Any Biomedical Engineering sites of just "info"

[magomago]

I am really into computers, and I can spend hours reading technical articles for fun. I actually sometimes wonder if I could do an EECS major without too much trouble because I understand a lot of things(albiet what I know is a lot simpler in nature, but at the same time I would have been "exposed" already). U;ve already impressed some EE friends about what I do know since I haven't taken their classes at all (though like I said it is definitely on a simpler level) However I'm not a EECS major, I'm a BME major.

Now I am REALLY intersted in the stuff, and although i'm thinking heavily of going to medical school, I just really like it and want to do it eventually. But i stated to think and write stuff down I know on topics, and I realized that if I don't count my classes....I really don't know anything!

I figure if all I learn and know only comes from classses, that isn't a good thing and very dangerous because it limits me to the level that other people are on.

So I figure if there are sites of or relating to Biomedical Applications, then I could be playing WOW and alt tabbint to those. But doing google searches really doesn't yield me much beyond programs at different schools, or realllly extremely complicated stuff that I wanna crap at. Its like the only way to get the basics and concepts is for me to read journal after journal since they usually give background explanation and you can pick up on things. But obviously that isn't as entertaining to me, especially when a paper tends to be verbose because I feel they just want to SOUND smart more than anything.

But does anyone know of anything, or am I a totaly failure for asking late night ATOT?

cliff notes:
#I like computers and spend lots of time reading stuff and occasionally impress EE.
#I am a BME major and really like it, and want to something similar to reading on the net for hours doesn't make me feel guilty
#only thing I have found is journals from places like pubmed
#Help?

 

[Vertimus]

What's wrong with journals?

 

[magomago]

Sometimes I want a more general idea and get the concepts instead of immediately jumping into crazy junk. I personally haven't found where in BME I want to focus, whether it is more tissue engineering where it is a "softer" science, or hard calculations and modeling such as Biomechanics.

With journals I really has to focus in on a single issue that is very specific, and sometimes I just want more applications without all the biology. I mean i understand the biology is VERY important to know...but rather than know and memorize all 20 amino acids, its better to lump them into three or so categories and remember special characteristics of two or three (Cystene[sp?] having the ability to form disulfide bonds.

Journals really don't provide that...Obviously to find an article that says, "The entire workings of a cell in 2 pages" is not possible, but at the same time its damned near impossible to find something that may talk about motor proteins and potential applicatoins, design possibilities that exist. Usually it is either something extremely complex, or it goes too much into bio...or it is just really general and vague descriptions (like wikipedia's entires...sometimes they got really good info to just read at, but I've already tried looking for stuff relating to BME and generally doesn't exist)

Maybe I'm asking for the impossible? Shoud I just keep sifting through journals to find things that aren't too complex?

 

[magomago]

bump

 

[magomago]

afternoon crew bump, hope someone here is in the same field

 

[white]

try searching for review articles and try the INSPEC database in addition to pubmed.

 

[Willoughbyva]

Would wikipedia offer anything? If you learn a lot of stuff perhaps you could put some of it in wikipedia. Share the knowledge.