PubMed is the Web's free version of Medline, which contains abstracts from numerous professional medical journals. If the journal publisher has a Web site that offers full text, PubMed provides links to that site. Though the information age overload may seem daunting, a little practice and a basic understanding of how search engines work can go a long way toward helping doctors get comfortable with search sites. Back to top. Directories yield a smaller, but more focused number of hits.
Search engines are best when gathering a broad base of material.
Metasearch engines search multiple search sites, consolidating the results on a single page. Medical search engines are best when seeking documents from medical literature such as journals, textbooks or patient handouts. Back to top.