Category: News

This year the WikEM team organized the OpenEM Foundation to help support the technical costs and finances of running the wiki and mobile applications.  Although the content will always remain free to the world, the mobile development, hosting, and the technical work to grow and improve the wiki, requires a significant amount of time and money.  Everyone on our team volunteers their skills to support free and open access to medical education, but WikEM would not be possible without your financial support.

We have always been focused on building a longterm sustainable project maintained by the EM community.  Regardless of where you practice medicine, we want to supply you with the tools to bring up-to-date medical knowledge  to your patient’s bedside.

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Silas Chiu MD, from Harbor-UCLA is participating in the two week AAEM/RSA WikEM elective and has made some great contributions focusing on Infectious Disease and Toxicology.… Read more

Congratulations to Dr. Michael Gottlieb for joining the WikEM editorial board as a Resident Editor.… Read more

Marissa Camilon MD began as a resident editor on WikEM during her intern year at Harbor-UCLA before starting at USC as an Emergency Medicine Resident.  A SoCal native, growing up in San Diego and attending UCI and USC, she brought a strong interest in Ultrasound and Medical Education to the site.  Her extensive edits to the Radiology Category span topics from Orthopedics to Ultrasound.

In her (rare) spare time, you’ll find Marissa hiking, travelling, reading, and baking.

If interested in contributing to the Radiology section feel free to contact Marissa

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WikEM.org still has a predominantly North American internet presence, no doubt mediated by the fact that the content is mainly written in English.

Web Traffic:

A similar trend exists with mobile downloads. In the future as international support increases we may need to explore means of regional translation through the wiki software.

Mobile installs:

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WikEM was happy to recently be named one of the top “100 helpful trauma sites to bookmark” by ParamedicToRN.org (www.paramedictorn.org/trauma-care.html). That’s right, many people use our WikEM app, but we also have a robust website with added features at www.WikEM.org. Check it out!… Read more

Manuel Amando Celedon Lopez (aka MAC or Manny) is one of our prolific section editors and actively involved with WikEM at HarborUCLA where he is also an Emergency Medicine Resident.  Manuel immigrated to San Diego at the age of 12 from his native town of Guadalajara, Mexico.  After finishing his B.S from UCSD, he worked as a clinical researcher for the NASH Clinical Research Network before moving on to medical school at UCLA.

His commitment to medical education began long before writing for WikEM, when he served as a chapter author for the USMLE review book, Crush Step 1 and was an instructor for the Princeton Review.  When not practicing his basketball skills on the courts of sunny California, editing WikEM, or working in the ED, you’ll find him as a resident contributor for HippoEM.

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WikEM is joining forces with AAEM/RSA to create an online collaborative educational experience for emergency medicine residents around the globe.  The new WikEM elective offers residents the opportunity to learn medical writing and editing on an international platform accessed by thousands of emergency practitioners. Under guidance of the senior editors at WikEM with support from AAEM/RSA, the elective engages participants in active learning and synthesis of knowledge into bedside pearls.  All content is then instantly available on the web and mobile applications for bedside reference.

Specific details about the elective are found here.

Highlights:

• Organize online educational resources for the Global Emergency Medicine Curriculum
• Create core content for mobile apps
• Participate