In Summary

The Internet provides us with access to incredibly rich, reliable and up-to-date medical information. Finding it can be a challenge but once you are familiar with some basic search skills, information on the Internet can be accessed more rapidly that finding the same information in the books on your desk.

For more information:

Handouts from this lecture with active links: http://fpen.org/aafp/find.html
Search Engine Watch http://www.SearchEngineWatch.com
Supercharging Your Web Experience in the September 2001 issue of Family Practice Management. http://www.aafp.org/fpm/20010900/31supe.html
Evaluating Health information a new topic area on MEDLINEplus: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/evaluatinghealthinformation.html
Practical Evidence-Based Internet Resources in the July/August 2003 issue of Family Practice Management. http://www.aafp.org/fpm/20030700/49prac.html
10 Things To Know About Evaluating Medical Resources on the Web from the National Institute of Health’s National Center of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. http://www.nccam.nih.gov/health/webresources/

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