The Radsresident Idea
Sometimes the best ideas come about in the most mundane ways. I remember an uneventful Saturday in the middle of September when I sat down and began to surf the internet. I started to read about financial topics and happened upon a website called the Financial Samurai, a website dedicated to passive income. Most importantly, at the top of the page, there was an article called How To Start Your Own Blog. And so, it got me thinking… I haven’t really seen much organized accurate information on the web dedicated to the day to day issues of the radiology resident. Most sites were dedicated to medical students and board certified radiologists interested in radiology topics, but the radiology resident caught in the middle seemed to be skipped over. That being said, there were a few scattered helpful radiology residency related articles and forums on websites such as Aunt Minnie and Medscape, but it was a really a sparsely covered subject. And much of the information was not always reliable and accurate, not really personalized to the individual radiology resident, and was very technical and dry.
In addition, I always wanted to create a website. And, with all the valuable information I have learned as associate residency director over the past 7 years or so, I thought I could really contribute to the body of knowledge of the unappreciated radiology resident. I would target the day-to-day information that radiology residents, students interested in radiology, and others involved in the radiology residency process need and want to know. So these were the humble origins of this blog/website.
From the beginning of the idea for the radsresident website, I thought it would take a very long time to get viewers to the website and was expecting a long slog. To my surprise, in a little over a month and a half, we have already reached 10000 page views! So, why not write an article about what I have learned about my initial experiences, what I think it means for my loyal viewers, and what are some of the exciting changes to happen in the upcoming months?
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