On-line Medical Education: Cardiology

• HeartWeb HeartWeb's cardiology case reports, EKG puzzles, multimedia slide presentations, 2-D motion echocardiography demonstration, and more of these interesting echos coming also.
  
  
• Cardiomyopathy. A very detailed case presentation online from the Vertual Hospital of Iowa.
  
  
• EMBBS Electrocardiogram of the Month. The reports from interesting cases for educational purposes collected by Sol Nevins Memorial Hospital in New Jersey.
  
  
• Heart Sounds Page. Excellent teaching mechanism for medical students and cardiologists.
  
  
• EINTHOVEN SYSTEM. A computer module to evaluate EKG reports. From the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Cardiovascular Section.
  
  
• MURMUR. The Atlas of Murmurs.
  
  
• Acute Pericarditis. Primary Care Teaching Topics.
  
  
• Cardiology - Clinical Practice Guidelines. The clinical practice guidelines published by the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association and include managing of unstable angina, heart failure, left ventricular systolic dysfunction, acute myocardial infarction...
  
  
• School of Medicine. Case Western Reserve University. Multimedia case presentations, courses, algorithms, other teaching materials on different topics of cardiology.
  
  
• Cardiology Compass. Plenty of educational materials including cardiac catheterization, cardiac surgery, CHD, echocardiography, electrophysiology, nuclear cardiology, pediatric cardiology, and many ohters.
  
  
• Welcome to Cardiocenter. The Cardiocenter web site is dedicated to planning, developing, and implementing Total Quality Management in Emergency Cardiology strategies.
  
  
• Chest Pain Perspectives. The site is designed to focus on diagnostic strategies being incorporated to cost-effectively manage patients who present with chest pain and improve their outcomes while minimizing the impact on available resources, both human and material.
  
  
• The Heart: An Online Exploration. Developed by The Franklin Institute Science Museum.
  
  
• JOSEPH: An EKG expert system and tutorial. JOSEPH:version 9.62 is an expert system used to help teach EKG reading skills to fourth year medical students from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. It is part of a four week elective. The program is DOS based, menu driven, and contains graphics. The main menu lists ten 'chapters' of tutorials and drills...
  
  
• CARDIAX. It is a computer-aided instructional program of 20 planned cases in basic cardiology. Case one is available as an example.
  
  

  On-line Medical Publication: Cardiology.

  • Canadian Journal of Cardiology. The site provides archives of past and present tables of contents and abstracts.
    
    
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology. This online journal provides abstracts and selected full-text articles.
    
    
  • E-chocardiography Journal. This web site was started in April 1995 with the purpose of providing online medical articles and images dedicated to ultrasound of the heart (echocardiography).
    
    
  • Harvard Heart Letter. From the Harvard Medical School. Not particularly flashy (i.e. its mostly reformated text), the latest issue is available at this site. The Harvard Heart Letter is written in plain English and is directed to the (mostly) lay audience.
    
    
  • HeartWeb: A Medical Journal on the Web. Editors Seymour Furman, M.D. and Anthony D. Mercando, M.D. are developing an electronic "peer-reviewed journal" focus on pacing, electrophysiology, implantable defibrillation and general cardiology. Submitted articles, case reports, letters, and comments are welcome. Of particular value to the practicing cardiologist is a searchable on-line pulse generator database and a lead database.
    
    
  • Age and Ageing Tables of contents and abstracts are available from January 1996 onwards.
    
    
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