It is an indisputable fact that computers and computer telecommunications have forever changed the course of medicine and medical education. The way we as medical faculty conduct our daily work and the methods we use to teach our disciplines are continually influenced by advances in computer technology, and this influence will only increase with time. The recent advent of the World Wide Web (WWW) as a resource for supplementing course materials and promoting active student learning has opened an entirely new dimension of possibilities.
In keeping with the mission of both Basic Science Education Forum and our AAMC:GEA affiliated Special Interest Group, we begin a new feature with this issue of the Basic Science Educator dedicated to sharing pertinent addresses from the WWW. Such an address is referred to as a URL, or Uniform Resource Locator, and anyone who has done so knows that a huge amount of time is easily consumed by the activity of searching and evaluating such resources. Much duplication of effort can be avoided simply by sharing what each of us has found. We encourage submission of URLs deemed of value for the teaching of medical sciences, or in some other fashion of interest to medical faculty. These will be published in subsequent issues of the Basic Science Educator with contributors’ names listed as below. (Please remember that URLs are case sensitive and should be entered exactly as written.)
The URL submissions which follow are credited to Michael Altman, M.D. (Northwestern University), W. Marshall Anderson, Ph.D. (Indiana University), Ms. Olga Artamonova (BSEF Eastern European Correspondent),
Thomas Langworthy, Ph.D. (University of South Dakota), David Penney, Ph.D. (Wayne State University), and
Roger Koment, Ph.D. (BSEF Executive Director). Send URLs with any comments for usage to Roger Koment,
Ph.D., BSEF Executive Director at the address on page 31.
GENERAL
The Interactive Medical Student Loungehttp://falcon.cc.ukans.edu:80/~sween/
The Interactive Patienthttp://medicus.marshall.edu/rnedicus.htm
The Medical Education Pagehttp://www.sconim. net/~greg/rned-ed
The PBList Home Pagehttp://ddsdx.uthscsa.edu/pblist./pblist.html
The Virtual Hospitalhttp://indy.radiology.uiowa.edu/VirtualHospital.html
ORGANIZATIONS
American Association for Advancement of Sciencehttp://www.aaas.org
American Society for Microbiologyhttp://www.asmusa.org/
Association of American Medical Collegeshttp://www.aamc.org/
Basic Science Education Forumhttp://www.usd.edufBSEF
Centers for Disease Control & Preventionhttp://www.cdc.gov/cdc.html
National Board of Medical Examinershttp://www.nbme.org
Society for Medical Decision Makinghttp://polaris.nemc.org/SMDM/
World Health Organizationhttp://www.who.ch/
NEWS and INFORMATION
Biomedicine and Health in the News
gopher://inform.uchc.edu:70/1 lgopherjoot%3A%SB_data04._dataO4Ol %SD
Chicago Tribunehttp://www.chicago.tribune.com/
Chronicle of Higher Educationhttp://www.chronicle.merit.edu/.index.html
CNN Interactivehttp://www.cnn.com
New York Timeshttp://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/index
Wall Street Journalhttp://www.wsj.com
JOURNALS ONLINE
AAAAS Sciencehttp://science-rnag.aaas.org/science/home/index-alt.html
Emerging Infectious Diseaseshttp://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/mmwr_oth.html
Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Reportshttp://www.cdc.gov/epo/nimwr/mmwr.html
LIBRARIES
National Library of Medicinehttp://www.nlm.nih.gov
ANATOMY
National Univ. of Singapore Histonethttp://.nus.sg/HIS/
Radiology
http://www.cc.emory.edu/ANATOMY/Radiology/Home.Page.MENU.HTML
The Heart Preview Galleryhttp://sln2.fi.edu/biosci/preview/heartpreview.html
The Visible Human Projecthttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html
The Whole Brain Atlashttp://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIIB/home.html
BIOCHEMISTRY
Clinical Case Studieshttp://horne.cc.umanitoba.cakblanch/
Medical Biochemistryhttp://colossus.chem.indiana.edu
MICROBIOLOGY
CAl in Microbiologyhttp://rnonera.ncl.ac.uk/cal/cal.html
Cells Alive!http://www.comet.chv.va.us/quill/
Medical Microbiology Coursehttp://midget.towson.edu/~wubah/medmicro/hpage.html
World Lecture Hallhttp://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/niic/
PATHOLOGY
General Pathologyhttp://www-medlib.rned.utah.edu/WebPath/GENERAL.html
Urbana Atlas of Pathologyhttp://rnonera.ncl.ac.uk/md/atlas.html
PHARMACOLOGY
Pharmaceutical Information Networkhttp://pharminfo.com/pin…hp.html
Pharm Webhttp://sunsite.unc.edu/pwmirror/
Virtual Library: Pharmacyhttp://d 136a- 1 .coventry.ac.uk/covuni/clincrse/pharmint.htm
TRAVEL
Currency Exchange Rateshttp://www.olsen.ch/cgi-bin/exmenu/pathfinder
Languages for Travelershttp://pathfinder.com/@ @M3wDF1OFyQIAQN6y/Travel/language/index.html
Mapshttp://pathfnder.com/@ @FTrMTGOkGAA~AQNyy/Travel/maps/index.html
TAKE A BREAK
Calvin and Hobbes Comics Galleryhttp://eos.kub.nl:2080/calvinn_hobbes/
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr 1 8/mset/www/holrnes.html
Sherlock Holmeshttp:/www.mca.com/tv/xena/
Xena: Warrior Princess
STRAIGHT OUT OF THE FORTUNE COOKIE JAR
“The human mind treats a new idea the way it treats a strage protein – it rejects it!”
P. Medawar