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About OnMedica

OnMedica: The website for doctors and UK healthcare

onmedica.com is the leading online medical publication for daily news, views, blogs and learning.

We combine high-quality journalism with medical expertise to cater for the daily information and professional development needs of doctors.

Our educational content is peer reviewed and authors are required to declare competing interests.

Although primarily aimed at doctors, onmedica.com is also a valuable resource for nurses, pharmacists, medical students, and other healthcare professionals.

All our content is free but you will need to complete a quick registration process to obtain access to all of it.

Doctors can benefit further by joining our unique rewards scheme, OnMedica Gold.

Any free publication or service relies on advertising and sponsorship to flourish, and registered members may be offered the chance to view promotional material from companies or healthcare organisations usually via Medicines Interactive presentations. This is one way of ensuring that we can continue to provide the high-quality information and educational modules that are so valued by our members.

The vast majority of our content is entirely independently produced. Some content is supported by unrestricted educational grants, which means that the sponsor has no editorial involvement in the content. Some content is made available to you on behalf of sponsors and this is clearly marked as promotional.

Unlike on other websites, you choose if you want to view any promotional material offered to you.

Our editorial processes and policies are overseen by Medical Editor Luke Koupparis. Luke is a part-time GP in the Bristol area with a particular interest in online education and medical information technology.

OnMedica is a website that doctors and healthcare professionals can and do trust for high-quality information.

A selection of OnMedica highlights

Member Services: Earn while you learn

OnMedica Gold is our premium rewards scheme for doctors. Earn educational and financial rewards by completing educational presentations, cases, courses, and surveys.

News, Views, and Blogs: Facts are sacred, comment is free

To keep you up to date with breaking news, onmedica.com provides daily clinical and healthcare related news. This is a unique service on UK medical issues produced by some of the UK's finest medical journalists.

In the views section, editorial articles by frontline clinicians and healthcare experts are published frequently on important clinical and practice issues.

OnMedica's blogs incorporate a broad spectrum of views on healthcare in the UK. From frontline clinicians to senior patient advocates in UK healthcare, our bloggers will keep you at the heart of the debate that affects your day-to-day practice.

Our 'On the Pulse' blog is the best and fastest weekly round-up of what's in the leading medical journals - and it comes out hot on the heels of the current week's BMJ and The Lancet.

You can add your comments to all articles, news reports and blog posts to stimulate discussion. Join the debate. Comment is free.

Medicines Interactive: Presentations at your convenience

The Medicines Interactive service allows you to receive information about products, including the latest pharmaceutical treatments, at your convenience. Companies provide the Medicines Interactive educational presentations, and OnMedica delivers these free, fun, and convenient presentations to you.

Viewing presentations is optional and may be restricted in some cases to certain users. The provision of this sponsored material enables OnMedica to offer all its other independent educational resources to you free of charge.

Clinical Interactive: Straight to the information

Use this area for quick access to the information you need. All our news, views, blogs and learning modules are arranged by clinical or non-clinical topic.

Courses and Cases: The interactive solution to appraisal and revalidation

This educational service provides free online continuing medical education (CME) courses and case histories on specific diseases and conditions, and on National Service Frameworks and NICE guidance.

These interactive learning modules have direct relevance to clinical practice, and are invaluable for appraisal and revalidation.

The courses and cases on the site are written and peer reviewed by clinicians. They have all been accredited for publication by the RCGP's EPASS scheme.

There is also a unique tool to track your use of onmedica.com for your personal development plan (PDP), and special courses on continuing professional education, appraisal and quality practice.

GP Business Tutorials: Take your practice to the next level

Our premium business tutorials are available to doctors on the OnMedica Gold programme. They are authored and peer reviewed by leading general practitioners. The tutorials offer continuing medical education (CME) credits and enable you to develop and optimise the running of your practice, by examining issues such as staff employment, communicating with patients and practice based commissioning.

Clinical articles: The very latest in diagnosis and treatment

This section is updated regularly with new articles, all of which are written and peer reviewed by leading clinicians. The authors utilise the best of web technology to provide registered onmedica.com users with the most current information on the diagnosis, treatment and management of a wide range of conditions.

Using the personal development plan (PDP) tracker, you keep track of all your learning in these articles.

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