Pinilla Severin, Weckbach Ludwig T, Alig Stefan K, Bauer Helen, Noerenberg Daniel, Singer Katharina, Tiedt Steffen
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Mercator Kolleg, Munich, Germany.
GMS Z Med Ausbild. 2013;30(1):Doc9. doi: 10.3205/zma000852. Epub 2013 Feb 21.
Blogging is an increasingly popular method of sharing and reflecting on experiences of medical students in the World Wide Web with a potentially global learning community. The authors are not aware of studies that specifically examined blogs by medical students and thus for the first time investigated the type of experiences and impressions that emerged from these blogs with relevance for medical students and medical educators.
This was a qualitative study. Initially 75 blogs were identified. 33 blogs with a total of 1228 English and 337 German blog entries met the inclusion criteria and were analyzed. We started with line-by-line coding and switched to focused coding using constant comparative analysis to create a categorical framework for blogs.
Medical students use blogs to write and reflect about a large variety of issues related to medical school. Major emerging themes included the preparation for written and oral high-stakes exams, experiences during clinical rotations, dealing with distressing situations during medical school, and social life of students beyond medical school.
Our findings suggest that blogs are a potentially useful tool for medical students to reflect on their experiences during medical school as well as for medical educators to better understand how students perceive their time in medical school. The educational benefit of blogging might even be increased if trained medical educators would help to facilitate meaningful and targeted discussions emerging from blog entries and comment on students' learning challenges with the chance to reach a large community of learners.
博客是一种越来越流行的方式，用于在万维网上与潜在的全球学习社区分享和反思医学生的经历。作者不知道有专门研究医学生博客的研究，因此首次调查了这些博客中出现的与医学生和医学教育工作者相关的经历类型和印象。
这是一项定性研究。最初识别出75个博客。33个博客，共1228篇英文和337篇德文博客文章符合纳入标准并进行了分析。我们从逐行编码开始，然后使用持续比较分析转向聚焦编码，以创建博客的分类框架。
医学生使用博客来撰写和反思与医学院相关的各种各样的问题。主要出现的主题包括准备高风险的笔试和口试、临床轮转期间的经历、医学院期间应对令人痛苦的情况以及医学院之外学生的社交生活。
我们的研究结果表明，博客对于医学生反思他们在医学院的经历以及医学教育工作者更好地理解学生如何看待他们在医学院的时光可能是一个有用的工具。如果受过培训的医学教育工作者能够帮助促进从博客文章中产生有意义和有针对性的讨论，并对学生的学习挑战进行评论，从而有机会接触到大量的学习者群体，那么博客的教育益处甚至可能会增加。
