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NOTICE from the site:RADSWIKI IS GOING BYE BYE. BUT DO NOT CRY... THE CONTENTS OF RADSWIKI WILL BE AVAILABLE ON RADIOPAEDIA.ORG
*'''Self-Description''':Radswiki.net is a radiology wiki.The idea is to have an online Primer of Diagnostic Imaging or Radiology Review Manual ... but with images ... and that anyone can edit.  
*'''Self-Description''':Radswiki.net is a radiology wiki.The idea is to have an online Primer of Diagnostic Imaging or Radiology Review Manual ... but with images ... and that anyone can edit.  
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Here is a list of medical wikis:

Contents

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 (registering by sending email to the admin)
  • 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: for physicians, residents and medical students.
  • 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://askdrwiki.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Physician_Medical_Wiki

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

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. (The site seems broken and Registering page cannot be accessed)
  • Copyright: Copyrighted ?
  • Wiki Software: MediaWiki
  • URL:http://www.researchinformatics.org/component/option,com_mambowiki/Itemid,66/

Demystifying Depression

A wiki book

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 (Wikia)
  • URL:http://diabetes.wikia.com/wiki/Diabetes_Wiki

Diagnostic Radiology

Wikibooks

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.


Emergency Medicine

Wikibooks


EyeWiki

  • Self-Description:The single site where ophthalmologists, other physicians, patients and the public can view detailed content written by ophthalmologists covering the vast spectrum of eye disease, diagnosis and treatment. Any qualified ophthalmologist, or ophthalmologist in training, is invited to contribute content and post it immediately.
  • Language:English
  • Intended Users: Healthcare professionals, patients, and health care consumers
  • Articles:107 (1 OCT 2010)
  • Contributors: Qualified ophthalmologists from the around the world
  • Copyright: CC
  • Wiki Software: MediaWiki
  • URL:http://eyewiki.aao.org/Main_Page


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:qualified doctors from the UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia
  • 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

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

HLWIKI Canada

  • Self-Description:an open, freely-accessible wiki with entries about health librarianship,

social media and current information technology topics

Human Physiology

wikibook

Immunology

wiki book

The McGill Library Global Health Resource Guide

  • Self-Description:The McGill Global Health Resource Guide was created as a wiki to promote collaboration between all McGill people working in the field of global health. All McGill faculty, clinicians, researchers and students are encouraged to use and add to these resources. We hope this resource guide will attract a global audience, and promote collaboration between professionals within, and beyond, the McGill Community.
  • Language:English
  • Intended Users:professionals and the McGill Community...
  • Articles:50 (21 sep 2010)
  • Contributors:a member of the McGill community
  • Copyright: ?
  • Wiki Software: MediaWiki
  • URL:http://wikisites.mcgill.ca/GlobalHealthGuide/index.php/Main_Page

Medical Imaging

  • Self-Description:This page is all about the Medical Imaging. .
  • Language:English
  • Intended Users:?
  • Articles:26 (23 sep 2010)
  • Contributors:Anyone who registers.
  • Copyright: ?
  • Wiki Software: MediaWiki (wikia)
  • URL:http://medicalimaging.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

MIGHEALTHNET

  • Self-Description:Information network on good practice in health care for migrants and minorities in Europe.
  • Language:English
  • Intended Users:…professionals, policy makers including health authorities, researchers, educators and representatives of migrant and minority groups.
  • Articles:149 (23 sep 2010)
  • Contributors:Anyone who registers and who is approved by administrators.
  • Copyright: ?
  • Wiki Software: MediaWiki
  • URL:http://www.mighealth.net/uk/index.php/Main_Page

MLA-HLS Wiki

  • Self-Description:The hospital librarians’ wiki is sponsored by the Hospital Libraries Section of the Medical Library Association. The purpose is to provide a sandbox in which we can share best practices in a forum that is easily accessed, archived, searched, and modified.
  • Language:English
  • Intended Users:Medical Librarians
  • Articles:?
  • Contributors:Users must apply to become contributors and be approved by administrators.
  • Copyright: CC (Portions not contributed by visitors are Copyrighted)
  • Wiki Software: Wikispaces.com
  • URL:http://mla-hls.wikispaces.com/

Neurodegeneration Research Wiki

NursingWiki

  • Self-Description:NursingWiki is a free multilingual wiki-project for health care and nursing information, that anyone can edit.
  • Language:English, German
  • Intended Users:carers, students and researchers
  • Articles:187 (23 sep 2010, English wiki)
  • Contributors: Anyone who registers
  • Copyright: free licensed
  • Wiki Software: MediaWiki
  • URL:http://en.nursingwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

OpenWetWare

  • Self-Description:OpenWetWare is an effort to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering.
  • Language:English
  • Intended Users:who are working in biology & biological engineering
  • Articles:17,092 (23 sep 2010)
  • Contributors:Register applications are individually evaluated by real people
  • Copyright: CC
  • Wiki Software: MediaWiki
  • URL:http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page

Onco Wiki

Orthopaedic Surgery

wikibook

Pharmacology

wikibook

The Quality of Medical Data

  • Self-Description:A research resource for informaticians, epidemiologists, healthcare workers, insurers, and patients interested in the issues surrounding the quality of medical data and the use of medical data for secondary purposes. Topics include the current state of the quality of medical data, the factors that influence quality, and the effects of quality on efforts to use existing clinical data for secondary purposes such as epidemiology and pay-for-performance initiatives.
  • Language:English
  • Intended Users:…epidemiologists, healthcare workers, insurers, and patients…
  • Articles:14 (23 sep 2010)
  • Contributors:Anyone who registers
  • Copyright: ?
  • Wiki Software: MediaWiki (Wikia)
  • URL:http://medicaldata.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page


Radiation Oncology

wikibook

Radiopaedia.org

  • Self-Description:Radiopaedia.org is the fastest growing collaborative radiology resource. You can browse through thousands of articles and interesting and illustrative cases or get involved and edit or add content.
  • Language:English
  • Intended Users:radiology staff
  • Articles:11,800 (23 sep 2010, google indexed)
  • Contributors:Anyone who registers
  • Copyright: ?
  • Wiki Software: ?
  • URL:http://radiopaedia.org/

Radswiki

NOTICE from the site:RADSWIKI IS GOING BYE BYE. BUT DO NOT CRY... THE CONTENTS OF RADSWIKI WILL BE AVAILABLE ON RADIOPAEDIA.ORG

  • Self-Description:Radswiki.net is a radiology wiki.The idea is to have an online Primer of Diagnostic Imaging or Radiology Review Manual ... but with images ... and that anyone can edit.
  • Language:English
  • Intended Users:?
  • Articles:1,572 (23 sep 2010, google indexed)
  • Contributors:Anyone who registers
  • Copyright: ?
  • Wiki Software: MediaWiki
  • URL:http://www.radswiki.net/main/index.php?title=Main_Page

School:Medicine -Wikiversity

  • Self-Description:The Wikiversity School of Medicine is a free online educational resource for the study of medicine. It is a member of the Faculty of Life Sciences and aims to maximize collaboration with other schools within the faculty and elsewhere. Prospective students may study medicine at Wikiversity by registering with the site and joining the school. Students may study via the proposed curriculum pathway, by picking and choosing modules or lessons from the different departments or by joining the school in creating lessons.
  • Language:English
  • Intended Users:?
  • Articles:?
  • Contributors:Anyone who registers
  • Copyright: CC
  • Wiki Software: MediaWiki
  • URL:http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/School:Medicine

Street Medic Wikia (wikia)

  • Self-Description:This wiki is a collaboratively edited information resource focused on medical issues, treatment protocols, ethical standards, and historical information of use to street medics.
  • Language:English
  • Intended Users:?
  • Articles:99 (5 Oct 2010)
  • Contributors:Anyone who registers
  • Copyright: CC
  • Wiki Software: MediaWiki
  • URL:http://medic.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Surgical Procedures

wikibooks

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/

Urgencyclopédie

  • Self-Description:A wiki about first aid, rescue and emergency medicine.
  • Language:French
  • Intended Users:?
  • Articles:? (5 Oct 2010)
  • Contributors:Anyone who registers
  • Copyright: ?
  • Wiki Software: MediaWiki
  • URL:http://www.urgencyclopedie.info/index.php/Accueil

WebHealth

  • Self-Description:the free medical encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
  • Language:English
  • Intended Users:?
  • Articles:858 (5 Oct 2010)
  • Contributors:Anyone who registers
  • Copyright: ?
  • Wiki Software: MediaWiki
  • URL:http://webhealth.com/wiki/Main_Page

Wellness Wiki

  • Self-Description:We offer this wiki to help clarify the complex problems plaguing the U.S. healthcare system and develop sustainable ways to improve the health and well-being of all people. This virtual encyclopedia of the healthcare crisis and potential remedies. .
  • Language:English
  • Intended Users:?
  • Articles:?
  • Contributors:To become a contributor, please contact Dr. Beller
  • Copyright: CC
  • Wiki Software: Wikispaces
  • URL:http://wellness.wikispaces.com/

wikiCancer

  • Self-Description:Cancer: Stories, Support and InformationThis is a featured page.
  • Language:English
  • Intended Users:?
  • Articles:?
  • Contributors:Anyone who registers
  • Copyright: ?
  • Wiki Software:
  • URL:http://www.wikicancer.org/

WikiDoc

  • Self-Description:WikiDoc is a free medical news service and textbook of medicine that anyone can add to and edit.
  • Language:English, Español, Français, Polski, Русский, Română, 中文, and Türkçe
  • Intended Users:?
  • Articles:71,501 (5 Oct 2010)
  • Contributors:Anyone who registers
  • Copyright: CC
  • Wiki Software: MediaWiki
  • URL:http://www.wikidoc.org/index.php/Main_Page

Wikiecho

WikiHealth

  • Self-Description:WikiHealth's goal is to offer the most comprehensive, current and insightful information to help anyone and everyone acheive optimal health. Our belief is that your knowledge matters--- and you can help others by sharing what you know.
  • Language:English
  • Intended Users:?
  • Articles:279 (5 Oct 2010)
  • Contributors:? (The site seems broken, can not create account.)
  • Copyright: GNU
  • Wiki Software: MediaWiki
  • URL:http://www.wikihealth.com/Main_Page

WikiHealthCare

  • Self-Description:WikiHealthCare is The Joint Commission's interactive forum for health care professionals. It is designed to enable and encourage discussion and collaboration among all users for the purpose of improving health care quality. While The Joint Commission provides the forum, users of the site control its content.
  • Language:English
  • Intended Users:?
  • Articles:?
  • Contributors:Anyone who registers
  • Copyright: Copyright © The contributing authors.
  • Wiki Software: TWiki
  • URL:http://wikihealthcare.jointcommission.org/bin/view/Home/WebHome

Wikikidney.org

  • Self-Description:Our mission is to use this medium to make the public more aware of kidney disease in a sincere effort to prevent it when we can, and to help our colleagues achieve good outcomes in those who already have end stage renal disease. Our role is to provide as much information as possible to patients, professionals and the general public, with the hopes that this education will be a motivating factor in making the necessary changes to prevent or stall chronic kidney disease.
  • Language:English
  • Intended Users:Health care consumers and healthcare professionals
  • Articles:121 (23 sep 2010)
  • Contributors:Qualified readers.
  • Copyright: ?
  • Wiki Software: MediaWiki
  • URL:http://wikikidney.org/index.php/Main_Page

Wikimd

  • Self-Description:WikiMD is a sister project of Residentscafe.com - a place for medical students, residency applicants, residents, fellows and attending physicians and WikiChristian, a free Christian encyclopedia.
  • Language:English
  • Intended Users:?
  • Articles:780 (5 Oct 2010)
  • Contributors:Anyone who registers
  • Copyright: GNU
  • Wiki Software: MediaWiki
  • URL:http://www.wikimd.org/index.php/Main_Page

Wikisurgery

  • Self-Description:Wikisurgery is collaboratively building the most comprehensive and trusted free surgical encyclopaedia.
  • Language:English
  • Intended Users:?
  • Articles:1609 (5 Oct 2010)
  • Contributors:Contributions in the form of new articles and editing can be made by those who register on the site, confirm their email address and whose application is accepted by an administrator.
  • Copyright: GNU
  • Wiki Software: MediaWiki
  • URL:http://www.wikisurgery.com/index.php
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

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