TheLancetStudent.com: Web 2.0 for Medical Students February 11, 2008
Posted by Bertalan Meskó in Medical education, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.trackback
Let me introduce two fellow medical students to you. András Székely and Imre Kissík, from the University of Debrecen, run the medical blog, Tomography, where they post really interesting content. One of their last articles is about a project of the medical journal, The Lancet, and this new website is dedicated to medical students.
Read the mission statement of The Lancet Student:
As The Lancet is the leading medical journal in global health, The LancetStudent.com aims to encourage students everywhere to engage in global health.
From our conversations with students from around the world, we know that students themselves, ie, you, want to know more about, and be more involved with, global health issues and so TheLancetStudent.com is here to inform, raise awareness, and most importantly, encourage you to get involved in global health.
We aim to help you get more involved in global health in a number of ways, for example, by including thought-provoking and informative messages in our daily blog, providing teaching materials in global health, summarising relevant content from the weekly issue of The Lancet especially for you, and organising votes and polls. BUT we can’t do it without your involvement.
Check it out, contribute to it and be open to the possibilities web 2.0 can provide for medical students.
And don’t forget to follow the medical blog of my dear friends at Tomography. They also started to cover web 2.0 and medical imaging at Imaging 2.0.
Are all Hungarian Medical Students into new technology and science? Do you attend good schools or you are hard workers by nature?
As far as I know, we are the only medical students who run an English medical blog at this university. So that’s all.
Anyway, US medical students were more open to these new tools than Hungarian ones. Or at least according to my experiences…
I was referring to your and their interest in perimedical sciences. Do you learn about genetics, nuclear medicine, etc at school or this is all personal effort?
We have to finish all of these courses.
But, for example, my strong interest in genetics is quite personal…
Good for you.
They do not teach Genetics where I go to school. Is there a book or a website that you could recommend me to read that teaches Genetics starting with the ABCs?