emedicine.com - Continuing Education

At emedicine.com you can browse thousands of useful articles related to medicine. The site is useful for doctors as they can check 24/7 for updates or check out illnesses symptoms with no need to move from their office, still the site is useful for patients too as they can make an in-depth research of illnesses they had been diagnosed for example. Searching for articles is really simple you can either use the search engine were you select what kind or information you’re looking for: images, articles or CME and simply type the key word and you’ll get lots of information related to your topic of interest. Still there are other researching options available like the advance search which narrows down your results by making more specifications of what kind of information you’re looking for. Or you can simply browse information by making use of the index were information was carefully categorized according to specialty: gynecology, cardiology, etc. Once you’ve found an article of interest you’ll find information is displayed following a very organized format, which is really easy for readers to follow.

“Launched in 1996, www.eMedicine.com comprises the largest and most current Clinical Knowledge Base available to physicians and other healthcare professionals. eMedicine's subscription site for institutions is www.iMedicine.com. Nearly 10,000 physician authors and editors contribute to the eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base, which contains articles on 7,000 diseases and disorders. The evidence-based content, updated regularly, provides the latest practice guidelines in 59 medical specialties. eMedicine's professional content undergoes 4 levels of physician peer review plus an additional review by a PharmD prior to publication. In May 2003, eMedicine launched a new consumer health site, www.eMedicineHealth.com. Current medical information is available in the Health Resource, First Aid and Emergencies, and Lifestyle and Wellness Centers. With more than 5500 pages of health content, the site contains articles written by physicians for patients and consumers. Each article is reviewed by 2 physicians and a PharmD prior to publication. Subsequent revisions of professional or consumer articles may be provided by internal eMedicine copy editing staff, the physician author, or a physician or PharmD member of the editorial board associated with each article. Updates after the initial peer review do not generally go through subsequent peer review, though select articles may undergo a level of repeat peer review. eMedicine is proud to be certified by the Health On the Net Foundation (HONConduct #256884) verifying compliance with its 8 principles of conduct. In compliance with the guidance associated with the fourth principle – attribution – eMedicine posts the date of the last revision of any kind on each article. The eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base contains 30,000 multimedia files and features the largest online repository of medical education credits for physicians, nurses, and optometrists. “

The site contains information for over 59 medical specialities. Information is constantly being updated, plus articles are written by professionals and before being published are rechecked, this in one of the reasons why the sites content is of real high quality.

What about using more friendly terminology instead of difficult doctor language? Though articles are written by professionals, wont people prefer to be attended by its doctor instead of getting information online?