National Links

Database of National Internet Medical Resources in each member country
Each National Representative is asked to submit links to choice medical-oriented websites hosted in their respective country. These valuable resources are made available to users here. Contributions are most welcome.

Links to the websites of other European Network Organisations, and selected international meetings, are found on the ESGP/FM page.

Croatia
Croatian association of Family physicians
www.huom.hr

University of Zagreb, Medical faculty
www.mef.hr

Croatian medical Journal, an international peer reviewed journal open to scientist from all fields of medicine and related research
www.cmj.hr

School of Public Health "Andrija Stampar"
www.snz.hr

Estonia
Department of Polyclinic and Family Medicine
www.arpo.ut.ee/english/fmed.htm

France
French National College of Teachers in General Practice
(Collège National des Généralistes Enseignants, CNGE)
www.cnge.fr

Germany
DEGAM - German Society for General Practice/Family Medicine
www.degam.de

German Program for Development and Implementation of Guidelines for General Practice (in German)
www.degam-leitlinien.de

Dept. of General Practice, University of Goettingen (with numerous links to other German Ressources)
www.allgemeinmedizin.med.uni-goettingen.de/

Dept. of General Practice, University of Duesseldorf
www.med.uni-duesseldorf.de/AllgMed/default.asp

Agency for Quality in Medicine, Berlin (numerous ressources to
guidelines, quality, patient information)
www.aezq.de/english/english/view

German Cochrane Center
www.cochrane.de/de/index.htm

Deutsches Ärzteblatt (Journal of the German Medical Association)
www.aerzteblatt.de/

Institute of General Practice, Univ. of Frankfurt
www.allgemeinmedizin.uni-frankfurt.de/

European Practice Assessment in Germany
www.europaeisches-praxisassessment.de/1/start.php

Error Reporting and Learning System for General Practitioners in Germany and Austria
www.jeder-fehler-zaehlt.de

Greece
The Greek Association of General Practitioners website
www.elegeia.gr

Ireland
Irish College of General Practitioners
www.icgp.ie

Irish Government Department of Health & Children
www.doh.ie

Irish Society for Quality and Safety in Healthcare
www.isqh.net/

Irish Medical Organisation
www.imo.ie

Department of General Practice, University College Dublin
www.ucd.ie/genpract

Italy
The University of Pittsburgh's "Supercourse, on Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health" includes a lecture on "Research Phobia in Family Medicine" by Franco del Zotti, the Italian EGPRN National Representative. The format of presentations on this particular website is particularly interesting, and certainly worth a visit.
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec1461/index.htm

The Italian Audit and Research Newsletter for GPs "QQ" (The Quality and the qualities in General practice ) has an english version . You can read or print the pdf files from the site:
www.rivistaqq.it

The next Wonca Europe meeting in Florence in August 2006.
http://www.csermeg.it/Lancio%20WONCA2006.pps

http://www.woncaeurope2006.org/home/

Malta
The Malta College of Family Doctors
http://www.mcfd.org.mt

The Health Department Homepage
http://www.health.gov.mt

The Malta Lung Study Group
http://www.synapse.net.mt/mlsg/

The Malta Hospice Movement
http://www.hospicemalta.org/

TheSYNAPSE Professional Network
http://www.synapse.net.mt/

Norway
Norwegian College of General Practitioners (Norwegian Society of General Practice NSAM)
http://www.uib.no/isf/nsam/english/

Primary Care Internet Guide
http://www.uib.no/isf/guide/guide.htm

University of Oslo
http://www.med.uio.no/english/

University of Bergen
Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care
http://www.uib.no/isf/english.htm

Description of research activities
http://www.uib.no/isf/intern/general.htm

University of Trondheim - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Departement of Community Medicine and General Practice
http://www.medisin.ntnu.no/ism/instituttprofil/index.php

Description of research activities
http://www.medisin.ntnu.no/ism/forskning/index.php

University of Tromsø
http://uit.no/informasjon/english

Institute of community medicine
http://uit.no/samfmed/4810?Language=en

Description of research activities
http://uit.no/samfmed/4810?Language=en

Slovenia
Slovene Family Medicine Society
http://www.drmed.org/

Department of Family Medicine
http://www.drmed.org/katedra/

IMPROVE project, an international project of 11 European countries.
Slovenia is a partner in the IMPROVE research group
http://baserv.uci.kun.nl/%7Eimprove/

PREDICT project, an international project of 6 European countries.
Slovenia is actively involved
http://www.rfc.ucl.ac.uk/departments/EUPredict/index.htm

Spain
Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine
http://www.semfyc.es

The Netherlands
The Dutch College of General Practitioners
(Nederlands Huisartsen Genootschap - NHG):
http://nhg.artsennet.nl
(click 'English summary')

The Netherlands School of Primary Care Research (CaRe):
http://www.researchschoolcare.nl

The Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences (NIHES):
http://www.nihes.nl

The Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht:
http://www.caphri.unimaas.nl

The Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine (EMGO), Amsterdam:
http://www.emgo.nl

The Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL), Utrecht:
http://www.nivel.nl/

Primary Health Care Activity Monitor for Europe
http://www.phameu.eu/

Gut Feelings in General Practice
Collaborative research program of the universities of Maastricht, Antwerp and Hannover
http://www.gutfeelingsingeneralpractice.eu/

Dutch departments of general practice/family medicine
Groningen
http://www.rug.nl/umcg/faculteit/disciplinegroepen/huisartsgeneeskunde/index

Amsterdam Free University
www.vumc.nl/english/index.html

Amsterdam Medical Centre
www.amc.nl/index.cfm?pid=379

Leiden
www.lumc.nl/4070/research/research.html

Rotterdam
www.eur.nl/fgg/hag/

Utrecht
www.juliuscenter.nl

Nijmegen
www.umcn.nl/scientist/
www.umcn.nl/professional/ (click ‘afdelingen’, ‘huisartsgeneeskunde’)

Maastricht
www.hag.unimaas.nl/
www.unimaas.nl/default.asp?taal=en

Dutch Research Institutes and Research Schools, relevant to primary care/family medicine
Northern Centre for Healthcare Research (NCH), Groningen
www.rug.nl/nch/index

Dutch Cochrane Centre, Amsterdam
www.cochrane.nl

Julius Centre, Utrecht
www.juliuscenter.nl
www.umcutrecht.nl/research/

Nijmegen Centre for Evidence Based Practice
www.ebp-umcn.org

Centre for Quality of Care Research, Nijmegen/Maastricht
www.wokresearch.nl

MEDION database, Maastricht/Leuven
www.mediondatabase.nl

United Kingdom
The Royal College of General Practitioners, London
www.rcgp.org.uk

The Primary Care Nursing Research Unit
www.pcps.ucl.ac.uk/pcnru

Society for Academic Primary Care
www.sapc.ac.uk

The Centre for Primary Health Care Studies at the University of Warwick
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/med/healthcom/primary_care/

The University of Manchester Institute of Health Sciences and the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre.
This is the website chosen as a WHO Collaborating Centre to link several primary care organisations via webpages and create a network of primary care webs. Watch this site!
http://www.ihs.man.ac.uk/

A gateway to high quality biomedical internet resources
www.omni.ac.uk

http://www.trentfocus.org.uk/

UK Federation of Primary Care Research Networks
www.ukf-pcrn.org