FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 3, 1999
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More Than Half of Nation's Medical Schools Sign Up For MD Consult Clinical Information Service
ST. LOUIS -- The nation's future physicians are embracing the Internet as a powerful research and learning tool, now that the majority of U.S. medical schools are providing access to MD Consult, announced the online clinical information service today. New licensees that helped push medical school subscriptions past the 50 percent mark include Harvard Medical School, the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, and Stanford University.
Through licensing agreements with more than 70 U.S. medical schools, MD Consult is available to thousands of clinicians, faculty, residents and other clinical staff, as well as medical students. The service includes full-text clinical content from a comprehensive range of trusted medical sources.
"I think the word 'rave' is appropriate when describing my first-hand experience with MD Consult," says Luis Maldonado, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of South Florida. "I teach medical students, interns and residents. My number one use will be to teach them how fast and easy it is to find information in the site."
Additional benefits provided by MD Consult include the convenience of 24-hour access; the trustworthiness of accessing information from peer-reviewed medical resources; and the efficiency of searching one or all of the site's reference materials at once.
"I'm really impressed with the depth and quality of textbooks and other resources," says Gretchen Arnold, associate director for library operations at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Library. "For the first time, these resources are together in one place, allowing users to search seamlessly."
Other prominent U.S. academic medical centers that have recently licensed the MD Consult online clinical information service are:
* Brown University, Providence, R.I.
* Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.
* Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
* Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, OH
* Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
* University of California, Irvine, Calif.
* University of Illinois, Chicago
* State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY
* State University of New York Health Sciences Library, Syracuse, NY
* University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT
* University of Massachusetts, Worcester, Mass.
* University of Medicine and Dentistry -- New Jersey, Stratford, N.J.
* University of North Carolina Health Sciences Library, Chapel Hill, NC
* University of Virginia Health Sciences Library, Charlottesville, VA
* University of Wisconsin Health Sciences Library, Madison, Wisc.
* West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, WV
* Yale Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, New Haven, Conn.
"MD Consult's dominance at the nation's leading academic medical centers validates our position as the most comprehensive and trusted medical information service available online," says Jerry Freeland, President of MD Consult. "The service is solely focused on providing physicians with practical, useful and valuable clinical information."
Created through a joint venture of leading medical publishers, MD Consult is a web-based clinical information service that provides unlimited access to full-text clinical content from a comprehensive range of sources. MD Consult serves physician subscribers throughout the U.S. and in more than 70 countries, with a total of more than 70,000 subscribers.
Physicians using MD Consult will have access to a wealth of information, including:
o More than 35 medical reference books, including Bennett's Cecil Textbook of Medicine; Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine; Rosen's Emergency Medicine Concepts and Clinical Practice; and Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics.
o Full-text articles from nearly 50 medical journals and Clinics, including The Journal of Pediatrics, Annals of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine.
o More than 600 Clinical Practice Guidelines contributed by more than 50 medical societies and government agencies.
o Nearly 3,000 patient education handouts that can be customized by the physician.
o A Continuing Medical Education Center containing more than 450 CME modules.
o The leading independent drug reference, featuring information on more than 30,000 medications.
o Daily physician summaries of important articles and announcements in clinical medicine.
Based in St. Louis, MD Consult, L.L.C. is a joint venture of the world's three leading English language medical publishers: W.B. Saunders, a division of Harcourt, Inc., Orlando, Fla.; Lippincott/Williams & Wilkins, a division of Wolters Kluwer U.S., Chicago; and Mosby, Inc., also a division of Harcourt, Inc. MD Consult outperformed 15 other online clinical information resources in a study to find answers to clinical questions conducted at the University of Iowa School of Medicine and published in the July 1999 issue of The Journal of Family Practice. A free 10-day pass to MD Consult is available at http://www.mdconsult.com.
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