What journals and blogs do you read?

[isix]

Journalwatch is really awesome for sending short summaries of all the new papers. ACP Journal Club is good too.

Awesome! Just bookmarked this and Lancet. Hopefully soon I can just be lazy and skim the emails

[medaholic]

Favorite Blogs to follow in no particular order

 

http://doccartoon.blogspot.com/

http://www.inwhiteink.com/

http://ifinding.blogspot.com/

http://www.medhopeful.com/

http://allbleedingstops.blogspot.com/

http://theunderweardrawer.blogspot.com/

http://www.postsecret.com/

http://blog.vitummedicinus.com/ (hasn't been updated in a long time)

 

Journals

- none at the moment, having a hard enough time catching up on all those years of "landmark" papers I should know haha.

[hking03]

medaholic's blog is pretty pimp.

 

just sayin'

 

i like mine too... but i've been lazy/busy these last couple of weeks. i promise, i'll update more regularly soon enough.

[psychoswim]

For comics, I adore PHD comics and XKCD.

[isix]

My favs: XKCD and Scandinavia and the World

 

Surviving the World is also great

[EoE]

Ya ya, seconding xkcd and PHD and A Cartoon Guide to Becoming a Doctor. I also read Penny Arcade (although it has been kinda weak recently), which is about video games. I check the photoblogs The Big Picture and Daily Dose of Imagery as well.

 

Also seconding Medaholic's p.i.m.p. blog. I think everyone on here is a little addicted to the medahol. Thanks for posting on my blog medaholic! I kinda feel like I was visited by a dignitary knowing you were on my blog...

[idiopathic]

Awesome thread! Loving this interest in the blogging community.

Some of the ones I read have been mentioned already, but most notably:

1. Medaholic

2. Medhopeful

3. Dr. Ottematic - a resident in family med who updates pretty regularly. http://drottematic.wordpress.com/

4. Ah Yes, Med School. He stopped updating a while ago but the stuff is so golden. http://ahyesmedschool.blogspot.com/

5. And a shameless plug for my (primitive) new blog! See signature

[psychoswim]

I just took a look (well actually went through all the posts!) at your new blog idiopathic... I love it!

[Karma]

Your blog looks great idiopathic, put it on my to read list after exams are over

[idiopathic]

Thanks psychoswim and Karma! Glad it's finally summer now so more time can be put into it. I'm going to be perusing through the other blogs here too

[medaholic]

haha you guys are too flattering... seriously, i'm just a regular med student.

 

Anyways, have to give credit to those who have gone ahead of me. Here are some retired (not updating anymore) blogs

 

http://ahyesmedschool.blogspot.com/

http://www.grahamazon.com/over/

http://halfmd.wordpress.com/

http://blog.vitummedicinus.com/

http://trismus1.wordpress.com/ (Private now)

http://www.medschoolhell.com/

[thatonekid]

I've never been much of a blog person, but now I've found myself reading a bunch of the ones posted in this thread.

[Cnussey]

Journal of Neuroscience

American Paediatrics

The Journal produced by RASC (astrophysics)

[larva]

This thread has caused a massive loss of productivity for me. So many interesting blogs out there!

 

Here is one that hasn't been mentioned:

 

http://blog.jayparkinsonmd.com/

 

I admire his innovation!! Every field needs creative thinkers to spice things up for the rest of us.

[EoE]

Journal of Neuroscience

American Paediatrics

The Journal produced by RASC (astrophysics)

 

An eclectic mix... although you will make a great spacechildbrain doctor.

 

So your first and third journals are legit (I checked), but I have never heard of American Paediatrics... Is that a joke? It is the British spelling of pediatrics (with the ae) but the 'American' journal?! The two big peds journals are 'Pediatrics' and 'Journal of Pediatrics'. Confusion.

[Cnussey]

An eclectic mix... although you will make a great spacechildbrain doctor.

 

So your first and third journals are legit (I checked), but I have never heard of American Paediatrics... Is that a joke? It is the British spelling of pediatrics (with the ae) but the 'American' journal?! The two big peds journals are 'Pediatrics' and 'Journal of Pediatrics'. Confusion.

 

Aren't you anal. I spell paediatrics the way I like. I didn't take the time to look up the correct spelling of the journal and your going to chastise me and claim it's illegit? Cripes man, get a life. It's an american paediatric journal.

[osteon]

An eclectic mix... although you will make a great spacechildbrain doctor.

 

So your first and third journals are legit (I checked), but I have never heard of American Paediatrics... Is that a joke? It is the British spelling of pediatrics (with the ae) but the 'American' journal?! The two big peds journals are 'Pediatrics' and 'Journal of Pediatrics'. Confusion.

 

Why you even checked to ensure the journals are legit confuses me.

[EoE]

Ah you folks missed that I was not serious (but I was confused)!

 

Hopefully its not so anal when you see my thought process: I know JPeds and Peds so I was confused when I saw American Pediatrics was a journal. In peds research it makes a big difference if you are referring to JPeds or Peds. When I saw that there may be a general peds journal I may have been missing all these years I looked for it. I would probably keep an eye on another big peds journal especially if I had been missing it. But American Paediatrics doesn't exist. So then I checked on the other two journals thinking the post was a joke I didn't really get... But the other two journals were legit... And are very very disparate. So I posted wondering what was up...

 

You spell paediatrics any way you want! I could hardly care.

[limoncello]

This thread has caused a massive loss of productivity for me. So many interesting blogs out there!

 

Here is one that hasn't been mentioned:

 

http://blog.jayparkinsonmd.com/

 

I admire his innovation!! Every field needs creative thinkers to spice things up for the rest of us.

 

This is great, thanks!

[EoE]

Here is a question relating to a blog... What does it mean to 'curbside' someone in medicine?

 

Maybe this is not a medical term. I read it in the Incidental Findings blog. For context, this is the sentence: "I tracked down results of tests and curbsided attendings left and right."

[psychoswim]

Here is a question relating to a blog... What does it mean to 'curbside' someone in medicine?

 

Maybe this is not a medical term. I read it in the Incidental Findings blog. For context, this is the sentence: "I tracked down results of tests and curbsided attendings left and right."

 

I think it just means asking for informal consultations.

[EoE]

I think it just means asking for informal consultations.

 

Ah! Thanks.

[Cnussey]

Ah you folks missed that I was not serious (but I was confused)!

 

Hopefully its not so anal when you see my thought process: I know JPeds and Peds so I was confused when I saw American Pediatrics was a journal. In peds research it makes a big difference if you are referring to JPeds or Peds. When I saw that there may be a general peds journal I may have been missing all these years I looked for it. I would probably keep an eye on another big peds journal especially if I had been missing it. But American Paediatrics doesn't exist. So then I checked on the other two journals thinking the post was a joke I didn't really get... But the other two journals were legit... And are very very disparate. So I posted wondering what was up...

 

You spell paediatrics any way you want! I could hardly care.

 

You caught me in a particularly pissy mood and am sorry for being so cranky over your questioning. I receive Pediatrics to my inbox along with the Journal of Neuroscience (SFN)...and I'm a member of the RASC. The mix comes from a) When I decided I wanted to go into medicine, I had just had my first baby and was interested in paediatrics as a starting point for researching the process; I was an astrophysics major...nuff said; c) am a neuroscience major...lol...nuff said.

[EoE]

No worries!

[Chantalle47]

Yay! Cerena's comics are especially cute

I also keep up with Hyperbole and a Half (SUCH a funny blog), smitten kitchen, and two peas and their pod. For journals, every Thursday I check out Nature.com for interesting stuff. Ima nerd who likes to laugh and cook what can I say.

 

Hyperbole and a half is my favourite thing ever