First PubDrug Monographs Available
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Great news from Stewart Brower:
Our first several completed and certified monographs are now up. Once a monograph completes the review process it is “locked down” to be protected from malicious edits. Our certified monographs are:
This progress would not have been possible without the amazing efforts of a handful of fourth-year professional Pharm.D. students at the University at Buffalo. Their user pages are linked from the above records and I encourage everyone to visit them.
More news to come soon.
Didja’ see it? Stew overcame the biggest problem with Wikis for health information:
Once a monograph completes the review process it is “locked down” to be protected from malicious edits.
And from the certification header on a monograph, evidence that despite this necessary lockdown of content, it still maintains some benefits of communal review and critique:
This document cannot be edited without being unlocked by the PubDrug admin. Edits or updates may be recommended under the Discussion tab for this document.
I am absolutely not qualified to comment on the content of these monographs, but this seems to me like an impressive start to the PubDrug project. Congratulations to all involved. 
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February 27th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Thanks for the post, David. We’re pretty excited about how things are moving forward. We still need to work out a lot of details about the editorial process, prove the model and then expand it to include other pharmacy schools (2008?), but nothing that’s insurmountable. I’ll try to keep you apprised.
February 27th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Looking forward to hearing more, Stew!
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