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Funding Sources

• The UNC-CH Office of Research Services lists resources and provides links for locating and applying for research funding. Application materials and templates are included.

Consumer Health sites

• Achoo On-line Healthcare Services is another well-respected index of web resources for a variety of purposes, especially good for finding consumer-oriented sites.
  
  
• HealthAtoZ - The Search Engine for Health and Medicine is another site that was recommended recently by Consumer Reports magazine.

• Health World Online - HWO is a consumer-oriented site. Its goal is to provide information to health care consumers so that they may "self-manage" their care in certain instances. The focus is on preventive or non-traditional forms of care.
  

Health Policy Research Indexes

• At the Managed Care Resources site there are other linked sites that are really helpful for general resources for health care administrators. We especially liked "Health -related world wide web servers," since they have 50 or more cool sites: for example, other web sites specially designed for health care; sites of different organizations such as AHA, AMA, and CDC; and health-related journals such as JAMA. You can almost find anything having to do with health care from this site.
  
• Also, under "managed care providers," a sub link under MCR, there are some cool managed care provider sites that you can check out. You'll get the overview of how large managed care providers' design their own web sites--maybe you can even find an internship or a job from one of these sites. Good source to check out.
  
• www.cdc.gov contains a wealth of data and statistics on the health industry, health care finance, and disease patterns.

OTHER RESEARCH RESOURCES:

• National Institute on Aging
• AAMC Home Page - Association of American Medical Colleges
• Biomedical Internet Resources
• Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania

HEALTH LIBRARIES:

• UNC-CH Health Sciences Library Main Page
• NLM HyperDOC: World-Wide Web (WWW) Server of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Government Data Sites

• The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) Medicare & Medicaid Agency home page provides any type of information about Medicaid and Medicare that you could possibly want.

• Indian Health Services Online - This beautiful site provides information to consumers regarding care options at the IHS. It also is a valuable tool for researchers looking for health data on Native Americans.
  

OTHER GOVERNMENT SITES:

• U.S. Government Printing Office
• Federal Gov WWW
• THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
• Welcome to the White House
• USAID Home Page
• Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Home Page
• CDC & ATSDR Home Page

Plus some INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SITES:

• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: United Nations and other international organisations
• World Health Organization WWW Home Page
• Population Council

Hospitals

For more specific hospital sites, whip down to our Get a Job! section.

Diseases

• To learn more about lupus, contact the Lupus Home Page. This site offers various links, such as a clinical overview, symptoms of lupus, and depression with the disease.

• internet-plaza.net/lupus/ is also a great site. Here you can link onto a research library that contains the most recent findings on lupus.

For more on specific diseases, try one of the searchable indexes listed above, such as Achoo.

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Health News sites

• The Official American Medical Association (AMA) Home Page contains a series of articles, written for Healthcare providers, about studies and events related to medicine.

• You might also want to check out the JAMA Homepage.

• The New York Times is a broad source of on-line news; the latest headlines can be found via general search topics, and the site is searchable.

• The NandO Times has a "Health & Science" section of recent stories culled from the news wires.

• CNN.com contains information on heated health care policy topics such as Medicare and Medicaid reform, techonological innovations and its impacts on health care delivery, among others.
     

OTHER NEWS RESOURCES:

• Welcome to WashingtonPost.com
• NPR Online

Policy Wonk Sites and Chat sites

• Policy.com- Home Page devotes lots of space to policy arguments of every sort. A great resource for the naturally argumentative.

• The Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. is devoted to promoting the development and implementation of effective health and social policy for all Americans. This site offers ways to improve services for all populations.

• The Mass General Hospital Neurology website features a series of chat rooms pertaining to Healthcare related topics. It weekly showcases speakers to sit in on chat sessions. Chat topics include caregiver support, Alzheimer's disease, HIV, and more.

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Internship Sites

• Inter-NET enables searching for an internship by limited categories and geographical regions, but has links to other internship resources.
  
• Washington Center provides general and specialty internships in various government and business organizations, maninly in the Washington, D.C. area.
  
• StartHere(tm) is another good internship and job search location (page down to the Job Search section for more on this site).

• Tripod Internships allows you to search for an internship by choosing a certain job field, like accounting or health care, along with choosing a geographic location by state or country you prefer to work in. Tripod will give results of the search providing detailed information on available internships within the location and interest parameters determined. Information given includes the following: job title, job description, any application requirements and eligibility, addresses, phone numbers, application. This web site is very user friendly.
  
• JobWeb - Jobs and Employer Directory will help you find an internship according to state or country and type in key words pertaining to the type of internship you are looking for.
  
• The North Carolina Area Health Education Centers. UNC system students benefit from the many state wide preceptors. Find out about statewide task force priorities, Student rotation data, health education, NC statistics, NC health careers, MedAir operations, Rural Health initiatives, and the Office of Regional Primary Care Education. Also, link to the UNC webpage to reach the Dental, Medical, Nursing, Social Work and Public Health Schools.
  
• International Employment Related Resources page provides links to general information, and to information on specific organizations and countries.
  

Job Search Sites and Resume Services

• Students who wish to search for career opportunites over the Internet will find the link starthere.com helpful. This site offers students advice on how to begin a job search as well as current job vacancies. Rather than browsing various search engines to find career sites, starthere provides all available Internet career links in its on-line comprehensive database.
  
• An accounting organization, UCAPA, has a home page which includes information about accounting career opportunities, links to major accounting firms, resume and interview tips, and general information about master's programs in accounting.
  
• CareerMosaic is another web site that aids college graduates' job quest. It searches the job database and the employer profiles to find a compatible match. The site has links to offer resources for minorities to help with the career hunt.
  
• Need to get your resume in the hands of numerous human resource directors nationwide? The following Web address accomplishes this task effortlessly: http://neuro-www.mgh.harvard.edu/hospitalweb.shtml This site, from Harvard and Mass. General Hospital, provides a nationwide directory of all hospitals that have Web pages.
  
• PRNMedSearch allows a user to search the medical field for jobs. It offers free resume building tips and has a database of resumes employers can review.
  
• www.infi.net/~resume is another resume service site. Anyone can access the free information on career advice and resume revisions. This site has a large database of resumes and employment opportunities.
  
• We would recommend AOL's resume service for a student to gain access to a resume writer that offers a guarantee of your money back. Beware, they are wanting money for the great results they can provide, and these results are not on the web.
  
• The site www.taos.com/resumetips has the top ten resume writing tips that focus on jobs in technology. We really thought this was an informative site. We recommend using Yahoo for resume site searches because we personally thought it found better results than Excite and others.
• The resume site at Stanford University, The Job Resource, allows you to post your resume, or view info & job ads from other organizations.
  
• job-hunting.com demystifies popular myths surrounding the search for employment.
  
• Lasting Impressions  provides professional resume services that will assist job applicants in creating a top-notch resume that employers like to see.
  
• Alec's Free CV, Job Hunting & Interview Tips  helps job seekers set personal goals for themselves and provides career support and advice that will help them on their way to finding their ideal job.
  
• Just getting out of college? College Grad Job Hunter is an outstanding resource tool that will find the perfect job or internship just for you.

• jobsource is a good site also: view company profiles; get job seeking advice; get resume help.

OTHER JOB SEARCH SITES:

• UNC HOSPITALS HUMAN RESOURCES features employment opportunities, but also offers avenues for all sorts of HR research. It includes state and national employment policies, curricula for employee development programs including CQI and Diversity programs, and a glossary of HR terminology, and a wide variety of HR links.
• OSLO, University of Minnesota Office of Special Learning Opportunities.
• Su Dinero: Búsquedas de ofertas, Spanish Classifieds.
• Yahoo! Internet Life: Employment Resources
• THE MONSTER BOARD. Perhaps more graphics than content?

Relocation Sites

• Once an employment location is determined, it is time to find relocation resources. The Relocation Salary Calculator allows users to determine the salary they would need to make in a new city, based on cost-of-living differences.
  
• Rent Net --Powerful index of millions of apartments listings located in all 50 states. Simple user-interface makes for quick and easy customized search to locate the perfect apartment for you. Simply put . . .this site is amazing!
  
• imNet World Wide City --Going abroad and need a place to stay? imNet WWC is your source for domestic and foreign living. Want to rent out your apartment? There's a professor in Germany who's probably interested in a trade!
  
• Apartments For Rent This easy to use, comprehensive database finds just the apartment you've been looking for. Search by a number of fields. Simple, easy, what more can you ask for? Check it out.
  
• ABreak4Students --this site is TERRIBLE. . . whatever you do, don't click here.
  

Researching Specific Companies

• Welcome to Hoover's Online!is an index that lists thousands of different companies. A good starting place to find corporate sites.
  
• Orlando Regional Health System Information available on this vertically integrated health system includes a description of each affiliated facility and contacts in each area, including patient appointments, billing, and administration.
  
• University of Florida Health System This site provides an introduction to the healthcare services available through the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. Associated facilities include the Gainesville VAMC and Shands Hospital. Additional information includes a reference page for physicians, patient contact information, and maps of the area.
  
• Blue Cross and Blue Shield's homepage (www.bluecross.com) accurately describes the organization's area of business, values, structures, services provided, and clientele. The site provides many additional links to health care realted issues. One link offers a variety of current articles related to the health care industry.
  
• St. Joseph's Hospital in Asheville, NC. This magnificent page offers a list of jobs in all departments. It also informs you of the educational level and experience needed. The page gives you their mission statement and some of the activities and services they provide. At the moment their page is witnessing some changes because of the merger with Memorial Mission Hospital. The name for this organization is now Mission-St. Joseph's Hospital.
  
• Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University and the North Carolina Baptist Hospitals, Inc. Wake Forest University would like to give you a warm welcome. Link to the National Leader in Education, Healthcare, and Research. You can launch a medical center search or find out what is new. Count your calories because calories count. You can take a survey or walk your way through the organization. The site outlines their history as well as provides links to various medical information sites.
  
• Find out all about Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, NC. This site provides you with current positions available and links to their facilities.
  
• Visit this site to learn more about UNC-Hospitals, their human resources department, and services available to customers.

• Pfizer's homepage provides useful background information about thecompany and its current developments. It is an excellent starting point for research into Pfizer.
  
• Princeton Review has a site depicting life as a pharmaceutical sales representative and describing the expectations of the career. This site also includes major employers and their contact people.
  

OTHER SPECIFIC COMPANY SITES:

• Medical Communications Management Group's MCMG Home Page
• Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation

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Indexes and Rankings

• A great site for searching U.S. graduate schools is peterson's.com . It provides listings of all degrees from undergraduate through doctorate degrees in any academic area, including healthcare administration. There is a search where you type in a specific major or school, and all the information about which schools offer the program is displayed. You can also directly link to each college's home page through this site. There is an inquiry form through "Petersons" that allows users to send biographical information to certain schools and to request materials about a particular program of study. Information packets normally arrive in the mail within one to two weeks. From individual school sites one is able to find out information about admissions, courses required, recommended GPA , and prerequisites.

• Beloit has a nice site gives advice about skills, jobs, and previous classes needed to help increase your chances of grad school admission.

• The AAMC Academic Medicine Website – run by the writers of the MCAT, this site is useful to gain information on applicant statistics and application procedures for medical school.
   
• The Premed Advisor offers “insider” advice on interviews, personal statements, tips for the MCAT, and other topics relevant to medical school applicants.
   
• The Interactive Medical School Lounge is a good place to communicate with those already in medical school and to buy medically related software and books online.

• Yahoo's education link is very useful: type in "graduate schools" and "MHA."

OTHER EDUCATIONAL INDEXES:

• Web U.S. Universities indexes the homepages of national educational institutions. The Virtual Lecture Hall link provides an index of on-line courses and course material available across the nation.

Specific Schools

• Boston University School of Public Health. This site presents details on Boston University's graduate program and also offers a Student Spotlight section specifically for postings of research information of environmental and occupational diseases.
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• UNC SPH Health Policy and Administration Home Page Among the great resources available at this site is THIS PAGE HERE! But you can also find information on the residential and executive masters programs, faculty profiles, and so forth.
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• San Diego State University. This graduate school site offers the standard application and course information, as well as links to approximately thirty-five public health organization and research related sites.

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Thanks for using our index! It was last updated on January 19, 2000

Site selection and annotations were made by members of the Spring 1999 HPAA 72 Business Communication for Health Administrators class. Franklin Hurley helped with the layout. To add a link, change a link, submit an annotated link, or otherwise put your two cents in, send email to stephen_orton@unc.edu.

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