About The Medpedia Project and Medpedia.com
The Medpedia Project is an extraordinary global effort to collect, organize and make understandable, the world’s best information about health, medicine and the body and make it freely available on the website Medpedia.com. Physicians, health organizations, medical schools, hospitals, health professionals, and dedicated individuals are coming together to build the most comprehensive medical resource in the world that will benefit millions of people every year.
In association with Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, Berkeley School of Public Health, University of Michigan Medical School and other leading global health organizations, the Medpedia community seeks to create the most comprehensive and collaborative medical resource in the world. Medpedia will serve as a catalog, database, and learning tool about health, medicine and the body for doctors, scientists, policymakers, students and citizens that will improve medical literacy worldwide.
This global effort is already underway and everyone is encouraged to be a part of it. Many organizations have united to support Medpedia. See the Record of Merit.
Call for Content
The Medpedia Project is currently calling for health organizations around the world to contribute medical content to Medpedia. Apply to contribute content.
Call for Editors
Medpedia aims to inspire a new generation of doctors, nurses, medical professionals, and patients by allowing unprecedented numbers of individuals the ability to contribute to the well-being of humanity. The goal is to create an invaluable clearinghouse for all the best medical information that cuts across disciplines, socio-economic status and geography to provide valuable medical information to anyone, anywhere, at any time.
The Medpedia.com website is currently under construction and will officially launch in late 2008. Preview sample pages. Medpedia.com is maintained by Medpedia Inc., a part of Ooga Labs, a technology greenhouse in San Francisco, and runs on Mediawiki, open source software which runs many wikis including Wikipedia. Like Wikipedia, the content created on Medpedia.com is freely licensable under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).
Medpedia Board of Advisers
Former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University
Clinical Professor, University of California San Francisco Medical School
Professor, University of Michigan Medical School
Founder, Lotus Development Corp., co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, founding Chair of the Mozilla Foundation, member of the Advisory Board for the Wikimedia Foundation, entrepreneur and philanthropist
Other Key Advisers
A group of distinguished individuals will also help guide Medpedia, including:
Professor at Harvard Medical School and Editor in Chief of Harvard Health Publications Division of Harvard Medical School
Professor, University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, Editor of the Berkeley Wellness Newsletter
Senior Associate Dean for Information Resources and Technology at Stanford University School of Medicine
Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School
Associations
The following organizations are working in association with Medpedia:
Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School is one of the world's preeminent institutions in medical education and research. The student body comprises more than 700 men and women in the M.D. program, more than 600 students in the Ph.D. program, and of those many are in the joint M.D.-Ph.D. programs, part of which is sponsored in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They are taught by a faculty of more than 9,000, the largest graduate faculty at Harvard and the largest medical faculty in the world.
Read moreStanford School of Medicine
The Stanford School of Medicine is a premier research-intensive institution that improves health through collaborative discoveries and innovation in patient care, education and research. They foster a two-way transfer of knowledge between research laboratories and patient-care settings with faculty, staff, postdoctoral scholars and students engaging in interdisciplinary efforts that transfer this knowledge into therapies to treat and prevent disease.
Read moreUniversity of Michigan Medical School
Internationally renowned for research and education, the University of Michigan Medical School and the University's hospitals have been leaders in academic medicine in America for more than a century and a half, producing generations of outstanding physicians and medical scientists.
Read moreBerkeley School of Public Health
Since its founding in 1943, the Berkeley School of Public Health has become one of the world's preeminent centers dedicated to the promotion and protection of the health of human populations and is noted for the excellence of its programs in teaching, research, and service activities. These programs, grounded in an understanding of biological and social science theories and mechanisms, are integrated through a focus on communities that reach from the neighborhoods surrounding the Berkeley campus to settings around the world.
Read moreOrganizations associated with Medpedia are not responsible for the content that appears in the editable pages of Medpedia, which can contain content submitted by other health professionals or other persons, including those who may not be affiliated with these organizations.
Other organizations which support Medpedia include:
Medpedia.com Disclaimer
The content on or accessible through Medpedia.com is for informational purposes only. Medpedia is not a substitute for professional advice or expert medical services from a qualified healthcare provider. Information on Medpedia is for educational and informational purposes only; it is not intended as and does not substitute for professional medical advice. If you are a patient, see your doctor for advice and diagnosis. If you are affected by any potential health or medical emergency, call your local emergency service immediately.
Medpedia does not recommend or endorse any treatment, institution, professional, physician, product, procedure or other information that may be mentioned on Medpedia. By using this site, you understand that the information provided on Medpedia is written and monitored by a large community of people that are not employees of Medpedia or controlled by Medpedia.com and the content changes constantly. Medpedia content is provided "as is" and without any representations or warranties of any kind.