AIDS Info
What you will find: offers information on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and research. Topics include a drug database, clinical trials, and vaccine research.
Career Guidance Resources on the Internet
http://www.mdc.edu/medical/library/teaching.asp#career
What you will find: scroll to the bottom of the page for links to the websites for Occupational Outlook Handbook, Florida Health Careers, Choices Planner and other related sites.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
What you will find: provides up-to-date information on many aspects of health care, including diseases and conditions, vaccines and immunizations, and emergency preparedness and response. It also includes a section with health statistics.
General Nuclear Medicine
http://www.radiologyinfo.org/content/gen_nuclear_med.htm
What you will find: explains nuclear medicine procedures for the patient, including how to prepare for the procedure and how the procedure works.
Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body
What you will find: features 1,247 vibrant engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication.
Health Resources and Services Administration's HIPAA Web Site
What you will find: links to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance procedures.
Healthy People 2010
What you will find: a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
What you will find: the United State's predominant standards-setting and accrediting body for health care organizations and programs.
MedlinePlus
What you will find: includes a Medical Encyclopedia, Medical Dictionary, Interactive Tutorials on common procedures and conditions, including one on nuclear scans, and Doctor and Dentist Directories.
MERCKSource Resource Library
What you will find: includes A.D.A.M. Health Illustrated Encyclopedia, Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, Merck Manuals, and the PDR Family Guide to Over-the-Counter Drugs.
Nuclear Medicine MediaBook
http://oracle.crump.ucla.edu:8001/pet/NM-Mediabook/index.tcl
What you will find: provides a comprehensive teaching tool that includes cases, protocols, tracers, figures, and a glossary.
Nuclear Medicine on the Net
http://www.nucmednet.com/frameset.htm
What you will find: provides general information about the field and about a career in the field, and nuclear medicine procedures and case studies.
Nuclear Medicine Protocols
What you will find: provides an alphabetical list of nuclear medicine protocols.
Nuclear Pharmacy
http://nuclearpharmacy.uams.edu/default.asp
What you will find: provides information on radiopharmaceuticals.
Nuclear Medicine Technology Resource Website
http://www3.sympatico.ca/lgoodin/csitf.htm
What you will find: contains information, images, and case studies on SPECT imaging, PET imaging, and MRI imaging.
Occupational Health and Safety Administration
What you will find: provides health standards, regulations, and inspections to prevent workplace injuries, illnesses and deaths.
SPECT Tutorial
http://www.physics.ubc.ca/~mirg/home/tutorial/tutorial.html
What you will find: provides a tutorial on single photo emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging, including a history of nuclear medicine and how the gamma camera is used to detect gamma rays.
Student Success Center (SSC), Medical Campus, Miami Dade College
http://www.mdc.edu/medical/lr/casa/default.asp
What you will find: provides a listing of computer based tutoring programs accessible from computers in the Medical Campus Library and in SSC. SSC also offers online and face-to-face tutoring services. For more information on any of these services or programs, contact SSC at (305) 237-4499.
What is PET
http://interactive.snm.org/index.cfm?PageID=972&RPID=924
What you will find:
explains how
positron emission tomography (PET) is used to detect cancers, neurological
diseases, and cardiovascular diseases. This site also describes the differences
between PET scans and MRI or CT scans.