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Welcome to WikiMSK
This wiki is primarily for Musculoskeletal Medicine training in New Zealand. We have 659 pages, and 1,781 files.. The articles are open access for viewing, but editing and creating is restricted to NZAMM members
Why a Wiki?
The primary goal is to provide an easily accessible central location for information as it relates to the practice and study of Musculoskeletal Medicine in New Zealand. There are already wikis for Physiotherapy, Orthopaedic Surgery, and Emergency Medicine, but none for Musculoskeletal Medicine. There are also HealthPathways but there are only a limited number of Musculoskeletal Medicine articles.
Rasmusen summarised the potential benefits and drawbacks to the use of a wiki in medical education, and is summarised below [1] There are many examples of the successful use of wikis in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education.
| Advantages | Disadvantages |
|---|---|
| Knowledge Construction | Setup and Preparation |
| Collaborative Learning | Acceptability and Engagement |
| Social Learning | Challenges to Collaboration |
| Engagement and Ownership | Need for Oversight |
| Peer Feedback | Issues relating to Hierarchy |
| Administrative Benefits | Example |
Join the Wiki Team
Please contact me if you'd like an account. For now accounts will be restricted to Musculoskeletal Medicine Registrars, Fellows, General Practitioners, and Allied Health practitioners that we work closely with. We currently have 52 users.
Getting started
- User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.
- Categories for help on Categories.
- ReferenCite For referencing help. You can get the citation text by going to pubmed, then click "cite" on the right.
- Sidebar Customise the sidebar
- Quiz How to use the quiz function, or Quiz Simple for only the basics. See how they relate to the different MCQ question types Quiz Guide
- MediaWiki FAQ
Looking for ideas of articles? Have a look at our Wanted Pages.
Server side To do list
- Install Extension:AccessControl and set training pages to be viewable by logged in users only.
- Investigate workarounds for installing VisualEditor, compile in VM and clone to server.
- Investigate workarounds for installing dependencies of the PDF handler.
References
- ↑ Rasmussen A, Lewis M, White J. The application of wiki technology in medical education.Med Teach. 2013;35(2):109-114. doi:10.3109/0142159X.2012.733838.
