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Ok, so I have been looking around for some good med school blogs to maybe make a blogring for that ISN'T Xanga related. That way we can create a sort of support network/feedback for each other. I actually use squarespace which puts me in the 1% (the rest use Xanga, Blogspot, Blogger, or Wordpress) so I have to find people manually :-/ Anyways, if anyone has a blog feel free to list it below. Thanks! 🙂

Mine: http://www.themedschoolblog.com
http://www.texasphysician.blogspot.com
http://www.medschoolmemoir.com/
http://medzag.blogspot.com/
http://brownmedstudent.wordpress.com/
http://www.stuffmedicalstudentslike.com/
http://rebeccahouse.blogspot.com/
http://chakurino.blogspot.com/
http://mdjosephkim.blogspot.com/
http://www.detroitmed.blogspot.com/
http://www.iddxblog.com/
 
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WhereDoesItHurt said:
Ok, so I have been looking around for some good med school blogs to maybe make a blogring for that ISN'T Xanga related. That way we can create a sort of support network/feedback for each other. I actually use squarespace which puts me in the 1% (the rest use Xanga, Blogspot, Blogger, or Wordpress) so I have to find people manually :-/ Anyways, if anyone has a blog feel free to list it below. Thanks! 🙂

Mine: http://www.themedschoolblog.com
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Your blog is awesome!

keep up the good work.
 
There's a few of us lurking around here.
 
Awesome! I didn't think this thread would survive haha. I'll be sure to add everyone to mine and check them all out and thank you to TheMemoirist for the kind words 🙂
 
i rarely talk about anything good. mostly i just review movies i get off of netflix. but heck, i'll add mine. it's in my signature.
 
I don't mean to troll (came here looking for good blogs), but why do some many people blog especially about medical school. It's kinda like a diary with all the interesting parts removed. I understand that they can be incredibly useful resources and ideally break up the clutter on boards like these with (removing what's med school like questions). But for every great one there are ten bad ones. And not bad in the way I'd expect (incredibly boring) but rather they make a mountain out of a mole hill (I had anatomy for the first time today and we cut people open!!!). The majority of them die within a couple months, but why does everyone think they can blog? Sorry if this came off kinda harsh but this blogging fad is start to get absurd.
 
rebelsim said:
I don't mean to troll (came here looking for good blogs), but why do some many people blog especially about medical school. It's kinda like a diary with all the interesting parts removed. I understand that they can be incredibly useful resources and ideally break up the clutter on boards like these with (removing what's med school like questions). But for every great one there are ten bad ones. And not bad in the way I'd expect (incredibly boring) but rather they make a mountain out of a mole hill (I had anatomy for the first time today and we cut people open!!!). The majority of them die within a couple months, but why does everyone think they can blog? Sorry if this came off kinda harsh but this blogging fad is start to get absurd.
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I can only speak from my own personal experience, but you're right, a lot of the time it is essentially a diary. Like back in the livejournal days, I used to keep one that only a few close friends read, but it became an interesting way to sort of log what I've been through. I read through it every once in a while when I get nostalgic. To some people stuff like cutting people open for the first time is a monumental occasion, it can be life altering - it's a transition to a new phase in their lives. Sure, it's common place on SDN, but in the real world it isn't.

Is it possible to keep a private journal? sure. Is blogging much more interesting and fun? certainly. I guess the bottom line is that most people aren't there trying to entertain you, they do it for themselves and the people they know. This line has been beaten to death time and time again, but I find that it holds true - if you find it boring, don't read it.
 
ymnCheetos said:
I can only speak from my own personal experience, but you're right, a lot of the time it is essentially a diary. Like back in the livejournal days, I used to keep one that only a few close friends read, but it became an interesting way to sort of log what I've been through. I read through it every once in a while when I get nostalgic. To some people stuff like cutting people open for the first time is a monumental occasion, it can be life altering - it's a transition to a new phase in their lives. Sure, it's common place on SDN, but in the real world it isn't.

Is it possible to keep a private journal? sure. Is blogging much more interesting and fun? certainly. I guess the bottom line is that most people aren't there trying to entertain you, they do it for themselves and the people they know. This line has been beaten to death time and time again, but I find that it holds true - if you find it boring, don't read it.
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Amen to that. I find that the most of the blogs I read are about people I know and it's nice to see what they are up to. But it seems that this post is about general interest blogs that present a view of medicine from a medical students point of view (of interest to laymen, medical students, and pre-meds alike). I just wanted to express my opinion that the blogging "industry" is quickly become saturated with people that feel their experience (in the case of medschool blogs) is unique or interesting. I think my prior post and definitely this post come off as anti-medschool blog but I assure you they are just general anti-blog. I have tried to become involved with too many blogs that are just "I passed my first quiz it sure was tough medschool is different" or "I went to a party last night and it was fun".
 
rebelsim said:
Amen to that. I find that the most of the blogs I read are about people I know and it's nice to see what they are up to. But it seems that this post is about general interest blogs that present a view of medicine from a medical students point of view (of interest to laymen, medical students, and pre-meds alike). I just wanted to express my opinion that the blogging "industry" is quickly become saturated with people that feel their experience (in the case of medschool blogs) is unique or interesting. I think my prior post and definitely this post come off as anti-medschool blog but I assure you they are just general anti-blog. I have tried to become involved with too many blogs that are just "I passed my first quiz it sure was tough medschool is different" or "I went to a party last night and it was fun".
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Agreed. You're seeing this in all arenas of blogging right now, from sports to politics to business. Nowadays it's not just enough to have a blog. You need to bring something unique to the table. I've struggled with trying to find my blogging "voice" in the 14 months since I started mine. It's fluctuated from diary to venting outlet to my place to comment on issues. I think I found my voice best when I simply used it to tell stories. I'm incredibly sarcastic, but unfortunately that sarcasm doesn't have an appropriate outlet within a "professional" environment. So the blog has been my way of teasing out humor in situations I've been in. That's kind of the voice I've found, each blogger eventually finds their own, or goes the way of the dodo.
 
I blog because it's a nice break from my day and helps me recap everything that had transpired that day. I also enjoy doing something somewhat creative and if nothing else putting stupid captions on pictures. I know there was some blog hating earlier in the thread. Hell, I was a hater before too. But now that I have something somewhat substantial to write about or at least interesting, I feel that I can justify it. Anyways, thanks to all of the adds, I'm gonna compile them once I get time and add them all to the first post if possible.
 
FoundationsFan5 said:
Ugh. I still can't tell whether it's sarcastic, serious, or both.

Here's my prediction for the rest of the Top 10:

5) Hating corporations
6) iTunes
7) Coffee
8) BRS
9) Securalism
10) BBC world
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Tongue-in-cheek, definitely. Satirical stuff. 😀
 
FoundationsFan5 said:
Ugh. I still can't tell whether it's sarcastic, serious, or both.

Here's my prediction for the rest of the Top 10:

5) Hating corporations
6) iTunes
7) Coffee
8) BRS
9) Securalism
10) BBC world
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I predict:
5) Wearing scrubs
6) Doing "high-yield" activities
7) Interest groups
8) Caffeine
9) Rural/Urban clinics (especially for minority patients)
19) Hating on big pharm
 
kevster2001 said:
I predict:
5) Wearing scrubs
6) Doing "high-yield" activities
7) Interest groups
8) Caffeine
9) Rural/Urban clinics (especially for minority patients)
19) Hating on big pharm
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apart from wearing scrubs, i'd say this is so true for at least my school. also, i'm not so sure universal health care or the Times are a big deal to most med students I know.
 
If you're familiar with the growing trend towards incorporating narrative medicine into practice and medical education, where medical students and physicians write about their experiences (which can be a form of therapy even), then blogging is narrative medicine for the internet age.

I think blogging can be therapeutic and offers a great resource for med students to link together or even share experiences about their times in med school.

I've started blogging to put into words my experiences over the past two years looking back at my personality before med school and the lessons I learned (not necessarily facts).

http://themedstudentexperience.blogspot.com

It's just the beginning of what I hope will be a great resource for fellow med students or pre-med students or others just interested in following me as I look back on my experiences. feel free to check it out. I really appreciate all the links out there for other medical blogs. It's helpful to have them in one location.
 
Am I the only one that uses LiveJournal 🙁
 
I just posted a virtually identical message on another thread, so if you read it there, ignore me.

I have a blog that I have been running for about a year. I'm a non-traditional student. I'm married, with a child and a career. When I began the application process, I tried to find personal accounts of the road ahead of me, but couldn't find what I was looking for. I hope that my blog will provide to other people what I couldn't find back then.

It's been a fun experience to keep the blog. It's been a nice way to "meet" a few students before I start school in the fall. I also enjoy reading back and observing how my perspective has changed over time. I hope to keep the blog going throughout my training and beyond.
 
I blog too, and I figured it couldn't hurt to toss in my two cents about med school bloggers.

I'm not the sort that enjoys blogging about the day to day stuff, because seriously, it is pretty mundane (I woke up, I went to class, I studied, I went to bed, repeat). That said, I feel like there is a lot of stuff that goes on in medical school that is far from the every day. I mean, I used to be a college undergrad. Since those days, I've dissected dead people, done rectal exams, drained abscesses, done CPR, seen babies born and people die in a welter of blood in the ED.

Those experiences are certainly not what I do every day, but they've been things I have seen here in medical school, and one would have to have a heart of stone for those things not to evoke thoughts and feelings. And so I feel like a way for me to process and reflect on these crazy experiences is by writing about them. And while I could certainly write about them in my private, paper-and-pen journal, I feel like these experiences (and mayyyybe my reflections on them) are worth sharing should anyone care to read 'em, so why not post it online?

Anyhow, that was a long schpiel. Here's the link to my blog! Thanks for reading!

http://chevaliermalfet.wordpress.com/
 
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