Last year, when we were still considered a blog, Life in the Fast Lane was lucky enough to win the Best New Medical Weblog for 2008. Now the time has come to consider all the great blogs, posts and inspirational medical writing that constitutes the Medical Blogosphere in 2009…so get your nominations in and show your support for your favorite Medical Weblogs of 2009.
With 2009 now in the history books, it’s time to select last year’s best of the best in the medical blogosphere. This is the sixth year of the competition and these awards are designed to showcase the best medblogs, and to highlight the exciting and useful role that the medical blogosphere plays in medicine and society.
The categories for this year’s awards are:
Best Medical Weblog Best New Medical Weblog (established in 2009) Best Literary Medical Weblog Best Clinical Sciences Weblog Best Health Policies/Ethics Weblog Best Medical Technologies/Informatics Weblog Best Patient’s Blog
Nominations are now being accepted on the Medgadget Comments Section of the Awards post and nominees are posted here. The following time-line exists:
Nominations will be accepted until Sunday, January 24, 2010. We will announce the finalists on Monday, January 25, 2010. Polls will be open from Wednesday, January 27, 2010 and will close 12 midnight on Sunday, February 14, 2010 (EST). Winners will be announced on Friday, February 19, 2010.
This year’s competition is sponsored by Epocrates, developers of the #1 medical application trusted by over 900,000 healthcare professionals.
Here are our recommendations for nomination
- Best Medical Weblog: The Poison Review – new, quirky, authoritative and utterly addictive: the ultimate blogging guide to clinical toxicology and the world of poisons. should also be nominated for best new medical blog.
- Best New Medical Weblog (established in 2009): Academic Life in Emergency Medicine – a fantastic guide to academic world of emergency medicine that is authoritative and overflowing with usefulness.
- Best Literary Medical Weblog: BitingTheDust – one of the most unique health blogs around – the life, letters and remote realism of an outback pharmacist.
- Best Clinical Sciences Weblog: The Poison Review – see above.
- Best Medical Technologies/Informatics Weblog: Laika’s MedLibLog - A brilliant guide to the art and science of discovering the medical information you need.
- Best Medical Weblog – Clinical Cases
- Best New Medical Weblog (established in 2009) – StorytellER doc
- Best Literary Medical Weblog – other things amanzi
- Best Clinical Sciences Weblog – Clinical Correlations
- Best Health Policies/Ethics Weblog – Respectful Insolence
- Best Medical Technologies/Informatics Weblog – Australian Health IT
- Best Patient’s Blog – Six Until me
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