Increasingly, governments, educational institutions, hospitals, laboratories, professional associations, and private companies are using the Internet as the medium of choice to disseminate information and services.

Pat provides educational resources, presentations, interactive workshops, and consulting services to help health professionals use the Internet more effectively.

See   Interview in "Listserv At Work"

Basic Internet tools

Using e-mail, web browsers, and mailing lists to maximum advantage

Netiquette for e-mail and mailing lists

Strategies for searching the Internet

How to find what you want and save time

Identifying portals in your specialty 

How to searching literature repositories such as Medline

Evaluating the quality of Internet information 

Criteria for assessing the validity of Internet information

How to "spot a rat at 50 paces"

Internet consulting

Pat consults in these areas:

• How to create, configure, and manage mailing lists using listserv software

• Develop personal  websites

• Develop transfusion medicine websites