Frequently Asked Questions
- What is PediatricEducation.org, what populations is it intended for, and who curates it?
- How may I participate in the Learning Collaboratory / Comment on a case / Ask a question about a case?
- How may I send comments or questions about the site?
- Do you have a monthly mailing list to notify me of new cases added to PediatricEducation.org?
- May I link to PediatricEducation.org?
- How often is PediatricEducation.org updated?
- How may I view cases from previous months and years?
- One of the links in the “To Learn More” section of a case is broken
- Go to the home page of the Web site in question, and type into its search engine the title of the document you are looking for. This will hopefully locate for you the new location of the document or the new version of the document.
- Go to the Internet Archive and type the Web address (URL) of the document in question into its WayBack Machine search engine and see if it has an archived copy of the document.
- Some of the information in the older cases is wrong!
- Do you have a flyer that I can duplicate and use to help publicise the site?
- Do you have a RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed?
- Do you have any mirror sites around the world?
- How many people use PediatricEducation.org?
- How do you handle my personal information?
Please see About Us
If you are a Resident, Fellow, or Attending Physician practicing pediatrics - or if you are a Health Care Provider practicing pediatrics - you may participate in the Learning Collaboratory. Send us your comments or questions about specific cases posted on PediatricEducation.org by filling out the Comment Form.
Answers to comments or questions about specific cases on PediatricEducation.org are posted in the Learning Collaboratory, in reverse chronological order.
See our Comment Form. Please note: if you are a patient (including family members and friends), we are unable to answer your personal medical questions. Check our list of other resources that may help to answer your questions.
If you would like to be automatically notified once a month of the new cases added to PediatricEducation.org, you may join a notify-only mailing list that sends you one email a month to notify you of the new cases posted to the site.
To subscribe to the PediatricEducation.org mailing list, please go to: http://www.freelists.org/list/pediatriceducationnews
Enter your e-mail address, make sure the Subscribe option is chosen, and click on the “Go!” button.
You will be sent an email asking you to confirm your subscription to the list. Simply reply to the message leaving the message body intact and you will be all set.
Yes, please feel free to link to PediatricEducation.org and to publicize it.
Initially we plan to add one new case each week and eventually we hope to add several new cases each week
To review cases from previous months and years, use the calendar in the left column of the page or you may use the case archives:
Cases by Disease
Cases by Symptom
Cases by Specialty
Cases by Age
Cases by Date
Web sites are reorganized on an all-too-often basis, and the location of the document being linked to may have changed. Alternatively, the document may have been replaced by a more up-to-date document. You have two options:
The practice of pediatrics is a dynamic process that is constantly changing and evolving. The information in each case was correct, to the best of our knowledge, on the date it was published. It is not our intention to revise older cases as the practice of pediatrics advances. Instead, please use the cases as a historical archive to see how the practice of pediatrics for a certain disease has evolved over time.
Yes, an online version of our flyer can be found: here
Yes, our RSS feed may be found at:
feed://www.pediatriceducation.org/feed/
Yes, PediatricEducation.org is mirrored by the Widernet project, through which it is distributed to hundreds universities in dozens of countries in the developing world.
2004 - 18,149 pages read (page hits) from 7,594 users (visitors). There were 27 links to the home page.
2005 - 186,058 pages read (page hits) from 90,604 users (visitors). There were 108 links to the home page.
2006 - 384,414 pages read (page hits) from 167,971 users (visitors).
2007 - 407,462 pages read (page hits) from 206,038 users (visitors).
2008 - 373,096 pages read (page hits) from 213,316 users (visitors).
2009 - 279,703 pages read (page hits) from 180,238 users (visitors).
Click here to see our overall statistics.
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