Pediatrics Community Sites, FaceBook Groups and Forums

About.com Pediatrics Forum

• Description: "About.com is an online neighborhood of hundreds of helpful experts, eager to share their wealth of knowledge with visitors."
• Quality: About.com is recognized as a top 15 content site and one of the largest producers of original content on the Web.

Doctors Lounge - Pediatrics 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."

eHealthForum - Pediatrics Forums

• Description: "Welcome to the Kids Health and Pediatrics Forum - a health community featuring member and doctor discussions ranging from a specific symptom to related conditions, treatment options, medication, side effects, diet, and emotional issues surrounding medical conditions."
• Quality: It is accredited by HONcode.

Inspire - Pediatrics Community

• Description: An online community connecting those with an interest in children's health.
• 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 Pediatrics Community

• Description: "The MedHelp site connects people with the leading medical experts and others who have similar experiences. Today, MedHelp empowers over 8 million people each month to take control over their health and find answers to their medical questions. MedHelp has over 15 years of accumulated information from doctors and other patients across hundreds of conditions."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Pediatrics Community on MEDPEDIA

• Description: "For medical professionals, caregivers, scientists, researchers, advocates, public health professionals, and those interested in learning more about Pediatric Medicine and anything related to the welfare and health of all children and pediatric patients."
• Quality: Medpedia is a medical encyclopaedia managed and edited by medical professionals.

Student Doctor Network - Pediatrics Forum

• Description: "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."

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 pediatrics groups:

American Academy of Pediatrics

• Description and content: "The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and its member pediatricians dedicate their efforts and resources to the health, safety and well-being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults. The AAP has approximately 60,000 members in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and many other countries. Members include pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists. More than 34,000 members are board-certified and called Fellows of the American Academy of Pediatrics (FAAP)."

Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

• Description and content: "Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC is one of the world's leading pediatric hospitals."

Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics

• Description and content: "In our group we welcome all who are interested in promoting internationally developmental pediatrics, exhgange of opinions on relative matters and discussions on issues such as psychometric tools, translations and uses and finding practical solutions to everyday problems."

Neonatology Review

• Description and content: "NeoReviews™ is the online neonatology review journal published by the American Academy of Pediatrics."

Pediatric Nursing

• Description and content: "For those who love pediatrics (doesn't just have to be nursing!)"

Pediatrics

• Description and content: "For pediatricians and those interested in pediatrics."

Pediatrics and Child Health Research

• Description and content: "For the well being of children."

Spot Diagnosis in Clinical Medicine and Pediatrics

• Description and content: "Refresh your medical knowledge with real-time pictures of patients"

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