In this e-course, we have gone through all the tools and services you can use in order to keep yourself up-to-date easily in your field of interest. But here is an example now.

Let's pretend I'm John Smith, MD, a neurologist who is working in New York and is a specialist in epilepsy treatment. What should I do to save time and effort? What should I do to make my online presence as efficient as possible?

I should get notified whenever someone mentions my name online, so I can turn to Google Alerts.



Click here to create an alert with the form and click here to manage your subscriptions.





To follow my name, I use this:

""John Smith, MD"" [Type: Comprehensive, How Often: as it happens]

Pubmed articles

I don’t have to go back to Pubmed and search again and again, but just sit back and wait for the next e-mail containing the newest articles being published in my field of interest.

First, I create an NCBI account, do my regular search on epilepsy treatment and click on the Save Search button:



It's my choice whether to save the search query or to receive e-mail updates of new search results. I can also decide how often and in what format I would like to get the e-mail notifications.

The whole internet

If you would like to be up-to-date about epilepsy treatment regarding not only peer-reviewed journals, but other websites, journals and news sites as well, you should use these codes on Google Alerts:

"epilepsy treatment" [Type: Comprehensive, How Often: as it happens]

If you would like to know whether there is a new article about epilepsy treatment on Nature.com, you should use this:

"epilepsy treatment site:www.nature.com" [Type: Web, How Often: once a week]

If you would like to know whether anyone published a new article about epilepsy treatment in the USA, you should use this:

"epilepsy treatment location:USA" [Type: Web, How Often: once a week]

If you would like to know whether anyone linked to your site or blog, you should use this:

"link:nameofmysite.com" [Type: Web, How Often: as it happens]

Being up-to-date is crucial for medical professionals, but it takes time and effort. Sitting in a library with a few medical papers is not a proper solution any more. Learning to use an RSS reader is not that easy for those who don't spend much time online.

PeRSSonalized Medicine is a free tool that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles in one personalized place. You can create your own "medical journal" and as we are totally open to suggestions, let us add the journals, blogs and websites that you would like to follow.

You can use it for free and without registering on Webicina. But if you're a registered user, your settings will certainly be saved properly. Follow your favourite medical news, blogs, journals and social media sites in one click.



You can insert the term "epilepsy treatment" into the custom Pubmed feed box, and you will receive the latest peer-reviewed articles focusing on that search term automatically. It means you don't have to keep going back to Pubmed week by week and check whether there are new additions to the database. But you let the information come to you.



Then you will get a box containing all the newest additions to the Pubmed database on epilepsy treatment:

It means whenever someone

• publishes an article about epilepsy treatment in a peer-reviewed journal,
• publishes content on epilepsy treatment on a blog,
• epilepsy treatment is mentioned in a news article,
• or someone (a patient, a collegue) mentions my name online

I will be notified automatically. That's how I can make my online presence more efficient than I could have ever imagined.