Adoption of a wiki within a large internal medicine residency program: a 3-year experience

Objective
To describe the creation and evaluate the use of a wiki by medical residents, and to determine if a wiki would be a useful tool for improving the experience, efficiency, and education of housestaff.

Materials and methodsIn 2008, a team of medical residents built a wiki containing institutional knowledge and reference information using Microsoft SharePoint. We tracked visit data for 3 years, and performed an audit of page views and updates in the second year. We evaluated the attitudes of medical residents toward the wiki using a survey.

Bradley H Crotty, Arash Mostaghimi, Eileen E Reynolds. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association; doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000391. Online First Dec 2011.