© 2002 the Emergency Medicine Journal
EDITORIAL
World wide web
Information exchange is two way
1 Accident and Emergency Medicine, Newcastle General Hospital, UK
2 Section of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA
3 Department of Surgery, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
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Dr H Zia;
ziauddin_hassan@yahoo.com
The impact of the world wide web on emergency medicine in developing countries
Keywords: developing countries
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A key element in the evolution of emergency medicine (EM) as a global medical specialty is the exchange of information. This includes links between international organisations, academic institutions, and individuals in countries where EM is at various levels of development. Medical journals and other printed publications related to EM have also been a major source of information exchange between countries.1 The future of our specialty therefore depends on the quality of information exchanged, how it is disseminated, and to whom the information is given.
Limiting this exchange is the expense and time delay in delivering paper journals. In contrast, the electronic media does not have these restrictions. The potential applications of the internet to international education are limited only by the quality of its content and the imagination of its users.
The world wide web is becoming an increasingly important source of information and is now the
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