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A variety of full text books available online and sorted by specialty. The unrestricted access to scientific knowledge will have a major impact on medical practice. This site offers free access to medical books over the Internet.

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As a medical student, I'm wondering how a collection of mainly technical articles is going to have a major impact on medical practice.

As a medical student, I'm wondering how a collection of mainly technical articles is going to have a major impact on medical practice.
Good Question, but I copied and pasted that info from that site. Sorry I can not answer your question.

As a medical student, I'm wondering how a collection of mainly technical articles is going to have a major impact on medical practice.

Definitely have a great impact on medical practice; especially for both the doctors and patients. Not every doctors have the available resources on all the medical cases, diagnoses and treatmenst available at hand. Having reliable technical articles help them make informed decisions regarding the life of their patients.
These medical articles do also help patients to know a bit more about the symptoms, causes, and treatments related to their cases. There are many educated patients who do have a great understanding about the field of medicine and would use these articles to guide them to make the right decisions about their illnesses as well as knowing whether they are getting the right treatments from the physicians.
More valuable medical technical articles available freely to the public benefits everyone.

Definitely have a great impact on medical practice; especially for both the doctors and patients. Not every doctors have the available resources on all the medical cases, diagnoses and treatmenst available at hand. Having reliable technical articles help them make informed decisions regarding the life of their patients.
These medical articles do also help patients to know a bit more about the symptoms, causes, and treatments related to their cases. There are many educated patients who do have a great understanding about the field of medicine and would use these articles to guide them to make the right decisions about their illnesses as well as knowing whether they are getting the right treatments from the physicians.
More valuable medical technical articles available freely to the public benefits everyone.

I agree, and I think every patient should be well informed.

As a medical student, I'm wondering how a collection of mainly technical articles is going to have a major impact on medical practice.

Obvi. All of your patients will read these technical articles, misunderstand them, and then demand that you treat them with only the most technologically advanced method of frog stem cells that are only in phase I of the clinical trials.

Definitely have a great impact on medical practice; especially for both the doctors and patients. Not every doctors have the available resources on all the medical cases, diagnoses and treatmenst available at hand. Having reliable technical articles help them make informed decisions regarding the life of their patients.

already have something widely used worldwide called uptodate (http://www.uptodate.com/home/index.html) that has a separate patient and physician section. Physicians may even be able to receive CME credit from this.

The great thing about them is that all info is current (within the last 3 months) and the information is peer-reviewed (which takes the guesswork about the credibility and interpretation of various reference material). This also helps standardize the quality of care regardless of location (i.e. the tx for colon CA should be the same whether you see a doc in florida or oregon).

There is nothing wrong with the site that the op listed, but the info is not as current, peer-reviewed, or organized as uptodate. Thus, I couldnt see any physician using it in their practice, and I dont see how it would be an efficient use of time for a patient.