School:Medicine
Welcome to the Wikiversity School of Medicine!
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Medicine is the science and practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness. Contemporary medicine applies biomedical sciences, biomedical research, pathology, microbiology, genetics, and medical technology to diagnose, treat, and prevent injury and disease, typically through pharmaceuticals or surgery, but also through therapies as diverse as psychotherapy, external splints and traction, medical devices, biologics, and ionizing radiation, amongst others.[1]
| Department of Anatomy | Department of Biochemistry | Department of Physiology | |
| Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology | Department of Microbiology | Department of Pathology | |
| Department of Pharmacology | Department of Anesthesiology | Department of Community Medicine | |
| Department of Dermatology & Venereology | Department of Medicine | Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology | |
| Department of Ophthalmology | Department of Orthopedics | Department of Otorhinolaryngology | |
| Department of Pediatrics | Department of Psychiatry | Department of Surgery |
Divisions and Departments
Anatomy
Physiology
Biochemistry
School Noticeboard
November 2013
- Wikiversity medicine needs a unique identity, distinct from the role of Wikipedia and Wikibooks. What might that role be? What progress are we making? Share your ideas on the Talk page.
Educational Resources tools to make them
Learning medicine requires more than passive reading for understanding. Here is a growing list of resource types that can be useful in various contexts, as well as some especially good links to essential things you really should try (if you haven't already) either to find your own resources, or, hopefully to contribute here!
Introductions / Explanations / Topic summaries / Blogs (non-technical language)
Research studies / published reviews / theories / summaries / clinical scenarios and case reports (including simulation scenarios)
Curriculum documents, lesson plans, articles
Linear (normal) slideshow presentations, e.g. PowerPoint or the free Open Office Impress
Comparison or summary tables
WebQuests, which guide the student through sequences of resources, preferably including a variety of other resource formats
Assessment outlines / marking guides / quizzes / checklists (need to know about Atul Gawande and the Checklist Manifesto)
Pictures / Photos (search Wikimedia Commons and CC-BY-SA Images at Flickr, or use a graphic editor)
Vector illustrations (try Inkscape - free software)
Mindmaps (need to try Freeplane - free software)
Animations (try Pencil for 2D, or Blender for 3D if you are ambitious!)
Podcasts / Vodcasts / Screencasts / Videos (Youtube, Khan Academy, TED Talks, and short-format presentation styles like Pecha Kucha)
Flashcards (try Anki - free software, with spaced repetition for optimised revision and retention of information, or Evernote used with the Revunote app for android). These may vary the order and timing of repetitions, but the feedback response (the second side of the flashcard) is the same.
Non-linear Powerpoint presentations and medical information apps. The only interactivity is in the order or choice of available information topics presented.
Games, Virtual patient apps and online flash/html interactive modules (try Prognosis- Your Diagnosis for Android). These can vary in quality. Low level interactions may have a series of trivial roadblocks ('click on the nose to continue') or disconnected stimulus-response feedback (see quizzes above). Variations include different visual ways of triggering the response, e.g. click or touch, drag/drop or mouse-over. Better examples may use more complex branching scenarios where each decision affects the next problem, and a range of responses is possible rather than just good or bad responses.
Educational approaches
- Lectures / Tutorials / Clinical skills demonstrations / Labs
- Bedside teaching
- Ward rounds / Grand rounds
Join in the conversation on Twitter (try following #meded or #foamed) and TweetDeck
Create and contribute to blogs and their comments / polls / discussion forum (need to know about Life in the Fast Lane)
Collaboration through Wikiversity, Wikieducator etc.
Medical School Wikipedia Editathons
Pecha Kucha competitions
Simulation in teams (which benefits from high quality simulation scenarios and trained teachers to deliver them), including support with video games or ipad simulators. Importantly, the simulation scenario can be changed by the teacher to respond in realtime to individual student skill levels/deficits/areas of interest/teaching points, making it much more powerful. Some also include videos for 'just-in-time' learning.
Serious games[dead link] (e.g. Simulation with SonoWars and SimWars)
Other Links
- The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine - a book made up of a selection of very high quality wikipedia articles covering core concepts in medicine.
- WikiDoc The Living Textbook of Medicine - another medical textbook / encyclopaedia, linking to google searches for further resources.
- Content creation platforms (e.g. Pinterest or Learnist)
- Meducation - Thousands of free resources for medical students. Meducation supports a community of 50,000 medics and has over 40,000 resources.
- Medical books at Wikibooks
- WikiJournal of Medicine - an academic medical journal that is integrated with Wikipedia
Current Learning Projects
- Dominant group/Medicine
- Gene project
- Medicine
- Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence
- Life extension
- Cryonics
- Biotechnology
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