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Anatomy Resources – The AAA Top 5 Lists
Resources listed below are the top 5 sites visited by AAA members for each category.
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Academic Links

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  Academic Careers Online,
Welcome to Academic Careers Online, the ultimate global academic job site for teaching jobs, education jobs, research jobs, and professional jobs in education and academia. Academic Careers Online includes faculty, teacher, research, post doc, adjunct, library, administrative and senior management positions at (community) colleges, universities, research institutes, and schools around the world.

  American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
If you study or teach human anatomy you will be interested in this society, which promotes the exchange of ideas and fosters multidisciplinary, scholarship among people engaged in clinical and academic bioethics and the medical humanities.

  eMedicine World Medical Library
Having more than 5500 pages of health content and many learning resources useful for those who study human anatomy, the site contains articles written by physicians for patients and consumers

  Biomaterials Network
The Biomaterials Network provides a biomaterials resource for scientists, anatomists, researchers and the business and government communities.

  Avian Brain Circuitry Database
An online searchable database that stores anatomical and histochemical data about the structure and connectivity of the avian brain.

 

Associations

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  Science Careers Forum
The Science Careers Forum is a professional, industrial, academic, and postdoctoral forum covering topics related to employment and career development in scientific and engineering careers, as well as alternative career choices for scientists and engineers. Whether you are looking for interview advice, resume writing help or are here just to share some of your experiences, our moderator and Forum advisers are here to assist you with your questions. Your message posting is subject to moderator approval. Read through the Forum's most frequently asked questions in the Forum Primer. The Forum Primer provides you with answers to a wide variety of questions and links back to the original Forum discussion threads.

  American Association of Clinical Anatomists


  Human Anatomy and Physiology Society
The Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS) was founded to promote communication among teachers of human anatomy and physiology in colleges, universities, and related institutions; to present workshops and conferences (both local and national) where members can obtain information about the latest developments in the health and science fields; and to encourage educational research and publications.

  British Association of Clinical Anatomists
The Society is open to those with a clinical or scientific interest in gross topography, imaging anatomy in all modalities, microscopic anatomy and ultrastructure, development and growth before and after birth, neuroanatomy and the developing field of movement science.

  European Life Sciences Organization
The barriers between disciplines are disappearing. Biochemists, cell biologists, developmental biologists, geneticists, immunologists, microbiologists, molecular biologists, neurobiologists, and pharmacologists are now all using the same molecular tools and speaking the same scientific language. Therefore a new organization named ELSO was launched in 2000.

 

Awards

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  NIGMS Research Training and Fellowship Awards
NIGMS awards three types of grants for research training and fellowships: Institutional National Research Service Awards (pre- and postdoctoral training grants), Individual National Research Service Awards (pre- and postdoctoral fellowships), and Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Awards (undergraduate student training in academic research awards, predoctoral fellowships, faculty fellowships, visiting scientist fellowships, and ancillary training awards).

  Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships


  Dana Foundation Grants and Awards
Dana Foundation science and health grants support brain research in neuroscience and immunology and their interrelationship in human health and disease.r

  James S. McDonnell Foundation
The 21st Century Science Initiative supports research in three topics: Bridging Brain, Mind, and Behavior; Studying Complex Systems; and Brain Cancer Research

  GrantsNet
GrantsNet is a one-stop resource to find funds for training in the biomedical sciences and undergraduate science education.

 

Commercial - Educational Software

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  3D-DOCTOR
3D-DOCTOR is 3D medical imaging software for creating 3D models from CT, MRI and microscopy images. It is FDA approved and currently being used by leading medical schools and hospitals around the world. For additional information, please contact: Ted Wu Email: ywu@ablesw.com Phone: 781-862-2804

  Anatomy Explorer (Bioteca Virtual)
BIOTECA VIRTUAL® is a reliable anatomy 3D software in which is possible to explore, identify and describe in a gradual and qualitative way characteristics, relations, hierarchy, and physiological processes of the human body.

  anatomy.tv
Here you will find a wealth of 3D anatomy. Inside you can rotate the view and add and remove layers of anatomy. The current range includes the Hand & Forearm, Shoulder, Hip, Knee, Foot & Ankle, and the Spine.

  Adam.com
Adam.com is a syndicator of interactive, engaging health and medical information, offering a wide range of content, services and visual health tools. Adam.com also delivers education products and life science curriculum to K through 12, undergraduate, graduate and professional continuing education markets.

  Dissectable Human CD ROM
The first commercial product to emerge from the National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project, The Dissectable Human offers 24-bit, digitally photographed axial cross-sections of the male cadaver that are segmented and then volume-rendered into 3-D objects. During digital dissection, major organs can be peeled away or block dissected to reveal internal structure. Additionally, organs and regions can be dissected from non-traditional or even physically impractical perspectives, revealing completely new views of structures.

 

Commercial - Research Equipment

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  Visual Anatomy, Limited
Visual Anatomy is the premier site for medical illustration, and a MedExplorer top rated site.

  Elastrat Sarl
Elastrat Sŕrl develops, realizes, and distributes human vascular phantoms. Elastrat vascular phantoms have been developed in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Hospital, USA, Interventional Neuroradiology.

  Stereology Resource Center
The stereology professionals at the SRC support stereology-related training, books, computerized software, outsourcing, and consulting to scientists in academia, government research, and private industry.

  Genamics
Genamics is a software and web development firm dedicated to empowering researchers with modern and innovative solutions like Genamics Expression 1.1 Sequence Analysis Software for Windows and Genamics Developer, for Microsoft Visual J++ and C# developers.

  MedZilla
A great place to find jobs in Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Science, Medicine, and Healthcare. Online since 1994, MedZilla established the new chemistry of matching the right job with the right candidate.

 

Education - Evolution

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  Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
Understanding Evolution is a non-commercial, education website, teaching the science and history of evolutionary biology. This site helps you understand what evolution is, how it works, how it factors into your life, how research in evolutionary biology is performed, and how ideas in this area have changed over time.

  FASEB: Evolution Resources
A resource that includes K-12 teaching tools, resources for scientists, statements by scientific societies and other related resources.

  Becoming Human
Site includes a documentary on human evolution as well as other resources and a learning center with activities.

  PBS Evolution Library / Teachers and Students
The Evolution project presents an array of resources for learning about and teaching evolution

  15 Evolutionary Gems
Nature summarizes evidence it has published over the past decade—fossil records, studies of natural and artificial habitats, molecular research—that provides confirmation of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection.

 

Education - General

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  An Online Examination of Human Anatomy and Physiology
Visually Learn About the Human Body Using Our Interactive "Flash" Animations

  Anatomy Interactive
Anatomy Interactive is an academic portal designed to provide students with a common Web-based interface through which they can acquire information about the anatomical sciences. This Web site combines a dynamic electronic newsletter with an interactive, content-driven, organizational structure that provides effective information retrieval and promotes active learning.

  Anatomy and Physiology I Web Sites
A cross-section of general Anatomy and Physiology resources available online.

  Human Anatomy Online
Study the anatomy of the human body. It's an ideal reference site for students or those who just want to know more about the medical descriptions used by doctors and nurses.

  Body Worlds - The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies
The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies provides unique insights into the healthy and diseased human body, giving the opportunity to study individual, complex, anatomical structures of whole bodies and cross sections. All the bodies on display are authentic. They belonged to people who declared during their lives that their bodies should be made available after their deaths for qualification and instruction of medical professionals and non-professionals alike. All models look alike and are, essentially, simplified versions of the real thing. The authenticity of the specimen, however, is fascinating and enables the observer to experience the marvel of the real human being.

 

Education - Kids

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  Human Anatomy - About.com
HTML based tutorials on basic cellular anatomy, anatomical terms, physiology, and anatomy of the brain, heart, and blood vessels with hyperlinks branching off to many different areas of interest.

  Brains Rule!
The Brains Rule! website presents neuroscience concepts in a learning format designed to explain, while stimulating the process of inquiry and critical thinking, and provides a means for mentorship by neuroscientists and health professionals, a process fundamental to the success of girls and underrepresented groups in these careers.

  Cell Biology Animations - By John Kyrk
Educated as a biologist and an artist by disposition, John Kirk presents some interesting and appealing animations demonstrating major concepts of cell biology.

  Access Excellence at the National Health Museum
Access Excellence at the National Health Museum is an educational program that provides high school biology and life science teachers access to their colleagues, scientists, and critical sources of new scientific information via the World Wide Web. See their Classrooms of the 21st Century exhibit on science teaching reform.

  Heart Preview: Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute Science Museum presents an online version of its original, famous walk-through Heart exhibit.

 

Education - Students and Professionals

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  AAA's Education Section Image Databases
Check out AAA's new Education pages, and click here to access links to a plethora of image databases.

  AnatomyAltases - A digital library
Choose from the following multimedia textbooks: Atlas of Human Anatomy in Cross Section; Atlas of Microscopic Anatomy; Illustrated Encyclopedia of Anatomic Variation.

  Human Anatomy Learning Site
From the Dartmouth Medical School, the Human Anatomy Learning Web Site is a work in progress, focusing on the needs of first-time students of human anatomy. Its aim is to help students learn clinically relevant anatomy with maximum efficiency.

  Anatomy Tables: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
UAMS provides anatomy tables organized both by system and region, along with other resources such as gross anatomy and neuroanatomy images and quicktime movies.

  Instant Anatomy
Over 600 diagrams of almost all of the human body. CD also available with higher quality diagrams and review questions. For additional information, please contact: Andrew Whitaker andrew@ttfn.net

 

Training: Summer, Supplemental and Online Courses

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  Colorado Community Colleges Online
Human anatomy and physiology courses offered for credit online, with mandatory hands-on lab.

  Dalhousie University Distance Education
Offers Basic Human Anatomy, Human Physiology, and Human Physiology online courses.

  AAMC's summer makeup course listing of U.S. medical schools
Information about summer school opportunities for medical school course work at US Medical Schools can be found by searching by medical school name, by state, or by subject.

  Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
Online (distance education) courses include human anatomy and physiology.

  Human Anatomy and Physiology Society Institute (HAPS-I)
Professional continuing education for professors of human anatomy and/or physiology at all levels of instruction. Graduate biology courses (2-3 credits) offered at summer conference, workshops, or online.

 

Government

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  United States Congress
Acting under the directive of the leadership of the 104th Congress to make federal legislative information freely available to the Internet public, a Library of Congress team brought the THOMAS World Wide Web system online.

  Federal Register online
The Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) originated from a unique partnership among the public, Congress, and the Department of Defense. After noteworthy success in managing the Breast Cancer Research Program, the CDMRP was tasked to manage research programs in defense women's health, osteoporosis, neurofibromatosis, prostate cancer, and ovarian cancer, as well as other specified areas.

  United States Department of Agriculture
Congress.org features an on-line Congressional directory with biographical information about Senators and Representatives. The zip code search allows you to find your Representative.

  National Library of Medicine
Founded in 1887, the National Institutes of Health today is one of the world's foremost medical research centers, and the Federal focal point for medical research in the U.S. Simply described, the goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold. The NIH mission is to uncover new knowledge that will lead to better health for everyone.

  Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Federal Register is the official daily publication for Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive Orders and other Presidential Documents.

 

Image Collections

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  Virtual Organ Library
AAA's education website offers a virtual organ library of images contributed by its members, plus links to a number of external image databases!

  Anatomia Collection - Anatomical Plates from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
This collection features approximately 4500 full page plates and other significant illustrations of human anatomy selected from the Jason A. Hannah and Academy of Medicine collections in the history of medicine at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. Each illustration has been fully indexed using medical subject headings (MeSH), and techniques of illustration, artists, and engravers have been identified whenever possible. There are ninety-five individual titles represented, ranging in date from 1522 to 1867.

  Interactive Drawings for Veterinary Anatomy
Interactive Drawings for Veterinary Anatomy

  Fotosearch Stock Medical Photography
Fotosearch Stock Photography allows users to search from 100 top-quality graphics and medical illustration publishers at one site. The Medical category page shows image collections on the following topics: Anatomy, Women's Health, Emergency Medicine, Bioscience, Dentistry, and much more. (See the Science category for more collections related to Biology and Microbiology.)

  The eSkeletons Project
The eSkeletons Project website is devoted to the study of human and primate comparative anatomy. It offers a unique set of digitized versions of skeletons in 2-D and 3-D in full color, animations, and much supplemental information. The user can navigate through the various regions of the skeleton and view all orientations of each element along with muscle and joint information. eSkeletons enables you to view the bones of both human and non-human primates ranging from the gorilla to the tiny mouse lemur. All of the large apes are represented as well as other species from different parts of the world. Many of these primates are rare or endangered species.

 

Journals

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  Journal of Anatomy
Published monthly by the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Journal of Anatomy covers all aspects of normal human and comparative anatomy including applied anatomy, functional imaging, physical anthropology, neuroanatomy, endocrinology, embryology, stereology, histology, histochemistry and electron microscopy, with special emphasis on experimental morphology.

  Anatomy (International Journal of Experimental and Clinical Anatomy)
Anatomy (International Journal of Experimental and Clinical Anatomy), is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in English and published annually under consideration of high level of scientific quality publication. It is the official publication of the Turkish Society of Anatomy and Clinical Anatomy, TSACA. The goal of the journal is to constitute a forum for anatomical investigations involving gross, histologic, developmental, neurologic, radiologic, clinical anatomy, and teaching techniques. The journal is open to original papers covering a link between gross anatomy and areas related with clinical anatomy such as experimental and functional anatomy, neuroanatomy, comparative anatomy, modern imaging techniques, molecular biology, cell biology and embryology, and morphological studies of veterinary discipline. Additionally, manuscripts dealing with all forms of anatomical teaching will be considered for publication.

  Anatomy and Embryology
Tables of contents and abstracts are available on Anatomy and Embryology's website; full text as Acrobat PDF files available to registered users.

  Acta Anatomica
Tables of contents of this journal, which changed its name to Cells Tissues Organs in 1999, are available here.

  Annals of Anatomy
The official journal of the Anatomische Gesellschaft, Annals of Anatomy is published in English and German. The journal is open to original papers from the fields of anatomy, topographic and clinical anatomy, and embryology. Contributions dealing with various aspects of the microscopical and submicroscopical organization of biological structures including reports from the fields of comparative and experimental cell and tissue research are also published.

 

Link Collections

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  Anatomy and Physiology Tutoring Links: University of Houston


  MedicalStudent.com
MedicalStudent.com identifies authoritative medical World-Wide Web sites that can teach, illuminate, and inspire.

  Computational Neuroscience on the Web
This site provides an annotated index for computational neurobiology, focusing on compartmental modeling and realistic simulations of biological neural systems. There are links to software reviews, major laboratories, researchers, conferences, education and funding for theoretical neurobiology.

  Microscopy and Imaging Resources on the WWW


  Functional MRI Links


 

Plagairism

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  Turnitin.com


  12,000 Papers
12,000 papers sells example term papers.

  Glatt Plagiarism Services, Inc.


  Plagiarism.org


  WordCHECK by KeyWORD Software
WordCHECK is a commercial software for researching and reviewing intellectual property expressed in digital document formats.

 

Public Policy

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  NIH Offices of Public Liason
Public Liaison Offices have been set up in each Institute and Center (where they did not already exist) and in the Office of the NIH Director, where the existing Office of Communications has been reorganized and renamed the NIH Office of Communications and Public Liaison. They conduct outreach to constituency groups and serve as a contact point for the public, especially with regard to policy matters. The Director's Council of Public Representatives offers a public forum for discussing such key NIH issues as priority setting, clinical trials and managed care, privacy and genetics, and health disparities among various populations. COPR members review and advise on NIH priorities and mechanisms for public input to NIH decisions.

  Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research Funding
This coalition organized in support of increased funding for the National Institutes of Health.

  American Association of Anatomists' Public Policy Resource
Don't forget to check out AAA's public policy page, also linked from the sidebar menu.

  American Association for Laboratory Animal Science Foundation
The AALAS Foundation promotes awareness of animal contributions to biomedical research, public safety and education, while enhancing the responsible use of laboratory animals through training and education.

  Americans for Medical Progress Educational Foundation
The mission of Americans for Medical Progress is to ensure that the public supports the vital role of animals in medical research, and that scientists are able to continue their quest for cures and improved methods of treatment for illness, injury and disease.

 

Willed Body Donation

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  Body Donation Programs in the United States
A geographical listing by state of willed body donation programs maintained by the University of Florida State Anatomical Board.

  UCSF Willed Body page
A link to the UCSF Willed Body Program

  Donate Life - Coalition on Donation
This website offers information to prospective donors on how to become a donor, how to promote donation, and how African American and Hispanic populations are impacted by organ and tissue donation rates.

  Donor Programs directory at Albany Medical College
This directory lists U.S. medical schools that have willed body donation programs.

  Willed Body Program at University of Texas Health Science Center


  TransWeb .. all about transplantation and donation


  United Network for Organ Sharing
UNOS is a non-profit, scientific, and educational organization* that administers the nation's only Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), established by the U.S. Congress in 1984.



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