International
Pediatric Chat (IPC) is not for profit organization of pediatric
professionals who use live Internet typing (chat), voice chat,
and someday video conferencing as a means of communicating with
one another. It was started May 16th, 1996 by Dr. Julius Edlavitch
of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Its purpose is to provide pediatric
professionals a means of communicating live with each other.
This communication may be for socialization, education, sharing
difficult cases, or for organizational conferencing. Its advantages
are that it is live and interactive almost like you were right
there next to the other professionals in a meeting room. Because
it is live and real time, it is unique and different from journals,
list serves, news servers, and e-mail. It is different from
an International meeting too because members can meet anytime
they want and do not have to travel thousands of miles at considerable
expense. It is totally unique and there is nothing like it anywhere
on the Internet.
