This is a useful site for patients as well as medical students and medical personnel. I've argued that patients must be proactive in seeking information about problems and treatments so that they can be active partners in their own medical care, and in prevention efforts. This resource site does a fine job in sorting directions of search and entry points for information searches. ____JH (Thanks to Peter Suber's Open Access News for this reference. )
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"We sought to provide the world medical community with a web portal that will index, with an efficient and scientific way, quality OA medical education material available over the Internet and will serve as a tracking and filtering tool. A clearinghouse that may provide an outlet for dissemination of high quality WWW educational products and will become an online 'bookmark folder' for healthcare professionals who wish to share with colleagues their favourite medical websites and discover several more...."
Vangelis G. Alexiou and Matthew E. Falagas, e-meducation.org: an open access medical education web portal, BMC Medical Education, January 24, 2008. Abstract:
Background: Internet can serve in opening the door to a brand new world of high quality medical information. However, the chaotic size of data available in the WWW is often misleading. We sought to provide the world medical community with a web portal that may be used as a clearinghouse providing the outlet for dissemination of high quality WWW educational products.
Methods: Directories of the relevant WWW resources have been compiled and others are being currently under development to cover most medical fields. A custom-built medical search engine was created. Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds and video sharing services were reviewed for their quality and were presented along with case-based educational presentations through a user-friendly web portal interface. A directory of guidelines database is currently under development.
Results: The educational portal e-meducation available [here] has been launched in December 2006 and at the moment, provides links to more than 800 educational web-pages, more than 2100 clinical practice guidelines, 32 news feeds, and 14 educational videos. The web site also hosts 40 case-based presentations and a custom medical search engine.
Conclusions: Based on the incorporation of simple and tested educational strategies such as case based instruction and interactive learning, e-meducation.org aims to become a prototype platform that offers a more convenient interface to existing products, resources and medical contents.
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