Meducation

Meducation
Type of site
Educational social network
Slogan(s) The Medical Education Network
Website www.meducation.net
Commercial Yes
Registration Optional, but required to contribute.
Users 86,000 [1]
Current status Online

Meducation is an online social networking service and educational website for medical students and doctors.

Meducation was created by Alastair Buick and Jeremy Walker in 2008.[2] In 2009 Meducation was awarded the Aungshuk Ghosh prize for innovative technology.[3] During 2013 Meducation raised US$1M of seed-round of funding, including significant funding from the UK's Technology Strategy Board.[4] At the time, the site was used by 30,000 medics including 33% of UK medical students.[5]

During 2015, the site refocussed its value proposition to "[evolve] into a curration and collation platform".[6] As a result many 'social network' features such as in-site messaging, friend requests, and groups were removed and the user interface re-focussed. As of October 2015, the site reported having 86,000 users.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Meducation -- Share our story" Meducation, press pages, Retrieved on 15 October 2015
  2. Yarrow Jenkins et al (2012) "First Wales Medical Undergraduate Conference", Cambridge Medicine Journal
  3. "The Aungshuk Ghosh Prize 2013" Bristol University, Retrieved on 2 August 2013
  4. "Medical Education Network Meducation Raises $1M Seed Round" TechCrunch, Retrieved on 19 March 2014.
  5. http://wayback.archive.org/web/20140202131210/http://siliconcanal.co.uk/meducation-seeks-a-seed-round/ "Meducation seeks a SEED round"] Silicon Canal, Archived 2 February 2014.
  6. "Meducation -- A note from the CEO" Meducation, About us page, Retrieved on 15 October 2015
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