The Student Doctor Network was originally a collection
of many medical student web sites. The Student Doctor Network brought
together some of the largest medical student sites in the US.
Interactive Medical Student Lounge
The Interactive Medical Student Lounge was the
first-ever Web site for medical students!
In
the fall of 1994, the University of Kansas School of Medicine (Kansas
City)
began offering e-mail
and on-campus Internet access for students, plus lunch hour
web
page training for faculty and staff. Some people around campus
(such as Lee Hancock, originator of the "Medical Matrix" index)
had medical data on the Internet, but from the registrar's
office, Nancy Sween could
not find a site specifically for medical students. She learned
HTML and the "Interactive Medical Student Lounge" went on-line
December 12 1994 - a free site for students of medicine, worldwide.
Originally at the University
of Kansas (12/12/94 to 2/22/97), the IMSLounge
moved to GeoCities and AOL in early 1997, then
to http://www.medstudents.net (Nov 1998). During 1999, the IMSLounge
became a charter member of the Student Doctor Network (SDN).
Osteopathic.Com
Osteopathic.Com was originally created in 1995
as The Osteopathic Source as an offshoot to the osteopathic medical
student newspaper The Osteopathic Pulse. The Osteopathic Source was
the first osteopathic medical student website and the first osteopathic
website on the Internet.
The SDN
Forums were
originally hosted as an osteopathic student forum by Osteopathic.Com.
Over 10 years of upgrades and expansion have made the SDN Forums
the most popular section of SDN.
The BIG Guide To Med School
In 1994, Jim Henderson, MD (then a
medical student) wrote a popular electronic book entitled The
Pre-Med Companion. As the Internet flourished, so did the
book. By 1997, it was a resource for premeds, med students, and
those
seeking residency
positions. That same year, Dr. Henderson used the resources of that
book to co-create and develop an online guide for medical students
and
premeds in the United States. In 1999 Medicalstudent.net became SDN's
Big Guide to Medical School.
The Dental Students Network
Some
of our readers asked, "Why not have a Forum
for other student doctors?" In 1999, Dr. Richard Scherf, general
dentist in Dover, NH, took on the challenge of finding sites for
dental students,
dentists, and anyone else interested in dental education.
Medschooldiary.com
Daniel Lee Imler and Brian James Hartman founded this unique
site in 2000 and it quickly grew to become the most popular medical
student diary site in the world. Medschooldiary.com
joined SDN in 2001.
