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Welcome to WikiMSK

This wiki is dedicated to Musculoskeletal Medicine, and is based in New Zealand. It is primarily for fellows, registrars, and members of the New Zealand Association of Musculoskeletal Medicine, as well as General Practitioners. See our Statistics

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 and Australia. 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 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

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.

Getting started

• MediaWiki FAQ
• 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