicology cases in emergency rooms.

Medical Software Reviews

• Health Technology Reviews: Provides a few reviews of select medical products.
• Medical Software Reviews: Some reviews about software designed for multiple fields of medicine.