Using the Internet Effectively

An Interactive Workshop for Physicians

1. Introduction
2. The Good News
3. The Bad News
4. Question??
5. How is the Internet Structured?
6. What is an Internet?
7. What is the Internet?
8. The Internet Simplified
9. Internet Service Providers
10. Internet Standards
11. Internet Email Addresses
12. Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)
13. Internet Services
14. Email
15. The Rules of the Road
16. Use of Electronic Mail with Patients
17. List Servers
18. How To Find A Listserv
19. News Groups
20. How To Search The "News"
21. World Wide Web
22. Web Security
23. Streaming Media
24. Browsers
25. So, How Do We Find Things?
26. Robots and Spiders
27. Search Engines
28. Search Engine Example
29. Problems with Search Engines
30. Comparison with MEDLINE
31. Searching Rules of Thumb
32. Specialized Search Services
33. Specialized Directories
34. Types of Directories
35. Directory Examples
36. How Can We Judge Quality?
37. The Future