Blog Feed: Web 2.0 and Medicine

Medical Residency Timeline for International Medical Graduates

Published on 2009-12-06 13:49:00

Medicine 2.0 : Applying what has been learned

Published on 2008-06-20 11:59:00

It has been a long time since my last post. I have been busy working in different personal things. But a post by Bertalan Meskó make think about something that I realized long time ago. The key for a development of a culture of Medicine 2.0 is educa

Medicine 2.0 : Copyright or Creative Commons ?

Published on 2007-12-02 10:41:00

A AWiki is an useful tool in the Web 2.0 environment. We can use it to collaborate with our colleagues to create knowledge online. Some days ago I read a post about Wiserwiki, a new project launched by Elsevier. This is not the only medical wiki tha

Web Conference in Medicine 2.0 : Tool to Connect Doctors

Published on 2007-11-29 20:30:00

T Two days ago I received an invitation to try the Beta version of DimDim. This is a free web meeting conference tool. It is not the only one that exist, but this is free, open source, with a general public license. After I tried it, I can say that I

Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival

Published on 2007-11-27 08:05:00

I I want to start this post by saying that all the articles I have received to make this blog carnival are excellent. All of them have made me think deeply about the fact that knowledge begins with conversation. Being informed is so important and we

Web 2.0: Medical e-books and the Importance of Digital Literacy

Published on 2007-11-24 08:56:17

F ew weeks ago I went to UCLA Medical Center. Medical students were presenting their posters about the work they did during the summer. There were many interesting ones, but there was one that caught my attention. It was about how publishers are chan

Web 2.0 and Medicine: It is about having Digital Creativity

Published on 2007-11-22 16:02:00

I In the previous post I wrote that to learn about Web 2.0 and Medicine is as important as to learn how to write. But the main idea here, it is to realize that with the technologies we have on our desks, we can express our ideas and share our knowled

Why is Important to Learn About Web 2.0 and Medicine ?

Published on 2007-11-14 09:20:00

I have been learning about the Web 2.0 for more than a year. Since February I have been writing about it in this blog. The purpose is to share with others what I know, to get more and more people involved with it. Not all my colleagues I have talked

Digital Literacy: How to Search the Web

Published on 2007-11-09 10:21:00

W e are living in the era of information. Information is knowledge, and knowledge is power. But how to find what you look for? That is why it is important to learn and to develop "digital literacy skills". Nowadays it is so common to find patients wh

Medicine 2.0 : Blog Carnival # 11

Published on 2007-10-31 08:10:00

W hat's a blog carnival? It's a quick way to keep up to date on the "blogosphere" around a particular subject -- in this case, Medicine 2.0, the intersection of health care and the social Web. "A blog carnival is a type of blog event. It is similar

Digital Literacy: Find Whatever You Need for Medicine

Published on 2007-10-29 08:39:00

Y esterday I received an email from a friend. He asked about information to do a protocol. He told me he did his research for information in Google, but this was not useful. I think it was not useful because he did not know how how look for the infor