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Why Virtual Medical Centre?
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Virtual Medical Centre is Australia's leading medical information website, which delivers the "latest medical information" written by medical professionals. The Virtual Medical Centre website reaches medical patients their families and friends searching for medical treatment information and also medical specialists involved in the diagnosis, treatment, and support of patients with a disease, illness or medical condition. The Medical Centre websites consists of 19 medical information centres, each with medical information on:
Each centre has a Medical Director who works on ensuring the quality of medical information on the site is maintained and continually enhanced. The Medical Director is also assisted by an Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) of medical specialists. The EAB is a group of medical specialists who have formed together in their particular area of medical expertise to contribute comments and feedback on the information that is displayed on the relevant centre. The Virtual Medical Centre's EAB consists of over 1,000 medical professionals. Membership to VMC is available to everyone and is completely free. Medical specialists receive a different membership which allows them access to industry sensitive information by using their medical provider number to join. All members are rewarded with a greater amount of information when viewing the sites. Additional benefits of site membership include breaking medical news alerts sent via email, regular informative newsletters and free posters and brochures on request. You can become a Virtual Medical Centre member today. FundingVirtual Medical Centre gratefully acknowledges the support from the pharmaceutical industry. For a list of all our sponsors please click on the link below. Sponsors Editorial Quality AssuranceThe final decision of editorial content on each disease centre is made by the Medical Director for each site. The Medical Director's information is published on the About Us page of each individual disease website. If a particular website does not have a Medical Director, then Dr Andrew Dean, Group Medical Director makes the final editorial decisions. adean@virtualmedicalcentre.com Each Medical Director has recruited a board of medical specialists in their particular disease area who they consult with regularly regarding medical editorial content on the websites. This keeps medical information credible and eliminates any conflict of interest issues that may arise due to sponsorship funding. Honesty in Online Medical AdvertisingWithin this or any of our online medical centres is as per our policy whereby all advertising is to be clearly marked "advertisement" beneath the advert.
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Accreditations and Associations
Virtual Medical Centre is accredited by the Geneva Switzerland HON International Ethics Code delivering our organisation the highest level of transparency and ethical standards available on the internet today.
Awards
2005 Finalist in the Secrets of Australian IT Innovation Awards
2004 Winner of the Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Community
Business Partnerships for Western Australia
Finalist in the National Prime Ministers Awards for Small Business
2004 Finalist in the Secrets of Australian IT Innovation Awards
2004 Winner of the Golden Web Awards
Membership
Joining Virtual Medical Centres is COMPLETELY FREE!
You can join for free as:
• A Medical Practitioner – using your provider number
• An Allied Health Professional
• Medical Student
• A General Public Member
Benefits of Joining:
Medical Practitioner
• Access to a medical professional level of information
• View medically sensitive details
• Receive breaking news alerts sent via email
• Complimentary listing on the Health Directory
• Free brochures and posters on request
• Receive a fortnightly e-Newsletters which includes latest news, events
and trials
Allied Health Professionals and Medical Students
• Viewing detailed information
• Receive a fortnightly e-Newsletters which includes latest news, events
and trials
• Breaking news alerts sent via email
• Free brochures and posters on request
General Public
• See the graphic pictures your doctors see
• View detailed information
• View sensitive information
• Customise the pages to suite you
• Receive a fortnightly e-Newsletters which includes latest news, events
and trials
• Breaking news alerts sent via email
• Free brochures and posters on request
History of Virtual Medical Centre
Dr Andrew Dean, Senior Palliative Care Specialist in WA discovered his patients
had a real need for information on cancer. At times of great stress when people
have been devastated by bad news of cancer or a life threatening disease, information
retention is at its poorest. Often the patient will walk out of the doctor’s
room feeling confused and uninformed.
Dr Dean decided to create an intranet site about cancer at his hospital for patients to use. He soon had people from other hospitals asking him for access to the information.
That’s when Dr Dean decided to team up with Pearl Farmer and International Businessman Mr Wayne Hughes to make the information on cancer available to everyone on the World Wide Web and www.virtualcancercentre.com was born.
Virtual Cancer Centre.com went live in August 2001 and got 20,000 hits in the first month. The team was very excited with the traffic back then, almost three years later, an average of 1.2 million page requests are recorded each month!
Partners:
Below are all the partners who have contributed to the success of the Virtual Medical Centre since commencement:
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Queries, Questions and Corrections
We appreciate all the industry help we can muster so please send all queries, requests, comments, corrections or suggestions via e-mail to service@virtualmedicalcentre.com where they will be acted upon immediately to 24 hours after receiving the communication!
