Auditorium Presentation

Medscape: A Resource for Medical Educators

Jeff Hanissian, Editorial Dept., Medscape, Carla Cantor, Media Relations and Communications Manager . Others involved include Paul T. Sheils, President and CEO, George D. Lundberg, MD, Editor in Chief, Peter Frishauf, Chairman, Executive Committee, Jeffrey Drezner, MD, PhD., Executive VP, Stephen E. Smith, PA-C, VP, Editorial Director,

Medscape, Inc., New York, NY

Abstract:

Medscape.com, a free site, is home to the largest medical community on the
Web with over one million registered members including physicians,
healthcare providers, and consumers. The site delivers clinical content
across 19 developing specialty areas, allowing its members to access
customized medical home pages geared to their areas of interest. Medscape
features Next Day Conference Summaries, clinically focused summaries of
important medical meetings written by world-renowned faculty; a wide
offering of continuing medical education programs, including a CME
locator; and expert-authored interactive treatment guides and updates to
help clinicians deliver state-of-the-art patient care. Medscape offers
the most powerful medical searching on the Web, with "one-click" free
access to multiple content sources, including tens of thousands of
full-text articles and interactive features. Medscape.com also contains
the world's largest Web-based drug and disease database from First
DataBank and an easy-to-user interface to MEDLINE and other extensive databases
of the National Library of Medicine. A new physician joins Medscape every five minutes.
 
Benefit in Attending Session:
Interactive professional medical sites like Medscape are opening up a
whole new realm of medical education and leading the way to better
physician training. Therefore, medical educators will benefit from a site
tour of Medscape's clinical content and features that can be used in a
classroom setting or by students as study aids. For example, Medscape's
"Exam Room" hosts a collection of clinical cases, quizzes, and interactive
self-assessment tools. Students can test their clinical acumen with the
current "Today's Question." Or they can select a PicTour and see if they
can point out an abnromality in the X-ray, ECG, CT scan or other clinical
image that reflects the cause of a patient's complaint or directs the
course of care. Training students to learn to educate themselves on the
Internet will guarantee that the next generation of physicians will have
the tools to update their skills knowledge online while gaining
practical experience to support the clinical care of patients.
 
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Paul Sheils, CEO,
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