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Bertalan Mesko (Berci), founder of ScienceRoll

Image by testdriverone via Flickr I had the honour to meet Bertalan Mesko this week at the Zorg 2.0 conference in Nijmegen. The 24-year old medical Hungarian student and internet entrepreneur with Webicina.com. The medical library world knows him as the person behind ScienceRoll , one of the most read medical blogs about web 2.0 and the mash-up with health care. He spoke about the use of communities for professionals in health care. With the use of Second Life as educational tool, the experience of two communities and how the training can be embedded. It is his aim to help medical professionals and patients enter the web 2.0 era by providing them with e-courses, consulting and personalized packages. First ones he launced are Diabetes and Depression . Berci is also responsible for the web 2.0 meta medical search engine you can see in the left menu of this blog. One the useful tools to help professionals to keep up to date is his PeRSSonalized Medical Search . It offers quick conv...

CME Search : Continuing Medical Education

AltSearchEngines is really a site to watch on a regular basis if you want to know about new search engines out there! Today they post about CME Click . a search engine for Continuing Medical Education. According to the review : "CME Click is neither perfect nor very pretty, but it is a handy tool when a procrastinating physician (or a highly efficient one who has only just been informed about a new mandate) needs to meet a CME requirement as quickly as possible" Something to give a closer look for sure. Although the review mentiones no available RSS feed, I found that the following page is RSS-enabled: http://www.cmeclick.com/node/ It looks like all new CME content is published in these nodes. Just give your RSS-feed reader, preferably NETVIBES this url and it will turn in a nice overview of titles. So you can keep up, but unfortunately you can NOT see extra info. The feed is just the titles & links. Some improvement to be done...