Find out how to use Physiopedia in the clinic at CSM 2012.
Want to know how to use Physiopedia in your clinic? Elainne Lonnemann, long time educational contributor and Bronze Sponsor, will be presenting the answers to this in her presentation at the Combined Sections Meeting in Chicago this year. This presentation tilted, Use of a Physical Therapy Specific Wiki in the Clinic, will discuss how clinicians have the opportunity to use an internationals Physical Therapy specific wiki- Physiopedia as a route to further knowledge and for professional development. This session will be a demonstration of the methods in which this international open source wiki, provide an opportunity for an interactive forum between clinical instructors (CI’s), students and academic faculty for collaborative learning in contemporary practice topics. It will also provide clinicians the instruction in navigating a wiki to find and assess professional literature related to current evidence-based practice (EBP) guidelines. The presentation will take place in the exhibit hall on Saturday February 11 at 1:45pm. I know that Elaine will be excited to see you there and be happy to answer any of your Physiopedia questions.
New Residency Project with The Jackson Clinics.
The Jackson Clinics, a Gold Physiopedia Sponsor, has just announced the new Project that they are running in Physiopedia for their Residents, The Jackson Clinics Residency Project. The expectation for these projects is that they are extensive and a comprehensive review of all available literature on Resident Directed Community Service Learning.
Residents will:
- Complete 32 hours of “Resident Directed Community Service Learning” which will be to create two articles for Physiopedia on a topic that has yet to be created, expand a stub article, and/or edit an existing article.
- First Article: The resident will create one lower quarter disorder article during the first six months
- Second Article: The resident will create/expand/edit an upper quarter disorder article during the last six months.
- If 32 hours of “Resident Directed Community Service Learning” has not been reached with the two articles as described about, the resident is encouraged to create, expand, and/or edit existing physiopedia articles of their choice.
- All articles should be highly referenced. They should be written at the level and profiency of a clinician at the fellowship level.
We are looking forward to collaborating with The Jackson Clinics and their Residents on this Project and hope that this may lead the way for collaborations with other Residency programmes in the USA.
Have we been visited by all the countries in the world?
In our previous reports of countries that we have been visited by, we have been working from the numbers from this website. This was perhaps a bad assessment of the quality of information that a website provides by me, not something that I advocate in these days of the necessity to scrutinise any information that you find on the web. However, having now looked at the United Nations list of members we realise that they have only 193 members listed. So with our google analytics telling us that we have been visited by 193 countries does this mean that we have been visited by all the countries in the world!? If we have really done it, that’s amazing!!
The strengthening case for open access publishing
This problem has been combatted recently at the prestigious US academic institution, Princeton University. Explained on their news site, they will prevent researchers from giving the copyright of scholarly articles to journal publishers, except in certain cases where a waiver may be granted. The new rule is part of an Open Access policy aimed at broadening the reach of their scholarly work and encouraging publishers to adjust standard contracts that commonly require exclusive copyright as a condition of publication.
We have been advocates for open access publishing since even before our launch in 2008, which you can read about here. We offer an open access resource for the physiotherapy profession and also offer the opportunity to publish your research in an open environment. Why? Well Steve Wheeler does a great explanation in support of this in his recent blog post, the case for open publishing. He concludes by saying “what open access does mean is larger readerships for the published research. That has to be worth something in anyone’s book.” Not to mention the fact that it makes knowledge available to those that otherwise wouldn’t have access!
We have an Open Access Directory in Physiopedia and hope that in the future the list will grow. If you know any others please send them to me and I will add them to the directory.
Physiopedia partners with Primal Pictures to share images
In our opinion Primal Pictures has one of the most complete, detailed and accurate 3D model of human anatomy available. Derived from real human data, this range of software provides over 5,000 3D anatomical structures, clinical slides, dissections, animations and much more. Physiopedia and Primal are very pleased to now offer a Primal Pictures Image Bank for use in the articles that you create and update.
Primal Pictures have very kindly donated a selection of images for us to use in Physiopedia and although Primal Pictures retain the copyright on these images and request that they are not used outside of Physiopedia without special permission, we can use any of these pictures in articles that you are working on in Physiopedia.
To use the pictures:
- Go to the image bank
- Click on the image that you would like to use. This will take you to the image page for that picture.
- You can get the name of the image from that page. It will look something like this:
Interactive Spine – Lumbar Vertebral Spine – L7F19.jpg - Add the image to your page as you would normally do. See the adding images tutorial for further assistance.
It’s really that easy! And by the way, it was Primal Pictures’ 20th birthday last week, so Happy Birthday to them!!
