Ganfyd

Ganfyd

Ganfyd is a medical Wiki community, created in November 2005 by a group of doctors working in the UK.

It is intended to become a large on-line textbook of medicine. By July 2007 it had reached 3000 topic pages and 380 editors from six countries:-:The UK:Australia:New Zealand:Canada:Ireland:USA

Only registered medical practitioners or persons working under their direction, and a small number of invited non-medical specialists, may edit ganfyd articles.

A [http://ganfyd.org/deeds/commons.html new and specific commons licence] was created to maintain this restriction on material copied or propagated from ganfyd. This was designed with the inspiration of the Creative Commons licences.

The intention is to maintain the qualification of the material, which is appropriate for a professional medical resource. The effect is that articles are reliable and an audit trail exists for them.

Registration is by a variety of mechanisms , including a GMC Certificate or equivalent.

Trivia

'Ganfyd' is an acronym meaning 'Get a note from your doctor'. This phrase is known to be used by employers, insurance underwriters, and sports instructors to their respective employees/clients. In some cases, this may be intended to absolve the employer/instructor from liability in the event that the client suffers physical harm.

Some medical practitioners regard this as a cynical use of their time and skill, thus they use the term 'ganfyd' pejoratively.

External links

* [http://ganfyd.org Official website]


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