Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Wikiproject Medicine (Winter 2015)/Grading

Grading
Wikiproject Medicine will be graded as follows: Attendance to 3 of the 4 classes, a final presentation is required for Nexus credit.

Advisors
Emergency Medicine faculty and residents at Mount Sinai: Wikiproject:Medicine at ISMMS faculty advisor:
 * Trevor Pour, attending physician
 * Kevin Hu, 2nd year resident
 * Sharon Edwards, attending physician

Resources

 * Secondary source, review articles available here:
 * NEJM
 * American Family Physician
 * National Institute of Clinical Excellence
 * Cochrane Collaboration
 * Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
 * Help on Wikipedia:
 * Translation Task Force on writing good intros for medical articles
 * WP:MEDRS about referencing
 * WP:MEDMOS about language usage and ordering of sections
 * WP:MEDHOW about formatting refs
 * WP:MEDSECTIONS on the suggested format of a health article
 * WP:MED1000 for the most important articles on wikiproject:medicine
 * Image Upload

A good way to get started on a mid-sized disease or condition would be to edit and expand the lead to four short paragraphs, and further expand additional sections afterwards
 * Getting started:
 * 1st paragraph is a brief definition and signs/symptoms.
 * 2nd paragraph is cause, mechanism of disease, and diagnosis.
 * 3rd paragraph is prevention and treatment.
 * 4th paragraph is epidemiology, prognosis, society and culture, and history.

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