User talk:Paris Lovett
Hey Pazzah, good idea of starting an EM textbook! I'm mainly into internal medicine, but if there are any topics you'd like me to cover, please drop me a line on the English Wikipedia. I'd love to do some acute metabolic disturbances and liver disease-related pages. I also like haematology. JFW | T@lk 15:00, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hi Pazzah, I'm the guy who got the Wikibooks site going. I was working in an emergency room in Ohio for a while, and volunteering at a Red Cross facility in Mexico City, before the docs convinced me not to study medicine like I was thinking. Anyway I am very excited that you are doing this work here, this is the very type of work that I had in mind when I got the page started. Thank you and let me know if you need help at any time (although the technical guys have taken over and sometimes I don't know what is going on). --Karl Wick 17:29, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Dr. Lovett, I made some additions to the EM book, a table of contents and some boilerplate information. Also I noticed a new website dedicated to everything medical:
http://www.wikimd.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Maybe a place for a medical encyclopedia, while the medical textbooks go here.
Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to be of service.--Karl Wick 18:49, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Paris:
I haven't quite figured out where 'Talk' goes, but this seems active.
I hope the talk went well at SAEM. I understand it was today. I am in Tucson and pretty much disconnectewd for a few days - I'll be back in Houston and connected Wed evening.
I started a little experiment with 'Templates' thinking of the variations in structure which may be useful.
First I discovered the 'Template' means something different in Wiki stuff - a fixed text that can be replicated on many pages, such as the disclaimer and is invoked with double brackets. I thought PageStencil might be a good alternate terminology for us to use as a page/article structure such as you laid out for general articles.
It semed to me those headings generally work for disease oriented chapters.
I started thinking of a low level kind of page that relates one-to-one with a good EM refernce paper. Abstracts are available in PubMed and are linkable now by using simply PMID 15635313 amd Wiki creates a link to PubMed - pretty nice.
However, most papers of interest will also need a summary of significance and a little better idea of content to be useful. Full text is spotty and the WIkibook will allow a digestion of the significance of a paper and links to all sorts of related information.
I thought I would start with the 20 papers in ABEM's LLSA - for 2004 and 2005 as useful paoers of inbterest to many.
I started playing with naming the paper with the PMID - a canonic form for summaries of one paper so is would be easy to prevent duplication, but that may not be necessary and may be confusing.
Then I encountered some kind if WIki Form-Nazi's who put my pages on a list for Speedy Deletion - not a very friendly approach to cooperative development. They apparently proceeeded to delete my pages, experimantal as they were. I learned to keep a copy of the source offline as the pages were deleted and I do not see a means to roll back the deletions.
So, welcome to Wiki world, Kirt.
Another structure may be a drug page for each drug- a focus or rapid lookup by drug name which should link to all the relevant other places - contexts where the drug or class of drugs may appear.
Another subject of interest will be how to optimally use categories to lump and split things in a useful and user-intuitive manner.
As soon as I feel comfortable with the structure and feeding of WikiBooks, I will try to write a short tutorial introduction for EM authors to break them in relatively painlessly.
Nice book structure[edit source]
Paris,
I really like the structure of your book. I started a Human physiology book as a class project 7 weeks ago. I think you will agree that it is impressive what a small group of students can do in a couple of months (especially when they are getting graded on it!). I thought I would invite you to browse our book, make any corrections or improvements you like, and give us any insights from the field. My students are beginning pre-nursing students, and the class is introductory physiology. If there is something you learned in your beginning physiology class that proved particularly useful, or if there is something you wish you had learned, I would be very interested in hearing about it so we can be sure it is in our book.
Good luck with your book. If you have a chance, I recommend getting an EMT class to contribute to your book as part of the class. Provophys 23:01, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
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