title: Creating a home page on the World Wide Web: an inexpensive means to promote medical education and physician recruitment.
abstract: The World Wide Web (WWW) is generally used as an information resource. It can also be used as a national and international promotional (advertising) resource, at minimal cost, to assist in physician recruitment, such as for residency training programs. Currently, only a few residency training programs have home page sites describing their programs on the WWW. Creating a WWW site that can be viewed nationally and internationally requires an internet service provider and hypertext markup language (HTML) document that designs the WWW home page site. This article provides a step-by-step method for creating a simple WWW site (including an HTML template) to promote a residency program and assist in resident recruitment. As more young physicians graduate with more extensive computer skills and familiarity, use of the WWW for physician recruitment will become a more important source of information for physician applicants.
authors.affiliation: Emergency Department, Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children, Honolulu, HI, USA.
authors.forename: L G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003205:Computing Methodologies; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D004635:Emergency Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D012570:School Admission Criteria; D000078329:Workforce