Medpedia - Wikipedia Model For The Medical World?
Scheduled to launch towards the end of 2008, The Medpedia Project is a global effort to collect, organize and make understandable, the world’s best information about health, medicine and the body and make it freely available on Medpedia.com in a manner easy to understand for everyone - the preview pages are very clean and rather well presented with easy to understand content.
Though it follows the Wiki model, it differs from the Wikipedia model in that it would be written only by trained professionals. Medical colleges including Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and University of Michigan Medical School will be contributing to the effort along with other government research groups. The content from these organizations will then be edited by MedPedia’s community of medical professionals.
The disruptive effect that collaboration can bring about is evident in the Britannica model versus the Wikipedia model, but would it be equally effective in such a niche segmenta lot of members from which may not be that tech-literate?
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