Subject: summary of results: family med listservs
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Thanks for all the help I received from members of this list! The
additional information was just what the patron was looking for.

Here is a summary of the replies--

*Listservs:


Family-L

send a single SUBSCRIBE message to [log in to unmask]

or look at a sample of their talk at

gopher://ftp.gac.edu:70/11/pub/E-mail-archives/family-l


RuralNet:

send an email message to [log in to unmask]

with the following command in the body of the message:

SUBSCRIBE RURALNET-L

The address of the list is then [log in to unmask]

RuralNet Web server is located at: http://ruralnet.marshall.edu


[log in to unmask] has Canadian focus, but other nationalities
participate


FAM-MED Discussion of computers in family medicine

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*To search for listservs:

Web address (http://www.liszt.com)  is an online directory of

email discussion lists.


HealthWeb: (click on 'communication')

http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/chslib/hepp/primary/


CataList: http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html


AmericaOnline Mailing List Directory:
http://ifrit.web.aol.com/mld/production

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</underline>*Other resources:


The American Hospital Association Resource Center Fact Sheet on Internet
Listservs for Hospital and Health Care Leaders.  To obtain a free copy of
the

9 page document, telephone the Resource Center's fax-on-demand

service at 312-422-2020 and request document 471131.


Several Internet newsgroups for physicians listed in Physician's

Management November 1995 v35(11) pp.59-69. "User's guide to the best

online services for physicians".


Medical Economics July 15, 1996

pp.173-186. "Can you afford NOT to travel the Internet?"


Archives Internal Med v156 Apr 22, 1996 pp.833-842. "Medical

Resources and the Internet"


Health Care on the Internet v1 (1)1997 pp.43-58 "An overview of
newsgroups and mailing lists"

Teri Hartman, MLS

Sr. Health Program Specialist

Information Resources Group

Missouri Rural Telemedicine Project

405 Lewis Hall

Columbia, MO 65211

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