Body Language

Medical students and others looking for inspiration or just good poetry should check out Body Language: Poems of the Medical Training Experience. This new library book contains poetry by medical students and physicians, chronicling their experiences of medical training and practice. The poems are divided into chapters by phase of training, such as Medical Training, First Year and Resident. Poem titles include "Haiku of Residency" and "Surgery Rotation."

Achieving Excellence in Medical Education

This new book by Richard Gunderman explores the a basic question facing medical educators and learners today: What is our vision of educational excellence, and what can we do to enhance our performance? Achieving Excellence in Medical Education offers theoretical insights and practical suggestions. Among the topics explored are: Educations position as a priority of medical schools, seminal educational insights from non-medical educators, best practices of outstanding educators and learners, promises and pitfalls of new educational technologies, key resources for promoting excellence in medical education, medical educations role in preparing future leaders, leadership roles for medical schools in universities and society.

New Collaborative Medical News Site

Dissect Medicine, a joint initiative of Macmillan Medical Communications and Nature Clinical Practice, is a medical news website that encourages readers to participate. Stories range from general interest articles to basic research. Users of the site may submit news items for review with subject tags and keywords. They are then ranked by the user group. The idea is for the most relevant and influential articles to become headline stories. You may read the stories without registering, but to post links to stories or to vote, you must complete the free registration.

Looking for Medical News Feeds?

Medical Feeds is a directory of RSS feeds for medicine and health. The site has a large number of feeds and includes those for medical professionals and consumers. They are grouped under topics that include the various medical specialties as well as grants and employment. There is also a listing of medical blogs and podcasts.