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=== Editing Wikipedia for Medical School Credit? Lessons Learned from a Pilot MS-4 Elective at One School ===

Presenter Name Affiliation Wikipedia Username
Amin Azzam, MD, MA UCSF AminMDMA
Lauren Maggio, MS, MA Stanford Lauren maggio
Jake Orlowitz, BA WikiMedia Foundation Ocaasi
James Heilman, MD WikiMedia Foundation Jmh649
Michael Turken, MD, MPH Stanford Michaelturken
Evans Whitaker, MD, MLIS UCSF Emwhitaker

Abstract

Admit it—you use Wikipedia extensively. Who doesn’t? But do you use it for medical information? Physicians, medical students and patients all do! So if Wikipedia is the most widely used medical reference in the world, and the third most visited medical reference in the US, why not be a part of increasing the quality of reliable information there by becoming a WikiProject: Medicine Wikipedia editor? This workshop will teach you how, and share lessons learned from an effort to do this as a pilot MS-4 elective designed this past fall at UCSF.

Workshop Structure

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Time Content
9 - 9:15am Intros & Goals
9:15 - 9:25am Create Wikipedia Usernames
9:25 - 9:35am Why create medical student electives?
9:35 - 9:50am Learning objectives for an elective
9:50 - 10:05am Assessment strategies
10:05 - 10:15am Our experiences
10:15 - 10:30am Your next steps

Why create medical student electives?

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Here are some reasons why creating medical student experiences editing Wikipedia might be a good idea:

  • to encourage students to become experts on a topic
  • to foster student leadership
  • to evaluate student knowledge
  • to empower students to 'give back'
  • to foster student technology literacy
  • to teach students how to communicate about medical topics in easy-to-understand language

Learning objectives for an elective

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What might be appropriate learning objectives for medical student electives designed around editing Wikipedia? Try to write these in a form that begins with "By the end of this experience, learners will be able to..."

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  • By the end of this experience, learners will be able to use recent literature - systematic review articles, for example, to improve an article.

Assessment strategies

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How would you go about assessing the quality/value/impact of any elective experiences you create? Assessment strategies can be sub-divided based on the below categories.

Assessment of the content/curriculum/sessions
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Assessment of the learners
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Assessment of other things
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Medicine specific
  • WP:MEDHOW: an overview of how to edit
  • WT:MED: a place to collaborate, raise issues with medical content, and ask questions about how to edit medical articles
Related to Press Coverage of our elective

References

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