We believe that everyone should get credit for their hard work creating and editing articles on WikEM.  This is why we have implemented Author Credits at the bottom of each article.  You can see authorship credits in action by visiting our review of the SOAP II trial.  Your credits name will use the signature you indicated on your preferences page.

To better surface our top authors we have created a Contribution Score with rankings.  The scores are a composite of unique and edited articles and will be used for promoting top authors to our editorial roles.… Read more

We are pleased to announce the new front page redesign.  The most important features are the  New Articles and News sections.   Featured links are prominent along the top bar.  We encourage everyone to signup for our monthly newsletter where we will highlight the best articles of the month and give updates in the WikEM organization.

We are also actively recruiting Resident Editors and Mobile Developers.… Read more

WikEM is happy to be hosting the new Global Emergency Medicine Curriculum Project, spearheaded by Dr. Joe Lex.

This exciting project hopes to become the go-to place for global emergency medicine curriculum development by cataloging on-line emergency medicine educational materials. Take a look at the Global Emergency Medicine Curriculum Project portal and talk page for more information.… Read more

We are finally introducing a newsletter to keep everyone in the WikEM.org community up to date with news and feature announcements.  You can sign up for the mailing here.  We will never spam you, only send an email once a month, and never distribute or sell your email.

The newsletter will serve as a means of organizing the community and keeping everyone up to date with developments on WikEM!
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WikEM is proud to announce a new referencing feature to allow for better sourcing of evidence based content.

Place the reference between the <ref> </ref> tags and then place the tag <references/> in the Source section at the bottom of the article to automatically generate footnotes

You can see a great example of referencing on the Stroke Trial Review Article

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WikEM is excited to announce the launch of its new blog to keep emergency medicine practitioners updated about WikEM current activities.

For those of you not familiar with its history, WikEM, The Global Emergency Medicine Wiki is a global community of medical practitioners that via wiki-software features continually updated emergency medicine information. Its popular point-of-care phone application, which is a rapid reference for key emergency medicine content, has been downloaded by tens-of-thousands of users worldwide. WikEM is intended for clinicians only and not directly for patients.

WikEM first started as a series of notes that were hand passed (and then “beamed” on PDAs) from resident to resident at the Harbor-UCLA Emergency Medicine Residency Program.  This… Read more

Welcome everyone to the WikEM Blog.  This will be the official site for updates, announcements, and initiatives taken on by the WikEM organization.  Collaboration and new ideas are always welcome.  You may always email info@wikem.org and freely contribute to wikem.org

Current Projects:

1. Site Upgrades with Referencing modules to allow for increased Evidence Based Content
2. Continued Mobile Development with bug fixes
3. Development of the Global Emergency Medicine Curriculum
4. Promotion and Recruitment for Resident Editors
5. Expansion of Institution and Residency specific administration pages

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