Review article
https://doi.org/10.21860/medflum2023_309428
Croatian Electronic Medical Education
Marko Dragić
; Dom zdravlja Zadarske županije, Zadar, Hrvatska; Hrvatska liječnička komora, Zagreb, Hrvatska
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Ivan Raguž
; Hrvatska liječnička komora, Zagreb, Hrvatska; KB Sveti Duh, Klinkai za otorinolaringologiju i kirurgiju glave i vrata, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Alen Babacanli
; Hrvatska liječnička komora, Zagreb, Hrvatska; Klinički bolnički centar Sestre milosrdnice, Centar za hitni prijem, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Krešimir Luetić
; Hrvatska liječnička komora, Zagreb, Hrvatska; Klinička bolnica Sveti Duh, Klinika za unutarnje bolesti, Zavod za gastroenterologiju i hepatologiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Boris Ujević
; Hrvatska liječnička komora, Zagreb, Hrvatska; KB Sveti Duh, Klinika za ginekologiju i porodništvo, Zagreb, Hrvatska
* Corresponding author.
Abstract
HeMED is the acronym for “Croatian electronic medical education” (cro. Hrvatska elektronička medicinska edukacija), which represents the contemporary tehnological solution in the Croatian language for medical profesionals and patients provided on web pages and mobile applications. Inspired by Željko Ivančević, MD, the project was sucessfuly launched and finished with help of the CMC (Croatian medical chamber) and If! (Inovativna framaceutska inicijativa). The aims of HeMED are to encourage citizens’ health literacy, provide students with contemporary literature in the Croatian language, and support doctors in their daily work. On the pages of hemed.hr important international textbooks and an always up-to-date drug database are translated for medical professionals and the public. The editions available for searching and reading are: MSD Handbook for Patients (2019), MSD Handbook for Professionals (2018), MSD Handbook of Disease Symptoms (2010), Pharmacogenetics in Clinical Practice (2021), Harrison: Principles of Internal Medicine of Medicine (pocket manual) (2019) and Harrison: Principles of Internal Medicine (textbook) (2013). All the mentioned editions are connected to the drug database, which is regularly updated. When reading the text, each drug that is listed can be opened directly in the drug database, also by viewing the drug you can see all texts that have that drug in it. Hemed.hr is used daily by 6,000 users with a growing tendency. In the future, we plan to update all translations with the latest editions and include other important editions on hemed.hr. In conclusion, HeMED is the result of the volunteer work of about 400 medical doctors of all specialties and all age groups who diligently translated about 20,000 pages of medical literature to help their colleagues and patients.
Keywords
Croatian Medical Chamber; education; HeMED; Innovative pharmaceutical initiative; medical literacy; placebo
Hrčak ID:
309428
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Publication date:
1.12.2023.
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