This is a Google-custom search
engine (CSE) specifically designed for health-professionals and medical
students. In today’s world internet is the primary source of our knowledge and
when we say internet, we actually mean Google. Unfortunately Google sometime
turns out to be very non-specific specially because now-a-days internet
is loaded with lot of patient-level information and Google fails to
discriminate between a patient-level and a physician-level website. It also
fails to exclude the unauthentic Web Pages and blogs.
So here comes the
solution. Now you no longer have to evaluate all the google-results to get the
information you want. Simply type in the custom-search-box above and you
will Quickly get the needed information. You will also be able to filter
the results quickly according to your need. Its easy and free.
Our search features
There are millions of
websites in the internet which provide health-information. However only a few
thousands give credible and physician-level medical information . we maintain
an exclusive database of those websites and “retina” searches within those
websites only. Our database mainly includes top medical associations ,
electronic medical journouls and e-textbooks. However it is not a static
database. We regularly update our database based on users feedback and change
in our inclusion policy.
Search result categories
Our database contains
this following type of websites indifferent categories.
all results
this section contains all websites from all different
section.
Note: we also include some credible patient-level website which
gives very much authentic
information and may help doctors to educate their
patients. However we ensure that with a standard keyword this type of website
pops up less then 10% cases of the total search results.
EBM_free
Here we mainly include top medical journals and database.
Our main aim is to provide free full text. However we also include those
journals that offers a free trial or give credible abstract for free.
guideline
this section includes only some top international
organizations that provide management guideline for different clinical
conditions. There may be a conflict with the “EBM_free” section due to some
common websites in both sections. When you are looking for information
regarding a clinical decision making ,we suggest you to search in both the
sections until you find the information you are looking for.
Indian literature
this section searches across important Indian journals only. This section has been made specially for Indian medical residents and academicians.
this section searches across important Indian journals only. This section has been made specially for Indian medical residents and academicians.
textbooks
In this section we aims to provide online textbooks which
are free to read (at least some part of the book) yet legal. We search
across hundreds of university libraries, open book projects and stand-alone
online books.
Algorithms
medical students some times need to know the approach to a
particular disease conditions or treatment. Algorithms or decision-tree is a
handy tool for easy decision making quickly. This tab searches algorithms
across the web.
notes by students
this section searches those websites in which contents are
primarily written by medical students. However a huge number of sites is still to be included
in this section and we are fully aware of it.
Exercises
this is a tab which searches multiple choice questions
related to the keyword. However specificity of search result needs to be
improved.
Video
This tab searches medical videos across the internet. It
is a very useful tool for medical students.
career :
This section contains discussion forums for doctors and
medical students, official exam websites, news and job related websites.
Genetics
this unique tab searches the genetic information related
to the keyword. It covers a large number of molecular biology databases as well
as a number of credible scientific website.
What makes us different?
1)
Comprehensive coverage
While other similar search engines
searches only across a limited number of websites (or maximum a few hundreds ),
we cover thousands of high-quality websites and the list is continuously
growing. We give you the guarantee that you will not miss out any relevant
information related to your search-query.
2)
Rigorous quality maintenance
While similar other search engines often
display results from patient-level websites, chance of similar incidence is
almost nil with retina. This is because we strictly evaluate the quality and
usefulness of every single website before we include them in our database.
3)
student-friendly
Most other medical-search engines
primarily target research level information for academicians or medical
scientists; those are of little importance to medical students in their regular
study-schedule. We have created some special tabs (result filter)
Only for medical students so that they
can learn any topic quickly , get references from textbooks and can practice
questions with this search engine only.
4)
Intelligent search suggestions
This is another exclusive feature by us
which is still in its developmental phase. Based on your search query, we
suggest you useful websites or links which may not come by search result
always. Intelligent suggestions are different from normal search result and
helps to get you what you want ( not just what you type ).
5) Powered
by google
We consider this as our major strength because as because it is a Google-custom search engine. This is especially important to our literature sections. In scientific literature, we measure importance of a journal article by the number of times it has been cited by other articles. This approach is very similar to Google’s page rank algorithm. We assure you that due to this thing, you always see the most relevant article on the top
