Section Leaders Guide

Each of the clinical areas in Physiopedia has one or more Clinical Directors who are responsible for quality assurance in that clinical area to to ensure that our standards of quality are being met. 

As a Clinical Director you are responsible for:

• Monitoring recent changes in your clinical area
  
• Ensuring that attributes common to all pages are present on new pages
  
• Making links between pages within Physiopedia
  

The guide below details methods for acheiving your role as Clinical Director.  It is just a guide and there will be other methods that some people find more suitable to them.  If this is the case please add them to this page to let other clinical directors know of alternative methods!

Monitoring recent changes in your clinical area

When monitoring recent changes you are assessing those changes for quality and appropriateness.  Your clinical knowledge and experience will enable you to assess whether the edits are suitable to remain as written.  There are several ways to receive alerts of recent changes:

Recieving alerts of recent changes

1. Regularly visit the recent changes page in Physiopedia.
2. Sign up to the recent changes feed.
3. Sign up for an email alert of recent changes.
   

Viewing the recent changes

When you become alerted to any recent changes in Physiopedia you should first check to see if they fall under your cinical area (this is at your discretion).  If there are changes in your clinical area you should then go to the recent changes page in Physiopedia.  On this page you can click on (diff) to see the recent changes of a particular page and once viewed, if no edits are required, you can mark them as patrolled by clicking on [Mark as patrolled].  If edits are required you should make the edits before marking as patrolled.  Marking recent changes as patrolled will allow other clinical directors and users to see that the page has been checked and standards of quality have been met.

Editing inappropriate content

If you find that new content is inappropriate there are two courses of action you can take:

1. Revert the changes, or
2. Edit the changes to make them more suitable
   

Please refer to the mediawiki reverting page for guidance.