Ever wanted to do one-stop shopping for online medical journals? A Prince Edward Island family physician has anticipated the need by creating My Morning Journal (www.mymorningjournal.com), a handy site that provides links to journals famous and obscure.
Creator Garth Slysz came to his interest in the Web and computers honestly enough — his father was director of the Computer Science Department at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick — and he decided to combine it with his love of family medicine. “After 11 years in practice, I had collected many medical journal bookmarks, but it was a little tiresome looking to see if new editions were available, so I wrote a Java program that told me which ones were new. It worked well and I thought other doctors might enjoy this.”
His site provides links to journals ranging from well-known titles such as the Lancet to top specialty journals such as Chest and obscure ones such as the Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology. Links to more than 120 journals are provided, with colour coding indicating which ones have been published that day or that week.
Slysz launched his site last June and said he has had positive responses from around the world. “My hope is that physicians will use this page to help keep up with all the new medical information. The page makes it available in smaller doses and saves much time in looking around for new articles.”
Why did he do it? “Satisfaction, and it helps me keep up on my journals. No fame and fortune yet, though.”