We're thrilled to have you as a visitor and hope that your visit to the all new ConsultantLive community helps you as a medical professional perform your job better.

As we began to redesign this site, we thought a lot about what primary care physicians and the people that work with them can gain from a web site. And, we kept coming back to a single word: community. And by that we mean a place where medical professionals can come to learn, to engage, to communicate, all with the goal of helping to improve the practice of medicine.

Like all communities, we see ConsultantLive as a two-way site:

In one direction, we will continue to bring you the authoritative articles from CMPMedica's entire range of journals along with educational CME programs, SearchMedica, and other materials and content that will help you perform your critical job better and more effectively.

In the other direction, we are going to look more and more to you to participate in the community and to make ConsultantLive a vibrant and lively online space for primary care physicians and other healthcare professionals.

Over the past year, you've probably seen a lot of incremental changes to this site. Notably, we added SearchMedica, a search engine that indexes web sites that our medical editors and key advisors from our editorial boards have vetted and reviewed to be especially relevant to the practicing health care professional. Our research showed that doctors were tired of panning through thousands of non-medical results just to find the relevant nugget. In fact, more than 67% of physicians surveyed reported too many irrelevant results as the main challenge when using consumer search engines. A SearchMedica search box appears at the top of nearly every page on the community so you will always be just a click away from a broad range of relevant and clinically reputable content for practicing clinicians

Throughout the community site, we are working to package articles and other content in ways that are more relevant to you and your information needs.

The "What's New in Primary Care" section on the home page brings you recent articles not only from the journals associated with ConsultantLive but also information from sister clinical publications and other trusted CMPMedica sources.

"Most Popular Articles" lists the articles on the community that have been accessed most often by other doctors and mental health professionals -- content that they found valuable.

Plus, we will continue to provide polling, CME, quizzes, and other interactive features that will help to educate you and enhance the practice.