Cirriculum Matters
The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland have been impressed with the innovative elective module that Aileen Barrett ran for her foundation year students in Physiopedia. In their recent magazine, Cirriculum Matters, they published a small piece about the project that Aileen ran highlighting it’s success. We hope that this will be a lasting partnership between with the RCSI and hope to run more interprofessional student projects with them!
New profile pages for partnering institutions
In these early days of Physiopedia we are very pleased to have partnered with our first group of educational institutions. The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Evidence in Motion, Regis University and the Medical College of Georgia have all been innovative and enthusiastic in their commitment to this open access project. We have been working with them to create assignments and modules for their students to complete within Physiopedia or to donate valuable content created by their students to Physiopedia.
As well as acknowledging these partnering institutions on the acknowledgements page we have now given them a profile page of their own. This allows us to inform our readers a little more about our partnering instituitons, provides a place to publish the way in which these institutions are collaborating with Physiopedia and link to the work that their students have completed.
See what our partnering institutions have been up to:
RCSI student project pages
The RCSI student module that has taken place in Physiopedia is now complete. The foundation year students created two new pages, Auscultation and Apley’s Test. They were assessed on their work following a final presentation and the project co-ordinator, Aileen Barrett, was very pleased with the outcome.
The first ever student module in Physiopedia has been a great success. From the feedback that we have received it seems that the students enjoyed the project as did the project co-ordinator. It has been a learning curve for all of us and I will certainly be using the experience to develop a more seamless experience for further educational projects in Physiopedia.
Adding Images
It is really useful to add images to Physiopedia articles, not only does it make the page far more aesthetically pleasing but it also compliments the writing on the page to help the reader understand the topic better. To add images to pages in Physiopedia you first need to upload the image to Physiopedia before inserting it on to your page, follow these instructions:
- Save the image to your computer
- Go to Physiopedia
- Click the Upload File button
- Fill in the details of the image in the pop-up box (including a short and appropriate destination name and its reference in the summary box)
- Click Upload File
- Go to the page you wish to add the image to
- Click the Edit tab to get the editing box open
- Place the cursor where you wish to insert the image
- Click on the insert/edit image button in the toolbar of the editing box
- Fill in the details of the pop-up box (the image file name is the same as the destination name that you gave it when you uploaded it to Physiopedia)
- Click OK
- Save the page that you are editing
Hey presto! The image will now be on the page that you are editing. As you have uploaded your image to Physiopedia it can now easily be used on numerous pages and if you filled in the reference for the image in the summary box when you uploaded it you will not need to reference it on the pages that it resides in Physiopedia.
For more information on adding images see the adding images user turorial.
