wikidoc:About
"The tribe is smarter than any one" C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D.
Why create Wiki Doc? 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.
It was in the spirit of fostering collaboration among health care providers in sharing medical knowledge that WikiDoc was created. WikiDoc is a free textbook and medical news service that allows collaborative authoring. 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. WikiDoc is kept up to date by over 5,000 contributors around the world. The content has now been updated nearly half a million times.
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 both share and improve upon their fund of general medical knowledge.
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