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Local Links & Resources
Health-Related Web sites in Alaska
- Alaska Regional Hospital
- The Alaska Native Medical Center
- Alaska Telemedicine Project
- Alaska eHealth Network
- The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortiium
- Arctic Investigations Program (AIP) - CDC located in Anchorage
- Alaska State Health Facts
- The Southcentral Foundation - an Alaska Native-owned healthcare organization serving Alaska Native and American Indian people living in Anchorage
- Alaska Medicaid EHR Incentive Payment Program - This site is the website for providers wanting to learn more about the EHR Incentive Program and start the registration process
- State Health Information Technologies - This site is the main public website for the State of Alaska Health Information Technologies and all projects associated with HIT; specifically discussing Electronic Health Records and Meaningful Use
- MedlinePlus® - find authoritative consumer health information
National Resources
If there are medical sites you find very useful and think that others might as well, please let us know. Also, if you think information in an annotation should be modified, we'd be interested in those comments as well. Please e-mail your suggestions to Julie A. McCormick, MD, FACP.
ACP Well-being and Professional Fulfillment
Resources
Check out ACP's well-being and professional fulfillment website for individual, community, and organizational well-being resources.
- Patients Before Paperwork is an ACP initiative designed to reinvigorate the patient-physician relationship by challenging unnecessary practice.
Crisis and Counseling Support
- For the Frontlines - free, 24/7. USA text 741741, UK text 85258, Canada text 741741
- Project Parachute pro bono teletherapy for Covid-19 frontliners
- The Physician Support Line - free and confidential
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 and crisis text line at 741-741
- SAHMSA Disaster Distress Helpline: Call 1-800-985-5990 or text TalkWithUs to 66746
CME for Well-being
Selected CME activities for well-being are now available on the ACP Well-being and Professional Fulfillment website. Activities include short ten-minute Mini but Mighty Skills for Well-being recordings as well as crisis and long-term well-being management webinars for individuals and communities. For questions about the well-being CME activities, contact acpwellbeing@acponline.org
- Mini But Mighty Skills for Well-being
- COVID-19: Practical Advice and Support from Internists on the Front Lines
- Positive Psychology in Times of Crisis
- Optimizing Well-being, Practice Culture, and Professional Thriving in an Era of Turbulence
- Building Your Resilient Self
- Mindfulness in Medicine: What Physicians Need to Know
ACP Resources
- ACP's Career Connection
- ACP JournalWise
- Annals of Internal Medicine
- Center for Ethics and Professionalism - focuses on policy development and implementation on issues related to medical ethics and professionalism
- DynaMed®
- Maintenance of Certification - ACP offers Recertification Assistance and Resources
- Physician & Practice Timeline
- Practice Advisor
- Practice Management Issues and Resources
- Quality Improvement: Pay-for-Performance and Practice Redesign - provides information and resources on ACP policies and activities related to the national health care quality movement
- Volunteering as a Physician