Has there ever been a general purpose encyclopedia which was found suitable for medical student instruction?
What are our median level readers going to do if we suddenly start including enough pathophysiology images to please the med school instructors? I'm not entirely sure it will help them, although on the other hand it might encourage them to see a professional which is what they often should be doing instead of reading Wikipedia. (But if wishes were horses, beggars would ride....)
... Daniel Mietchen wrote:
A similar paper on 39 gastroenterology/ hepatology articles on the English Wikipedia came to different conclusions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#Paper:_.22...
The Kim paper is generally positive (though targeting not medical students, but pathology residents):
"These results are compelling and support the thesis that Wikipedia articles can be used as the foundation for a basic curriculum in pathology informatics."
http://wikilit.referata.com/wiki/The_pathology_informatics_curriculum_wiki:_...
best regards Finn Årup Nielsen DTU Compute. http://www.compute.dtu.dk/~faan/
On 12/08/2013 05:20 AM, James Salsman wrote:
Has there ever been a general purpose encyclopedia which was found suitable for medical student instruction?
What are our median level readers going to do if we suddenly start including enough pathophysiology images to please the med school instructors? I'm not entirely sure it will help them, although on the other hand it might encourage them to see a professional which is what they often should be doing instead of reading Wikipedia. (But if wishes were horses, beggars would ride....)
... Daniel Mietchen wrote:
A similar paper on 39 gastroenterology/ hepatology articles on the English Wikipedia came to different conclusions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#Paper:_.22...
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