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

MSD announced the launch of Univadis, MSD’s medical education and unbiased health information website in India. The interactive Univadis service will reportedly 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, leading independent general medical journal, to bring exclusive content in the form of articles, news, research papers, medical advancements, videos, and educational tools.

Univadis, online resource for healthcare professionals, 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 healthcare professionals and contains no product advertising.

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 leading medical publishers, informs a press release.

At the launch of Univadis in India, KG Ananthakrishnan, MD, 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 customised 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.”

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”

Started in 2004, Univadis provides information, services and education with numerous daily updates summarized for healthcare professionals. Customers from different specialities can 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.

EP News Bureau – Mumbai