The Running Obstetrician
So the story behind this website goes to the tune of...
I had to give a talk at a conference on how to use Podcasting as an educational tool for medical students during their OB/GYN rotation. I have always wanted to have a Podcast, as I am mostly full of hot air, love to teach (talk), and pretty much say a lot of the same things over and over again once I figure out a good way to explain something. What a better way to share all of my little pearls of knowledge that to record them, put them on the internet, and let everyone download them to their smart phones on their own time?!
When you begin to get started with Podcasting, what you find is that you cannot simply create these things on your computer and upload them to the cloud. Nope, you need to host them yourself and link them to Podcasting sites. Awesome! So now you need your own website to host these audio files.
After getting started with this stuff, I realized I could do better than simply having a web domain that held onto my audio files. How embarrassing if someone came across my collection of audio recordings, and found no other content on the site. Well, I wasn't going to stand for that. I figured I might as well blog about something. The problem was, what was going to be that something?
Here's the deal with blogs - it has to be something that you do on a regular basis. Otherwise, people are going to lose interest, and no one is going to visit your site. So after thinking about things a little, I asked myself, "what is the one thing that you do on a fairly regular basis, that is at all worth blogging about?" For myself, this was going to come down to a yard work / gardening site or a running site - since this is really all that I do when I am not delivering babies or hanging out with my own babies.
Hence, The Running Obstetrician. I think that it has a good ring to it, and I really do get in at least one or two runs per week, which keeps me on the site. I'm by no means an expert in running, but I have done a lot of stupid stuff, and pulled off some very own personal accomplishments, that I can at least write about it with some background knowledge. The Gardening Obstetrician would have been an interesting alternative website, but I have to be honest, I am even less qualified to be heading up that site than this one.
So if anything, check out the Podcast on iTunes by searching for "running obstetrician". It is the whole reason this site got started. We've got some great stuff there on Obstetrics and Statistics topics. And if you don't feel like reading through too many OB/GYN journal articles alone, there is always the Journal Club Podcast. With that, keep an eye on the Running Blog. I get some good runs in during the week, and all of my Races get their very own special page complete with photos and highlights of the race.
I hope you find it worth snooping around. I'd love to hear what you think of the place!
The Running Obstetrician
Christopher Morosky, MD, FACOG