The Office of Medical Informatics Presents

Your Health And The Internet

A guide for patients...

A presentation handout is available.

1. Your Health and the Internet
2. What Can the Internet Do For You?
3. Outline For This Presentation
4. The World Wide Web
5. The Bad News
6. So, How Do We Find Things?
7. Robots and Spiders
8. Search Engines
9. Search Engine Example
10. Problems With Search Engines
11. Tips For Successful Searching
12. Specialized Directories
13. Types Of Directories
14. Directory Examples
15. Sampling of WWW Sites
16. How Do You Judge Qualitiy?
17. What About MEDLINE?
18. MEDLINE Is Free!!
19. List Servers
20. How To Find A Listserv
21. News Groups
22. How To Search The "News"
23. Emailing Your Doctor
24. Potential Problems
25. Important Guidelines