Physician Networks

Collated resources of Physician Networks

• Physician Social Networks – Highlight Health
• Communities for Scientists and Physicians – ScienceRoll
• Twittering Physicians – Medical Student Blog
• Hospital Social Networks – Ed Bennet
• HealthCare Social Media Wiki – Dose of Digital
• Social Networking for Doctors – Dr. Subrahmanyam Karuturi
• Highlight Health Web Directory – Highlight Health

• Website: www.MultiMedix.com.au
• Australian based community for physicians. Launched in 2009
• Registered users: 250
• MultiMedix Review

• Website: www.MedConnect.com.au
• Twitter: @MedConnect
• Australian based community for physicians. Launched 2009.
• MedConnect is owned and operated by Elsevier Australia, a dedicated publisher of textbooks, professional references and electronic material for the Australian and New Zealand market. MedConnect is a gateway to leading local and international medical news, research, events and resources. – MedConnect Review

• A website for Australian Doctors working in General Practice.
• Website: GPinsider.com.au
• GP insider has been designed to facilitate discussions relating to current research, medications, treatments, clinical practice guidelines, health policy, and the future of the profession.

• Website: MetsConnect.ning.com
• Twitter: @MetsConnect
• METS provide practical, hands on training for medical professionals to more effectively treat patients – both spiritually and physically.
• Registered Users: 9

• Website: www.iconsinmed.org
• Twitter: @icons_in_med
• iCons in Medicine is a global network that links volunteer specialty physicians with healthcare providers working in medically underserved areas. The mission of iCons in Medicine is to improve healthcare in remote and medically underserved areas and to reduce global health disparities.
• iCons also runs ‘iConsult Tele-consultation Program‘

 

• Website: www.Sermo.com
• Registered Users >100,000
• Physicians aggregate observations from their daily practice and then – rapidly and in large numbers – challenge or corroborate each others opinions, accelerating the emergence of trends and new insights on medications, devices and treatments.
• To join Sermo, you must be an MD or DO practicing in the US.

 

• Website: http://health.md/
• Not yet launched – register interest online

• Website: www.doctorshangout.com
• Registered Users: 8766
• More Information
• Social networking service for Medical Students, Residents and Doctors.
• DoctorsHangout social network can help you maintain existing personal and professional relationships and establish new ones by reaching out to Doctors you’ve never met before.
• At DoctorsHangout.com, Doctors exchange clinical experiences, review their cases and share clinical knowledge.

• Website: http://www.ozmosis.com
• Twitter: @ozmosis
• Blog: Ozmosis Blog
• Exlusive to all U.S. licensed physicians
• Secure platform to share clinical and practice management information free of charge. To be invited to join the Ozmosis Community, you must either receive an email invitation from a current member or you may request an invitation for a growing number of openings. – Features overview

• Website: www.healtheva.com
• Register for Healtheva to collaborate with physicians, researchers, residents, interns, and medical students.
• With Healtheva, you join a private community interested in basic science research, clinical research, paper collaboration, and startup & commercialization opportunities. Take the tour…

• Website: DoctorNetworking.com
• Enlarge professional network. Discuss medical topics. Ask and answer medical questions. Post and find medical jobs. Get to know more friends & colleagues

• Website: RelaxDoc .com
• Online resource for physicians – a private community created by physicians, providing concise information and valuable services to help you balance your personal and professional life. Relaxdoc.com is a source of news and information, peer networking, travel, sports, and more.
• Find like-minded physicians – both in and outside your specialty; exchange views about personal and professional issues. Discuss your experience with a disease, drug or course of treatment. Comment on non-medical related issues, such as politics, sports, travel, gardening. Share ideas for balancing the unique demands of work, family and other personal issues you face as a physician. Explore information on cooking, fine wine, art and other leisure pursuits that fit your lifestyle.
• Access the full Medline database, medical journals, professional resources and educational exclusives. Save with exclusive discounts on travel, shopping, medical office supplies and more.

• Website: ClinicalVillage.com
• Physician community with blogs and forums
• Forums contain many topics where you can ask questions, help colleagues or just talk about what is on your mind. Your participation is crucial in creating a “Clinical Community” where you and your colleagues can discuss the latest issues and learn from one another.

• Website: iMed exchange.com
• Twitter: @imedexchange
• Blog: Public Blog
• iMedExchange is empowering doctors to connect with their colleagues in an efficient, fun, and easy way. But we also give doctors something to talk about. Like the latest news on the hottest ultrasound device, tools to better run a practice, even what wine to have with dinner Saturday night. Along with social networking, iMedExchange offers value-added resources for the clinical, business and personal sides of a doctor’s life.

• Website: NewMediaMedicine.com
• Registered Users: >50,000
• Online Social Network of over doctors, medical students and pre-med students. It’s like Facebook for medics!
• Includes discussion Forum, Free Medical Videos and Medical Bookshop.

• Website: Asklepios.ca
• Social network exclusively for Canadian physicians, residents and medical students
• ‘Connect with confidence, knowing this is a secure service from the Canadian Medical Association provided exclusively for Canadian physicians.’

• Website: Doctrs.com
• Twitter: @doctrs
• Doctrs.com have integrated PubMed results into their search and the ability to add your medical publications directly to your profile page – Review
• Founded by Michael Kamleitner and Lukas Zinnagl in 2008 to create a private network, which serves the needs physicians around the world face when being in a social net.
• Doctrs is only intended to be for Physicians and Medical Professionals. – Check out the FAQ

• Website: MedicSpeak.com
• Registered Users: >3000
• Network of doctors and medical students. The objective is to enhance communication, collaborations, exchange of ideas and sharing of knowledge. Keep in touch with your mentors, colleagues and students. Create groups and invite people who share your interests

• Website: TiroMed.com
• Tiromed is a social networking portal for the medical community. You can create a personal profile, network your friends and colleagues, publish content, rank and review member articles, form groups, send messages to contacts, customize your homepage, subscribe to news, share pictures and documents, create quick links for offsite navigation, manage your briefcase, submit articles and power point presentations, rate websites and much more.
• Our mission is to provide unique features and functionalities that allow you to research and learn, and connect with others.

• Website: SocialMD.com
• Registered Users >3000
• SocialMD has been founded to facilitate the free flow of information among Medical Students, Residents, Fellows and Physicians. SocialMD is run by Oviya Technologies Inc. based in Chicago
• Also runs – MedGraduate.com and – NurseGraduate.com

• Website: Doc2Doc.bmj.com
• Registered Users: >3000
• Doc2Doc has a range of tools to help you network with other doctors on a professional and social level.
• Clinical forums to discuss interesting/puzzling cases and discuss any aspect of medicine.
• Create your own forum and build a community around your own interests or place of work.
• Find people you work with, used to work with or want to get to know through people search.
• Doc2Doc was set up to improve the working lives of doctors by providing an independent place where doctors can talk freely. doc2doc is maintained by the BMJ Group.

• Website: WebOfMedicine.com
• For busy clinicians who want to build and join professional networks of medical colleagues. Our users have expressed a clear requirement to connect with colleagues in their own practices and hospitals but also nationally and internationally.
• Linked with Onmedica.com – online medical publication for daily news, views, blogs and learning and offers wholly independent content including free online professional training, PDP tools, online reference materials as well as special commercial offers.

• Website: MedTitans.com
• Doctor only network. Review
• Strict verification and additional functions of online appointment diary, patient management system, patient referral system, internal messaging and online surveys.
• Special offers from pharmaceutical and medical equipment companies are also in the offing

• Website: MedXcentral.com
• Twitter: @medxcentral
• Registered Users: 444
• Ning based network

• Website: MedicalMingle.com
• Blog posts, forum posts, photos and videos

• Website StudentDoctorNetwork.com
• Nonprofit forum based community. Over 6 million posts and 12 million pageviews a month, we’re the world’s most active organization of health care students, fellows and residents!

• Website: PedsChat
• Uniting pediatric professionals worldwide
• Read more here

• Website Doc2Doc Forum [non-BMJ version]
• Established by a group of doctors and computer-scientists with an interest in communication on the internet. Vision to offer a free membership to this Portal for doctors of all kinds, both active and retired as well as medical students.
• In the Chat-room we have prepared an option for a speciel Doc-Dating forum, which we hope will be well accepted by the members.

Choose the right network for you – the right balance of verification, trust, discussion, news, blogs, forums, commercial interest, public interaction…..