Laurie at A Chronic Dose has Grand Rounds up this week. For this edition she asked bloggers to go back the full year and select their best posts since January.
Go check it out.
Archive for the ‘Social Media’ Category
Tuesday, December 16th 2008
The Best of 2008 At Grand Rounds
Thursday, December 11th 2008
Grand Rounds At Sharp Brains
Grand Rounds has been up since Tuesday at Sharp Brains. The blog of the ‘cognitive fitness’ consulting firm usually puts up interesting posts on brain training and neuroscience. This week they’ve posted the best of the medical blogosphere.
The Pre-Rounds column profiling Shapr Brains and their co-founder, Alvaro Fernandez, can be found on Medscape.
Tuesday, December 2nd 2008
Grand Rounds at Mexico Medical Student
Mexico Medical Student has put together a great edition of Grand Rounds this week. I’ll let Enrico explain his theme, which is very cool.
Welcome to Grand Rounds! I am privileged to be your host for this week’s edition of the best posts of the medical blogosphere. As in the previous two times I’ve hosted, I will integrate music into this edition, but unlike before, I will focus on one piece of music: Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration) by the German composer Richard Strauss.
Death and Transfiguration is a “tone poem,” literally, a musical literary depiction. In this case, it is of a dying artist on his deathbed in his last moments, and what is experienced up to, including and after death.
And he takes it from there, weaving in the best the medical blogosphere has to offer. Go check it out.
Sunday, November 30th 2008
The Future of From Medskool
I haven’t been updating with a lot of regularity recently. Such can be explained by the interview trail. So this huge and massive udpate of From Medskool may come as a surprise. If this is your first time here I’ve recently redone the entire theme. I really have updated everything about the site, including the back end with a new WordPress version, new plugins, updated SQL and all of that.
From Medskool has been going for more than three years now. I find that pretty remarkable. It is a cathartic piece of work, verbose and eccentric and poorly optimized for search engines and just generally not focused on building the biggest readership possible. It started out at Blogger before moving here to this hosting solution and URL provided by Blogs About Hosting.
I had an amazing custom WordPress template created by E. Webscapes and LeeAnn Wildermuth. It was incredible, especially considering how specific I was in my request and price they quoted me. But, in more than two years I mucked around with it, added trinkets, deleted things and before you knew it the tempalte was messed up. Beyond me being able to fix it by myself.
The fact is I’m about to graduate medical school. And while I’d like to continue this blog the title, and that first custom template and some of the themes I cover in my posts will have to change. I imagine my posting will get significantly less frequent as well.
What I want to do, what I’m planning to do, is to go back to E. Webscapes for a new custom design. I’d like to add some new features that promote a more community feel to the site. However, there’s no point in doing that until after I graduate and see what my future holds.
Until then, I’m pretty excited about this new redesign based off the free Mimbo theme. The theme was created by Darren Hoyt and I’m always extremely grateful for designers who put their stuff out for all to use. It has more of a magazine feel.
I encourage you to keep reading and see what the future holds.
Wednesday, August 6th 2008
Blogrolled By The LA Times
Because I’ve recently taken the day-to-day running of Grand Rounds over, From Medskool was blogrolled by the LA Times. And because they listed the medical blogs alphabetically this blog is actually at the top. Pretty cool. There’s a lot of really good blogs listed; everything from big guys like Kevin to small guys like myself. You should go check out as many of them as you can.
Friday, May 27th 2005
Introduction
I am a film student who decided he was called to go to medical school.
This is my second attempt at a blog.
I consider my three month experiment with blogging earlier this year as a learning experience. Yet, the subject matter is the same as the blog that proceeded this one. Their was an evolution process for the content of my previous blog and I feel that because of that the intent of this blog is pretty set.
I’ve basically tried to cover three major areas –
First, I’ve lent an extremely libertarian view to political issues facing all of medicine. I spent significant time talking about the strain of illegal immigration on border region healthcare, the case against universal healthcare, and the need to keep government regulation from limiting doctor and patient decisions.
Second, I’ve tried to provide links and commentary on academic medicine, the med school admission process, and changes in such.
Finally, and this will emerge as the start of my first year draws nearer and nearer, I’d like to give some insight into the, probably fairly boring, day to day experiences of a first year medical student.
