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Welcome to the WikiProject Medicine. This project aims to enable Wikipedians to cooperate, organize, make suggestions and share ideas on the improvement of the medicine and health-related articles of Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to join in this endeavor (regardless of medical qualifications!).

If you have any questions, feel free to ask on our discussion page (also known as the doctor's mess). You can also have a look at some related WikiProjects.

Many suggestions and guidelines have been developed since the project began. A particularly useful collection can be found in the Wikipedia:Manual of Style (medicine-related articles), which contains a detailed discussion of issues related to writing medicine articles on Wikipedia. However, these are only suggestions: they should help to give us focus, and inspire our contributions, but no one should feel obliged to follow (or even read) them. This WikiProject is not prescriptive. They should not distract anyone wanting to contribute from our main purpose: to write and improve medicine articles!

If you would like to help, feel free to add yourself to the list of participants (no strings attached!), or just look over the How you can help section below. Also of interest is the (featured) Medicine Portal associated with this project.

We hope you enjoy improving Wikipedia's medical articles,
-The members

[edit] Goals

To produce reliable and neutral information on medical conditions, diagnosis and treatment in a readable and standardized format. It aims to deal with these diseases in every context, from molecular biology, symptomatology and diagnosis to therapeutical issues and historical and geopolitical ramifications. To this end, the WikiProject will collaborate with other WikiProjects relating to the health sciences.

[edit] News and announcements

[edit] How you can help

[edit] Collaborate

The current Medicine Collaboration of the Week is Premature birth. Last week's collaboration was Infectious mononucleosis.

WikiProject Medicine Collaboration Dashboard v • d • e
Top priorities	Medicine, Cancer, Disease, Health, Death ... (more core topics or vital articles)
Featured article candidates	Major depressive disorder
Featured list candidates	None at the moment
Featured article review	Asthma
Featured article removal candidates	None at the moment
Featured list removal candidates	None at the moment
Featured picture candidates	Image:Reference ranges for blood tests - by molarity.png (see nomination page)
Good article candidates	Obesity hypoventilation syndrome, Reproductive system, Warfarin
Good article reassessment	None at the moment
Peer review	Traumatic brain injury, Osteochondritis dissecans
Active Portals	Medicine
Recently revised • Cleanup listing • Requested articles • Deletions

[edit] Other ideas

• Adopt a stub! There are many, many stubby MED articles that have the potential to be excellent articles. Categories containing these stub articles are Cat:Medicine stubs and Cat:Stub-Class medicine articles.
• Contribute to a team effort by participating in the Collaboration of the Week, a bi-weekly collaboration to improve medicine articles to featured article status. Everyone from subject-matter experts to normal readers is welcome to do what they can!
• Create a new article. Many medicine-related articles have been requested for creation.
• Edit existing articles needing attention. Some articles are also in need of expert attention.
• Add references. Correct and reliable references are vital if the articles produced by this project are to be a verifiable source of information for our readers. Adding references is easy with this tool. Just submit the PubMed ID and copy and paste the resulting output (xxxx) into the page between <ref> xxxxx </ref> Alternatively, if you use Internet Explorer or Firefox (2.0+), then Wouterstomp's bookmarklet can automate this step from the PubMed abstract page.
• Add requested pictures, also listed in Cat:Wikipedia requested photographs of medical subjects.
• Participate in articles nominated for deletion.
• The Medicine Portal always needs to be maintained! If you want to join or find out more, please contact contact the maintainers.
• Assist in public relations and outreach by recruiting editors interested in medicine to contribute to Wikipedia.
• Tag the talk pages of medicine-related articles with {{WPMED|class=|importance=}}. You can also assess the article according to our assessment scale.

[edit] List of open tasks

If you have a job for the project, you can add it to this list. However, you're more likely to get the help you want if you ask for help at the doctor's mess. Please consider leaving a specific explanation of what you want, or a link to a detailed description on an article's talk page.

[edit] Project organization

[edit] Departments

• The Assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's medicine articles.
• The Review department focuses on reviewing medicine-related featured articles.

Task forces

Task forces are groups of editors gathered for collaborative work on a particular topic within the field of medicine. All project members are encouraged to participate in any task forces that interest them.

• Dermatology (talk)
• Emergency medicine and EMS (talk)
• Neurology (talk)
• Reproductive medicine (talk)

To propose a new task force, please visit Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine/Task forces.

[edit] Participants

The full list of project participants is located on a separate subpage. If you would like to help, feel free to add yourself to the list.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Article-related

• {{WPMED}} - Placed on talk pages of medicine-related articles and used to assess articles.
• {{reqphoto|medical subjects}} - Used on talk pages to request that photographs be added to the article.
• {{med-stub}} - Used on stub articles.
• {{Medref}} - Used to indicate an article in need of references.
• {{Medicine}} - The main template to be used on articles about broad disciplines of medicine.
• Cat:Medicine templates - Contains all templates used on medicine-related articles.

[edit] User-related

• Welcome messages (all of these substituted onto a user's talk page):
  • {{subst:MedWelcome}} - Welcome template to greet new Wikipedians and invite them to join WikiProject Medicine.
  • {{subst:MedInvitation}} - Invite for established Wikipedians to join WikiProject Medicine.
  • {{subst:MedGreeting}} - After editor added to participation list.
• {{User WPMed}} - Userbox for members of this WikiProject.
• {{subst:The WikiProject Medicine Barnstar}} - You may award the Medicine Barnstar to those you feel have done superb work in the realm of medicine-related articles.

[edit] Showcase

[edit] Featured articles

Featured articles are considered to be Wikipedia's very best work; they must pass through a review process as featured article candidates before being selected. Articles in bold indicate that the article has been featured on the Main Page on the date noted.

[edit] Former featured articles

These articles used to be Featured Articles, but no longer qualify.

[edit] Featured lists

Featured lists are considered to be the best lists in Wikipedia; they must pass through a review process as featured list candidates before being selected.

[edit] Other featured content

Types of content other than articles—such as images, portals, sounds, and topics—can also achieve featured content status.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

[edit] Task forces

• Dermatology
• Emergency medicine and EMS
• Neurology
• Reproductive medicine

[edit] Descendants

[edit] Others

[edit] Awards

Writing good medical articles can be hard work! Why not reward someone you've seen do some good work in the area; decorate their userpage with one of these:

	The WikiProject Medicine Barnstar	{{subst:The WikiProject Medicine Barnstar|message ~~~~}}	The WikiProject Medicine Barnstar may be awarded to Wikipedians who exhibit exceptional effort and dedication to articles related to WikiProject Medicine. The barnstar design was created by Eustress on April 17, 2008.
	The Encephalon Cross		For commendable contributions to medical articles. Introduced and designed by Encephalon.
	Star of Life		For commendable contributions to medical articles. Introduced by White Cat and designed by Leo R. Schwartz in 1973.

[edit] See also

• Wikipedia:Reliable sources (medicine-related articles)

[edit] External links

• Pubmed
• David Iberri's PMID cite tool
• CDC Public Health Image library
• CDC Parasite Image Library
• NCI Visualsonline

WikiProject Council would like to inform all Wikipedians that it may be advantageous to: Join WikiProjects of your field of knowledge or interest. This will provide you with a forum in which exchange opinions and identify common goals with respect to articles under that topic, as well as coordinated opportunities to share your knowledge. You may also join Maintenance WikiProjects where the focus is on the organization and functioning of Wikipedia in general. Beware of overloading yourself with WikiProject memberships. Keep involved in a handful of WikiProjects to which you can actively and assiduously contribute. But always be willing to help any WikiProject when you see an opportunity, regardless of membership.