"PULS." – a blog-based online-magazine for students of medicine of the Goethe University Frankfurt
- In the context of nationwide protests 2009 also students of the faculty of medicine/dentistry at Goethe-University in Frankfurt demanded more transparency and communication. To satisfy these demands, a web 2.0-tool offered an innovative solution: A blog-based online-magazine for students and other faculty-members. The online-magazine "PULS." is realized with the share-ware blog-software (wordpress version 3.1.3) and is conceived and written by an online-journalist. "PULS." is available from https://newsmagazin.puls.med.uni-frankfurt.de/wp/. The articles are generated from own investigations and from ideas of different groups of the faculty– deanship, students and lecturers. A user-analysis is conducted with the open-source software Piwik and considers the data security. Additionally, every year an anonymous online-user-survey (Survey Monkey) is conducted. "PULS." is continuously online since 14.02.2010 and has published 806 articles (state: 27.11.2012) and has about 2400 readers monthly. The content focuses on the needs of Frankfurt medical students. The close cooperation with different groups of the faculty - deanship, students and lecturers - furthermore guarantees themes relevant to the academic faculty. "PULS." flanks complex projects and decisions with background-information and communicates them understandable. The user-evaluation shows a growing number of readers and a high acceptance for the online-magazine, its themes and its style. The web 2.0-tool "Blog" and the web-specific language comply with media habits of the main target group, the students of the faculty medicine/dentistry. Thus, "PULS." has proven as a suitable and strategic instrument. It pushes towards a higher transparency, more communication and a stronger identification of the students with their faculty.
Author: | Bettina Wurche, Gertrud Klauer, Frank Nürnberger |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-291470 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3205/zma000846 |
ISSN: | 1860-3572 |
ISSN: | 1860-7446 |
Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23467571 |
Parent Title (German): | GMS Zeitschrift für medizinische Ausbildung |
Publisher: | German Medical Science |
Place of publication: | Düsseldorf ; Köln |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2013/03/13 |
Date of first Publication: | 2013/02/21 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2013/03/13 |
Tag: | Blog; Communication; Online-Magazine; Social Media; Web 2.0 |
Volume: | 30 |
Issue: | 1, Doc3 |
Page Number: | 5 |
First Page: | 7 |
Last Page: | 11 |
Note: | © 2013 Wurche et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/deed.en). You are free: to Share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work, provided the original author and source are credited. |
HeBIS-PPN: | 334249775 |
Institutes: | Medizin / Medizin |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 37 Bildung und Erziehung / 370 Bildung und Erziehung |
6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit | |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0 |