wikidoc:About
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"The tribe is smarter than any one" C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D.
Why create Wiki Doc? Perhaps a good starting point is a quick read of "The World is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman. One of the premises of this book is that information technology has leveled the playing field of knowledge workers. Silos of knowledge are coming down. Knowledge workers are sharing information freely. Copyright is out, copyleft is in. Those communities that share knowledge most freely, grow and innovate most rapidly. Distributed learning and collaboration are the keys to success in the future. In order to flourish, knowledge workers need free access to shared knowledge.
The "world is flat", but "medicine is flat" as well. It is in the spirit of fostering collaboration among health care providers in sharing medical knowledge that WikiDoc was created. WikiDoc is a free medical news service and textbook of medicine that anyone can add to and edit. Launched by C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. of Harvard Medical School in late 2005, WikiDoc is the first and largest wiki dedicated to medicine on the internet with an initial focus on cardiovascular disease. At present, WikiDoc has an mailing list of over 10,500 health care providers.
WikiDoc is intended to be a shared resource for housestaff (in preparation for morning report), medical students (in preparation for morning rounds) and fellows (in preparation for conferences). Nurses and attending physicians may find it valuable to share and improve upon their fund of general medical knowledge.
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