The development of an educational web site for burn care: burnsurgery.org

J Burn Care Rehabil. 2002 May-Jun;23(3):216-9. doi: 10.1097/00004630-200205000-00012.

Abstract

Advances in burn care are well documented in the literature but often do not reach health care professionals who treat burn patients. The World Wide Web provides instant access to a wide variety of information globally. We describe the development of www.burnsurgery.org, a nonprofit Web site dedicated to the education of burn care professionals. Internet-based medical education is becoming a dominant method of information transfer and we believe that it will help to standardize and improve burn care throughout the world.

MeSH terms

  • Burns* / therapy
  • Diffusion of Innovation*
  • Education, Distance*
  • Education, Medical, Continuing / methods*
  • Health Services
  • Humans
  • Internet / organization & administration*
  • Massachusetts
  • Medical Informatics / methods*
  • Medical Informatics / standards
  • Quality of Health Care
  • United States