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WikiProject Medicine

Welcome to WikiProject Medicine! We discuss, collaborate, and debate anything and everything relating to medicine and health on Wikipedia on our discussion page.
Everyone is welcome to join!

Guidelines

An introductory video about how to edit Wikipedia and medicine.
  • Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and has a distinct style that may take some time getting used to.
  • It is important that articles use the best sources and content is given due weight. Different from scientific papers, Wikipedia medical and health content is preferably sourced to secondary sources over primary sources. Citing a review article is preferred over an original trial.
  • To get you started and to explain why this is important here are a number of guides and guidelines:
WP:MEDRSWP:MEDMOS
Reliable Sources (medicine) Manual of Style (medicine-related articles)
WP:MEDCOIWP:MEDHOW
Conflicts of InterestHow to edit
Our guides complement Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines and take great care to explain why they are relevant.

Tasks
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There is also a tool to find all our sub pages here — only for the truly curious
Top-importance articles at B-class or above as of 17 November 2025: 86.1% complete
Goal: 80 featured articles: 80% complete
Goal: 500 good articles: 83.2% complete

Most-edited articles in the last 7 days:

Edits Article Rating
78 2026 Ebola epidemic C
57 Sir James Wylie, 1st Baronet C
47 Injury B
46 Meaghan Buisson
41 Clobazam C
41 Joseph Lister B
35 Task-invoked pupillary response Stub
34 Ex vivo C
32 Waterborne disease C
29 Artificial intelligence in healthcare B


Each month we select a Medical Collaboration of the Month to focus our efforts on. Topics may either relate to medical basic sciences (such as anatomy or biochemistry), or clinical medicine (such as illnesses and surgical procedures). The project aims to improve medicine articles, and to give editors an opportunity to collaborate. Anyone can nominate an article, or vote on nominees at our project page. The collaboration of the month for June 2026 is Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease! Visit its talk page to help coordinate our efforts.

Wikidata WikiProject Medicine: the partner project on Wikidata
Wikipedia education program in medicine: partnership with medical schools and other health science education programs
Wiki Project Med Foundation: a nonprofit corporation promoting development of medical content including other language Wikimedia projects
Wiktionary WikiProject Medicine: sister project on Wiktionary
WikiJournal of Medicine: medical education resources
Wikiversity School of Medicine: medical education resources
Internet in a box: provides Wikipedia content where Internet is limited
Offline medicalWikipedia: offline access to Wikipedia's health content

Wikipedia can be a great resource for getting to know a field — and it can give you an encyclopaedic overview of a subject, acting as a spring-board letting you dive deeper. It should however not be used as your only source when performing research, and you should never blindly trust Wikipedia. Over the years a lot of research has been amassed surrounding the reliability and biases of Wikipedia. To see some of the studies that have been produced on the quality and scope of medical information on Wikipedia take a look at some of the research:

Academic studies of health information on Wikipedia

This is a list of academic articles related to the coverage of health and medical topics on Wikipedia. For general academic articles see Academic studies of Wikipedia. For academic studies about the use of Wikipedia in education, see Academic studies of Wikipedia in education. For popular media coverage of Wikipedia's medical content see the popular media list.

Summaries, literature reviews of studies on Wikipedia's medical content

COVID-19 pandemic and Wikipedia

By year

2026
  • Pascoe, Michael A (2026-04-16). "Improving science communication and organization visibility through Wikipedia: A case study of the American Association for Anatomy". Anat Sci Educ. doi:10.1002/ase.70234. PMID 41992073.
  • Ertl, Peter (2026-01-12). "Molecules in Wikipedia: Analysis of Their Chemical Diversity, Functional Roles, and Popularity". J Chem Inf Model. 66 (1): 387–394. doi:10.1021/acs.jcim.5c02538. PMID 41412151.
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For older articles see Research publications, or search PubMed: Wikipedia, Wikipedia AND Medicine