Wikipedia:Association of American Medical Colleges November 2016

This is a supplemental event page for the Wikipedia presentation and event at November 2016 annual conference of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Event details

• Friday, October 28, 2016
• conference in Seattle
• Official website
• Presentation by Lane Rasberry, user:bluerasberry, Wikipedian-in-Residence at Consumer Reports

Presentation - "The Inside Track on Wikipedia for Medical Librarians"

All talk attendees will gain the ability to describe the nature of health information on Wikipedia, and have more insight into health information on the Internet

Other support

The presentation is provided by Consumer Reports. Other organizations supporting Wikipedia outreach to health classes in New York include the following:

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  Consumer Reports
• 
  Choosing Wisely
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  Cochrane
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  Wiki Project Med
• 
  Cascadia Wikimedians
• 
  Wiki Education Foundation
• 
  Docgraph

All of these organizations endorse this classroom outreach. Your facilitator, user:bluerasberry, does not represent any of them except Consumer Reports. The nature of the support is as follows -

• Consumer Reports sponsors the outreach and presentation.
• Choosing Wisely is the outreach health campaign on which this Wikipedia outreach program is based.
• Cochrane remains available to provide access to Cochrane publications or talk with Wikipedia contributors about using good sources.
• Cascadia Wikimedians is the local volunteer chapter of the Wikipedia community.
• Wiki Project Med is the international volunteer chapter of the Wikipedia community supporting the development of Wikipedia's medical coverage.
• Wiki Education Foundation provides support for professors in assignment design and students as they navigate editing Wikipedia for the first time, and software to report impact of Wikipedia editing by groups of students.
• DocGraph is providing analysis of Wikipedia use by medical students. Please consider opting in to participate.

Tools and support

• WikiProject Medicine, Wikipedia's own community forum for developing Wikipedia's health content
• DOI Wikipedia reference generator, a simple tool for converting a DOI into a citation on Wikipedia
• The Wikipedia Adventure, an online training program
• The Wikipedia:Education program provides Wikipedia:Training/For students

Contact

For local Wikipedia support contact user:bluerasberry, lrasberryconsumer.org.