Websites containing quality and reliable health information can provide people interested in dermatology with valuable support and resources. You can follow the updates and news of these sites easily with RSS as described in this video.
If you don't want to learn how to use RSS, PeRSSonalized Dermatology, a free, simple, multi-lingual Webicina service that features the latest news of the most relevant social media resources focusing on medical conditions and specialties, is created for you.
This video shows how it works:
You can also insert the term "dermatology" into the custom Pubmed feed box, and you will receive the latest peer-reviewed articles focusing on dermatology automatically.
We collected the most relevant sites focusing on dermatology-related support and information below. Please let us know if you have suggestions.
Description: "AccessDermatology is a fully integrated multimedia educational platform aimed at delivering continuing education to dermatology professionals in scientific and professional skills."
Quality: "Its mission is to facilitate the dissemination of knowledge in the field of Dermatology in order to improve patient care throughout the world." It is also accredited by HONcode.
Description: "The Academy is committed to the highest quality standards in continuing medical education. It also plays a major role in formulating socioeconomic policies that can influence the quality of dermatologic care."
Quality: "The Academy has more than 16,000 members, and AAD.org is among the most visited medical association Web sites with more than 400,000 unique visits per month."
Description: "Dermatology Times is the only clinical newsmagazine serving a readership of more than 10,000 dermatologists. The magazine and its various multimedia and digital offerings focus on the latest trends, regulatory news, practice management issues and new products."
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. 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."
Description: "MDLinx connects healthcare professionals and patients to tomorrow’s medical knowledge and provides the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries with highly targeted interactive marketing, education, content, and research solutions."
Quality: Physician editors sort the content of more than 1,200 peer-reviewed journals and leading news media on a daily basis.
Description: "The latest Dermatology News articles published daily. Includes news on skin disorders, conditions, and protection. Some of the topics covered include Skin Cancer, Dermatitis, Acne, Eczema and Psoriasis."
Quality: The most comprehensive medical news site. More than 2 million unique visitors every month.
Description: "MedPage Today is the only service for physicians that provides a clinical perspective on the breaking medical news that their patients are reading. Co-developed by MedPage Today and The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Office of Continuing Medical Education, each article alerts clinicians to breaking medical news, with summaries and actionable information enabling them to better understand the implications."
Description: "Medscape offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals the Web's most robust and integrated medical information and educational tools. After a simple, 1-time, free registration, Medscape automatically delivers you the specialty site that best fits your profile. You can also change your Medscape homepage to any of our other specialty and profession sites at any time."
Description: "MedWire News is an independent online medical news service. We provide healthcare professional news and consumer medical news, across the whole of medicine.
We publish the day's top news stories from the world's leading international medical journals, international conferences, biomedical research center reports, and government agency bulletins. Every day we monitor these primary sources to bring our users the latest, most important findings in the fast-moving world of medical research and clinical trials."
Quality: Weekly service published every Friday that brings the lastest research findings to the international dermatology community. It is also accredited by HONcode.
Description: "ScienceDaily is one of the Internet’s most popular science news web sites. Since starting in 1995, the award-winning site has earned the loyalty of students, researchers, healthcare professionals, government agencies, educators and the general public around the world. Now with more than 3 million monthly visitors, ScienceDaily generates nearly 15 million page views a month and is steadily growing in its global audience."
Description: "The Society of Dermatology Physician Assistants is a non profit professional organization composed of members who provide dermatologic care or have an interest in the medical specialty of dermatology."
Quality: "Society of Dermatology Physician Assistants providing continuing medical education that enhances the skills, knowledge and function of its members in the practice of dermatology."
Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet.
StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. As you click Stumble!, we deliver high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. These pages have been explicitly recommended by your friends or one of 6 million+ other websurfers with interests similar to you.
Diigo: If you browse or read a lot on the web, we believe you will find Diigo indispensable. Diigo is two services in one -- it is a research and collaborative research tool on the one hand, and a knowledge-sharing community and social content site on the other.
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