Internet use for medical research

The internet, due to the recent upsurge in its penetration and the plethora of information available, has the potential for unparalleled impact on the way research can be conducted in the future by medical students and professionals alike. In the current review article, we discuss the methods, merits and drawbacks of using the Internet further for medical research. Since the past few years, the Internet has proved to be the most promising and powerful tool to review existing literature. PubMed and others engine searches help investigators to not only save time but also gives them access to resources that were unavailable in the past. Various databases online archive indexed journals, providing abstracts or full-text articles. The utility of the Internet has by far been restricted to providing a database of information. However, it also advocates the communication amongst researchers working on similar issues that can provide gateways to more meaningful international interactions and exchange of ideas and intelligence. Furthermore, the Internet can be used to simplify almost any stage of a medical research project: grant earning, data collection, recruiting subjects, statistical analysis, writing and submission of the final manuscript. Internet can be used to simplify almost any stage of a medical research project.