On Webicina.com, the first medical web 2.0 guidance service, I keep creating free e-guides for doctors in order to help them get closer to the web 2.0 world and make their online presence as efficient as possible. Now here is "Medicine in Second Life", a free e-guide in which I provide step-by-step tutorials about how to enter the virtual world and organize medical meetings or case presentations.



Please take a look at the table of contents:

• What is Second Life?
• Step 1: How to enter the virtual world?
• Step 2: How to move, search and create landmarks?
• Step 3: Medicine and health in the virtual world
• Step 4: How to organize a meeting or presentation in Second Life?
• Step 5: How can patients use Second Life?
• Step 6: Which health groups should you join?

Next week, Webicina will release a new Web 2.0 Guidance Package focusing on Radiology resources.



A meeting at the Ann Myers Medical Center


Free Webicina content:

• How to keep yourself up-to-date in medicine?
• How to write a quality medical blog?
• Neurology 2.0
• Rheumatology 2.0
• Diabetes 2.0
• Depression 2.0
• Cancer 2.0
• Pregnancy 2.0

I've been creating medical Web 2.0 Guidance Packages on Webicina.com for patients and for doctors as well. Such a package contains all the quality selected web 2.0 tools from blogs and communities to online slideshows and wikis that focus on one medical condition or medical specialty.

The next package will be dedicated to Fitness / Weight Loss 2.0, so if you know a good blog, wiki, community or Twitter user writing about these issues, please let me know so I can include your suggestions.

Thank you!

That's what we have so far:

• How to keep yourself up-to-date in medicine?
• How to write a quality medical blog?
• Neurology 2.0
• Rheumatology 2.0
• Diabetes 2.0
• Depression 2.0
• Cancer 2.0
• Pregnancy 2.0

Webicina, the first medical web 2.0 guidance service, launched Pregnancy 2.0, a free comprehensive resource containing all the web 2.0 tools from quality blogs and communities to online slideshows that women seeking pregnancy, pregnant women and new mothers can use in their health management.



Please take a look at the table of contents:

• News and Information
• Pregnancy in the Medical Blogosphere
• Pregnancy Blog Carnivals
• Pregnancy Podcasts and Interviews
• Pregnancy Community Sites and FaceBook Groups
• Microblogging: Twitter and Friendfeed
• Pregnancy Wikis
• Pregnancy Videos, animations and videocasts
• Mobile Applications
• Social Bookmarking
• Medical Search Engines
• Slideshows about Pregnancy

Next week, we will release a free eGuide containing several step-by-step tutorials about how to give presentations and organize medical conferences cost-effectively in the virtual world.



Please let us know which medical condition or medical specialty we should focus on next time.

Free Webicina content:

• How to keep yourself up-to-date in medicine?
• How to write a quality medical blog?
• Neurology 2.0
• Rheumatology 2.0
• Diabetes 2.0
• Depression 2.0
• Cancer 2.0
• Pregnancy 2.0

Alexander F Young, final year medical student, published a very comprehensive review in Student BMJ about how to stay up-to-date online. He also included Scienceroll.com, my medical blog:

Subscribing to web feeds from medical blogs, such as KevinMD or ScienceRoll, which produce interesting articles, may direct you to further areas of interest. Because most dedicated bloggers update their sites often, web feeds are ideal to view their latest articles.

The newest Webicina eGuide about how to keep yourself easly up-to-date in medicine was only published last week, so he certainly didn't know about that.



Here is the table of contents of the free Webicina eGuide:

• How to keep yourself up-to-date?
• Step 1: Tools that help you keep yourself up-to-date
• Step 2: What is RSS about?
• Step 3: Aggregators I., Desktop-based feed readers
• Step 4: Aggregators II., How to use your browser?
• Step 5: Aggregators III., Bloglines, Netvibes or Google Reader?
• Step 6: How to follow a medical journal?
• Step 7: Where should you start?

For my biggest pleasure, The Cochrane Collaboration wrote an article about the importance of evidence based medicine and featured a few sites that help promote this important issue. Including Webicina.com!

Evidence-based health care is the conscientious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients or the delivery of health services. Current best evidence is up-to-date information from relevant, valid research about the effects of different forms of health care, the potential for harm from exposure to particular agents, the accuracy of diagnostic tests, and the predictive power of prognostic factors.

Many organizations have contributed to the development of EBM or have information on systematic reviews. Below are links to websites of just a few.