Since I want to be a doctor I also enjoy reading medical news and research articles. I imagine most people are the same way. Where do you go to get the latest news and research? Currently I get RSS feeds from WebMD Health, Medscape headlines as well as a regular email from NEJM (just their journal teaser however). I'd love to know what others are doing. Thanks.
Medical News and Research
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Have you heard of igoogle? It's my homepage where you can add these "gadgets" that provide news feeds from all kinds of sources like: webmd, harvard med, jama, nejm, NIH, news from mayo clinic, medicine net daily news, medical news today. Theirs a lot out there, its pretty cool. You should check it out.
I have heard of igoogle, it is pretty cool. The big concern about getting feeds from more than a few sources is that you end the day with about 1000 articles. It would be nice to know a source that weeds through them and picks out the "good stuff"
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I'm a fan of Google Reader as well, but you'll run into the same issue of having way too much material. I am a fan of WIRED Science, MedGadget, and the TIME Health & Science section, but these all have a techy slant 🙂
Nature and New England Journal of Medicine are more well-rounded. You can follow many of these in Google Reader.
Nature and New England Journal of Medicine are more well-rounded. You can follow many of these in Google Reader.
Thanks. Sounds right for me seeing as I already read engadget and gizmodo
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Make your own news.
When I first started this research gig that I'm on, I wasn't sure how much I'd **** it. Now that I've done a lot with it, it is actually pretty fun. Th stuff I'm working on is pretty cutting-edge, and I am also learning a lot about ultrasound. These US studies always just looked like a mess to me, but now that I've seen a bunch of them, I am starting to make sense of it.
If you're into this sort of thing, try to get in on some research after your first year. If there's nothing that interests you going on at your school, find somewhere that they're doing cool stuff.
For me, that was easy. I'm in Atlanta, with Emory and the CDC, and a lot of the docs here are into some cool stuff. I got to know them a little by volunteering, and then I made it clear that I was willing to work my ass off, which I have. But it is fun.
When I first started this research gig that I'm on, I wasn't sure how much I'd **** it. Now that I've done a lot with it, it is actually pretty fun. Th stuff I'm working on is pretty cutting-edge, and I am also learning a lot about ultrasound. These US studies always just looked like a mess to me, but now that I've seen a bunch of them, I am starting to make sense of it.
If you're into this sort of thing, try to get in on some research after your first year. If there's nothing that interests you going on at your school, find somewhere that they're doing cool stuff.
For me, that was easy. I'm in Atlanta, with Emory and the CDC, and a lot of the docs here are into some cool stuff. I got to know them a little by volunteering, and then I made it clear that I was willing to work my ass off, which I have. But it is fun.
