Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Information Sites for University of Iowa Ophthalmology Employees

This page is intended for use by employees of the Department of Ophthalmology. Others are welcome to use the page as well. However, if you have arrived at this page from outside the department, there will be many links that do not work off campus or outside of the Hospital.

CONTENTS OF THIS PAGE

• Department Resources
• UI Healthcare/UIHC Information
• UI and UIHC Resources
• UI Manuals, Policies and Guidelines
• Ophthalmology Resources
• Medical & Scientific Databases
• General Medical Information
• Drug Information
• General Reference  
• Bibliographic Style Guides
• Iowa City and University of Iowa
• Internet Search tools
• People Search tools  

Department Resources

• Clinical Research at UI Ophthalmology
• The C.S. O'Brien Library Catalog
• EyeRounds.org
• Gonioscopy.org
• for Residents and Fellows                       
  • Manuals and Forms for Our Residents and Fellows 
  • Resident Rotation Goals and Competencies
  • On-Call Survival Guide  
   
• EyeCases for Clerkship Students
• Floor Plans of PFP
• Ophthalmology Faculty Website (Password required)
• The Update (Department Employee Newsletter)
• Video Repository
• Independent Learning Modules

UI Healthcare/Hospitals & Clinics Information

• E-mail via the Web
• Employee Self Service (UI)
• Employee Self Service (UIHC)/ Compliance/ EducationTracking
• EPIC Information for Ophthalmology
• GME Office
• Clinical Applications Web Links
• Menus, UIHC Cafeterias
• Noon News for University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
• UIHC Facts and News
• Basic Facts about UIHC | Service Record Figures
• The Point UI Health Care Intranet site, Hawkid required. Our domain is Healthcare        
  • Ophthalmology: The Point
  • EPIC Tips, Tricks & FAQs  
   
• Remote Access (alternate link)
• Smartweb: OnCall Application | alternate link
• Smartweb: Find Me
• Smartweb: Page Me

UI and UIHC Resources

• University of Iowa
• UIHC home page
• UI Hospitals & Clinics Patient Library
• RefWorks, online citation manager
• SkillSoft online learning, ebooks, tutorials
• University of Iowa Libraries 
  • Hardin Library for the Health Sciences 
  • InfoHawk (University of Iowa Library Catalog)
  • Electronic Journals (University of Iowa InfoLink)
  • Databases available via the UI Libraries, Alphabetically
  • Databases available at the UI Libraries, by Subject
   

 UI Manuals, Policies and Guidelines

• Clinical Applications Web Links (very helpful. UI Healthcare ID and password required)
• Division of Sponsored Programs (DSP) Research Administration Handbook. Covers basic requirements and procedures for requesting, accepting, and managing external funding and conducting sponsored projects. Draws information from DSP, Grant Accounting, Conflict of Interest in Research, Purchasing and Travel, Research Services Administration, UI Research Foundation, and UI Human Resources.
• Joint Office for Compliance Program: Faculty Practice Plan Compliance Plan & UIHC Code of Ethical Behavior, Guidelines and Explanations | Policies
• UI Health Care Lab Services Handbook Laboratory Tests - Alphabetical

 Ophthalmology Resources

• American Academy of Ophthalmology
• Iowa Eye News  | Iowa Vision Newsletter
• Eye Resources on the Internet  
• "The Visual System" IN AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, 6th ed. healthcare\Hawkid required.

Medical and Scientific Databases

• A-Z Health Science Database List from the Hardin Library
• CINAHL Plus (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health)
• Cochrane Library Evidence Based Medicine Resources
• Electronic Books (UI Libraries)      
  • NCBI Bookshelf, a collection of full-text biomedical books that can be searched directly 
   
• Google Scholar via Univ of Iowa Libraries (login for access to some full text)
• Journals@OVID fulltext 
• MDConsult (you will need to register from this page and then remember your password and ID)
• MEDLINE via OVID (best with Firefox or Safari)
• NLM Databases & Electronic Resources (a long list)
• OVID databases note: OVID seems to work better with Firefox or Safari than it does with Internet Explorer
• PubMed (via Univ. of Iowa libraries, allows online access to full text where available from Infolink) 
• Scirus (Scirus advertises itself as the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet)
• SUMSearch (Medline, DARE, and Guidelines)
• Trip Database (clinical evidence for clinical practice)
• UpToDate Online
• VisualDx
• Web of Knowledge (aka Web of Science. Contains Science Citation Index, Journal Citation Reports) 

Medical Information (General)

• Iowa Board of Medicine
• CDC Travel Information Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Dictionary:Taber's on-line medical cyclopedic dictionary
• FPInfo (Family Practice Info, other information sites)
• MEDLINEPlus. Information aimed at the public (from the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health)      
  • (Eyes and Vision Topics)  
   
• The Merck Manual  
• National Guidelines Clearinghouse (Clinical Practice Guidelines)
• National Library of Medicine Mobile Resources
• STAT!Ref (standard medical texts, Campus only)

 Drug Information

• UIHC Rx Formulary and Handbook
• Micromedex
• MEDLINEPlus: Drug Info (for the public)
• NLM Drug Information Portal
• Toxicology (and Environmental Health) Resources from the NIH

 General Reference Sources

• University of Iowa Libraries reference section's Research Guides  
• UI Skillsoft (online books and references)
• RefDesk (huge collection of reference links)
• Council of Science Editors
• More Reference Links  

Style Guides

• Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences
  (from the Raymon H. Mulford Library The University of Toledo)
• Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
• Son of Citation Machine (help for bibliography formatting)

Iowa City/Coralville and University Information

• UI 5-year calendar
• UI Master Calendar
• UI Academic Calendar

• What's Happening in Iowa City/Coralville? 
• Housing Information
• Iowa City Public Library
• Coralville Public Library

• The Daily Iowan
• The Iowa City Press Citizen
• The Cedar Rapids Gazette Online
• KCRG
• KGAN
• KWWL
• Area Radio Stations
• Iowa Public Radio

Internet Search Engines

(by no means all of them)

• Google | Google Advanced Search | Google Translate | Google Images | Google Maps
• Bing (general, maps, images, videos, news)
• Bing translator (formerly Babel Fish) (translations/transliteration)
• Yahoo!
• eTools (Metasearch engine from Switzerland)
• Alta Vista (Another place to look)
• Freeality (a BUNCH of search Engines all in one place)
• YouTube (videos)

People-Finding Search Engines

• Infospace Phone & Address Lookup (one of many)
• Switchboard (another one)
• Yahoo! People Search (mainly U.S.)
• ZabaSearch (U.S.)
• iSearch (U.S.)
• Pipl (international)