INTERNET FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS

(updated May 2013)

WEBSITES FOR GENERAL ENGLISH

WEBSITES FOR MEDICAL ENGLISH

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Online Grammar and Exercises

Reading

Online Video and Listening


  • Fact sheets and news articles about health and medicine (only 1st sem)

  • Professional texts (only 2nd sem)



WEB SITES FOR GENERAL ENGLISH

VOCABULARY

ONLINE MONOLINGUAL DICTIONARIES

PRONUNCIATION

ACADEMIC VOCABULARY

CONCORDANCER

BILINGUAL DICTIONARIES



ONLINE GRAMMAR AND EXERCISES

ONLINE LISTENING AND VIDEO

WEB SITES FOR MEDICAL ENGLISH

VOCABULARY

READING (1st semester)

PATIENT.CO.UK (Comprehensive health information as provided by GPs and nurses – HONCode certified)

http://www.patient.co.uk/pils.asp

EMEDICINE - Patient education (Consumer health- HONCode certified)

http://www.emedicinehealth.com/health-topics/article_em.htm

BUPA HEALTH

http://www.bupa.co.uk/health_information/asp/your_health/factsheets

http://www.bupa.co.nz/healthInformation.aspx

NHS CHOICES – Hundreds of conditions explained

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Pages/BodyMap.aspx?Index=A

HOW STUFF WORKS – MEDICINE CHANNEL

home: http://health.howstuffworks.com/

modern medicine: http://health.howstuffworks.com/medicine/modern

diseases: http://health.howstuffworks.com/diseases-conditions

medical tests & treatment: http://health.howstuffworks.com/medicine/tests-treatment

surgeries & procedures: http://health.howstuffworks.com/medicine/surgeries-procedures

UP-TO-DATE (a subscription resource for physicians but with some free content)

http://www.uptodate.com/home/uptodate-benefits-patients

NEW SCIENTIST

http://www.newscientist.com/section/health

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

http://www.sciam.com/health



READING (2nd semester)

EMEDICINE – Click on “Show all” to view the whole article. Where the article is divided into sections and subsections, (Overview, Presentation, Differential diagnoses, Workup, etc; Overview –> Background, Anatomy, Pathophysiology, etc), click on “show all” for each section and subsection.

http://www.emedicine.com/

** Or try the old version of emedicine (articles all on one page) HERE

UPTODATE - Sample Topics in All Specialties

http://www.uptodate.com/home/clinicians/sample_topics.html

THE MERCK MANUAL

http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/sections.htm

FREE MEDICAL JOURNALS

http://www.freemedicaljournals.com

PUBMED CENTRAL JOURNALS – FULL LIST OF FREE JOURNALS

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/fprender.fcgi?cmd=full_view

THE LANCET

http://www.thelancet.com

BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL

http://www.bmj.com

STUDENT BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL

http://www.student.bmj.com/ (the new version since Jan 2009) (Look at “Clinical review” and “Research explained” under “Education”)
http://archive.student.bmj.com/search/archive.php (the archive)

NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

http://www.nejm.org/

PUBMED FOR BIOMEDICAL LITERATURE SEARCHES
PubMed comprises more than 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

** Make sure you look at the PubMed Quick Start Guide and PubMed Tutorials under “Using PubMed”

** Watch a short tutorial from Dartmouth College, BASIC MEDLINE SEARCH TUTORIAL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=ANfmmScaZ3A&gl=US

E-JOURNALS – BIBLIOTECHE DI ATENEO -UNIVERSITA' DI TRIESTE

http://www.biblio.units.it/ncp

http://140.105.147.200/Riviste/Catalogo.asp

** Link to EZProxy to access the University Library journals from home (student credentials needed):

https://login.px.units.it/login

https://caronte.units.it/+CSCOE+/logon.html