Difference between revisions of "Libre Pathology"

'''Onlinepathology''' is a wiki to collect all things pathology.  The audience is anyone that wants to know more about pathology.   

With a few exceptions, pathology journals and textbooks are pay-per-view. Imagine a world in which pathology knowledge is accessible to every person on the planet with an internet connection. Patients and other physicians would have a chance to see for them self the challenges pathologists deal with. Medical students would see a vibrant specialty that is evolving with progress in medicine and, in fact, a driver of progress.  

Second, good pathology textbooks are few. Most are laden with dense text and impractical when looking down the [[microscope]]. The philosophy seems wrong -- the emphasis is on making dense text.  

 

The task taken up here is no small one and it is challenging as [[pathologist]]s not only often disagree on whether a certain feature is present, but also on whether it important or even relevant to the diagnosis! Psychiatrists, in this respect, have to be envied, they at least agree on the criteria... and just argue whether they are present in a given case or not.

The finding little bits of information thing, in a pile of it, was a problem where the solution was already out there (it is called a database), and some guys had already made a really niffy interface using PHP, and then built one of the biggest damn web sites out there ([[Wikipedia:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]).  Thus, MediaWiki, the software that runs Wikipedia, was the obvious choice.

So, this was essentially a set of study notes.  [[User:Michael|The guy that started it]] passed [[FRCPC|that exam]] and then [[DABP|another one]]. Then, he realized the wiki is sort of useful... but could get even [[Editing Onlinepathology|better with the help of others]].