Audience: Physicians, researchers and other health care professionals
The following Wikis restrict contributors to approved, licensed/credentialed professionals
Ask Dr. Wiki
… a nonprofit educational web site made by physicians for physicians, medical students, and healthcare providers. It serves as a online repository of medical information that can be accessed by anyone.
Ganfyd
…free medical knowledge base that anyone can read and any registered medical practitioner may edit.
KidneyWiki
... to provide as much information as possible to patients, professionals and the general public, with the hopes that this education wil be a motivating factor in making the necessary changes to prevent or stall chronic kidney disease.
The McGill Library Global Health Resource Guide
… attract a global audience, and promote collaboration between professionals within, and beyond, the McGill Community
Medical University of South Carolina Department of Radiology’s Medical Physics wiki
…The purpose of this wiki is to collect test procedures, documentation and other wisdom for the diagnostic medical physics group
Neurodegeneration Research Wiki
… to provide information on neurodegenerative diseases that is useful to caregivers, students and researchers.
Wiki Doc
… intended to be a shared resource for house staff , medical students and fellows Nurses and attending physicians may find it valuable to share and improve upon their fund of general medical knowledge.
PubDrug
… copyright-free, royalty-free drug information resource intended for the use of health professionals and the general public.
WiserWiki
… allows accredited physicians to comment, collaborate and update medical information online and is viewable by everyone.
The following wikis encourage and accept contributions from all
Clinfowiki
...to provide clinical informaticians around the world a place to document and discuss many of the most important lessons they have learned.
ECGpedia
…a wiki electrocardiography (ECG) course and textbook.
Effidient MD
...is designed to help healthcare professionals and medical students discover clinical pearls, useful resources, life hacks, and strategies to improve the practice of medicine.
EHealth Wiki (JMIR)
… to collaboratively develop eHealth and Internet research ideas and observations into papers, proposals, research protocols, projects and programs.
Radiology Wiki
… an online collaborative reference website focused on radiology and may include references related to education, research, technology, academics and private practice radiology.
Radiopaedia
… an online text where information is up to date and relevant to the needs of radiology staff, both registrars and consultants. .
RadsWiki
… a radiology wiki that anyone can edit.
Nursing Wiki
… a free multilingual wiki-project for health care and nursing information.
Onco Wiki
…a chemotherapy and treatment protocol resource where you can find in one place all the cancer protocols and their relevant references.
The Quality of Medical Data
… a research resource for epidemiologists, healthcare workers, insurers, and patients interested in the issues surrounding the quality of medical data. Topics include the current state of the quality of the data collected in the course of patient care, the factors that influence quality, and the effects of quality on efforts to use existing clinical data for secondary purposes such as epidemiology and pay-for-performance initiatives.
School:Medicine (Wikiversity)
…a content development project where participants create, organize and develop learning resources about medicine.
Street Medic Wikia
… information resource focused on medical issues, treatment protocols, ethical standards, and historical information of use to street medics.
Student Doctor Network Wiki
…for pre-medical students.
WikiEcho
… a free, up-to-date and reliable online resource covering the rapidly advancing field of echocardiography.
WikiHealthCare (Joint Commission Wiki)
… interactive forum for health care professionals. It is designed to enable and encourage discussion and collaboration among all users for the purpose of improving health care quality.
The following Wikibooks are all open content textbooks
Emergency Medicine
Handbook of Genetic Counseling
Human Physiology
Immunology
Orthopaedic Surgery
Pharmacology
Audience: General public or health care consumers
The following wikis encourage and accept contributions from all
WebHealth
...a free medical encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
Wellness Wiki
… to help clarify the complex problems plaguing the U.S. healthcare system and develop sustainable ways to improve the health and well-being of all people.
WikiMD
…a free wiki based medical encylcopedia and medical wiki community.
WikiCancer
...support and information resource.
Wikisurgery
…a free surgical encyclopedia for surgeons and their patients.
Community Huntington’s Disease Community Notebook
…for families needing guidance in support of those afflicted with Huntington’s disease.
Demystifying Depression (Wikibooks)
… to provide you with the knowledge everyone should have about their mental well-being.
MedTech Wiki
… a comprehensive database of medical technologies and devices, including specifications, methods of use, and commentary on efficacy and other issues.
The following wikis restrict contributors
Consumer Health Information (Toronto Public Library)
… to help you find reliable, understandable health information for you and your family. The information on this site is constantly being revised as changes or new information comes to light.
Flu Wiki
… to help local communities prepare for and perhaps cope with a possible influenza pandemic.
WikiHealth
… to offer the most comprehensive, current and insightful information to help anyone and everyone achieve optimal health.
Audience: Medical Librarians
The following wikis restrict contributors
EBHC Search Strategies Wiki
… focuses on the process, techniques and tools of high quality searching in the context of evidence-based health care.
EBM Librarian
… to develop a community of librarians who are involved in teaching and supporting the practice of evidence based medicine (ebm) or evidence based practice (ebp).
MLA-HLS Wiki
… to provide a sandbox in which we can share best practices in a forum that is easily accessed, archived, searched, and modified.
UBC HealthLib Wiki
...a knowledge base for health librarians.
This list is organized by intended audience. If the website did not explicitly state the audience, I made some judgments about the intended audience. All of these wikis are viewable by the general public or health care consumers. Many, if not all of these wikis require registration prior to contributing to articles.
