Why Virtual Infection Centre?

Aim Our aim is to help patients, physicians and specialists to be better informed about infectious diseases and related topics. About the Infection Centre The virtualinfectioncentre.com reaches patients, their families and friends and also immunologists and other medical specialists involved in the diagnosis, treatment, and support of people with infections or infectious diseases. It is one of nineteen individual information centres within the Virtual Medical Centre (as shown below). Each centre is complete with information on drugs, disease, treatment, trials, symptoms, support and breaking news. The information posted is Australian specific and updated every 12 hours by a team of medical researchers. Each centre has a Medical Director who works on ensuring the quality of information on the site is maintained and continually enhanced. Dr Clay Golledge is the Medical Director of the Virtual Infection Centre. Dr Golledge graduated from the University of Queensland in 1979 and gained his FRCPA in 1989 with examination distinctions. In 1990 he worked as a clinical research fellow in the Infectious Diseases Unit of the City Hospital, Edinburgh where he gained his MRCP(UK). On return to Australia he was appointed as a Consultant in Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and PathCentre, and as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Western Australia. He is on the editorial board of three major medical journals, and is the author of over 100 scientific publications and three book chapters. Dr Clay Golledge has special interests in the areas of travel and tropical medicine, infectious diarrhea, recurrent urinary tract infections, and meningococcal disease. In addition Dr Golledge has several regular media commitments including co-hosting the "Chatroom" ABC radio. As Medical Director, Dr Golledge is also assisted by an Editorial Advisory Board (EAB).   Editorial Advisory Board 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. Click on the link below to view the Infection Centre's Editorial Advisory Board.

Virtual Infection Centre Editorial Advisory Board (EAB)

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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

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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:

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!