About MDText and Endotext.org
EndoText (www.endotext.org) is produced by the owning company MDText, a non-profit organization incorporated in the state of Oregon, USA. The Board of Directors consists of the Editor (Kenneth Feingold) and Sub-section Editors who are responsible for electing the Executive Officers and maintaining company operations. Current Executive Officers are Ashley Grossman, MD (President), George Chrousos, MD (Vice President), Jonathan Purnell, MD (Treasurer), and Sanjay Kalra (Secretary).
Purpose
Our single purpose is to help improve the clinical practice of endocrinology around the world by providing free, online access to information that is continuously updated. We target our online content to practicing endocrinologists, fellows, and trainees, and intend that it should be available to anyone around the world without cost.
Physicians caring for their patients often need immediate access to information on disease manifestations, testing procedures, diagnostic criteria, and the very latest information on therapy. On other occasions, the provider may also wish to read in detail about the molecular and genetic underpinnings of disease physiology and pathophysiology, differential diagnosis, current and future treatment options, and other disease topics. Traditionally this material came from printed textbooks. While many excellent such textbooks have been published, most printed texts are outdated, expensive, and often difficult to access.
Currently, nearly every well-trained physician has access to an internet-connected computer or device and increasingly web-based patient care information is becoming the norm. However, the Web is also inundated with medical information that is unreliable or biased. Thus, if providers are to depend on a website, it must demonstrate the highest standards of integrity and reliability by having highly respected editors and authors, independence of operation, and thorough review of all published material.
Income is derived from grants, contributions, and payment for chapter downloads in the form of PDF’s. Income is used totally for the operating expenses of the company and website. We welcome unrestricted educational grants from pharmaceutical companies.
Information for Companies Interested in Providing Educational Grants in Support of EndoText
EndoText is a unique 3 million-word authoritative, comprehensive, continuously up-dated, downloadable, free online textbook, written by 400 experts, and oriented to physicians caring for patients with Endocrine disease. These physicians come to EndoText for up-to-the-minute information useful in their clinical practice. In order to preserve EndoText as a free resource available to practitioners around the world, we offer the pharmaceutical industry opportunities for sponsorship via educational grants.
If interested, please contact the editor of Endotext, Kenneth Feingold MD (kenneth.feingold@ucsf.edu)