title: "PULS." - a blog-based online-magazine for students of medicine of the Goethe University Frankfurt.
abstract: 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.
authors: Goethe-University, Faculty of Medicine, Dean's office, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
authors: Bettina
authors: B
authors: Wurche
authors: Gertrud
authors: G
authors: Klauer
authors: Frank
authors: F
authors: Nürnberger
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D057218:Blogging; D004501:Education, Medical; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D012984:Software; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology
keywords: Blog; Communication; Online-Magazine; Social Media; Web 2.0