The Lancet, one of the world's leading general medical journals, has launched a new website exclusively for medical students worldwide.
Many students may already be familiar with www.thelancet.com, the main online portal for The Lancet family of journals, which has attracted 1.6 million registered users since its launch in 1996.
But TheLancetStudent.com is going to be something rather different, according to David Allen of The Lancet. "All content on the new site is selected for its relevance and interest to a student audience. In fact, much of it will be written by students themselves."
The Lancet is well known for its leadership role in bringing pressing global health needs and issues of health inequality to a wider audience. These are issues of increasing interest to the world's medical students as so many more of them now opt for overseas electives, often in the developing world. So global health issues will take centre stage on the new site. Rhona MacDonald, The Lancet editor charged with overseeing TheLancetStudent.com (she's also a former editor of the Student BMJ!) tells us:
" TheLancetStudent.com will be a great place for students themselves to write about global health issues and other international medical areas. We hope they will submit reports on their own electives to us so that these can be shared with medical students worldwide. Users will also be able to read a free weekly summary of The Lancet's content, comment on the daily blog and access many of the global health resources of the main Lancet site.
She added "There will also be weekly online polls - and the opportunity to test your clinical knowledge with Crash Course Quizzes."
Please visit TheLancetStudent.com and let them know what you think of the site and what you want from it. The Lancet team tell us: " TheLancetStudent.com is YOUR site and we want to shape and develop it with your help."
- Write about global health issues and other international medical areas
- Read a free weekly summary of The Lancet's content
- Comment on the daily blog
- Take part in online polls and Crash Course Quizzes
- Use the global health resources of The Lancet
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