Intermediate/Advanced: “Create Your Own Web Site”

  1. Advanced medical literature searches
    a. Medline Knowledge Finder
    b. Cochrane Library
    c. Evidence based Medicine
    d. Other ObGyn databases

    OBGYN.net GOLD SERVICES - Cochrane Library --Must be OBGYN.net registered professional 
    http://www.obgyn.net/cochrane.asp 

    Medline Knowledge Finder 
    http://www.obgyn.net/hysteroscopy/medline.htm 

    PLATYPUS - Database of fetal anomalies, gynecology, Fetal Cardiology + CMEs 
    http://www.tki.com/

    OMIM(TM), Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man 
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Omim/

  2. Emailing with your patients
    a. Legal issues
    b. AMIA regulations and guidelines
    c. Security and other issues

    http://www.AMIA.org/pubs/pospaper/positio2.htm

  3. Website design and construction theory
    a. Do's and don'ts of your practice web site
    b. How to recognize "quality" on the Web
    c. Ethical considerations

    http://www.obgyn.net/medforum/loimer.asp
    http://www.hon.ch/HONcode/Conduct.html
    http://www.obgyn.net/english/pubs/announcements/ehealth-code-052400.htm

  4. Building a professional web page
    a. Selecting content
    b. Useful tools from the web
    c. Necessary utilities
    d. FTP and its use
    e. Mistakes to avoid

    Dr. Loimer's Presentation

    Creating a Homepage:

    http://www.cooltext.com/
    CoolText.com is a totally free online service which provides real-time generation of graphics 

    http://more.bcentral.com/fastcounter/
    FastCounter Count visits to your site

    http://www.freefind.com/
    Add a search engine to your web site

    http://www.alxbook.com/
    Here you can create a free guestbook for your personal homepage 

    http://www.smartcal.com
    SmartCal is a free calendar and event sharing service. You can create calendars and share them with patients

    http://www.ipswitch.com
    The Professional Way to Move Files ( FTP)

    http://www.nonags.com
    free software

    When you have a Homepage:

    http://www.sitesolutions.com/tools.asp
    Web Site Analysis (The analysis tool provides you with a comprehensive analysis of your web page code)
    Search Engine Checker (The Search Engine checker, checks to see if your site is listed in 10 of the top search engines)
    Search Engine Submissions (The free search engine submissions will submit your site for free to 5 of the top search engines)
    Meta-Tag Generator (The Meta-Tag checker reviews your web page to determine if your site contains Meta-Tags )

    http://www.gallery.uunet.be/Jacobs.Jan/htmlcomp/index.htm
    HTML (Un)Compress is a tool that compresses your HTML pages without changing their look and feel in a browser.

    http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
    A software program to find broken links on web sites

  5. Images
    a. Retrieval and usage
    b. Real time images 
    c. Posting to web site

    International Society of Ultrasound in OB/GYN (ISUOG) 
    http://obg.med.wayne.edu/ISUOG/home.htm 

    World Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology (WFUMB) 
    http://www.wfumb.org/ 

    American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) 
    http://www.aium.org/ 

    American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers (ARDMS) 
    http://www.ardms.org 

    Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine 
    http://www.asum.com.au/open/home.htm 

    European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB) 
    http://www.efsumb.org/ 

    Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada 
    http://www.sogc.org/SOGCnet/index_e.shtml 

    Asian Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (AFSUMB) 
    E-mail: choibi@radcom.snu.ac.kr 

    Mediterranean and African Society for Ultrasound (MASU) 
    http://www.agonet.it/masu/ 

    Ultrasound Section 
    http://www.obgyn.net/us/us.asp

    Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia 
    http://jeffline.tju.edu/ 

    Univ. Arkansas Medical Sciences - DMS Program 
    http://www.uams.edu/CHRP/dmshome.htm 

    Harvard Medical School 
    http://www.hms.harvard.edu/ 

    Medison 
    http://www.obgyn.net/medison/med_pass.htm 

    TheFetus.net 
    http://www.thefetus.net/ 

  6. Continuing medical educaton (CME’s)

    http://www.obgyn.net/english/pubs/features/medcases/medcase.asp
    http://www.medcases.com/

  7. The future of the Internet and medical education

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