Website www.meducation.net Users 86,000 | Commercial Yes | |
Type of site Educational social network Slogan(s) The Medical Education Network Registration Optional, but required to contribute. | ||
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. In 2009 Meducation was awarded the Aungshuk Ghosh prize for innovative technology. During 2013 Meducation raised US$1M of seed-round of funding, including significant funding from the UK's Technology Strategy Board. At the time, the site was used by 30,000 medics including 33% of UK medical students.
During 2015, the site refocussed its value proposition to "[evolve] into a curration and collation platform". 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.