Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Cochrane/Queen's Critical Appraisal, Research and Lifelong Learning- Fall Term 1

Overarching goal of Wikipedia Longitudinal Project

Applied evidence-based medicine task to span duration of course
Allow students to practice newly developed EBM skills to enhance this resource

Assessment Summary (21% of MEDS 112 course grade) edit

Article critique: Mandatory but ungraded, group (Sept 17)
Assignment #1: literature search, individual, 5% (Oct 9th)
Assignment #2: Improvement plan, individual, 5% (Oct 29^th)
Assignment #3: Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) connections to article, group, 3% (Nov 16). Note: this is an offline assignment.
Process Grade: Individual, 8% (before term end)

Schedule edit

Wednesday September 5: Course Intro Session Objectives:

Introduce Wikipedia philosophy and structure of Wikiproject Medicine.
Review secondary source criteria and rationale.
Familiarize groups with assigned topics and tutors
Outline expectations and timeline for project and component assignments.

Thursday September 13: 60 minutes DIL

Goal: become familiar with Wikipedia and with assigned page and identify general issues with page (uncited statements, out of date sources, evidence of bias or missing information).

Tutors to provide students with a practice guideline or review paper relevant to the topic to give them a content basis for reference.

Students read over assigned Wikipedia article and write a group structured critique of page as preparation for 1^st session (send to tutor by September 17^th). Students register in Wikipedia as users.

WIKI SKILLS: Students need to understand what references are accepted as reliable sources on Wikipedia and why. MEDRS and MEDMOS articles for reading.

'Monday September 24: TUTOR SESSION 1:30-2:30pm

60 minutes SGL – students meet tutors, discuss issues identified with page and make a plan for improvement. Divide tasks/areas into searchable questions.

Goal: Create a structured plan for page editing and have each student leave session with area of focus for literature search.

students perform literature search for secondary sources between this session and Oct 1st* (Use WP:MEDRS as a guide)

Monday October 1: 120 minutes SGL 1:30-3:30pm TUTOR SESSION 2:30-3:30pm

First hour = WIKI SKILLS with Dr. Dawson

Goal: Learn how to make small edits in Wikipedia (talk pages and sandbox). Librarians available to help if sources have been hard to find. Note that students will be handing in first assignment worth 5% to librarians Oct 9^th.

Second hour = meet with tutors and plan improvements

Goal: Students discuss outline of improvement plan with tutors. Note that students will be handing in second assignment worth 5% to tutors on Oct 29^th.

Students meet with tutors and report on progress with literature search and plan for assignment. Look at search results and plan addition or modification of content.

Tuesday October 9th

Assignment 1 due - students hand in literature search assignment – marked by librarians and returned by October 16^th

Monday October 29th

Assignment 2 due - students prepare their changes for community feedback in their sandboxes and send to tutors. Each student will hand in a one-page summary of their planned changes for tutor feedback. Tutors to mark these before class on the 5^th November.

Monday November 5: 60 minutes SGL TUTOR SESSION 1:30-2:30pm

Goal: Post planned changes for community feedback and make a plan for timely responses over the next month. Discuss the addition of one element from Complementary and Alternative Medicine for the page – group assignment, due November 16^th.

Students meet with tutors and finalize planned changes, put the plan on the sandbox and post LINK TO SANDBOX onto talk page for community feedback during session.

Students will also discuss how CAM topics affect the clinician – what therapies do patients ask about? What therapies have some evidence? What are clearly a waste of money/time / possibly harmful?

WIKI SKILLS- short 5 minute tutorial on how to post to talk page. (bottom of page, adding your signature)

should understand how community consensus is important in Wikipedia, versus a “peer review”. It comes back to the importance of using high-quality secondary sources. They should “ping” Dr.Dawson in their sandbox and she will sign off on it before it goes live. {{ping|JenOttawa}}

Plan for group response on any community feedback – who will monitor the page? Who will respond/when?

Will have guidance for how to respond to aggressive community comments posted on learning event.

November 13: 60 minutes DIL – work session for final group CAM assignment

Can you find a WP:MEDRS acceptable link to CAM approaches for this condition on your article? Can you create links to any CAM therapies? Or add statements about the evidence (or lack of) any CAM pieces?

Have the students ask their tutors what CAM approaches are relevant to their topic. Note: Relevant does not necessarily have to mean that the CAM approach works, just what types of alternative med topics are patients interested in that pertain to the condition. Are there any that they find frustrating (i.e. patients with little disposable income are wasting money, people are not getting the care that they need, potential dangers, etc.), are there any CAM approaches that the clinician feels may compliment their practice? What does the evidence base look like for this/these approaches? How is this presented in the WP article? Can you improve it with reliable sources or link to other Wiki articles?

Friday November 16th

Assignment 3 due - hand in group CAM assignment, marked by tutors before final session

Monday December 3: TUTOR SESSION 10:30-11:30AM

60 minutes SGL – upload final changes to Wikipedia page after reviewing community feedback and responses, students receive marked group CAM assignment. Tutors will assign process grades to students based on rubric following session.

Goal: Post changes and finalize