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Wiki as a Hub
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.
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
November Newsletter
Our november newsletter is available. It highlights great content from the prior month.… Read more
In App Purchases
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.
New iOS 8 app
WikEM is now on iOS 8 and offers the new lists and favorites feature.… Read more
Quarterly Donors
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,
Bookmark Mobile Site
As we keep working to get the iOS 8 version of the app working well please bookmark the mobile site using safari and choose “Add to Home Screen” The mobile site will work perfectly on your home screen and do everything except offline access. A fix will be coming soon. Sign up for our newsletter and we with the update.… Read more
September Month in Review
Read our newsletter – http://eepurl.com/3EcI1… Read more
October Journal Club
In October, we will review another classic article, the De Gans Trial for Steroids in Bacterial Meningitis. Should you give dexamethasone for bacterial meningitis? Are there particular situations where antibiotics may be harmful? Be sure to read the article, and if you are feeling ambitious, there is a great cochrane review.
Be sure to check out past journal club articles as well.
iOS 8
Our current app for iOS does not work correctly on iOS 8. We are actively preparing an update. If you have updated to iOS 8 then please use the main site which will be optimized for mobile viewing and editing. If you can wait a week to update then I would encourage everyone to remain with iOS 7 until we send a notification that the app is update.
-Dan Ostermayer… Read more