Melding Traditional Publishing Models with Innovation

What do you get when combining elements of traditional publishing and Internet innovation?

• Professional Copy Editing
• Academic Editors
• Expert Authors
• Google’s Blogger Technology
  

The products produced are peer-reviewed academic journals and medical textbooks that are published with Blogger technology. The educational material is open-access and free to the 6.5 billion readers in the world. We refer to it as "academic publishing with Blogger".

This is exactly what MedRounds has done, and MedRounds will continue to produce high-quality educational materials utilizing Internet technologies to meld text with sound and video.

We proudly announce the release of Cataract Surgery for Greenhorns by Thomas Oetting, MS, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Iowa and mentor to future cataract surgeons at one of the top residency training programs in the world. Dr. Oetting’s book addresses the fundamental skills required for cataract surgery and combines his written knowledge with over one hour of narrated surgical videos.

Furthermore, MedRounds is teaming up with senior editors in the scientific and medical community to launch a peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal, The Journal of Ocular Pathology.

As the Internet becomes more accessible to users around the globe, MedRounds will be there to deliver high quality academic materials to everyone’s home.

Some have asked us why the name “MedRounds”? Students at The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine are taught that the first hospital rooms were built in a circular arrangement within the famous Hopkins Dome. Johns Hopkins was the first medical school to require a four year college degree before matriculation and implemented the first post-graduate residency training program for physicians. When the medical students and residents followed their attending physicians during teaching rounds, they walked from bed to bed, in a circular fashion. Hence, the term “medical rounds” and “teaching rounds” have been used synonymously with medical education for over 100 years.

It is the mission at MedRounds Publications to provide reliable, high-quality teaching materials to students, patients, and physicians at low or no cost.