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Awards
"Michael D'Alessandro and colleagues laid the groundwork for the use of portable digital books in radiography in the mid-1990s"
In a review of otitis media information for patients on the Internet, Virtual Pediatric Hospital was one of the 5 out of 35 Web sites reviewed that in terms of quality was both HONcode certified and met all JAMA benchmark criteria for medical Web sites.
Listed as an "example of an online collaborative and learning Web site" in neonatology.
"This (Virtual Pediatric Hospital) is a digital health sciences collection devoted to paediatrics created by physicians. It provides information to meet the needs of healthcare providers and patients..."
"Thoracopedia is an imaging encyclopedia of pediatric thoracic disease...this educative portal...has cases listed by knowns / unknowns, which are organized by disease type or by age or simply as unorganized unknowns."
"Self-assessment modules are also popular for the review of structures using different imaging modalities. The availability of image resources continues to grow and is quite variable. Two libraries, Paediapaedia and Correlapaedia on the Virtual Pediatric Hospital web site are encyclopedias of imaging in pediatrics. The images on these sites are paired with a simulated patient case stems and can beviewed in "known" or "self-assessment" mode."
"Virtual Pediatric Hospital focuses on topics that covers imaging of various disease entities in pediatrics."
(Correlapaedia) - Listed as one of the "100 Useful Pathology-Specific Web Site." "Interdisciplinary discussion of 56 cases including radiology, surgery, and pathology"
"Good generic information with many practice scenarios."
(Virtual Pediatric Patients) - "A useful case-based teacing resource for common paediatric problems."
(Paediapaedia) - "An encyclopedia of paediatric disease with brief text notes, radiological images and differential diagnoses."
"The use of handheld digital books in radiology was first pioneered by Michael D'Alessandro and colleagues in the mid-1990s."
"The goal of this Virtual Pediatric Hospital offering is to provide information about typical diseases and health issues experienced by teens...pediatricians address all sorts of teen-related health topics..."
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