The largest and most popular general encyclopedia, Wikipedia, also hosts a significant amount of health and medical information.
[1] Dean F. Sittig launched the site on 27 June 2005, and as of 12 January 2017,[update] Vishnu Mohan was its editor.
Articles in the Flexikon are free to read, but creating or editing content requires registration and the proof of being a medical professional.
In an attempt to reduce vandalism and peer-review content, an editorial team moderates changes to ensure that the presented material is as accurate and relevant as possible.
[11][12] The original content came from Gibson's chief residency notes, board review notes, and content from a variety of copyleft sources including The U.S. National Library of Medicine, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Wikipedia, and Ask Dr Wiki.
[13] WikiDoc differs from Wikipedia in the following ways:[14] it is oriented more to medical professionals,[15] and has medical news, a toolbar to search internet on the right hand side to gather articles, guidelines and slides, a toolbar on the left to see what page most people looked at next, and a board review course (in Beta testing).
WikiLectures is part of the project MEFANET, a network linking medical schools in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
WikiLectures contain articles, notes, prepared exam topics, guides for practitioners, and study books.
It is designed around a peer review process and currently only members of the NZCMM are able to create and edit articles.
The majority of the content is open access to unregistered users.Wikimedica is a general evidence based medical wiki.
[23] The wiki provides information about eye diseases and their management, including medical and surgical treatments.
[24] HemOnc.org is a hematology/oncology wiki which was originally created by oncologists to provide information about chemotherapy regimens and hematology/oncology medications.
They welcome all sports medicine physicians and other members of the sports medicine team (including allied health) to register and become contributors.AskDrWiki was a medical wiki encyclopedia created by Cleveland Clinic Cardiology Fellows Kenny Civello and Brian Jefferson.
Ganfyd was a medical wiki community and encyclopedia,[10] created in November 2005 by a group of doctors working in the United Kingdom.
Only registered medical practitioners or persons working under their direction, and a small number of invited non-medical specialists, could edit Ganfyd articles.
The encyclopedia was the result of a collaboration of the Nycomed Amersham Intercontinental Continuing Education in Radiology Institute (NICER Institute), Sweden, Department of Radiology, Lund University, Sweden, and Amersham Health, Oslo, Norway.
Harvard Medical School did not have a role in, nor was it responsible for, the content that appeared in the “wiki” section of Medpedia.
However, to qualify to edit or contribute to the main content, approved editors needed an M.D., D.O., or Ph.D. in a biomedical field.
[43] Medpedia was composed of three primary components: A 2012 literature review of 50 academic journal articles about the use of social media by clinicians[44] remarked that Medpedia had "launched in 2009 with substantial institutional backing" but that the authors "did not find articles reporting success metrics" for it.