The Texas Heart Institute provides the following links to selected educational online resources to direct physicians and health care professionals to cardiovascular health information appropriate for all types of academic and clinical practices. Physicians with relevant experience or expertise are invited to suggest additional links to the Institute's site. The editorial content is and will remain free of special interest or commercial influences.
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Professional Ethics
Gifts to Physicians From Industry
The American Medical Association's national initiative on the communication of ethical guidelines for gifts to physicians from industry, launched in 2001, is now available online. The initiative urges physicians and industry representatives to adhere to the AMA's guidelines regarding gifts to physicians, Opinion E-8.061-Gifts to Physicians from Industry.
The AMA currently offers four free online educational resources that help physicians understand these guidelines for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
Educational Resources
Texas Heart Institute Continuing Medical Education
The Center for Coronary Artery Anomalies
The Center's mission is to promote the awareness, training, screening and treatment of coronary artery anomalies and sudden cardiac death in athletes.
Paolo Angelini, MD, CEO & Medical Director
Plain Radiographic Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease
Colin McMahon, M.B.BCh., Edward Singleton, M.D.
Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas
Texas Heart Institute
Edward B. Singleton Diagnostic Imaging Service
Societies
Denton A. Cooley Cardiovascular Surgical Society
Texas Heart Institute Cardiac Society
American College of Cardiology
Canadian Cardiovascular Society
European Society of Cardiology
Greater Houston Society of Echocardiography (GHSE)
International Resources
WHO: Cardiovascular Diseases
World Health Organization, Health topics, Cardiovascular diseases.
World Heart Federation
Nongovernmental organization dedicated to the prevention and control of cardiovascular disease worldwide with particular focus on low- and middle-income countries.
Texas Medical Center
Texas Medical Center
Houston Academy of Medicine -
Texas Medical Center Library
St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital Heart & Cardiovascular Care
Texas Children's Hospital Heart Center
Texas Heart Institute
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Updated December 2009
