Radiopaedia
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| Web address | http://radiopaedia.org/ |
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| Commercial? | No |
Type of site | Wiki |
| Registration | Required |
| Available in | English |
| Owner | Investling |
| Launched | December 2005 |
| Current status | November 2015 8764 articles with 20650 cases |
Radiopaedia is a non-profit-making wiki-based international collaborative radiology educational web resource containing reference articles, radiology images, and patient cases.[1] It also contains a radiology encyclopedia. It is currently one of the largest freely available radiology related resources in the world with more than 20600 patient cases and over 8700 collaborative articles on radiology-related topics which are of varying quality. The open edit nature of articles allows radiologists and trainees to modify and refine most content through time. In 2012, it became part of the UBM medica network.
Background
The site was initially programmed using MediaWiki, the same program platform as Wikipedia, but now runs on a bespoke code written by TrikeApps. In 2010, almost all of the article and image collection from radswiki (a similar wiki-based radiology educational site) was donated to Radiopaedia.
Purpose
The aim of Radiopaedia.org according to its founder is "to develop an online text and case database where information is up to date and relevant to the needs of both registrar/resident and consultant radiology staff."[2] Its intention is to benefit the radiology community and wider society and it relies on benevolent collaborations from radiologists and others with an interest in radiology.
It was founded by the Australian neuroradiologist Dr. Frank Gaillard in December 2005.[3] It was initially Australian-led but now has a worldwide collaboration. Its article content is currently limited to English.
Similarly to Wikipedia, registered users of the site are allowed to freely add and edit the majority of the content. This allows content to be progressively upgraded over years and for radiologists and society in general to continuously refine article content through time. The site also allows registered users to maintain their own personal case library of teaching cases. Rather than individually publishing articles, users are encouraged to integrate content with links to cases and journal articles and collaboratively refine content. In an attempt to reduce vandalism and peer-review content, a panel of section editors are appointed time to time to review changes and ensure that the presented material is as accurate and relevant as possible. As with similar open edit sites, unreliability of content has been a concern; however, despite its open edit nature, it is ranked relatively highly among user reviews.[4] [5]
Sub sites
Radiopaedia also maintains several other educational subsites which include radiology signs - a tumblr feed with selected signs radiology channel - a YouTube channel containing educational videos
Board of editors
The board of editors review, develop as well as help the users to maintain the high quality content of the website.
The current editorial board (2015) is composed of individuals from a variety of countries and includes:
Editor in chief
- Dr Frank Gaillard
Managing editors
- Dr Jeremy Jones (Managing editor)
- Dr Yuranga Weerakkody (Managing editor)
- Dr Andrew Dixon (Managing editor)
- Dr Henry Knipe (Managing editor)
Section editors
- Dr Craig Hacking (Anatomy section editor)
- Dr Alexandra Stanislavsky (Breast imaging editor)
- Dr Ayush Goel (Cardiac imaging editor)
- Dr Bruno Di Muzio (Central nervous system imaging editor)
- Dr Hani Al Salam (Chest imaging editor)
- Dr Ian Bickle (Gastrointestinal imaging editor)
- Dr Prashant Mudgal (Gynaecological imaging editor)
- Dr Jan Frank Gerstenmaier (Haematology imaging editor)
- Dr Praveen Jha (Head & neck imaging editor)
- Dr Mohammed ElBeialy (Hepatobiliary imaging editor)
- Dr Dylan Kurda (Interventional section editor)
- Dr Tim Luijkx (Musculoskeletal imaging editor)
- Dr Avni K P Skandhan (Obstetric imaging editor)
- Dr Amir Rezaee (Oncology imaging editor)
- Dr Maxime St-Amant (Paediatric imaging editor)
- Dr Andrew Ryan (Pathology editor)
- Dr Ahmed Abd Rabou (Physics section editor)
- Dr Matt Skalski (Spinal imaging editor)
- Dr Matt A. Morgan (Urogenital imaging editor)
- Dr Aditya Shetty (Vascular imaging editor)
Site editors
- Dr Aaron Wong
- Dr Mohammad Taghi Niknejad
- Dr Julian L. Wichmann
- Dr Charlie Chia-Tsong Hsu
- Dr Dalia Ibrahim
- Dr Paresh K Desai
Sub editors
- Dr Calvin Gan
- Dr Matthew Andrews
- Dr Derek Smith
- Dr Marcin Czarniecki
- Dr Kewal Arunkumar Mistry
- Dr Eric F Greif
- Dr Nafisa Shakir Batta
- Dr Varun Babu
- Dr Dayu Gai
Expert advisers
Radiopaedia is also supported a team of expert advisors who are subspecialists in their field
They include
- Dr Emmeline Lee
- Dr David Yousem
- Dr Jenny Hoang
- Dr Patsy Roberston
- Dr George Matcuk
- Dr Parvati Ramchandani
iPhone, iPad and iOS apps
In 2009, the first Radiopaedia iPhone app was released. These teaching files package cases and articles for users to review and have sample questions and answers.[6]
- Brain
- Gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary
- Musculoskeletal
- Paediatrics
- Chest
- Head and Neck
These have been released in two forms:[7]
- LITE : 10 full cases
- FULL : 50–80 cases; the initial 50 have been supplemented in some cases.
Teaching files for the iPad were released in mid-2010. The first of its kind. These have currently been released for
- Brain
- Head and Neck
- Musculoskeletal
In 2012, Radiopaedia released a new version of its iOS application which is a universal app with in-app purchases for case packs.
Copyright
Most of the content is under the Creative Commons non-commercial license.[1]
References
- 1 2 "Radiopaedia.org, the wiki-based collaborative modifiable Radiology resource".
- ↑ "Radiopaedia: a wiki for radiology « ScienceRoll".
- ↑ "Radiopaedia 2.0 update « ScienceRoll".
- ↑ http://www.elearning-radiology.com/?mod=affiliatedlinks
- ↑ http://www.topsite.com/best/radiology
- ↑ "Radiopaedia MSK iPhone app « A radiology geek's blog".
- ↑ "Radiopaedia iPhone apps « MacWorld".