What is eMedicine?
Q: What is eMedicine?
A: eMedicine is an online research tool for clinical studies founded in 1996 by two medical doctors, Scott Plantz and Richard Lavely.
Q: How is the eMedicine website searchable?
A: The eMedicine website is searchable by keyword.
Q: How many articles are on eMedicine?
A: eMedicine has about 6,800 articles.
Q: How are the articles on eMedicine associated with specific clinical subspecialty textbooks?
A: Each of the 6,800 articles on eMedicine is associated with one of 62 clinical subspecialty textbooks, such as pediatrics, which consists of 14 subspecialty textbooks (endocrinology, genetics, cardiology, pulmonology, etc.).
Q: Who authors the articles on eMedicine?
A: Each article on eMedicine is authored by board-certified specialists in the subspecialty to which the article belongs, and each author is identified with their current job.
Q: How often are the articles on eMedicine updated?
A: Each article on eMedicine is updated yearly, and the date of the update is published on the article.
Q: How many articles are associated with the emergency medicine textbook on eMedicine?
A: 750 articles are associated with the emergency medicine textbook on eMedicine.
