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There’s Radiopaedia for radiologists, Life in the Fast Lane for emergency medicine, but what’s the equivalent for medical students?
Mosaiced.org is a Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAMed) platform built just for medical students, with study resources available for preclinical and clinical medicine. A key reason for starting up this site was to offer medical students an opportunity to share resources in a format that worked for them. Wikipedia might work for general information, but to gain context and narrow the fields of vision when studying medicine, Moaisced seems a better platform.
Mosaiced took two years to develop and we are informed that in the last seven months, 2,000+ users (around 12.5% of all Australian med students) have come on board in the last 7 months since the site was officially launched.
Medical students can find notes, MCQs, mnemonics, videos and spot diagnoses - all of which have been uploaded and critiqued by the user base.
Potentially the biggest advantage of FOAMed as a concept is that the strength of the resource largely depends on its users. This can also be a disadvantage if inaccurate information is uploaded. Mosaiced reduces the risks to its users by ensuring its resources are thoroughly checked by medical and surgical registrars who painstakingly review contributions flagged by users as possibly incorrect.
The site currently has approximately 630 topics with over 3,600 posts across all surgical and medical specialties and the various pre-medical subjects.
The academic schools most represented are University of Queensland, Monash and Melbourne universities.
Mosaiced say they feel that the problem with medical education isn’t getting access to medical information – there’s Wikipedia for that, but rather gaining context and knowing what’s relevant in the sea of information that exists and that’s why they’ve built a site where medical students share resources and mnemonics that worked for them.
If you are interested in helping to build on existing information on Mosaiced, you can reach out to the sites founders at admin@mosaiced.org
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