Health Dictionary
Reliable, easy-to-read patient information on common medical conditions — written in plain language, free of jargon, and grounded in current evidence. Browse the most frequent diagnoses, understand what they mean for everyday life, and learn which steps and questions help you have a focused conversation with your doctor.
Implementation Plan
Introduction
Plans for 2013-2014
- Goal: Differentiate our Wiki community from other well known Wikis (such as Wikipedia).
- Emphasize our focus on sub-specialty based approach.
- Redefine “the myth of copyleft reliability”
- High quality content that is open, free, without commercial bias
- Helping our end-users better understand “the culture of Wiki” and what a Wiki is used for.
- Goal: Continue to curate high quality training materials.
- Implement a mentoring system (similar to fraternities Big/Little programs) with both on-site and remote fellows
- Review training tools for consistency and ensure information is up to date. Create more videos for training.
- Goal: Build out our team-based approach.
- Allow for mastery-based teams
- Allow for individuals to self-select teams based on interest.
- Goal: Engage more English speaking premedical students.
- Start a campaign to write to medical schools.
- Create a database of medical school deans. Collect contact information for these individuals + AMSA leaders on campuses.
- Goal: Engage retired doctors to serve as overseers for team-based approach.
- Potential methods to do this: NEJM ad, social media-based (LinkedIn, Twitter, etc)
- Goal: Perfect the template for the housestaff page.
- This will give identity to program and allow for individuals to step up into leadership roles to facilitate involvement.
- Goal: Create better content on Why Volunteer?
- Increase exposure to foreign medical graduates who may see this as a way to help them on their aspirations to gain access to US residency programs.