About The Medpedia Project and Medpedia.com

27 july 2008--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).