MSD in India announces launch of Univadis, a unique online medical education portal for healthcare professionals

• Univadis provides specialty wise customized content by trusted medical sources in a mobile, tablet and iPad compatible website
• Announces strategic partnership with The Lancet to bring exclusive contents in the form of articles, news, research papers, medical advancements and educational tools

 

Bangalore, June 27, 2014: MSD, the global healthcare leader today announced the launch of Univadis, MSD’s medical education and unbiased health information website in India. The interactive Univadis service will provide a wealth of medical resources, powerful tools, and accredited education courses from reputed and independent sources, exclusively for healthcare professionals through www.univadis.in. MSD has strategically collaborated with The Lancet, one of the world’s leading independent general medical journals, to bring exclusive content in the form of articles, news, research papers, medical advancements, videos, and educational tools.

 

Univadis is an essential online resource for healthcare professionals that has been launched in more than 40 countries, is available in 17 languages with more than 20 million registered users worldwide. Univadis is free for health care professionals and contains no product advertising.

 

As a comprehensive resource, Univadis offers information with access to the latest news, conference updates, educational tools and research articles, 3D Anatomy applications with 19 interactive layers, the Merck Manual, over 3000 medical images, and a video library specifically tailored to meet the needs of healthcare professionals to help them stay up-to-date from the world’s leading medical publishers.

 

At the launch of Univadis in India Mr. K G Ananthakrishnan, Managing Director, MSD India said “We are proud to launch Univadis in India, a unique online medical education service from MSD to aid comprehensive healthcare management, thereby making available unbiased, reliable scientific medical information across all parts of the country. Univadis portal provides high quality online education enabling healthcare practitioners to expand their knowledge and expertise and thereby offer better quality of care to their patients. MSD is known to be a trusted partner for continuous medical education across the globe and in India.”

 

Speaking during the launch Dr. Sanjeev Mehta, Consultant Chest Physician, Lilavati Hospital Mumbai said: “Univadis is an important initiative, as Healthcare Professionals need to keep themselves updated on the latest findings in the medical field. The website can be customized according to the interest and specialty of individuals making it easy to search for relevant information.”

 

Dr. Achal Gulati, Director-Professor of ENT at the Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi added: “The Univadis website addresses needs of not only healthcare professionals but medical students as well. The access to hundreds of high-quality online accredited education courses would greatly help students as it is very important for them to acquire latest knowledge and stay updated.”

 

Talking about the Lancet partnership with Univadis, Dr David Collingridge, Publishing Director for The Lancet’s speciality journals said: “Our partnership with Univadis offers a unique opportunity to increase delivery of the best science to Indian doctors in a free and easily accessible format, which will help promote best clinical practice and health systems reform”

 

Univadis is a service to the medical community from MSD with the objective of becoming an innovative and trusted partner that provides high quality online education enabling healthcare practitioners to expand their knowledge and expertise and thereby offer better quality of care to their patients.

 

Started in 2004, Univadis provides information, services and education with numerous daily updates summarized for healthcare professionals. Customers from different specialities can easily adapt the website to their own professional needs through a fast, simple and applicative interface, which is also available via multiple devices like mobile, tablet and iPad. The availability of interactive technologies makes content not only available but easily accessible. CCI Newswire