Yes that is an excellent resource - Jim has been very helpful T
Dr FM Janse van Rensburg BSc MBChB FRACGP FACRRM General Practitioner - Gungahlin Health Centre Business: http://gungahlinhealthcentre.com Personal: http://spaces.msn.com/members/thinus -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Hosking Sent: Saturday, 7 January 2006 7:51 PM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] 'Clinical' Listservers and Research Martin ACRRM run a sort of listserv in the Telederm mail list. This is an excellent clinical discussion of dermatology using photographs and moderated by a dermatologist in Qld. One can post clinical questions in the form of digital photos of dermatological problems as well as receive a weekly problem sent by e-mail by the dermatologist (Jim Muir). Technically, I suppose it is a forum, based on their RRMEO website. See http://www.rrmeo.com/index.shtml. Personally I find this useful when I get time to look at the problems sent by Jim. regards Rob Hosking [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Martin Halperin wrote: > > > >>Hugh, >>I wasn't meaning to sound 'critical' of this Listserv. I will try >>Nat-Div and >> >> >still 'hang around' here. I am actually in the early phase of planning >some GP research looking at benefits of Listserv communication between >doctors - particularly its effect on improving quality of care. So my >interest is to explore what Listervs already exist and which research >groups are interested in this area of Computing in General Practice. > > >>I am keen for any other suggestions. Thanks >> >> >> >> >Hi Martin > >The potted history. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] started in 1995. The >latter is now defunct. The former is not for timid souls like myself. I >understand it is not a fully open list. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] started in 1999 but now also gets little traffic. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] deals with the use of the e-smith server in >Australian medical practices. Some linux questions are asked and >answered there. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] was started in late 2000 after >HCN locked their bulletin board to some posters when they received >unfavourable commentary. Its activity is charted on its website. It is >low currently. > >There are a few application / focus specific groups that discuss their >area of interest and occasionally other things. [EMAIL PROTECTED] >and [EMAIL PROTECTED] are two examples. > >I belong to one GP research oriented list. It is low volume. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] was sponsored by GPCG and was quite active. Since >its funding was withdrawn a new bulletin board (?and list) has been set >up by the RACGP. See gpcg.org.au. > >[email protected] was created by Peter Machell and Horst Herb at >the urgings of Tim Churches to carry on the discussions that were >previously held on [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don't you just love >namespaces.) The old GPCG_TALK did not confine itself to medical IT >semantics and discussed a number of technical and medicopolitical >issues. I believe this list is similar in this regard. Check the archives. We have some. > >In answer to your particular query, I don't think email lists setup for >the purpose of discussing clinical matters have been successful. The >[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists have only >ever been of very low volume. IT literate GPs are few and far between >and tend to talk about IT matters. Perhaps we all feel that exposing >our clinical ignorance is generally not a good thing to do in an open forum. > >Your research project sounds like a difficult one. Presuming you can >enlist enough people to the intervention group how do you measure >whether there is an improvement in quality care. I'd suggest something >simpler like prescribing habits of those exposed and not exposed to ads >at the time of prescribing. > >HTH. > >David > > >_______________________________________________ >Gpcg_talk mailing list >[email protected] >http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > > > > _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
