General Medical Information

Sample Medical Benefits Schedule (MBS)

Sample Policy and Procedures Manual

Terminology for billing

What the specialists do

Introductory Medical Terminology

Common medications

Diseases – combined list

Glossary of Medical terms (prefixes, suffixes, roots)

Medical abbreviations

Related medical terms – combined list

Spelling and pronunciation helper

File Storage Terminilogy

Advanced Medical Terminology

Diseases – combined list

Spelling and pronunciation helper

Specialist medical terms – combined list

Employment issues

• Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) www.airc.gov.au
• Office of the Employment Advocate (OEA) www.oea.gov.au
• Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission www.hreoc.gov.au
• Equal Opportunity Commission of Victoria www.eoc.vic.gov.au

Professional standards

• Australian Medical Association (AMA) www.ama.com.au
• Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) www.racgp.org.au
• General Practice Computer Group www.gpcg.org
• Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria http://www.medicalboardvic.org.au/

Government and other funding agencies

• Centrelink www.centrelink.gov.au
• Comcare www.comcare.gov.au
• Victorian WorkCover Authority www.workcover.vic.gov.au
• Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) www.dva.gov.au
• Medicare (Health Insurance Commission) www.hic.gov.au
• Private Health Insurance Administration Council
  www.phiac.gov.au
• HICAPS www.hicaps.com.au
• HealthClaims (look under IBA eHealth at the website) www.ibatech.com
• Transport Accident Commission www.tac.vic.gov.au
• Department of Health and Aged Care www.health.gov.au
• Royal District Nursing Service www.rdns.com.au
• Department of Human Services, Victoria www.dhs.vic.gov.au/ahs

Health issues and reference booklets

• Government website about health issues www.healthinsite.gov.au
• Australian doctor online newspaper www.doctors.hcn.com.au
• Mediguide (Summary of Medicare) www.hic.gov.au/prof
• Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) www.health.gov.au/pubs/mbs
• Doctors Reference site www.drsref.com.au
• Public Health Services Patient Information Records PROS 99/04. Department of Human Services www.prov.vic.gov.au
• Health Data Standards and Systems, Department of Human Services, Victoria www.health.vic.gov.au/hdss.
  

Medical dictionaries

• ec.hku.hk/mt
• www.mediweb-medical-information.com - then select 'Glossary'
• www.medterms.com - then select Medterms Dictionaries
• www.mpip.org/ - then select Medical Dictionaries
• www.mtdesk.com/ - then selct Terms A-Z or Glossary or Word Lists
• www.slider.com/Health/Education/Patient_Education/Glossaries.htm
• www.mydr.com.au/tools/Dictionary.asp
  

Medical Abbreviations

• www.drsref.com.au/acronyms

Spelling, pronunciation and pharmaceutical reference

• www.spellex.com/speller.htm
• www.mydr.com.au/drugs/drugs.asp
• www.health.curtin.edu.au/nursing/ww - Interactive site to teach medical language. 'Wicked words' section provides pronunciation help.
  

Directories of specialised dictionaries

• www.sciencekomm.at/advice/dict.html