The resources on this page can help you find scientific evidence on which to base diagnostic and therapeutic decisions.

Bandolier is a free, international (UK-based) source of evidence-based health care information.

The Cochrane Collaboration offers free systematic reviews of health care interventions as published in The Cochrane Library.

Essential Evidence Plus publishes POEMs (patient-oriented evidence that matters) and provides other evidence-based resources for clinicians. A paid subscription is required. Six POEMs per month are published in JAAPA.

PubMed from the National Library of Medicine provides citations for biomedical articles from Medline and life-sciences journals.

This is JAAPA's medical humanities resource page. The editors and editorial board of JAAPA believe that when PAs take the time to reflect on their professional experiences - and to read and view and discuss the reflections of other medical professionals and patients - the benefits to PAs and to patients are considerable. Such activities can increase PAs' work satisfaction, reducing job stress and burnout. And the medical humanities can help PAs to provide patient-centered care by improving listening skills, increasing empathy, and developing sensitivity to diversity.

Most of the resources on this page offer e-mail newsletters, RSS feeds, or both.

Brian T Maurer's Weblog: Marginal Musings from a New England Author is the blog of JAAPA editorial board member Brian Maurer. He also writes JAAPA's Humane Medicine column.

cell2soul: The Journal of Humane Medicine and the Medical Humanities, is an online journal publishing stories, poems, essays, and humor written by patients as well as medical professionals.

Humane Medicine, JAAPA's narrative medicine column, is authored by editorial board member Brian Maurer.

Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine, publishes personal accounts of illness and healing.

The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine is an online clearinghouse for manuscripts treating the humanities and medicine. It publishes reflective essays, poems, and reviews.

Medflix: The Humane Medicine and Film Blog, provides short reviews of films about or related to illness and healing.