Medical Education (R:735-847)
R735.A4 Medical Schools. Directories
Summary:
Alternative Medical Courses Taught at U.S. Medical Schools is a directory
provided by the Rosenthal Center of the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
and its homepage on the WWW, CPMCnet. Users are given alphabetically
organized listings of the schools and institutions who offer alternative
medical knowledge.
Of importance to the site is a disclaimer, provided by the Rosenthal Center:
"The information and resource listings on this site are not intended to be
fully systematic or complete, nor does inclusion here imply any endorsement
or recommendation by Columbia University...." In addition, "The information
and resource listings on this site are by definition outside the scope of
generally accepted medical standards of care. They are nonconventional,
alternative, or complementary. For some of the treatments there may be
scientific evidence for therapeutic efficacy while in other instances there
is as yet limited or no research data." Users should not, in any way, allow
the listings to "provide diagnoses or to prescribe any medical treatment....
[I]ndiscriminate use of some of these therapies without medical
supervision may be harmful to your health." All users are urged to consult
their personal physicians for primary diagnosis of medical conditions and
for
recommended treatment.
Users simply browse through the site, viewing the listing of alternative
courses and their locations. Each record provides: the name of the medical
school or institution; the name of the course; name of course instructor or
contact physician; and the location of the medical school, including a
business address, as well as phone and fax number. All of the listings can
be
seen in the publication, the Journal of Alternative and Complementary
Medicine.
The site is maintained by the Rosenthal Center, Columbia Presbyterian
Medical Center; Columbia University.
To Search:
Browse through directory listings.
Summary:
This site is an alphabetical collection of the homepages of
selected American
and Canadian medical schools.
Access is also provided to selected services of the Multimedia Medical
Reference
Library (MMRL), a comprehensive service covering many aspects of medicine
and the
medical profession (e.g. medical curriculum, medical software, hospitals,
etc.)
To Search:
Select entry from list; browse local site.