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 Welcome to the online resource. This extension is in the form of a teaching carrel introducing medical professionals to the Internet. Here we present the serious side of the Web to serious people interested in how to find information online. Serious folks are tool users and here we assume that you bring more than curiosity to the quest for information literacy. We have optimized this site for those that have at least a 15 inch color monitor, a ver. 4.0+ browser with javascript 1.2 turned on, Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0+ with or without the PDF browser plug-in, and at least a 28.8 kb internet conntection. To the rest, our regrets. NB: Individual and institutional subscribers to the New England Journal of Medicine can now download full text, searchable PDF review articles and access archives of past issues that are updated every Wednesday evening. These files include Review Articles ! Search this site using || Quik_Search || using the indexed keyword "hypokalemia". You will be referred to a WebPage where you can find "hypokalemia" using the Edit>Menu . For more information see the NEJM and our || QuikNews || link on the page.
Serious professionals strive to understand the technical language , the culture, and the tools of their trade. That understanding, coupled with experience, leads to a certain level of work-a-day proficiency that characterizes every profession, trade, craft and art. We are showcasing some of the Medical Uses of Internet with an emphasis on Basic Medical Internet Literacy. Searching is the primary focus of this demonstation, but our built-in technology is readily scalable, is OS independent, and is transportable to any Internet, Intranet or Extranet environment. One example of utility is an Intranet based, online, organization-wide help-desk with 24 hr.access and two-way e-mail communication. Another example is computer based education, training and skill assessment. Common to these tasks is producing, storing, finding and using online information. Here we focus on learning searching strategies to find data stored a numerous locations.
In a nutshell, searches may be performed for data located on your computer's WebPage contents or on your ,HardDisk; or search on data that you or others have uploaded to your ISP's or Intranet's server; or doing a keyword search on an index of all registered addresses and page URLs published by every server on the entire WWW .
* Thus, Local Searches are performed on a WebPage or your HardDisk.
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Intermediate Searches may be done on your WebSite, or your WebServer or your organization's Intranet.
* Finally, External Searches may be performed using an indexed keyword search engine ,like AltaVista, to access the entire World Wide Web, or a structured Medical Literature Citation database like PubMed, or a hand-picked hierarchical directory like Yahoo.
We want you to learn to use the tools that will sift through the fluff to find the real nuggets and pearls at home or abroad. Before blasting off in all directions in a quest for gold , we recommend some focused preparation using this site, and its links as your semi-structured study guide. Use the glossaries in the Tools of the Trade Section to lookup unfamiliar terms. We recommend keeping multiple browser windows open as you navigate this site.
To serve the our tutorial goal, we have packaged a selection of primary, secondary, and tertiary source materials that will demonstrate the speed, power and efficiency of open, distributed client-server computer systems: in a word, the Internet. When properly bootstrapped to the appropriate supporting organization, harnessed to right infrastructure and tuned to the needs of users, modern medical infomatics IT can inform, instruct and inspire.
The organization of this presentation is built around the metaphor of reading rooms. The directory to these room is accessible by hyperlinks on the || Web Express ||, which is a TOC found at the bottom of every page. Click on one of the links and the door to that room will be opened for you. We invite you to visit theMedical History section and learn about William Osler, M.D. through his writings about medicine as a calling. In addition you can do a search of this site by entering "Osler" ,or any other keyword, into forms provided on this and other pages.
Finally, this page has example of programs written in the perl and javascript languages that are interactive via forms. These scripting languages helps to harness you, your properly configured Web brower, and our http Web page server together as a troika.
Forms are the interface that connect the team together and enable you to easily enter search queries, send e-mail messages and access your own e-mail account. Plus, you can interact with our server to view your operating system environment and visually present ,a graph record of recent traffic at this site. Yes, the world has moved beyond your grandpa's carriage and your father's old Oldsmobile.
This site can be searched by entering a keyword search term into the following form. For example, if you enter the keyword glossary and click on the Search button, a 4 star Glossary of Internet Terms will be returned. Note that a click on the second of two returned pages (or URLs) will take you to a long page we call Tools of the Trade . If you click to that page, use you browser's Find or Find on Page navigation tool to search on the term glossary within the page. Find is usually a Edit menu choice.
|| Quik-Search ||, a forms-based, CGI script written in perl, is part of the power behind this "internal" search interface. The updating of the index used by this internal search engine is adapted from an original from Matt's Scripts.
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