Template:Meddle
Free Medical Information Library 
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There are many different ways to communicate information to different people. You can help to free medicine by explaining medical topics in different ways across different information formats like blogs, posters, diagrams, podcasts and videos. Each of these things will be useful to different people in different ways. This project supports and curates resources from the Free Online Access Medical education (FOAM) movement.
Active Learning Exercises
[edit source]Here is a collection of exercises relating to this topic including clinical cases to solve, quizzes and interactive tutorials. This project will aim to identify a range of interactive resource styles and their different uses, including exercises with high levels of interactivity (e.g. collaboration and discussion) and those with limited/superficial interactivity (e.g. clicking on something to show the predetermined answer).
Within this collection, the coloured icons show the approximate level of difficulty of each exercise. Gold stars are the most challenging!
Wiki pages
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Summaries
[edit source]Here are various resources that summarise this topic in different ways. Any quality of resource might be put here for educational purposes, including biased and deliberately misleading information, so you should assess each resource for its reliability before using it. As a quick guide, quality sources come from respected authors / organisations without commercial conflicts of interest, they may be peer reviewed (even blogs can be peer reviewed) and may have been published recently. You can read more about choosing good quality sources here.
Examples
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Case Reports
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Patient Stories
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News Stories
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Coroner Reports
[edit source]Clinical information
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(Peer Reviewed)
Introduction to the template
This template creates an experimental Medical Digital Learning Environment (MEDDLE) topic page on Wikiversity. To use this template, create a new page (help can be found here), and type {{Meddle}}. You can then customise the template by defining variables before the two closing brackets }}, for example:
{{Meddle |intro=Hi!}}
or
{{Meddle |intro=Welcome! |library=
* A relevant book
* A great link}}
Features
- Gallery (top): this is a good place to grab attention with featured images including curious cases and image links to new or noteworthy resources. Try
<gallery mode=packed-hover>to get overlaid captions that appear on mouse over. More info on how to insert and customise a gallery can be found here. - Project info boxes (top right): by default the page template includes boxes and category tags for Subject classification: Medicine, Resource type: collection of other resources and Educational level: tertiary (university) resource. You can set a custom fourth box by defining the variable
|completion-status=and choosing one of the available Completion Status project boxes. This box can be changed as the page becomes more complete. More info here. - Introductory text: Write your own introductory definitions by defining
|definition=. This will then appear prominently below the gallery. Short and sweet is probably best. - Medical disclaimer: this is included on all medical pages created using this template.
- Active Learning Exercises: this is the main focus of the page. These sections would normally contain a bullet point list of links or a series of
{{Bullet point box}}templates if you want to add pictures and dividing lines (e.g. ECG page).- By default, this content area contains 4 sections including:
- Volume exercises: These exercises break down the topic into specific steps or skills that you can focus on to build up your repertoire.
- Speed Exercises: These exercises help you to prioritise, reorganise and refine your knowledge to build confidence in having fast responses for exams and critical situations in practice. They may rely on having an existing volume of knowledge to be able to understand the relevance of the 'facts' being recalled.
- Power Exercises: Increase the strength of your argument by studying the evidence from the scientific literature.
- Endurance Exercises: After you have learned the basics, these exercises can be used to retain and refresh knowledge.
- If you do not want to use these experimental exercise types, you can instead define the variable
|alt-exercises=. This will give you a simple blank box in the same space, to fill up however you like. - The difficulty level of each exercise can be roughly graded by using the coloured icons shown:
- type
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- By default, this content area contains 4 sections including:
- Resource Library: At the bottom of the page is a section for a curated collection of links to relevant resources. Add content here by defining
|library=or use the sample variables in the Example Usage section below to create a more defined, standardised layout. - Colours: You can set different colour themes, so try Color Hexa or similar to pick coordinating colours to define the following variables:
- |Colour-dark, e.g.
|Colour-dark=#de695a - |Colour-middle, e.g.
|Colour-middle=#efb7b0 - |Colour-light, e.g.
|Colour-light=#F8dedb
- |Colour-dark, e.g.
Example Usage
{{Meddle|gallery= |intro= |exercises=OPTIONAL, leave this out if volume/speed/power/endurance used |examples= |volume= |speed= |power= |endurance= |lib-wiki-commons= |lib-wikipedia= |lib-wikiversity= |lib-wiki-other= |lib-summaries= |lib-guidelines= |lib-reviews= |lib-studies= |lib-cases= |lib-patients= |lib-news= |lib-coroner= |lib-calctools= |lib-curricula= |lib-students= |completion-status= |Colour-dark=#de695a |Colour-middle=#efb7b0 |Colour-light=#F8dedb }}
Example:
Free Medical Information Library
[edit source]There are many different ways to communicate information to different people. You can help to free medicine by explaining medical topics in different ways across different information formats like blogs, posters, diagrams, podcasts and videos. Each of these things will be useful to different people in different ways. This project supports and curates resources from the Free Online Access Medical education (FOAM) movement.
Active Learning Exercises
[edit source]Here is a collection of exercises relating to this topic including clinical cases to solve, quizzes and interactive tutorials. This project will aim to identify a range of interactive resource styles and their different uses, including exercises with high levels of interactivity (e.g. collaboration and discussion) and those with limited/superficial interactivity (e.g. clicking on something to show the predetermined answer).
Within this collection, the coloured icons show the approximate level of difficulty of each exercise. Gold stars are the most challenging!
here soon
Wiki pages
[edit source]Summaries
[edit source]Here are various resources that summarise this topic in different ways. Any quality of resource might be put here for educational purposes, including biased and deliberately misleading information, so you should assess each resource for its reliability before using it. As a quick guide, quality sources come from respected authors / organisations without commercial conflicts of interest, they may be peer reviewed (even blogs can be peer reviewed) and may have been published recently. You can read more about choosing good quality sources here.
Examples
[edit source]Case Reports
[edit source]Patient Stories
[edit source]News Stories
[edit source]Coroner Reports
[edit source]Clinical information
[edit source](Peer Reviewed)
External links
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