You Should Know About: Medscape’s Pre-Rounds
For those of you trying to learn more about the ever-growing healthcare blogosphere, you should know about and read Medscape’s Pre-Rounds (registration required). Pre-Rounds is a weekly column written by Nicholas Genes, MD, PhD a resident in emergency medicine at New York City’s Mount Sinai hospital. Each week Genes highlights the author of a well-known healthcare blog who has agreed to host that week’s Grand Rounds, a collection of posts from the healthcare blogosphere.
Various healthcare blog celebrities like Medpundit, Matthew Holt (The Healthcare Blog) and Derek Lowe (In the Pipeline) host the Grand Rounds each week. By reading Genes’ weekly column, you will learn more about the various people that inhabit and contribute to the healthcare blogosphere.
The first Grand Rounds appeared in September 2004. Since then, it has grown into a much-anticipated weekly event that healthcare bloggers ensure they note on their blogs — usually with this simple phrase: “Grand Rounds is up.” For those new to the healthcare blogosphere, this phrase doesn’t mean much. For the initiated, it means a heck of a lot.
Sample this week’s Grand Rounds at Science and Politics.
Intueri will be the site of next week’s Grand Rounds (2/14/06).
To keep track of each week’s Grand Rounds schedule, please visit Genes’ blog.
