EMedicine
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- The correct title of this article is eMedicine. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
eMedicine is an online clinical medical knowledge base that was founded in 1996. It is web-based and consists of clinical overviews of disease entities by experts in the field. Continuing medical education credits may be extended to those who complete questionnaires relating to each of the articles. It consists of all the major topics that are found in each of 62 clinical subspecialties that comprise nearly all of clinical medicine. Each topic is written by a board certified subspecialist in the subspecialty to which the chapter-like article is assigned, and edited by three additional board certified subspecialists, as well as a pharmacy editor. All author's and editor's academic affiliations are listed with their names. Approximately 10,000 doctors from all over the world helped create its content. All articles are updated periodically through a publication system designed specially for the eMedicine site. It is read by doctors from approximately 120 countries. Updating occurs regularly as new advancements in medicine occur, and the date of the most recent update is published on each chapter. The Founder was Scott Plantz, MD, and the Co-founder was Richard Lavely MD JD MS MPH. It was sold to WebMD in January 2006.
