Workshop on 'Internet for the Family Physician'

South Asian Regional Conference of Family Physicians

May 1997 - British Council

Shyam Fernando (shyam@sri.lanka.net) and Kumara Mendis (kumara@mfac.kln.ac.lk)

Websites demonstrated at the workshop

Sri Lankan sites

Medical and academic

• Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka (First Medically related Web Site in SL)
• Genetic Disorders and birth defects: Sri Lanka Collection
• Department of Anatomy, Univerisity of Colombo, Sri Lanka
• Birth Research Unit, Kandy
• History of Medicine In Sri Lanka
• (LACNET) Lanka Academic Network
• (LEARN) Lanka Educational And Research Network
• NARESA

Web servers and service providers

• Sri Lanka Net
• Sri Lanka Telcom
• Eureka
• Cey Com
• Infolanka
• LankaWeb
• Sri Lanka Explorer
• Sri Lanka National Web Site

Miscellaneous Sri Lanka

• Ceylon Tourist Board
• Wild life
• Daily News (from Lake House)
• Sunday Times
• Sunday Leader

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Searching for information

Medical literature search

• Med Line search
• Medscape
• Welcome to Healthworks Online
• National Library of Medicine (US)

General search engines

• Yahoo!
• Altavista
• Infoseek
• MapQuest
• Lycos
• WebCrawler

• A multiple search site at Sri Lanka Web Server
• WhoWhere? (an internet phone directory)

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Medical Journals

• Journals published by BMJ Publishing Group (BMJ, student BMJ etc)
• A collection of Electronic Journals
• Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA)
• Thorax
• Weekly Morbidity - Mortality Report
• Nature - International weekly journal of science
• New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)
• The Lancet
• WHO - Weekly Epidemiology Record
• American Family Physician

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Medical Links (try your hand and have fun !)

• Doctor's Guide to the Internet
• Electronic Journals
• Enroll for Free Classes at the Virtual U!
• Internet Health Sciences Resources
• Medical Resources
• Medical Resources on inet
• Virtual Explorer Models Page
• Web Site Reviews of Common Diseases

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Learn internet through the INTERNET !

• Free Internet Tutorial
• Internet Tutorial Table of Contents.
• Internet Tutorial, Dept of Crystallography, Birkbeck College
• INTERNET TUTORIAL: Search Engines and Search Strategies
• Intro to Internet
• Learning the Web
• A Guide to Medical Information and Support on the Internet
• Doctor's Guide to the Internet

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Medical knowledge at finger tips ...

• 12-lead ECG library, homepage
• Antibiotic Guide - University of Wisconsin
• Clinical Pharmacology Online
• Doctor's dilemma - Try these ethical problems
• Interactive Patient Home Page
• Physicians Desk reference (pharmacology)
• The Internet Drug Index
The Doctor's Dilemma

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General

• CNN Interactive
• Hollywood Online
• MSNBC Cover Page (TV programmes shown on ETV1)
• Time (the magazine)

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Sites for the Family Physician

• Family Medicine Online
• American Family Physician
• American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
• MedWeb: Adam's Guide To Medical Resources On The Internet
• Family Practice Handbook
• Internet resources directory
• Favorite Doctor Jokes
• New Zealand Family Physician
• Canadian Family Physicina
• More medical Links!
• An interactive Antibiotic Guide
• Clinical Trials Listing by Disease Category
• Ontario Association of Medical Laboratories - Guidelines
• Teach Your Patients About Asthma: A Clinician's Guide
• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue
• Clinical Pharmacology Online
• Clinical Pharmacology
• Infomed Drug Guide
• INFOMED ONLINE ENGLISH
• The Royal College of General Practitioners
• Virtual Hospital
• World Health Organization WWW Home Page
• Guided Tour: Visible Human