Fellows workbook

Current Project

• Differential diagnosis project

Resources

• This is the link to high priority signs and symptoms which are to be worked on first:

http://www.wikidoc.org/index.php/Priority_signs_and_symptoms

• This is the link on how to arrange / create a topic in structurally organized way:

http://wikidoc.org/index.php/Microchapter_templates This page serves as the skeleton of your microchapters. It contains standardized language to unify the textbook. Follow these as you write your pages. Click on the respective links to find individual language for each specific microchapter.

• This is a link on guidelines for content:

http://www.wikidoc.org/index.php/Help:General_guidelines_on_creating_chapters_and_ This page serves to give you an idea of what the goal of each microchapter is and what content is appropriate for each microchapter.

Plan

The plan of action for the Differential diagnosis project is find out all the possible causes of a symptom or disease and arrange them systematically into three categories - most common causes, causes by organ systems and causes in alphabetical order. Go to the page Differential diagnosis project and there you will find all the instructions on how to proceed with the project. Once we are done with the symptom or disease it has to be listed in the completed signs and symptoms page to make sure no other research fellow will work on the completed topics again.

All the "Causes" listed on the page should be "BLUE". It means internal links exist for all the causes. We should go through each and every cause and see if that page is arranged according to the structured guidelines. If not try to arrange it perfectly. Please follow the Microchapter template and guidelines templates and arrange the chapters accordingly.

Feedback from CMG

Where you can collect all of the error messages.

Date	Error	Action Item
Jul 13, 2012 at 9:03 PM	No synonym or keyword (for memory loss) was provided.	Please put in all possible synonyms for a symptom or disease
Jul 13, 2012 at 9:03 PM	There were "Forms" and "Types" instead of "Classification"	Please use "Classification" and combine forms and types into the section
Jul 13, 2012 at 9:03 PM	"Pathophysiology" comes at the bottom of the page	"Pathophysiology" should come after "Historical perspective" and before "Causes"
Jul 13, 2012 at 9:03 PM	"Causes" comes before "Pathophysiology"	Please include "Causes" just after "Pathophysiology"
Jul 13, 2012 at 9:03 PM	Many causes (of amnesia) were missing	Please go to "Patient information" page where you can find more "Causes"
Jul 13, 2012 at 9:03 PM	Arteriovenous Malformation, Cerebrovascular accident, Multi infarct dementia, Subarachnoid hemorrhage, Transient ischemic attack were included in Cardiovascular causes	Please include them under Neurologic causes
Jul 13, 2012 at 9:03 PM	"Risk factors" not included	Please find "Risk factors" in "Patient information" pages. Copy them and paste
Jul 13, 2012 at 9:03 PM	"Complications" and "Risk factors" not included	Please find "Complications" and "Risk factors" in the "Patient information" pages
Jul 15, 2012 at 5:58 AM	Redirects to specific section of page not created properly	Please search for the specific subsection and direct the links there in the future (Hydrocephalus#Non-communicating hydrocephalus)
Jul 15, 2012 at 7:26 AM	"Associate Editor in Chief" appearing multiple times	Please do not include "Associate Editor-in-Chief" as part of your name template.
Jul 15, 2012 at 8:06AM	Do not repeat the designation "Associate Editor in Chief" multiple times.	Please use the wording Associate Editors-in-Chief when there are multiple editors in chief. (Ravi: Correct the author line on the indigestion page.)
Jul 15, 2012 at 8:09 AM	Synonym pages not unified	Please unify synonym pages without deleting the content and organize the page according to the templates and guidelines (combine the dyspepsia and indigestion pages)
Jul 15, 2012 at 8:12 AM	Empty Infobox Disease templates at the top of pages	Please remove it
Jul 15, 2012 at 8:17 AM	Subject heading "Overview" appearing twice	Please remove it
Jul 15, 2012 at 8:24 AM	Links exist for "Synonyms and keywords"	Please do not place links for "Synonyms and keywords". They give the impression to the reader that dyspepsia is different than indigestion for instance when they are the same.
Jul 15, 2012 at 8:24 AM	All "Keywords" are capitalized	Please capitalize only the first keyword unless it is a proper noun like Hodgkins disease
Jul 15, 2012 at 8:30 AM	Sloppy content in the pages	Sloppy content makes no sense to the readers. Please proof read your content before and after editing the page and check for any mistakes
Jul 15, 2012 at 8:34 AM	There is a lack of consistency on pages with different orders to the subheadings, and different subheadings. For example: the word "Management" is used instead of "Treatment"; "Symptoms" is not preceded by "Diagnosis"	Use this template to order the subheadings on disease pages:http://www.wikidoc.org/index.php/Microchapter_templates
Jul 15, 2012 at 4:49 PM	Internal links not working properly	If a link does not work, please double check the spelling of the word
Jul 15, 2012 at 5:09 PM	Category:Pages with broken file links appears at the bottom of the pages	Make sure all of the links you have created work. Move the mouse over the text to see if there are links that do not wor
Jul 15, 2012 at 5:40 PM	A table of contents appears at the top of the page	Type this at the very top of the entire page: __NOTOC__
Jul 15, 2012 at 5:42 PM	The causes of a disease are numbered	Please do not number the causes. Remove the numbers if you see in any causes page. Bullets are preferred over numbers
Jul 15, 2012 at 5:46 PM	The approach to listing causes is different on all recent, new pages	Moving forward the format for listing causes is as follows: ==Causes== ===Common Causes=== ===Causes by Organ System=== ===Causes in Alphabetical Order=== Do not put additional text under these headings such as "The alphabetical order will be so"
Jul 15, 2012 at 5:51 PM	There are signs and symptoms pages without accompanying patient chapters	Each time you edit a sign or symptom, check to see if the national library of medicine has a chapter on that page Google NLM with your sign or symptom or go to this page and search for the sign and symptom:http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/medlineplus.html
Jul 15, 2012 at 6:03 PM	Long, overly complicated, missing templates are being created. Example: Template:AOEDIC	Please use Template:AE for Associate editor(s)-in-chief
Jul 15, 2012 at 6:23 PM	Common Causes appears as Common causes	Please capitalize both the word Common and Causes
Jul 15, 2012 at 6:32 PM	Numerous errors in the spacing of words on the pages	Please make sure that all the causes of are spelled correctly and that there are spaces between the words. In a paragraph after completing a sentence please leave two spaces before starting a new sentence.
Jul 15, 2012 at 6:54 PM	Failure to find and/or create "Patient information" template	The template is here:http://www.wikidoc.org/index.php/Template:Patient_information_page_template
Jul 15, 2012 at 7:16 PM	The spacing between subheadings is very very variable	There should be a single paragraph break between subheadings, not three. Please review each of the signs and symptoms that you have worked on to assure that the spacing between subheadings is consistent
Jul 15, 2012 at 8:27 PM	A disease is present, but the link does not work	Spaces between the - sign may make the link not function.
Jul 15, 2012 at 8:53 PM	There are numerous missing links in the list of causes. This makes the pages look sloppy and incomplete.	For each non-functioning link check the spelling and hyphenation. If the word you have in the list is a variant of an existing word, then create a redirect to that word. Click on the word "search" instead of "go" and see if the word appears anywhere on WikiDoc. If it does appear on WikiDoc, evaluate why the link is not working. If the word is part of a subheading, direct the link to that page. If you find that the word does not exist on WikiDoc, create a new page for that word. Put {{SI}} at the top of the page etc. Go to wikipedia and see if a page for that word exists. If it does, click on edit on wikipedia, copy the content, paste it into WikiDoc, and reformat it according to our microchapter standards. If the content is not on wikipedia check orphanet for rare diseases or the National Library of Medicine page.
Jul 17, 2012 at 10:53 AM	Bullet lists in the Overview statement	Google will be drawing from the overview statements to form rich snippets as search results. The overview should be written as text, not as bullets.

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