Surgery Wikis

A wiki is a website or database that anyone can edit who has access to contribute or modify the content.

Medical wikis, created by physicians, are databases featuring information for medical professionals or patients.

AskDrWiki

• Creator: Editorial board of medical professionals.
• Description: "Dr Wiki is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational web site made by physicians for physicians, medical students, and healthcare providers. Its purpose is to serve as a online repository of medical information that can be accessed by anyone."

Ganfyd

• Creator: GANFYD was initiated by a group of doctors and medical students who use Doctors.net.uk (AKA Ausdoctors.net) to contribute their knowledge and experience to the commonwealth.
• Description: "GANFYD stands for Get A Note From Your Doctor, and is a slang abbreviation used by British General Practitioners to describe the situation where a member of the public has been forced to consult their doctor in order to get a letter to say that they can do something which common sense says they can. Usually GANFYDs occur when employers, schools or public bodies are involved. They are as frustrating for patients as they are for doctors."

Medical Matters Wiki - Surgery

• Creator: University of South Alabama
• Description: Biomedical Library

Medpedia - General Surgery

• Creator: "Medpedia Editors are physicians and Ph.D.s in the biomedical field who have each had their credentials carefully checked and verified. They are responsible for writing, editing and overseeing the content on the medical encyclopedia portion of the Project."
• Description: "The Medpedia Project is a long-term, worldwide project to evolve a new model for sharing and advancing knowledge about health, medicine and the body among medical professionals and the general public. This model is founded on providing a free online technology platform that is collaborative, interdisciplinary and transparent."

WikiSurgery

• Creator: Medical professionals
• Description: "Wikisurgery is a free surgical encyclopedia for surgeons and their patients. Contributions in the form of new articles and editing can be made by anyone at anytime anywhere in the world. The opportunity is clear, if we utilise every individuals knowledge set built up over years of lectures, exams, training and human interaction, it can benefit everyone. Wikisurgery is more than just a depot of surgical knowledge, not just articles about facts but also articles about controversy, debates, with none of the usual editorial limits on space. Indeed we hope it will become a record of surgical thought, experience and progression."

Wikipedia

Entry on Surgery and category on Surgery

• Creator: The community of Wikipedia
• Description: Wikipedia is a free encyclopaedia that anyone can edit. The linked category contains all the entries written about surgery.
• Quality: Featured article

Wikimedia Commons

Media category of Surgery

• Creator: The community of Wikimedia Commons
• Description: Wikimedia Commons is the database of media content of Wikipedia.

Wikibooks

Textbook Of Orthopaedic Surgery - A collaboration

• Creator: The community of WikiBooks
• Description: An open-content textbooks collection.