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Global Update

Indian Pediatrics 2001; 38: 810-811  

Pedscapes


Pediatric Emergency Medicine Resources from Calgary
-http://researchinpem.homestead.com/homepage.html The website of the Emergency Department, Alberta Children’s Hospital, Calgary, Canada, contains a large collection of abstracts, full text articles, and guidelines related to Pediatric Emergency Medicine, research news and reports of recent studies, review and position papers, pediatric emergency tips, simulators, toxicology and dermatology resources and links to other Pediatric Emergency Medicine sites.

 

Child Neurology Society - http://childneuro logysociety.org The website of the Child Neurology Society contains details about the activities, meetings, abstracts, links to pediat-ric neurology resources, fellowships, details of pediatric neurology training programs and a newsletter.

 

University of North Carolina Radiology Teaching File - www.ibiblio.org/jksmith/UNC-Radiology-Webserver/Pediatric.html This website from the University of North Carolina contains radiology teaching files. The pediatric radiology section has a collection of interesting radiographic images with detailed description.

 

PedsRef (Pediatric Continuing Medical Education) - www.pedsref.org/ This is a CME website from the Nemours Foundation. The site contains interesting cases that are updated monthly, evidence based medicine guidelines and multimedia presentations. The case discussions are exhaustive and would be of help to practicing pediatrician as well as students. The site requires a free registration.

Pediatric Clerkship Audio Files - www. unmc.edu/Pediatrics/educ/pedlec.htm Audio lectures on core pediatric topics from the Nebraska Medical Center can be heard and downloaded from this site. Nearly twenty lectures are presently available. To use these lectures, Real Media player or equivalent, which are available as free ware, need to be installed.

KidsMeds - www.kidsmeds.com This is a web project that provides pediatric drug information for parents and caregivers. Among the features of this site are a pediatric drug information database, dose calculator, information sheets on various topics. The Pediatric pharmacist online is a unique feature where parents’ queries on pediatric drugs are answered by a qualified pediatric pharmacist. Qualified pediatric pharmacists are responsible for the technical content of this page.

Medscenic Mail - www.medscenic.de/cgi-bin/biomail/users.pl This is an email notification service, which regularly searches the PubMed MEDLINE database and sends the references to the users by email. The search criteria can be defined on registration. This will be of great help to research scholars as it obviates the need to conduct regular Pubmed searches. This site requires a free registration.

C. Vidyashankar,
Pediatrician,
Military Hospital, Namkum,
Ranchi 834 010, Jharkhand,India.
E-mail: [email protected]

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