Medical Wikipetia: A New Electronic Tool in Education

Authors

  • Paulo Marcelo Pontes Gomes de Matos Universidade Federal do Ceará
  • Flora Cruz de Almeida Universidade Federal do Ceará
  • Anna Beatriz Perdigão Cordeiro Universidade Federal do Ceará
  • Mariana Lima Vale Universidade Federal do Ceará

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37467/gka-revmedica.v2.1315

Keywords:

Wikipetia, E-Learning, Medicine, Summaries, Revision, Economy, Learning, Practicity, Reliable

Abstract

WikiPETia Médica is an initiative from the group PET Medicina that aims to assist medical teaching through the publication of online summaries. The project consists in the development of texts, based on revisions of recognized medical bibliography, which are meant to be used for the study of medical subjects. Those texts are published in an online platform and organized according to the curriculum of the Federal University of Ceará School of Medicine. Monthly each of the 12 students of the group is responsible for updating the platform with a new text. This way, until the end of each month the website will contain 12 new short and reliable texts of many different subjects from the medical universe. Currently WikiPETia Médica has approximately 250 texts. The statistics shows a total accesses number of 754.147 since its creation in 2009. 

Author Biography

Paulo Marcelo Pontes Gomes de Matos, Universidade Federal do Ceará

Acadêmico de medicina atuante no Programa de Educação Tutorial desde 2011, integrante da Liga de Medicina Clínica Dr. Paulo Marcelo Martins Rodrigues desde 2012 e aluno de iniciação científica do Laboratório da Farmacologia.

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Published

2013-03-05

How to Cite

Pontes Gomes de Matos, P. M., Cruz de Almeida, F., Perdigão Cordeiro, A. B., & Lima Vale, M. (2013). Medical Wikipetia: A New Electronic Tool in Education. MEDICA REVIEW. International Medical Humanities Review Revista Internacional De Humanidades Médicas, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.37467/gka-revmedica.v2.1315

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2013)

Section

Research articles

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