Career Resources to the Medical Assisting Professions

CHABOT LIBRARY

Career Resources to the Medical Assisting Professions

Goal: Make sure you find accurate information from reliable resources. One challenge when searching the World Wide Web at large is that the reliability of the information is not guaranteed as often compared to resources originally published in print. Here are some suggested shortcuts:

The Library’s Medical Assisting Resources Page http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/subjectindex/MedicalAssistant.htm

This resource page is maintained by librarians here at Chabot College and provide suggested places for you to find selected quality resources.

HealthWeb: Allied Health http://healthweb.org/browse.cfm?subjectid=23

This site is mainted by health information professionals and this particular

EbscoHost Nursing Resources: http://tinyurl.com/ma7bp

If you cannot get in off campus: http://tinyurl.com/o9srj

username: chabot password: glads

PubMed Central http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/index.html

In EbscoHost and PubMed Central, the articles you find have in fact been originally published in print form.

List of Reference Books

Career Information Center: Health Ref: HF 5382.5 U5 C32 1999

Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance Ref: HF 5381 E52 2003

Occupational Outlook Handbook Ref: HF 5381 A1 o362 2004-2005

Handouts Used in Today’s Presentation

Searching the Web http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/searchtips.html

Evaluating Web Sites http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/evaluating.html

Web Evaluation Checklist http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/evaluation.html

The bogus website we viewed: http://www.netreach.net/~rjones/no_dhmo.html