Clinical Discussion Forums

Searches

• Medscape Physician Discussion Forums
  This physician metasite hosts active searchable, web-based threads on diverse clinical and non-clinical topics. Viewing or posting discussions are restricted to physician participants. WebMD.

Full Text / MultiMedia

• Medical Crossfire
  REG Archived articles that present medical debates and authoritative peer exchanges between specialists and primary care physicians on contemporary clinical issues. Free registration. Liberty Communications Network, Inc. .

Major Sites / Home Pages

• ListTool.com Medical Mail List Subscription Tool
  A free tool that makes the process of subscribing, unsubscribing and sending commands to medical mailing and discussion lists easy. After selecting the category, enter your email address, choose the mailing list, pick the command (enter your name if subscribing) and press the "Send Command to List" button and the software will do the rest.

Educational Materials

• Emergency Medicine Question-A-Day
  Offers a daily question, answer, and reference from the Emergency Medicine core texts. Questions may also be read from website without subscribing to the list. National Center for Emergency Medicine Informatics.
• CDC Mailing Lists
  Participants receive the tables of contents or full text of CDC publications including the Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, Emerging Infectious Diseases, HIV/AIDS Surveillance Reports, NIOSH Announcements etc. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• British Medical Journal Customised @lerts
  A service provided by the BMJ that lets users know, by email, when the BMJ has new content of interest to the subscriber. Offers the BMJ table of contents, press releases, and details of articles. BMJ Publishing Group of the BMA, assisted by Stanford University's HighWire Press .

Forums

• Primary Care Question Answering Service
  Researches answer questions submitted by primary care providers from research literature, ex: "In post-CABG patients what is the evidence for using aspirin?" A project of Great Britain.
• ValueMD Medical Schools Forum
  Discussion forums, real-time chat rooms, free download library, link resources, International Medical School information pages, Residency Program Reviews, Medical School surveys, USMLE question banks, International Student Insurance, etc.
• EMED-L Mail List for Emergency Medicine Practitioners
  An email-based discussion forum dedicated to emergency medicine practitioners. Archived online. 1,200 plus subscribers.
• JISCmail Medicine Mail Lists (U.K.)
  U.K.-based email exchanges, threaded discussions, and archived files on various medical topics.
• National Cancer Institute's LiveHelp Cancer Information Consult
  NCI information specialists offer realtime online "chat" about cancer topics.
• Parkhurst Exchange Questions and Answers
  Expert responses to physician inquiries categorized by specialty. Parkhurst Publishing Inc. .
• Medical Weblogs
  A collection of medical commentary and analysis from physician authored "weblogs". Provides excerpts from "weblog" posts.
• Medpundit
  Commentary on medical news by a practicing physician. The site welcomes feedback.
• Medrants
  An academic general internist comments on medical issues, legal issues malpractice, the pharmaceutical industry and the current state of medicine. The site welcomes feedback posts.
• Liszt Medical Mail Lists Directory from Topica
  A directory of "mail lists", for consumers and physicians, that offer e-mail exchanges and threaded discussions regarding medical topics.
• Rangelmd.com
  A physician practicing as a hospitalist in Texas writes about internal medicine, politics, general topics of interest, and his hatred of trial lawyers. The site welcomes feedback posts.
• Tile.Net ListServs
  A searchable list of listserv-type mail lists linked to pages that describe subscription procedures. The list is constructed from an automated search and verification process. Tile.net .