Physicians can participate in discussion groups with their colleagues around the world to share medical knowledge on many disease or therapy topics. This method will facilitate informal consultation among physician, and application of teleconsulting can be extended for medical education.
All physicians can become resource providers and offer information to others.
WWW can also be used as a tool for rapid dissemination of Information such as new virus and new side effects of a drug. Nowadays physicians are dealing with a patient population that has much more knowledge in certain medical topics through their access to internet. Patients support groups will no longer be bound by their city limits This is obviously beneficial, when the diseases are rare and individuals within groups are thousands of miles apart. Physicians can generate patient education packages for selected patients. Through supplying information to the public, physicians can virtually generate a self referral system.