Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Medical Blogging is Legit! Don't Think So? Read On...

Although not as prestigious as a peer reviewed publication in a high impact journal, medical blogging is a legitimate (academic) exercise .

This paper, recently published, in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, uniquely highlights the content and quality of infectious diseases blogs. 

Blogging has its value and is a means of communicating timely issues and content.

The key is to keep the blog short (less than 1000 words), provide relevant hyperlinks, and have an 'angle', a perspective.  Make it meaningful. Wit and humor help too.

In my opinion, for an academician, medical blogging is complementary to publishing peer reviewed work.

Blog on.