Cardiology Community Sites, FaceBook Groups and Forums

Cardiac Forum

• Description: "The goal of this network is to provide the medical community, a social networking home similar to mySpace or Facebook or Orkut but targeted specifically for Medical Students, Doctors and ohters in the medical field."
• Quality: "The vision of the founder was to provide an online space where Medical Students and Doctors could gather to share and collaborate their information and ideas about medicine, especialy Cardiology."

Cardiology Channel

• Description: "Cardiologychannel provides comprehensive, trustworthy information about cardiovascular conditions and diseases, such as high blood pressure (hypertension), high cholesterol, and heart attack."
• Quality: Developed and monitored by board-certified physicians, cardiologychannel is a medical information website of Healthcommunities.com, Inc. It is also accredited by HONcode.

Cardiology Student

• Content: The mission of SDN is to assist and encourage all students through the challenging and complicated healthcare education process.
• Quality: With over 200,000 members and well over 8 million posts, our community can answer practically any question you may have, from college through medical practice.

CardiologyNetwork.com

• Description: "A professional and personal networking site for cardiologists worldwide."
• Quality: "CardiologyNetwork.com is an exclusive next generation social networking service for Cardiologists, Physicians, Medical Students who are interested in Cardiology and for all people who are related to the field of Cardiology. CardiologyNetwork social network can help you maintain existing personal and professional relationships and establish new ones by reaching out to Cardiologists you've never met before."

Doctors Lounge - Cardiology Forum

• Description: "Doctors Lounge is one of the most popular online medical resources for physicians, students and allied clinical professionals. It provides clinical information through multimedia tutorials and other study aids. Both patients and professionals can seek answers to medical questions via the public discussion boards, also known as the medical forums."
• Quality: "Currently our content spans 20 medical specialties with over 20,000 pages of medical information. Our members have written over 10,000 medical articles and answered more than 30,000 medical questions. Our content is currently being taught in medical schools worldwide and is part of the student curriculum for medical students in two international medical schools."

Endovascular.org

• Description: "A dynamic community of physicians where the leading minds in interventional and vascular medicine share experiences and knowledge. EVF members discuss new approaches to the treatment of vascular disease, exchange opinions with colleagues on innovations and controversies in the field and submit questions to internationally-renowned physicians."
• Quality: Code of Conduct, Terms of Use and contact information are available.

European Society of Cardiology (ESC)

• Description: The ESC provides an array of scientific and educational activities, such as the production and continuous updating of Clinical Practice Guidelines, the organisation of educational courses and initiatives, pan-European surveys on specific disease areas and the ESC Congress, the largest medical meeting in Europe. The ESC also edits and publishes 7 of the world's leading journals on cardiology.
• Quality: The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) represents 59,000 cardiology professionals across Europe and the Mediterranean. The ESC comprises 5 Associations, 5 Councils, 19 Working Groups and 52 National Cardiac Societies. It also includes the distinguished community of ESC Fellows and Nurse Fellows.

Inspire - Cardiology Community

• Description: An online community connecting patients with heart disease, and their caregivers, family and friends.
• Quality: Inspire connects patients, families, friends, caregivers and health professionals for health and wellness support. Inspire works with trusted health partners to build safe and secure health and wellness groups.

MedHelp - Interventional Cardiology (Expert Forum)

• Description: "Questions in the Diagnostic Radiology forum cover topics including acute coronary syndrome, angina, atrial fibrillation, cardiac catheterization, cardiomyopathy, drug abuse and cardiac disease, echocardiography, heart failure, hypertension and heart disease, lipid management, minorities and heart disease, peripheral vascular disease prevention, valvular heart disease, women’s heart health, and the warning signs of a heart attack."
• Quality: Founded in 1994 out of a shared need for better medical information and support, MedHelp is the pioneer in online health communities. The MedHelp site connects people with the leading medical experts and others who have similar experiences.

Medpedia - Cardiology Community

• Description: "This is a community for Cardiologists, Cardiothoracic Surgeons, and anyone else interested in heart problems and disorders."
• Quality: Medpedia is a medical encyclopaedia managed and edited by medical professionals.

QuantiaMD

• Description: "Users of QuantiaMD contribute their experience and ideas, participate in discussions, and actively drive content selection by rating as well as referring the most compelling pieces."
• Quality: Contact information and disclaimer are available.

Facebook is a free social networking site where users can join groups. In these groups, members can post messages, interact with others or find relevant content. A few of the numerous cardiology groups:

American College of Cardiology (ACC)

• Description and content: "The mission of the American College of Cardiology is to advocate for quality cardiovascular care—through education, research promotion, development and application of standards and guidelines—and to influence health care policy."

Cardiology

• Description and content: "A group for all individuals interested in Cardiology, the medical specialty dealing with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cardiovascular disease -- the number one killer in the United States."

Cardiology and Electrocardiography (ECG, EKG) Experts

• Description and content: "For beginners to experts, to share your knowledge in the art of ECG Interpretation and Recognition. This group is a attempt to bring the subject of ECG to the hearts of all you clinicians and students, with a aliment of fun in working out the clinical relevance, abnormalities."

Cardiology Maniacs

• Description and content: "Discussion about everything related to cardiology and even more..including upcoming events featuring the latest conferences and workshops related to the field..."

Cardiology Society

• Description and content: "If you are interested in this field of Medicine, or would love to learn some new clinical skills, then the Cardiology SIG is perfect for you. We will be holding an opening night where you will hear from practicing cardiologists, who will share their experiences, discuss the challenges they faced working in Australia and abroad, explain the pathways into the field and answer any of your questions."

Cardiovascular Imaging

• Description and content: Cardiologists or Radiologists interested in Cardiovascular CTA, CMR, Echocardiography and Nuclear Cardiology.

Cardiovascular Surgery

• Description and content: "The aim of this group is to share our experience in cardiovascular surgery. It includes cardiac surgery, vascular surgery, cardiology, anesthesia and extra corporeal circulation."

European Society of Cardiology (ESC)

• Description and content: "The European Society of Cardiology represents more than 62,000 cardiology professionals across Europe and the Mediterranean. Its mission is to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease."

The Official Nuclear Cardiology Technologist Group

• Description and content: "This site was prepared for detailing the description of the techniques used for producing cardiac nuclear medicine studies. This site should be of interest to cardiologist, radiologist, technologist, internist, and the general public alike."

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Cardiology

• Description and content: Test for students, residents and fellows of cardiology