MedBrains – Connect, collaborate and share

Medbrains.net is the creation of internet designer and developer ‘Luca Hurst’. Medbrains is a ‘medical blog network’ designed to facilitate free and rapid dissemination of medical information/experiences across the internet. 

Medbrains has been built on the Open Source WordPress MU blogging framework under the GPL license and is very simple and efficient to use. The simplicity of the blogging framework should stimulate even the most technophobic physicians to get involved.

Connect, Collaborate & Share

There are already some fantastic medical blogs available on the internet such as GruntDoc. These are great reads in their own right and hold great traction – but for the average technophobic physician, the prospect of designing and creating ones own blog is a little daunting.

In this respect I think that medbrains will do well. I have signed up and started a blog in the emergency medicine section of the website and have been impressed by the lengths the design team have gone to in order to ensure the safe passage of the entry level blogger into the blogging community.

• Simple and uncluttered themes
• Well structured and comprehensive FAQ 
• Good Pluggins such as ‘Google analyticator’
• Simple to incorporate images, videos and presentations

The simplicity of the signup and website creation should stimulate even the least computer-compliant of physicians to dip their toes into the virtual blogosphere. Medbrains has the potential to become an interactive social network for the medical community and act as enormous open access journal with tremendous benefits to the wider community.

One of the beauties of medbrains articles is that they can easily incorporate images, videos and even presentations, making it possible to communicate complex concepts much easier than through traditional mediums.