A great podcast from the Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine and Dr. Joe Lex, describing WikEM as the EM textbook and curriculum of the future.
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Editor Spotlight: Marissa Camilon
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
April 2014 Global Map
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:
WikEM Named one of the Top 100 Trauma Sites
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
Editor Spotlight: Manuel Celedon
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.
If … Read more
WikEM and AAEM/RSA Elective
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
May Journal Club Review
Every month WikEM editors create a review of core journal articles. The articles are integrated with the core content of the wiki and are accessible via the mobile apps so docs can have evidence based content at their fingertips when caring for patients. … Read more
Power of Collaboration
Tonight, we asked the online community for a photo of hand-foot-mouth disease and within minutes Justin Hensley from Texas A&M immediately uploaded a great photo which is now free and available for anyone to use non commercially.… Read more
WikEM noted among best apps every nurse should be using
WikEM is happy to be included in a recently published compilation of “Apps Every Nurse Should Be Using” http://onlinelpntorn.org/
Intro to Editing: Templates
Using templates to organize information on the wiki becomes increasingly more useful as content grows. In a nutshell templates are pages that contain information that can be inserted on any page. If the content on the template changes it is automatically updated on every page that uses the template.
The best examples are the Sgarbossa’s Criteria page and the STEMI page. Both pull their information from the Sgarbossa’s Template and allow any updates to Sgarbossa to be reflected everywhere the template was used.
Create a new template just as you would any page except begin the name with “Template:”. To insert the template on another page type {{Template NAME}} and it will automatically bring in the content.
We know this can get confusion so don’t hesitate to… Read more