Adding References
Physiopedia uses the Vancouver style of referencing as this is the style used in most leading medical journals. When, in your work, you have used an idea from a book, journal article, etc. you must acknowledge this in your text. This is referred to as ‘citing’. Each piece of work which is cited in your text should have a unique number, assigned in the order of citation. If, in your text, you cite a piece of work more than once, the same citation number should be used.
To cite a piece of work in Physiopedia follow these instructions:
- At the point where you wish to cite a piece of work, click on <R> in the toolbar of the editing box.
- A new editing box will pop-up on your screen.
- In this box you should write the reference in the ‘reference text’ box. Please use the Vancouver style of referencing.
- Then add a reference name. This could be ‘Smith and Jones’ or ‘Smith et al’ for example.
- Then click OK.
- Once you save the page that you are editing the reference for your cited piece of work will automatically appear at the bottom of the page.
If you wish to cite peice of work more than once on the same page:
- Complete the steps above for the first citation of that piece of work. When you come to cite the same piece of work again click on <R> in the toolbar again for the pop-up editing box to appear, but this time you need only fill in the reference name. This should be the same name that you gave to the reference the first time you cited it.
- If you do not know the name that has been given to the reference, for example if someone else added it, you can find it in the wikitext. Click on the wikitext link in the toolbar of the editing box. Look in the wikitext for the reference that you wish to cite for a second (or multiple) time. It should start with <ref name=”reference name”>
where “reference name” is the name that you are looking for. - If it does not have a reference name i.e. it just starts with <ref> and ends with </ref> you can add a reference name yourself by adding name=”reference name” inside the first <ref> tag so that it looks like this <ref name=”reference name”>.
For further explanation and more on Vancouver Referencing have a look at the Adding References user tutorial.
Adding Video
You can add video to any Physiopedia page as long as it has been uploaded to YouTube first.
Unfortunately it is not as simple as just adding the link that YouTube provide to the page that you are editing. To add video to a Physiopedia page, the video will need to be added directly to the wikitext.
So the firt step is to click on the Wikitext link in the toolbar of the editing box. Then add the following to the page where you want the video to appear:
- {{#ev:youtube|id}} -or-
- {{#ev:youtube|id|width}}
Where:
- id is the id of the video to include
- width (optional) is the width in pixels of the viewing area (height will be determined automatically)
See the Adding Video user tutorial for more information and advanced editing.
Medical College of Georgia student project
In the most ambitious project to date in Physiopedia, Eric Robertson (with the help of our featured contributor Tyler Shultz!) has directed his DPT students to create some great new pages as part of their recent spinal course. The students were allowed to select of spine topic of their choice and the assignment was very non-prescriptive in nature, allowing the students the opportunity to decide what content would best make their page. Many made their own videos and took their own pictures to upload which we are very impressed with! Once they got past the initial learning curve, the students really enjoyed making the content. One student posted on twitter that this “really was a neat way to learn.” I hope the pages they created will be a nice resource for many physios!
Take a look at he pages they created:
- Neck Pain Clinical Guidelines
- Sacroiliac Joint
- Cauda Equina Syndrome
- Straight Leg Raise Test
- Femoral Nerve Tension Test
- Spinal Stenosis
- Transverse Ligament Stress Test
- Gaenslen Test
- Spinal_Stabilization
- Prone Instability Test
- Spinal Manipulation
- Slump Test
- Degenerative Disc Disease
- Lumbur Radiculopathy
- Waddels Sign
- Hoover Test
- Spurlings Test
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:
