Radiopaedia is a wiki-based international collaborative radiology educational web resource containing reference articles, radiology images, and patient cases. It is a business owned by Investling, gaining revenue from ads, courses and paid supporters. It also contains a radiology encyclopedia. It is currently the largest freely available radiology related resource in the world with more than 35,000 patient cases and over 13,000 collaborative articles on radiology-related topics. The open edit nature of articles allows radiologists, radiology residents/registrars, radiographers, sonographers and other healthcare professionals interested in medical imaging to modify and refine most content through time.
Background
The site was initially programmed using MediaWiki, the same program platform as Wikipedia, but now runs on a bespoke code written by . In 2010, almost all of the article and image collection from was donated to Radiopaedia.
Purpose
Radiopaedia’s mission is to create the best radiology reference the world has ever seen and to make it available for free, for ever, for all. Its intention is to benefit the radiology community and wider society and it relies on benevolent collaborations from radiologists and others with an interest in medical imaging. It was founded by the Australian neuroradiologistAssociate Professor Frank Gaillard in December 2005. It was initially Australian-led but now has a worldwide collaboration. Its article content is currently limited to English. Similarly to Wikipedia, registered users of the site are allowed to freely add and edit the majority of the content. This allows content to be progressively upgraded over years and for radiologists and society, in general, to continuously refine article content through time. The site also allows registered users to maintain their own personal case library of teaching cases. Rather than individually publishing articles, users are encouraged to integrate content with links to cases and journal articles and collaboratively refine content. In an attempt to reduce vandalism and to peer-review content, an editorial board moderates changes to ensure that the presented material is as accurate and relevant as possible. As with similar open edit sites, unreliability of content has been a concern; however, despite its open edit nature, it is ranked relatively high among user reviews.
Sub sites
Radiopaedia also maintains several other educational subsites which include
Radiology Signs - a tumblr feed with selected signs
Radiology Channel - a YouTube channel containing educational videos
Editorial team
The editorial team, develop as well as help users to maintain the high-quality content of the website. The current editorial board is composed of individuals from a variety of countries and includes:https://radiopaedia.org/articles/editorial-team?lang=gb Editor in chief
In 2009, the first Radiopaedia iPhone app was released. These teaching files package cases and articles for users to review and have sample questions and answers.
