List of medical wikis

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Here is a list of medical wikis:

Contents 1 List of Medical Wikis 1.1 AIDS Wiki 1.2 Ask Dr Wiki 1.3 Clinfowiki 1.4 Demystifying Depression 1.5 Diabetes Wiki 1.6 Diagnostic Radiology 1.7 EBHC Search Strategies Wiki 1.8 EBM Librarian 1.9 ECGpedia 1.10 Emergency Medicine 1.11 Ganfyd 1.12 Handbook of Genetic Counseling 1.13 HealthGrid wiki 1.14 Health++ 1.15 Human Physiology 1.16 The Clinical Research Informatics Wiki 1.17 TPL(Toronto Public Library) Health & Wellness 2 Also See 3 External links

List of Medical Wikis

AIDS Wiki

• Self-Description:AIDS Wiki is a community gathering place for AIDS dissidents to assist and foster activism. The wiki reflects a pro-dissident POV, although the diversity of opinion present among AIDS dissidents is respected. Verifiability criteria are relaxed in good judgment regarding reports of recent newsworthy events and announcements of upcoming planned events.
• Language:English
• Intended Users: Activists
• Articles:133 (21 sep 2010)
• Contributors:Anyone who registers
• Copyright: GUN FDL free doc license
• Wiki Software: MediaWiki
• URL:http://www.reviewingaids.com/awiki/index.php/Main_Page

Ask Dr Wiki

• Self-Description:AskDrWiki.com is a nonprofit educational website operated as a public service by the Open Access Medical Informatics Group, a 501(c)(3) non profit company. you can publish your review articles, clinical notes, pearls, and medical images on the site. Using a wiki anyone with a medical background can contribute or edit medical articles. The Main focus has been on Cardiology and Electrophysiology but we have started to expand to other specialties.
• Language:English
• Intended Users: Physicians and other clinical professionals.
• Articles:1,369 (21 sep 2010)
• Contributors:Licensed clinical professionals who have proven their credentials to the satisfaction of editors.
• Copyright: Creative Commons license
• Wiki Software: MediaWiki
• URL:http://www.reviewingaids.com/awiki/index.php/Main_Page

Clinfowiki

• Self-Description:The Clinical Informatics Wiki is the implementation of a wiki website devoted to topics in clinical informatics.
• Language:English
• Intended Users: Clinical informatics professionals.
• Articles:720 (21 sep 2010)
• Contributors:Anyone who registers.
• Copyright: GNU
• Wiki Software: MediaWiki
• URL:http://www.informatics-review.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Demystifying Depression

A wiki book

• URL:http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Demystifying_Depression

Diabetes Wiki

• Self-Description:Diabetes Wiki is a place where people with diabetes can share their personal stories, and build a database of helpful information.
• Language:English
• Intended Users: Health care consumers.
• Articles:178 (21 sep 2010)
• Contributors:Anyone who registers.
• Copyright: CC-BY-SA
• Wiki Software: MediaWiki (Wika)
• URL:http://diabetes.wikia.com/wiki/Diabetes_Wiki

Diagnostic Radiology

Wikibooks

• URL:http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Diagnostic_Radiology

EBHC Search Strategies Wiki

• Self-Description:This wiki will focus on the process, techniques and tools of high quality searching in the context of evidence-based health care.
• Language:English
• Intended Users:medical librarians.
• Articles:?
• Contributors:Users must apply to become contributors.
• Copyright: ?
• Wiki Software: ?
• URL:http://ebhcstrategies.wetpaint.com/

EBM Librarian

• Self-Description:The purpose of this wiki is to develop a community of librarians who are involved in teaching and supporting the practice of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM).
• Language:English
• Intended Users:medical librarians.
• Articles:?
• Contributors:Users must apply to become contributors.
• Copyright: ?
• Wiki Software: ?
• URL:http://ebmlibrarian.wetpaint.com/

ECGpedia

• Self-Description:a free electrocardiography (ECG) course and textbook to which anyone can contribute ,

designed for medical professionals such as cardiac care nurses and physicians.

• Language:English
• Intended Users:medical professionals
• Articles:?
• Contributors:Anyone who registers.
• Copyright: CC
• Wiki Software: MediaWiki
• URL:http://en.ecgpedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Emergency Medicine

Wikibooks

• URL:http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Emergency_Medicine

Ganfyd

• Self-Description:The free medical knowledge base that anyone can read and any registered medical practitioner may edit. Ganfyd is a collaborative medical reference by medical professionals and invited non-medical experts. The site is based around the wiki format, enabling true sharing of knowledge.
• Language:English
• Intended Users:healthcare professionals
• Articles:7,070 (21 sep 2010)
• Contributors:Anyone who registers.
• Copyright: ganfyd-Attribution-NonCommercial-RegisteredMedical-ShareAlike 1.0
• Wiki Software: MediaWiki
• URL:http://www.ganfyd.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

Handbook of Genetic Counseling

wikibook

• URL:http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Handbook_of_Genetic_Counseling

HealthGrid wiki

• Self-Description:A wiki dedicated to grids for health.This wiki is maintained as a dynamic knowledge resource for the healthgrid community.
• Language:English
• Intended Users:?
• Articles:58 (21 sep 2010)
• Contributors:?
• Copyright: CC
• Wiki Software: MediaWiki
• URL:http://wiki.healthgrid.org/Main_Page

Health++

• Self-Description:Health++ (HealthPlusPlus) is a wiki about health, also a medical knowledge base, an online medical encyclopedia.
• Language:English
• Intended Users:Health care consumers and healthcare professionals
• Articles:12 (21 sep 2010)
• Contributors:Anyone who registers.
• Copyright: CC
• Wiki Software: MediaWiki
• URL:http://www.healthplusplus.com/wiki/Main_Page

Human Physiology

wikibook

• URL:http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Human_Physiology

The Clinical Research Informatics Wiki

• Self-Description:The CRI Wiki is an implementation of a wiki devoted to topics in clinical research informatics. Despite many efforts ongoing in the field of CRI, coordination and communication of such efforts remains a challenge, even across groups focused on clinical research and biomedical informatics.
• Language:English
• Articles:14 (21 sep 2010)
• Contributors:Anyone who registers.
• Copyright: Copyrighted ?
• Wiki Software: MediaWiki
• URL:http://www.researchinformatics.org/component/option,com_mambowiki/Itemid,66/

TPL(Toronto Public Library) Health & Wellness

• Self-Description:This site, created and maintained by the Business, Science & Technology Department of the Toronto Public Library, is designed to help you find reliable, understandable health information for you and your family.
• Language:English
• Intended Users:healthcare consumers
• Articles:14 (21 sep 2010)
• Contributors:?
• Copyright: Creative Commons license
• Wiki Software: Wikidot.com
• URL:http://chis.wikidot.com/

Site	Language	Description	Access
Ask Dr Wiki	English	Medical content	Free
Ganfyd	English	Medical content	Free
Medcyclopaedia	English	Articles on medical imaging used in radiology and radiography	Free
Health++	English	Medical content	Free
Medpedia	English	Medical content	Free
Radiopaedia	English	Articles on medical imaging used in radiology and radiography	Free
WikiDoc	English, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Chinese, Turkish and French	Medical content	Free
WikiSurgery	English	Surgical content	Free

Also See

• List of online medical encyclopedia

External links

• A list of 69 online medical wikis by David Rothman