Anatomy Project

Description

Physiotherapists require a high level of anatomy understanding in order to inform appropriate and detailed assessment and treatment of their patients. It is therefore a core learning requirement for many. Physiopedia should reflect this need with high quality articles that are well coordinated with other content on Physiopedia.

This project follows a recent review and further work on the anatomy content on Physiopedia which found poor coverage of anatomy across all of the disciplines of physiotherapy. When focusing on musculoskeletal anatomy there is 12% coverage of bones, 40% coverage of joints, and 35% coverage of muscles. It is likely there is a similar limited coverage of peripheral nerves and ligaments & connective tissue The review found that anatomy pages on Physiopedia rarely report on clinical skills of assessment or treatment which would make our content stand out for physiotherapists.

This project will focus on improving MSK lower limb anatomy and contribute to the topic of the month for August 2016, the knee.

Project team

Project leads

Rachael Lowe

Evan Thomas

George Prudden

Project dates

September 2016 - November 2016

Introduction

As a participant in this project you will contribute to the creation (or update an existing) page within Physiopedia. This is a great opportunity for continuing professional development and to contribute evidence based information to develop this resource for our profession.

Creating and editing anatomy content is an ideal to way to learn the basics of Physiopedia volunteering as well as brushing up on long forgotten attachments and innervations. Your contribution will be reviewed by Physiopedia and once complete recognised by the award of a certificate of completion.

If you would like to take part in this project please follow the instructions below. 

If you have any questions, please do email us.

Instructions

Project leads

1. Project leads will edit anatomy templates and identify articles for development.
2. Project leads will gather more information regarding the available anatomy content on physiopedia.

Participants

1. Choose an article from the list below that you would like to develop.  Be sure that the article doesn't already have a name next to it.
2. At this point you should email the project co-ordinator to let them know that you would like to join the project and which page you would like to work on.  Please feel free also to ask any questions that you have in relation to this project.
   
3. You will receive an email from George (project co-ordinator) to confirm you participation in the project and also to confirm the page that you will develop.
4. Once you have received this confirmation you are free to get on with working on your page. If you are new to Physiopedia complete your work in a word (or similar) document. If you are have completed volunteer orientation or have used another wikia then please work directly in Physiopedia instead of producing a word document. (See content criteria below).
5. If you would like a certificate to evidence your contribution - we would like you to think about your own personal learning outcomes as a result of taking part in this project. These learning outcomes will be printed on your certificate.
6. Once you have completed your article and (if you wish to have a certificate) listed your learning outcomes please email them to project co-ordinator.
7. Your article will be reviewed by the project team and you will be emailed a response of approval or of amendments to be made.
8. Once the article has been finally approved, it will be published and you will receive your certificate of completion.