Surgery Community Sites, FaceBook Groups and Forums

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 Surgery groups:

Surgery

• Description and content: "Anyone interested in the most personal, emotional, intellectual, stress induced ecstacy profession in the world? This is the group for you! Surgeons, Doctors, PAs, Nurses, CNAs, and of course patients and students are all welcome."

Surgery

• Description and content: More than 200 members share links, videos, photos and discussions about surgery.

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Emergency Surgery

• Description: "Emergency Surgery is a challenging test of skill and dexterity, brought to you by Newcross Healthcare Solutions. You have been asked to step in and save the life of the hospital’s usual surgeon, who has been laid low by a mysterious bug. It’s up to you to remove the infected parts and save his life, using your mouse to control the scalpel. You can also download a personalised certificate of your surgical achievements at the end of the game, and display your surgical grade on your profile."

Surgery

• Content: You can send surgical items to your friends and co-workers

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American Medical Student Association Surgery Forum

• Description and content: "The Surgery Specialty Forum provides a forum for medical students, premedical students and practicing physicains with the goal of promoting learning and critical thinking and providing a resource for learning."
• Quality: Courtesy of the American Medical Student Association

bout.com Surgery Forum

• Description and content: "Do you have questions about surgery and need answers? Are you wondering if there are other people out there who are having/have had the surgery you are planning? The surgery forum is a great place to find both!"
• Quality: Part of the surgery-related About.com Surgery site that is HONcode accredited.

QuantiaMD

• Description and content: "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.

Surgery Channel

• Description and content: "Developed and monitored by board-certified physicians, surgerychannel provides comprehensive, trustworthy information about anesthesia and surgical procedures, such as appendectomy, breast biopsy, and hernia repair. surgerychannel is a medical information website of Healthcommunities.com, Inc."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode

Surgytec

• Description and content: "SurgyTec is an initiative of HPJ Stevens MD, PhD, plastic surgeon from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Many surgeons perform original and high-quality techniques in their operating room and equally many surgeons would like to learn from these new and inspiring techniques. Up till now it was very difficult, time consuming and expensive to take a look in each others operating room and share practical knowledge, tips and tricks."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode

ValueMD Surgery Forum

• Description and content: One of the most active surgery channels with over 50 million visits.
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode

VuMedi

• Description and content: "VuMedi is a surgeon-only video sharing website where you can view, upload, and discuss surgical videos."
• Quality: Only medical professionals can join and contact information is also available.