1st Quarterly Update 2026 (January-March) - Project Malleus

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Hey everyone!

As has become customary, we are late again with our first Quarterly Newsletter. But we have had a lot happen over the past few months! I do note that this update also includes some changes that seep into April, so apologies for that (we are still trying to fill our Pubs Officer role)!

:books: Deck Updates

  • Deck Stats (as of 26/04/26):

    • Current card count: 8736

    • Current subscribers: 1840

  • Various changes:

    • Various fixes to note-type formatting including citation styling, day-night mode colours and ordered lists

    • Deletion of the ‘First Aid’ and ‘Oxford Handbook’ fields from the Malleus notetype (legacy users of the deck will still see these fields, but they will not sync with AnkiHub and if you delete them they will be removed)

  • New/updated topics (since December 2025):

    • Status asthmaticus

      • Oesophageal web

      • Schatzki ring

    • Adrenal insufficiency

      • Primary, secondary, tertiary

      • Diagnosis (Synacthen test, ACTH, renin)

      • Sick day management

      • Peri-procedural steroid dosing

      • Adrenal crisis management

      • Medication interactions (e.g. fludrocortisone in heart failure)

    • Necrotising soft tissue infections

      • Types

        • Polymicrobial

        • Group A Streptococcal / Staphylococcal

        • Clostridial (gas gangrene)

      • Fournier gangrene

    • Bacterial skin infections

      • Erythrasma

    • Fungal infections

      • Tinea (dermatophyte infections)

    • Skin pathology

      • Keloid scars

      • Melanoma

    • Vernix caseosa

    • Personality disorders

    • Antenatal screening

    • Induction of labour (IOL)

    • Inflammatory myopathies

      • Inclusion body myositis (IBM)

    • Dermatophytes (fungi)

    • Corynebacterium minutissimum

:globe_with_meridians: Website Updates

  • New website homepage (malleus.org.au) thanks to our wonderful VP @sabicool

  • New Maintainer Guidelines page on our Notion website backend to enhance upskilling of new senior collaborators (integrated “how-to” videos)

  • Our public donations page now is linked to ‘PayPal’ link * here (formerly BuyMeACoffee)

  • As our database continues to grow in complexity, we are currently looking at new ways to transition out of notion for the tag generation that integrates within Anki (this will make our project sustainable in the long-term)

Committee Updates Q1

:people_hugging: Executive Committee

  • Successful compilation of our first Sponsorship Prospectus and distribution of this to potential sponsors

  • Ongoing difficulties with securing a Publications and Promotions Officer (if you’re interested in this role which is a neat thing to have on your CV, please email Alex: secretary@malleus.org.au as we’d love to have you)

  • Planning is in the works for a 2026 Information Night to be beld in late July, 2026 to further promote the project

  • Some of our executive members will be presenting Project Malleus at the 2026 ANZ Association of Health Professional Educators annual conference in Christchurch, New Zealand later this year

:people_hugging: General Committee

  • Currently we are progressing through our subjects database sequentially to finish topics (as of April 2026 we are currently on Cardiology)

  • Our IT officer have kindly automated Malleus user account creations

:people_hugging: Maintainer Committee

  • Fortnightly meetings have continued into 2026 with robust discussions on various aspects of the project, aiming to enhance user experiences, database structure and overall identify ways of completing the deck in the intended time-frame

  • Our Content Review Officer and BPT1 Michael (@pembrolizumab) has presented on a number of high-yield clinical topics

:hammer_and_wrench: Plugin Updates

Special thanks to @sabicool for ongoing enhancements to our plugins! :laptop:

  1. Malleus Anki Helper Add-on

    • Complete overhaul of the Malleus Helper Add-on with the ability to search across all databases within the Malleus add-on and filter subtags much more easily than before

    • New ‘update tags’ feature

    • New ‘paediatric card’ button allows for more targeted tagging of cards associated with paediatric-specific topics (rather than the old tagging system which led to gratuitous over-tagging)

  2. Malleus Chrome Extension

    • Minor bug fixes.

:sparkles: Community Shoutouts

Huge thanks to the contributors making the Malleus deck stronger every day! :tada:

:heart_hands: Top Reviewers of the Week (as of 26/04/26):

:heart_hands: Top Contributors of the Month (as of 26/04/26):

Keep smashing those spacebars! :flexed_biceps:

:link: Partnerships & Collaboration

  • Therapeutic Guidelines

    • We have officially been granted permission Therapeutic Guidelines with a strict framework around re-use of selected content

    • The inclusion of TG content directly into the deck will be overseen by our Lead Maintainer Hugh (@braviboron)

  • RCH Melbourne

    • We have been granted permission to reuse images from RCH Melbourne clinical guidelines within our deck for our paediatrics topics

  • eMedici

    • We are continuing to tag eMedici questions and align them with existing cards in the Malleus deck

    • If you would like to help out with this process (and gain access to a Malleus account with backend access to questions) please get in touch with us

  • AnKing Community-submitted images

    • We have unfortunately not yet been granted access to the community-submitted images in the AnKing deck

  • Elsevier

    • Discussions are ongoing with the publishers of Talley and O’Connor’s Clinical Examination to license textbook content (not yet formalised)

  • Australiasian Students’ Surgical Association (ASSA)

    • We are currently in talks with ASSA about facilitating a working partnership to help improve our general surgical content within the deck

  • Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA)

    • Our pre-existing partnership with AMSA’s Medical Education team continues in 2026, with a newly elected AMSA Liaison Officer joining the team to help ensure ongoing mutual collaboration and alignment of clinical medicine content between our respective databases and resources

:yellow_heart: Project Malleus Proud Sponsors

This year we have been lucky enough to secure sponsorship from several organisations. If you would like to partner your organisation or business with Project Malleus and support our not-for-profit vision of radically reforming medical education in Australia and New Zealand, please get in touch by contacting our Sponsorship Officer Genevieve (sponsorship@malleus.org.au) to review our sponsorship prospectus. You can also visit our sponsors page here for the latest list of sponsors.

Gold

  • * eMedici: From medical school through to fellowship, eMedici delivers expert-reviewed resources to help you ace your exams and grow your clinical confidence. Check out eMedici’s Medical Education Webinars; Medical Education Webinars - eMedici for high yield, engaging videos on all sorts of interesting medical topics.

Silver

  • Nil current.

Bronze

  • Nil current.

:waving_hand: Get Connected

Get involved with Project Malleus by visiting our website and following us on various social media channels below. We’re especially active on our community Discord, and if you are passionate about the project and are keen to become a Maintainer, don’t hesitate to get in touch so we can point you in the right direction. :slightly_smiling_face:

:round_pushpin: Website: malleus.org.au

:round_pushpin: Discord: Join Us

:round_pushpin: Facebook: Follow Us

:round_pushpin: YouTube: Subscribe

:round_pushpin: Email: admin@malleus.org.au OR president@malleus.org.au

See you in early August for our 2nd Quarterly Report detailing progress over the months of April through to July.

Kind regards,

Stapedius & The Malleus Team :blue_heart:

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