The Hong Kong Practitioner

Case Report	*The Hong Kong Practitioner* VOLUME 24 / August 2002

What's in the web for family physicians - online medical books
A K Y Tang 鄧權恩

1.	Emedicine Online Textbooks http://www.emedicine.com/cgi-shl/foxweb.exe/ onlinebooks@d:/em/ga As many as 15 medical textbooks are in development at this website. Titles include Dermatology, Emergency Medicine, Surgery, Neurology, Ophthalmology, Paediatrics, Plastic Surgery, etc. Text materials include disease synopses, clinical and physical findings, differential diagnosis and treatment options, presented with illustrations and high resolution images. CME credits are offered after post-tests.
2.	Multimedia Textbooks from the Virtual Hospital http://www.vh.org/Providers/Textbooks/MultimediaTextbooks.html The series of textbooks presented in this website of University of Iowa present reviews of common medical problems. Presentation of textbooks integrates video-clips, images, and sound for education of clinicians. Some of the popular subjects include dermatology, radiology, pathology, paediatrics and orthopaedics. Family physicians may also be interested at the Family Physician Handbook at the Virtual Hospital website (http://www.vh.org/Providers/ClinRef/FPHandbook/outline.html)
3.	Freebooks for Doctors http://www.freebooks4doctors.com/ The huge directory of over 550 free online medical books sorted by specialties, book titles and the different languages they are published. Well known titles like Gray' s Anatomy, Family Practice Notebooks, Wheeless' Textbook on Orthopaedics, Toxicology Tutorials, WebPath, Merck Manuals can all be located at this website with ease.
4.	Feldman' s GastroAtlas Online http://www.gastroatlas.com This is an online version of "Feldman' s Atlas of Gastroenterology and Hepatology". It makes available a comprehensive, reference for the diagnosis and management of GI diseases with lots of diagrams, graphs, illustrations, schematics and photographs which are very useful for lectures and presentations. User can pick their images while browsing the site, and compile the selections into a Power Point Slide set. The Power Point Presentation will then be emailed to the users' mailbox. Free registration is required.
5.	Kornhauser Health Science Library http://www.louisville.edu/library/kornhauser/subpages/etext/list.html Maintained by the Health Sciences Centre of University of Louisville. This web page keeps a list of medical publications available online. Some are free, and some need subscriptions with MD Consult or Stat!Ref. Titles of publications include electronic, full-text versions of printed texts, as well as web-only handbooks. (Users may make use of free 10-day offers of MD consult for evaluation).
6.	MIMS Online http://atmedica.com.hk Free registration is needed to access the online version of our everyday handbook on drug information. Search can be conducted by drug name, manufacturer, distributor or marketer. Generic alternatives are also available with the search function. Besides MIMS, other associated products like MIMS Companion, Medex Diagnostika are also available for free.