How do I Evaluate a Health or Technology Resource?: Websites on evaluation of health-related and technology websites.

Health On the Net Foundation (HON) Code of Conduct for medical and health Web sites: The Health on the Net Foundation Code of Conduct (HONcode) for medical and health Web sites has elaborated the Code of Conduct to help standardise the reliability of medical and health information available on the World-Wide Web. It defines a set of rules to: (a) hold Web site developers to basic ethical standards in the presentation of information; and (b) help make sure readers always know the source and the purpose of the data they are reading.

Pew Health Professions Commission: This link leads you to recommendations developed by the Pew Health Professions Commission for change in health professions education and development of policies which respond to the nation's health care workforce needs. The Commission has initiated and sustained what many believe to be a national movement for change in health professions education and workforce policy.

Locating and Evaluating Health Information on the Internet: This website developed by Ernesto A. Randolfi is a rich source of links to websites on evaluation of health/medical information on the Internet. It also presents some significant resources used to locate information on the Internet including common directories, search engines, search directories, and research indexes.

Evaluation of information resources: This website contains relevant pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly those on the Internet. rich source of