Brief guide to medical Internet

Internet is a modern means of communication with a potentially great power of handling information. Nowadays, internet plays a crucial role in both medicine and health prevention. Internet services prepared by medical journals and publishers play a vital role in postgraduate education of medical professionals. Huge databases like Medline or Cancerlite are the most powerful tool for obtaining data on publications for the majority of doctors at academic centers. Internet is used for medical education of the community and the prevention of common and avoidable diseases, such as hypertension or diabetes mellitus, in which such education may decrease the risk of falling ill and developing complications. In the paper some medical internet addresses are listed and characterized.