Introducing the Internet to medical practitioners

The benefits of using the Internet to medical practitioners are growing rapidly, as the Internet becomes easier to use and ever more biomedical resources become available on net. The Internet is the largest computer network in the world that connects millions of computers in a web and makes almost immediate communication possible, irrespective of the location of its users. There are various ways to be connected with Internet and once connected, it is easy to take advantage from this space of unlimited potentials. Several Internet applications are available today that will bring more information to the doctors' desk. Although, it is difficult to predict the future of medicine on the Internet, but the net has opened up many new possibilities for medical professionals, which were not available through previous technologies. It is now up to them to realize the Internet's full potential. A non-technical overview of Internet, a glimpse of electronically available information and the methods available to access, manipulate and disseminate biomedical data from the Internet are discussed. These methods are useful for beginners as well as beneficial for experienced physicians.