Medical Blogs and Clinician Blogging; Google Medicine; Homework April 28, 2006
Posted by jaotte in Ethics, Health Care Blogs, Healthcare, Medical School, Medicine.trackback
I am a student representative on the Biomedical Branch Library Committee for the UBC Faculty of Medicine, and I got an interesting e-mail from the committee's chair and web-enthused Reference Librarian, Dean Giustini.
He's been maintaining a blog about Google Scholar and academic searching for some time now, and recently conducted an interview with Dr. Ves Dimov – the operator of ClinicalCases.org. The questions centered around clinician blogging and how online health information is accessed. Read all about Top Physician Bloggers Talk to a Medical Librarian – Part I.
Dean also composed a comprehensive justification for a Google Medicine portal which also has a reference list that may be a good starting point for anyone seriously interested in the topic.
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Incidentally, my proposal for a self-directed project in "Doctor, Patient, and Society" (DPAS) class (for next year) is due on Monday. I have so many ideas fighting it out in my head; for a while, creating some resource for cross-cultural caring ethics was at the top of my list. However, this has recently been overtaken by the urge to create some kind of proposal or review for an authentication/certification scheme for the validity of health information on the Internet. Stay tuned.
Jessica,
Thanks for letting me know about your blogging – I like the grand metaphor of ascension to the summit inherent here. A little like the journey you are on with your classmates.
Come and see me in the library when things get less crazy leading up to your exams. And thank for being a rep on the library committee.
Dean Giustini
UBC Academic Search Google Scholar blog
http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/googlescholar
Jessica:
Thanks for the “shout out” over at Dean’s blog. I appreciate you drawing his attention to my blog.
Also, I’m looking forward to seeing your thoughts about certifying medical information on the Internet (if you blog about it, which I hope you do.)
Best,
Fard
More On Google Health
Dean Giustini, author of the interesting Google Scholar Blog, wrote a comprehensive article about the benefits of a Google Health (he calls it "Google Medicine") portal in January. It's worth a read. (See this post: http://www.healthcarevox.com/2006/05/more_on_google_health.html for my thoughts on Google Health)
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