Social media FTW: Mayo Clinic offers early access for journalists and bloggers in health news

Recently launched "Mayo Clinic News Network" is billed as multimedia source for journalists, health science and research of information: http://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org

No cost, password-protected site for journalists offers the latest medical news, video, graphics, and links to background, interviews, animation experts and patient. Journalists from TV, radio, newspapers, Blogsand mobile platforms are invited to visit our website http://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org and register. Pending approval, you will have access to this rich source of multimedia content.

Equipped with high quality video from the Mayo Clinic about CasesBlog 2-3 times a month, and after some brief account recorded and applied for access. I'll let you know if a medical blog with 7 million page views qualify for access to Mayo Clinic news network or not (update: the application has been approved).

The ACP's flagship magazine, Annals of Internal Medicine, already includes medical bloggers in their press release embargo before each new number.

The ACP internist site took a step further and includes guest post by hand doctor blogger (disclaimer: I'm one of the authors selected). Many of the posts are very interesting and cover a wide range of topics. You can see it here: http://blog.acpinternist.org

Congratulations to the ACP editor Ryan DuBosar, who is leading the medical initiative blog there: http://blog.acpinternist.org/2012/05/qd-news-every-day-nearly-1-in-8-doctors.html

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Off to Beijing for National Cancer Institute workshop for Chinese journalists

photo by Jorge Lascar on Flickr

The website will be on hold over the next week, as I’m traveling to Beijing to help lead a workshop for Chinese journalists hosted by the National Cancer Institute and the Cancer Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.

This will be the third international journalism workshop I’ve done with the National Cancer Institute – with several more on the horizon within the next year.

We are gratified to see the global reach of efforts like ours – built on the pioneering work done by an Australian team that founded the first Media Doctor site two years before we got started.  Now, as the yellow stars on the map below show, such projects have sprung up around the world.  And the invitations for talks and workshops, like the upcoming one in Beijing, continue to come in.

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