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Welcome to MedPhysWiki OpenCourseWare: A free and open educational resource (OER) for medical physics educators, students, and self-learners around the world. Information contained in this OER is for educational intent alone, and therefore should never be used as a resource for treating any patient or patients in any clinical setting anytime or anywhere.
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What is MedPhysWiki
- Is a publication of MedPhysWiki course materials and other course materials contributed by the worldwide medical physics community
- Is not a resource of information to treat patients in a clinical setting
- Does not require any registration
- Is not a degree-granting or certificate-granting activity
- Does not provide access to MedPhysWiki faculty, staff or Advisory Board
- Does not provide access to any Qualified Medical Physicist
About MedPhysWiki
MedPhysWiki is a Web-based electronic publishing initiative by Task Group 131 of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.
MedPhysWiki’s goals are to
- Provide free, searchable access to MedPhysWiki's Non-Profit Organization for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.
- Extend the reach and impact of MedPhysWiki and the "opencourseware" concept.
MedPhysWiki as a part of Task Group 131 of the Asian Oceanic Affairs Subcommittee of the International Affairs Committee of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. The intent of the creation of content in MedPhysWiki to share pedagogy, and knowledge of medical physics contributors to benefit others. We expect MedPhysWiki to reach a steady - though never static - state by 2010. Between now and then, we will harvest and publish materials from selected contributions of MedPhysWiki's content, including content from undergraduate and graduate courses outlines.
We will be continually evaluating the Access, Use, and Impact of MedPhysWiki. With 1 page as of July 1st, 2007, we are still in a learning stage of this MedPhysWiki initiative and we will benefit enormously from your feedback, as we strive to make MedPhysWiki as rich and useful as possible for our users.
Tools
Learn the MedPhysWiki OpenCourseWare fundamentals with these easily downloaded documents:
- MedPhysWiki Fact Sheet (DOC) - The AAPM Task Group 131 working document to develop international training for medical physicists. TG-131 Working Document
- How to become a MedPhysWiki content contributor.
- How to contribute content to MedPhysWiki.
- How to apply for ABR Maintenance of Certification credit for contributing a Self-Directed Education Project (SDEP. SDEP application instructions
- How to apply for certification from the American Board of Radiology as a foreign medial physicist.
Partners
A group of partners are working with MedPhysWiki to achieve its publishing goals, and have made in-kind donations of time and resources to help us publish virtually all MedPhysWiki courses.
Foundation Support
At this time, there is no foundation support.
MedPhysWiki Donors
Support for Task Group 131 was given to the AAPM by the IOMP through Dr. Peter H S Smith Secretary-General, IOMP on 10/25/2007 at the request of Dr. Niroomand-Rad as part of funds originating from the World Conference on Physics and Sustainable Development held in 2005 in Durban, South Africa. MedPhysWiki is funded by through generous support of the RadOnc eLearning Center software company.
Content Partners
To be listed.
Evaluation Partners
To be listed.
Vendor Partners
To be listed.
Publication
MedPhysWiki faculty share a passion for teaching and contributing educational materials to the field of medical physics. The MedPhysWiki OpenCourseWare staff strives to support the MedPhysWiki faculty in their work by:
- Helping faculty put their course materials online for teaching
- Providing a vehicle for faculty to share their ideas and contribute to their discipline
Generally, MedPhysWiki‘s faculty are already over-committed with teaching and research obligations. They share a concern respecting any additional burden that publishing their materials to the MedPhysWiki Web site might place on them. In addition, open publication of course materials on the Internet (or in any medium) introduces considerations beyond what is involved in preparing materials for classroom use. Among these are "contextualization" (scrubbing out irrelevant data such as class meeting location, and adding context that sets the course within the larger curriculum), addition of metadata (to support online search and other functions), and copyright clearance.
In order to make it as easy for faculty to participate as is possible, MedPhysWiki does much of the work. In most cases, faculty participation requires as little as one or two meetings and a few emails as the MedPhysWiki staff provides the following services:
Create and capture content
- Audit courses and take lecture notes, and transcribe handwritten lecture notes
- Take notes to document key discussions / case studies
- Photograph, videotape, and/or audiotape course-related events and materials (e.g., labs)
- Find public domain images
- Provide professional graphic artist services
Organize and reformat content
- Structure lecture notes, organize course materials for digital publication, reformat and edit PDFs
- Create bibliographies with full citations
Provide advice and expertise
- Assist with equation editors, CAD, PowerPoint, Excel, PDFs
- Build course sites in Stellar, SloanSpace, Athena, Metamedia
- Coordinate with MedPhysWiki RadoncElearning for video and audio production
- Train TAs on tools and platforms
Produce archival record of courses and content
- Create CD containing source materials and templates
- Create .ZIP file of published OCW course content that will be published online and shared with faculty
