Wikipedia:WikiProject Clinical medicine

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This is the WikiProject concerned primarily with the practical side of medical science. It is a child of WikiProject Medicine, the other member of which is WikiProject Preclinical Medicine. Other related WikiProjects are WikiProject Pharmacology and WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology. This WikiProject participates in the Medicine Collaboration of the Week.

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Scope

This WikiProject was initiated in 2004 to replace the defunct "WikiProject Medical Conditions". The scope of this WikiProject is:

To provide reliable and neutral information on medical diseases in a readable and standardized format. It aims to deal with these diseases in every context, from molecular biology, symptomatology and diagnosis to therapeutical issues and historical and geopolitical ramifications. To this end, the WikiProject will collaborate with other WikiProjects relating to the health sciences.

Premise

Wikipedia has a wealth of pages related to medicine, but:

  • Many articles are stubby
  • A large number are phrased in layman's terms, often employing doubtful metaphors, inappropriate sarcasm and factual misinterpretations
  • Some contain outdated concepts and material
  • Some blur the lines between mainstream medicine and Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)

Goals and aims

The "Clinical medicine" project is aimed at:

  • Composing pages from an informed point-of-view
  • Updating old pages
  • Linking pages of every medical specialty with "blue boxes" or sidebars (e.g. all forms of gastrointestinal bleed under gastroenterology, see below)
  • Finding a way to integrate references to journals, PubMed, and other sources into the text;
  • Providing images; practicing doctors have copyright over the images they produce, with patients' consent when necessary
  • Determining our audience (see below)
  • Establishing a hierarchical structure for relevant topics (specialties of medicine, drugs, procedures, anatomical features, etc.) so that useful lists can be made
  • Establishing a consistent style and terminology for medical articles

The audience

In order to strike a balance between heavy scientifically focused text and information accessible to the public, the consensus is now:

  • Keep the lead section of the page simple
  • Explain the basic concepts first
  • Escalate difficulty in the course of the article to address technical issues

Work to do

Blue boxes

The following boxes are in operation (please add when one's complete):

Specialism MediaWiki page Wikitext
Medicine Template:Medicine {{medicine}}
Cardiac surgery Template:Cardiac surgery {{cardiac surgery}}
Gastroenterology Template:Gastroenterology {{gastroenterology}}
General surgery Template:General surgery {{general surgery}}
Hematology Template:Hematology {{hematology}}
Thoracic surgery Template:Thoracic surgery {{Thoracic surgery}}
Transfusion medicine Template:Transfusion medicine {{transfusion medicine}}

Cleanup

Some rather central medical articles are very stubby, and require cleanup to measure up to some form of standard. If you come across an article that you believe is in need of cleanup, please list it in Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine, Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Health science, or Wikipedia:Cleanup. You may also consider nominating any of these for the Medicine Collaboration of the Fortnight.

Expand stubs

Go to Category:Medicine stubs, and if you see an article you can help out, expand it. Also, add {{Med-stub}} to the bottom of any medically-related stub articles that you come across so that others in this community can easily find them. In addition to Medicine stubs, there are also Treatment stubs, Pharmacology stubs and Sign stubs; these categories are associated with templates {{treatment-stub}}, {{pharma-stub}} and {{med-sign-stub}}, respectively.

Medical eponyms

List of eponymous diseases - there are thousands of them (see the website http://www.whonamedit.com, now regarded as authoritative in medical eponymology, to cite a doctor or syndrome use template {{WhoNamedIt}}). When you come across an eponymic disease, please add it to the list.

Peer review

We all make edits in medical articles, but sometimes it can be tremendously useful to have stuff reviewed by someone else. This is especially true when one's working slightly outside his/her field of expertise. Most WikiDoc members have a field of interest; they might be willing to peer-review work by others. See the talk page for the review process.

Basic topics

Many articles still need good introductions. Consider reviewing Encarta's or Britannica's similar articles to get an idea as to how such article should appear.

Some main "specialism" and "basic topics" pages, such as oncology, nephrology and pulmology have been written. The surgical pages await exploration.* Most other relevant stuff is in medical history, physical examination, sign (medicine), symptom, syndrome...

*The Surgery article has been expanded.

The naming issue

Most members of the project appear to be in favour of "scientific labeling" of medical articles, with redirects from layman terms (heart attack redirects to myocardial infarction, with appropriate explanations of the latter). As this seems to contradict Wikipedia's present policy, the issue has been raised in different fora, each time eliciting remarkably little response. It has now been mentioned on Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions/Archive_4#Medicine, and a message on the Wikipedia:Village pump will follow (see Wikipedia:Village pump#The names of diseases: policy?).

General policy appears to be, after the village pump discussion, that medical articles ought to be named scientifically, with good redirects in place.


Showcase

Featured articles

Featured articles are considered to be Wikipedia's very best work; they must pass through a review process as featured article candidates before being selected. Articles in bold indicate that the article has been featured on the Main Page on the date noted.

Featured lists

Featured lists are considered to be the best lists in Wikipedia; they must pass through a review process as featured list candidates before being selected.

Other featured content

Types of content other than articles—such as images, portals, sounds, and topics—can also achieve featured content status.

Articles pertaining to the project

Journal articles

Good articles

Good articles have been evaluated for their quality, but they have not been through the featured article process. For good articles in the biology and medicine category, see Wikipedia:Good_articles/Natural_sciences#Biology_and_medicine.


Resources

Wikiportal:Medicine

Portal:Medicine has become a featured portal! Feel free to further improve it, help with "Did you know", suggest selected articles and pictures, expand "categories", "things you can do",... You can find all the necessary pages in this category. To contact a maintainer, please see talk pages of NCurse and Steven Fruitsmaak.

Related projects

  1. Wikipedia:WikiProject Pharmacology
  2. Wikipedia:Wikiproject Alternative Medicine
  3. Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Science and medicine
  4. Wikipedia:WikiProject Pathology

Featured articles and candidates

General Strategy and Discussion forum

See the talk page.

Templates

Article template

General pointers on writing medical articles are covered at Wikipedia:WikiProject Clinical medicine/Template for medical conditions and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Medicine-related articles).

WikiProject Clinical medicine notice/template

The template for marking an article as part of the CLINMED project is here. It can be inserted into an article with:

{{CMedWikiProject}}

Its appearance is as follows:

WikiProject iconMedicine Redirect‑class
WikiProject iconThis redirect is within the scope of WikiProject Medicine. Please visit the project page for details or ask questions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine.MedicineWikipedia:WikiProject MedicineTemplate:WikiProject Medicinemedicine articles
RedirectThis redirect does not require a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

Userbox

If you want to indicate your membership on your user page or on a userbox subpage, you can use the template {{WPCM member}}. It gives:

Template:WPCM member


Article series box

The {{Medicine}} template only belongs on the pages that cover medical specialties. It looks like this:

Participants

Please note your interest in this collaboration at Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Participants. (Those who were listed here previously were moved to that list.)

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