When you consider how few medical student bloggers are online, the amount of MD/PhD students is substantial.
It was easy to explain the preponderance of EM blogging: patient encounters are easily translated to blog posts, the practioners tend to be extroverted, and the lifestyle of insomnia and downtime helps, too.
But why all these new MD/PhD students? I'd like to say that the same qualities that lead one to seek a physician-scientist training program also drive one to blog -- a good mix of analysis and articulation, and a familiarity with explaining things to disparate groups.
I wonder, though, if there's also a component of isolation -- that MD/PhDs never really fitting into their MD or PhD classes. Anyway, the blogs below are as diverse a group as you can find. Check 'em out and see what you think: