How a page earns its place in the library.
The whole process, in the open: how a topic is chosen, drafted with AI assistance, checked against the primary literature, reviewed before publishing, published, and held back when it is not ready yet.
- Drafting
- AI-assisted
- Source check
- Visible
- Quality bar
- Real
- Corrections
- Open
Reviewed before publishing
Every claim is linked
Depth and usability
Reader reports welcome
Workflow
What that looks like in practice
Topic selection and scope definition
Each page is scoped around a clearly defined orthopaedic topic, procedure, imaging principle, or exam task before drafting begins.
Structured evidence review and drafting
Drafts are organised around clinical learning needs, then checked against textbooks, guidelines, registry data, landmark papers, and peer-reviewed references relevant to orthopaedic training.
Source and editorial review
Pages are reviewed for factual consistency, terminology, source visibility, image attribution, and alignment with the site editorial policy before publication or republication.
Ongoing correction and update cycle
User feedback, guideline changes, and identified errors trigger revision work. Material that falls below publication standards can be corrected, rewritten, or temporarily unpublished until fixed.
Being upfront
What OrthoVellum states plainly
The commitments behind every page
- A page that is not up to standard is fixed, corrected, or pulled until it is.
- Every page states its limits and reminds the reader to check before using it for a real patient.
- Pages carry the OrthoVellum byline. OrthoVellum is independently run — drafting is AI-assisted and reviewed against the literature. There is no named clinician, editorial board, or external peer review behind it.
- Spotted an error? and it will be checked.
- The full review and correction process is on the editorial policy page.
The rules
What a page has to clear before it goes live
Sources and evidence
- Pages draw on the primary studies, the standard textbooks, registry data, and society guidance — never an unattributed summary.
- Every clinical claim traces back to a reference, a classification, or reasoning that is spelled out on the page.
- Where practice differs between regions, the page states it and explains why — rather than burying it in a flat treatment statement.
Before it gets published
- A page goes live only when it actually teaches the topic — no thin placeholders standing in for real content.
- A page with an unresolved quality or structure problem is held back until it is fixed.
- Clean metadata, links to these behind-the-scenes pages, and an easy way to report errors all count as part of a finished page.