There is not one specific site that houses a listing of online textbooks but search engines can be used to identify online texts in specific interest areas. Health care issues are big news as evidenced by reports from the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine . Therefore, it is important to stay abreast of what the media is reporting to the public. Reviewing a national newspaper or television site for the day's health care issues is one way of doing this. You don't have to subscribe to a print version to access USA Today , and CNN is a valuable television site to use as your barometer of health care issues distributed to the public.
Concerns related to using the Internet as a research tool are abundant.
Accuracy, bias, and editorial oversight are just a few of these concerns. However, more plentiful is a growing wealth of quality information and data available on the Web, much of which is free. It will only get better. By becoming more aware of its potential and honing one s Web-based search skills, health care professionals can maximize their efficiency and benefit greatly from the Internet.