August 2002 • Volume 8 • Number 8 |
A home page packed with a generous menu of AAFP resources, just a mouse-click away -- this is one of several new features of the Academy's redesigned Web site at http://www.aafp.org.
"The site is dramatically updated in terms of appearance, navigation and organization," says FP Jeffrey Weinfeld, M.D. "From the home page, you can go more directly to where you need to go."
Weinfeld, who practices at a community health center in Washington, D.C., serves on AAFP's Web Advisory Committee. Besides receiving regular input from the committee, the Academy has conducted focus groups with FPs on updating the site and has done user testing with FPs across the country.
"The majority of the Web site's content was there before," says Weinfeld, "but the organization and design are much improved."
AAFP members may now login to the "member side" of the Web site from the home page. Many member services are now collected under "My Academy," so it's easier for members to report their CME, check their CME records, subscribe to AAFP publications, create their practice Web sites, update their contact information, and use "Speak Out" to e-mail their lawmakers.
Visitors to aafp.org will also get better "search" results than before. Users have the option to search by phrase -- for example, requesting "diabetes mellitus" will give sources using the full phrase -- and the search request could include added words, such as "in childhood."
Questions and comments about the redesigned Web site may be e-mailed to online@aafp.org.
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