New Blog Shout Out

Trawling this ever expanding medical blogosphere is intoxicating.

There are many great blogs that we read regularly most of which we found by chance or from reading the medical Grand Rounds or SurgeXperiences.

Occasionally though we stumble across amazing pieces of writing and knowledge presentation that few people have discovered. Two of the most promising blogs to have recently entered the fray are Dundee Chest and Micrognome.

Dundee Blogging Network

DundeeChest was set up to help support the phase 2 students within Ninewells Hospital and Medical School during their respiratory medicine rotation. Essentially as a blog to provide extra information after lectures. However the site has become much more than this and is fast becoming an amazing respiratory resource repository, question and answer database, guideline dissemination forum, and locus for student interaction.

Many ‘local’ blogs designed for Universities or Colleges have ‘login’ fields to protect the vast majority of their data. It is therefore refreshing to see such great content and hard work freely available to the medical community.

The success of DundeeChest stimulated other academic departments to get on the e-Learning medical education band-wagon and DundeeHeart, DundeeE-MedEd, DundeePsych, DundeeMicro, CancerDundee, DundeePRN and DundeeBones joined the Dundee Blogging Network.

A word from the μGnome

Creative, intelligent and beautifully written. This blog seeks to use define the ‘language of infection’ through meticulous review of the literature in both senses of the word. Author Dr Tim Inglis is doing a great job and we look forward to seeing the story unfold…

The Micrognome blog is about the microbes that cause disease, the diseases they cause and the causal relationship that links them.

As the language we use to describe new discoveries in biomedical science becomes increasingly complex, fragmented and esoteric, communication between those at the scientific frontier and ordinary victims of infection becomes more difficult.