MDPhDs.org

We’re excited to announce a new addition to our site: a MDPhDs.org bookstore. We’ve partnered with Amazon.com in an attempt to raise some funds to keep the site up and running on the server.

The store opens with 4 categories:

• Applying to Medical School
• Science Writing
• Medical Writing
• Great Neuroscience reads (because that’s my bias).

So, if you’re looking for some good reading material, please check out the site store and support MDPhDs.org.  Thanks.

We’ve rolled out a news feature that I think many of you will really like.  Modeled on the popular social news site, Digg.com, we’ve installed an open source news application.  I’ve put a few articles up to get things started.  Please register a user name and start an account and start contributing.  I think this offers some advantages over a bulletin board.  Plus, you can subscribe to updates with an RSS feed.  You’ll need to register in order to vote for good stories (SPAM has been a problem).  We especially hope that users will link to new updates on school/program websites as waiting lists progress, as new interview status check pages, etc.

The article categories include Admissions Residency & Postdoc MD PhD Training Programs Science / Discoveries Research Funding.

We hope you find this a useful feature.  As usual, send us feedback and leave comments here on this blog.

-B