It is time to close down my other blog, begun with the OB Anesthesia core curriculum lecture series that ran for 6 weeks and finished on October 6th. I started a blog with some additional materials, also some outlines of what we had discussed.
There were two other faculty members with administrative privileges. One sent me an encouraging comment. The other wrote a very nice reflective piece on professionalism that was triggered by an experience during her oral board examination.
I invited all the CA1s and CA2s and got nary a comment. Most residents did not accept the invitation even after repeated friendly encouragement.
Why? I wonder if it was the need to establish a google account -- I don't remember now, but is it necessary to establish an account to access a wordpress blog?
Maybe it just sounded like a waste of time. Perhaps it was -- but I thought there was some interesting stuff on it, including links to videos and some suggested reading material.
Maybe they are just more savvy than I -- and appropriately loathe to commit themselves in writing. I noticed that many of the residents who did accept the invitation to view the blog did so with an email address other than their official (name deleted) .edu address.
My intent was to moderate comments, ensuring that no brand was threatened and no patient identifiers leaked into the blogosphere, even though it is a closed blog, accessible only by invitation, and hidden from any search engines.
The core curriculum module comes back around in 18 months -- I plan to improve it -- and I plan to trot out the blog again and see what happens. Maybe I will put one on Blogger and one on WordPress and see which bait the little fishies nibble at.
Maybe supplying the residents with avatars with fake nose and glasses wasn't such a bad idea?
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
Social Bookmarking Sites
Social Bookmarking sites
I like the way the WEb 2.0 tools are building and starting to interact in my mind. I started a blog for my subspecialty rotation I am responsible for, and invited 2 other faculty authors and some residents as readers. I started a Google reader, and started throwing some feeds into the Internet Explorer RSS gadget (so that's what's under that STAR tab on the window for Explorer). Social bookmarking -- fabulous. I am tired of throwing alot of stuff into Endnote for later reading or for use in projects. I am ending up with a a lot of ENdnote libraries, some at home, some at work. (Yes I know you are supposed to have one big library -- been there, tried that, got the T-shirt, didn't fit, didn't work for me, don't even talk to me about it) CiteULike or Delicious or other may be the trick. Also could use to model how I look at the literature -- share bookmarks with residents on the subspecialty blog. Not that I am the patron saint of literature review, but I think that my little tricks might be useful to residents and could convey some interest and excitement in the field.
Today I skimmed an article on changes in GABAA receptors in postpartum -- might account for depression. Experimental model in some knockout mice. I don't think I will start doing mouse research, and I am not a psychiatrist, but having that reference handy when looking at changes in sensitivity to anesthetics and to pain in pregnancy would be a good thing. Put on a booking site, add the right tags and lo! I might even be able to find it when I want it.
No comments ventured yet on the subspecialty blog. Probably a scary thing for the residents. Who knows what could happen to you? I may have to assign avatars wearing fake noses and glasses to each resident.
I like the way the WEb 2.0 tools are building and starting to interact in my mind. I started a blog for my subspecialty rotation I am responsible for, and invited 2 other faculty authors and some residents as readers. I started a Google reader, and started throwing some feeds into the Internet Explorer RSS gadget (so that's what's under that STAR tab on the window for Explorer). Social bookmarking -- fabulous. I am tired of throwing alot of stuff into Endnote for later reading or for use in projects. I am ending up with a a lot of ENdnote libraries, some at home, some at work. (Yes I know you are supposed to have one big library -- been there, tried that, got the T-shirt, didn't fit, didn't work for me, don't even talk to me about it) CiteULike or Delicious or other may be the trick. Also could use to model how I look at the literature -- share bookmarks with residents on the subspecialty blog. Not that I am the patron saint of literature review, but I think that my little tricks might be useful to residents and could convey some interest and excitement in the field.
Today I skimmed an article on changes in GABAA receptors in postpartum -- might account for depression. Experimental model in some knockout mice. I don't think I will start doing mouse research, and I am not a psychiatrist, but having that reference handy when looking at changes in sensitivity to anesthetics and to pain in pregnancy would be a good thing. Put on a booking site, add the right tags and lo! I might even be able to find it when I want it.
No comments ventured yet on the subspecialty blog. Probably a scary thing for the residents. Who knows what could happen to you? I may have to assign avatars wearing fake noses and glasses to each resident.
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