It is an honor to be nominated for an award at the 2009 Medical Weblog Awards hosted by Medgadget and sponsored by Epocrates. Voting starts Jan 27 2010 and closes Feb 14 2010.
Once again there are some exceptional blogs that made it to this years final short list (and some still on the long list…). I hope the repetition of this list will generate more readers to these fabulous blogs and inspire the authors to continue to write, explore and educate using the medium presented by the Blogosphere.
It has been a very tough blogging year for us since our our success at the 2008 Medical Weblog Awards, and this nomination is the inspiration we all needed to continue to expand and progress our Medical Weblog. 2009 heralded extensive changes to the blog including:
- Changing domain name to lifeinthefastlane.com with the collapse of medbrains.net led to the loss of DMOZ listing; loss of RSS subscribers; loss of blog status and being shunned by both Google and Technorati. However, thanks to the support of the medical blogging community, there is some hope that we made be re-instated as a blog sometime in 2010
- Expansion of the physician writing team has provided a wider range of clinical cases and blogging ideas, and re-kindled the educational ethos of the blog.
- 2009 saw the birth of the Utopian College of Emergency for Medicine
Best Clinical Sciences Weblog (Vote here)
- Alergy Notes; Educational updates on asthma, allergy, anaphylaxis by @Allergy (aka DrVes). As with his Clinical Cases blog, Dr Ves weaves new updates in pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment through a structured framework of interlaced clinical problems. First rate educational resource.
- Clinical Cases and Images: Educational updates in clinical medicine, social media, blogging and microblogging. @DrVes is one of the leading exponents of medical education integration and dissemination in the microblogging field with his Health News of the Day.
- Clinical Correlations; The NYU Department of Medicine educational website has it all! This one-stop shop of medical blogs includes great posts on clinical examination, weekly journal review (Primecuts), Chief of Service Rounds (clinical case review) all wrapped up in a well maintained, clean and crisp website structure.
- Renal Fellow Network: A website written for renal fellows, by renal fellows…but provising very useful and insightful information for non-renal fellows interested in the workings of kidneys, renal function and dialysis from a cellular level to the bedside.
- Life in the Fast Lane
Cast your vote for best Clinical Science Weblog 2009
Best New Medical Weblog (est in 2009) (Vote here)
Best Health Policies/Ethics Weblog (Vote here)
Best Literary Medical Weblog (Vote here)
Best Informatics Weblog (Vote here)
Best Patients Blog (Vote here )
Best Medical Weblog 2009 (Vote here)
- The Blog that Ate Manhattan
- Clinical Cases and Images
- Clinical Correlations
- Dr Shock MD PhD
- Gary Schwitzer’s HealthNewsReview Blog
- mobihealthnews
- Musings of a Distractible Mind
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