Author: Dan Ostermayer

Residency Support Thanks

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WikEM has always had close ties to EM residency training programs.  Harbor-UCLA has always been our greatest supporter and we thank all the residents this year who contribute a lot of great content and edits.

Our newest residency supporter has been UT Southwestern EM residency in Dallas.  Their residents have written many high quality pages.

We also thank all the attendings who support residents engaging in actively learning by writing on the wiki.

Thank you all for creating freely available EM core content this year!

 

 

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Wiki as a Hub

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Medical education has witnessed an explosion in online medical content thanks to many prominent educators using blogs to publish great material.  Bringing the content to mainstream resident education has also been helped by many publications (Thoma et al. 2014 and Scott 2014).  As blogs, podcasts, ebooks, and video content continues to grow, the wiki occupies a central core to the solidification of online medical education.wikihub

The wiki allows for an infinite number of editors to work on a single page related to a specific topic.  Most importantly, the wiki content lives on and continues to evolve even after an individual author’s writing. Clinicians with specific knowledge can contribute a small pearl or an entire deep dive depending on their time commitments and interests.  A wiki page, as a central… Read more

In App Purchases

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Today, with the launch of our new iOS 8 app we have made our first paid product.  As the wiki grows, financial support is crucial for the community’s success and sustainability.   However, at the core of WikEM is open and free access to information.  The information on the wiki belongs to the world and will always remain free.  Access to the content both online and offline will also always remain free.   We use 100% of the funds from products like our new list and favorites feature to support technical costs as well new feature development.

We can’t wait to share all the great ideas for the future we have for the WikEM community and can only do it with all of you.

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Quarterly Donors

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Every quarter we will be thanking our individual donors. As a website built on the value for value model, we rely on our users who receive value from the wiki to support us financially.

Special Thanks to Stacy Xavier, Nicholas Abraham, Rebecca Thilo, Maxim Ben-Yakov, Karl Bandyan, Ryan Barbara, Kim Jung, John Hipskind, Roger Quinte and Zachary Spranlin.

 

Thank you for providing hosting, mobile app development, and funding for new projects.

Sincerly,

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