Blog About It

Whether your medical career is underway or just starting out, you may enjoy reading and sharing viewpoints with other medical professionals. Blogs geared toward medical professionals can help you gain insight and new perspective on medical professionals' lives.

The BMJ Publishing Group's Doctor's Blog: thoughts and opinion from the wards is designed as "professional networking community for healthcare professionals worldwide." Recent entries included Recollections of a soldier doctor and We have to go to the books which describes how a medical team turned to medical information sources to try to diagnose a complex case.

Children's National Medical Center's Pediatric Career: questions and answers about your journey is geared toward medical students who are considering a career in pediatrics as well as pediatrics residents. It is written by pediatrics faculty to "help answer the questions we've been asked over the years serving as advisors to medical students and residents navigating their way towards a pediatric career." Recent entries include Does Fellowship Pay? (a new study in Pediatrics) and From Gattaca to Genetics (from Sci Fi to Fellowship) which describes how information from genetic sequencing can be applied to patient care.