Collaborative Web-based Radiation Oncology Textbook: A Paradigm Shift in the Writing, Editing, and Publishing of Textbooks

Abstract

The wiki collaborative concept has an emerging role in medicine, where it is currently being used to develop shared online and protein databases, owing to the unique way in which information can rapidly and easily be created and shared among multiple users. Our goal was to develop a free-access web-based radiation oncology reference textbook using this concept, which allows anyone to access and update content at any time from any Internet connection.