Wikipedia:WikiProject Clinical medicine

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Please have a look at the nascent Medical classification scheme here, add to it, correct it, modify it, whatever seems fit. It would be good to have a sound logical scheme worked out before trying to implement it.

Also visit our sister projects, Preclinical medicine/basic medical sciences and Medicine Collaboration of the Week.

For articles currently being worked on, or for which individual collaboration is sought, please see Clinical medicine/collaboration

Contents 1 Scope 1.1 Premise 1.2 Goals and aims 1.3 The audience 2 Work to do 2.1 Blue boxes 2.2 Cleanup 2.3 Expand stubs 2.4 Medical eponyms 2.5 Peer review 2.6 Basic topics 2.7 The naming issue 2.8 Resources 2.9 Wikiportal:Medicine 3 Recognized content 3.1 Featured articles 3.2 Good articles 3.3 Did you knows (DYKs) 4 Formerly recognized content 4.1 Former featured articles 4.2 Former good articles 5 Parentage 6 Related projects 6.1 Featured articles and candidates 7 General Strategy and Discussion forum 8 Templates 8.1 Article template 8.2 WikiProject Clinical medicine notice/template 8.3 Userbox 9 Article series box 10 Participants

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to replace the more-or-less defunct "WikiProject Medical Conditions":

"... to provide information and a consistent format for medical diseases, disorders, and other conditions (e.g. Diabetes & Cerebral Palsy). Many of these are listed on Health science which is an article linked from the Main Page."

The scope of this project is somewhat wider: it aims to address diseases in the context of diagnostic methods, therapeutic interventions and other related articles.

Most material on this page was originally discussed on the "WikiDoc" page (now redirects here).

[edit] 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• Some contain outdated concepts and material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 CAM.

[edit] 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; some pages employ superscript numbers (see diabetes mellitus)
• 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Work to do

[edit] 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}}

A Wikipedia-wide policy on these boxes has been proposed: Wikipedia:Article series boxes policy (proposed).

The article series boxes will probably become less of an issue now the category system is in place. The originator of the above boxes (me) is not planning to design other boxes in the near future. JFW | T@lk

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Medical eponyms

List of eponymous diseases - there are thousands of them (see the website http://www.whonamedit.com). When you come across an eponymic disease, please add it to the list (and add Category:Eponymous diseases to the article). The page Sign (medicine) contains a smaller list of signs during physical examination, such as the famed Babinski...

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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...

[edit] 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.

Medicine trophy box
	Article	Main Page Date
	Immune system	3/1/2007
	DNA	2/13/2007
	Bacteria	1/20/2007
	Influenza	1/1/2007
	Down syndrome	12/5/2006
	Acute myeloid leukemia	10/8/2006
	Cystic fibrosis	7/6/2006
	AIDS	6/15/2006
	Keratoconus	6/5/2006
	Médecins Sans Frontières	2/25/2006
	Tooth development	1/20/2006
	Prostate cancer	1/29/2006
	Pneumonia	12/4/2005
	Multiple sclerosis	11/18/2005
	Schizophrenia	10/24/2005
	Asthma	10/5/2005
	Cerebellum	9/16/2005
	Menstrual cycle	8/30/2005
	Tooth enamel	8/5/2005
	Chagas disease	7/31/2005
	Helicobacter pylori	3/26/2005
	DNA repair	9/15/2004
	Tuberculosis	8/25/2004
	Chemical synapse	6/28/2004
	Paracetamol (acetaminophen)	6/14/2004
	Asperger syndrome	4/17/2004
	Action potential
	Lesch-Nyhan syndrome
	Tourette syndrome
	Baby Gender Mentor
	Antioxidant
	Coeliac disease
	Former Featured articles:
	Autism	8/24/2005
	Breastfeeding	10/22/2004
	Evolution	3/18/2005
	Gene	10/5/2004
	LSD	2/29/2004
	Psychosis	2/27/2004
	Race	10/26/2004
	Severe acute respiratory syndrome	12/20/2004

[edit] Resources

• List of medical topics
• List of common diseases
• List of diseases (a good resource on the correct spelling of some rare disease names)
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia medicine standards (inactive)
• List of medical symptoms (patchy, though overlaps with List of ICD-10 codes; does this article need to exist? please see Talk:List of medical symptoms)
• List of anatomical topics
• List of biological viruses
• List of clinically important bacteria

[edit] 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.

[edit] Recognized content

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Good articles

[edit] Did you knows (DYKs)

• Aleksandr Bakulev - 16 January 2007

[edit] Formerly recognized content

[edit] Former featured articles

[edit] Former good articles

[edit] Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Medicine.

[edit] Related projects

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

[edit] Featured articles and candidates

• See wikipedia:Featured articles #Biology and medicine

[edit] General Strategy and Discussion forum

See the talk page.

[edit] Templates

[edit] 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).

[edit] 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:

This article is part of a WikiProject to improve Wikipedia's articles related to medicine. For guidelines see WikiProject Clinical Medicine and Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ.

[edit] 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:

[edit] Article series box

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

[edit] Participants

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