Wikipedia:UCSF School of Medicine

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The School of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco and Wiki Project Med collaborate in presenting Wikipedia to health care practitioners, especially by encouraging medical students to edit Wikipedia as part of their coursework. This partnership began in 2013 as coordinated by Professor Amin Azzam, on Wikipedia as user:AminMDMA, and continues to the present (2016).

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The School of Pharmacy at the University of California San Francisco began integrating Wikipedia editing into its curriculum in 2014. Professor Tina Brock as Wikipedia user:Tmpbrock, former Associate Dean of Global Health and Educational Innovations for the School of Pharmacy and now an adjunct professor at UCSF and Director of Pharmacy Education at Monash University and Dorie Apollonio as Wikipedia user:Health policy, lead pharmacy students in this effort as part of a required Health Policy course. Third year pharmacy students are assigned articles to edit from Wiki Project Pharmacology as a required part of their course. This capitalizes on skills from a prior required course in medicines information that all pharmacy students take in their second year.

Project history

Most of the collaboration can be organized as projects associated with particular courses. Here is a history of the school of medicine courses:

January 2013 meetup and presentation
November 2013 class record
April 2014 class record
November 2014 class record
November 2015 class record
March 2016 class record
November 2016 class record
Feb 2017 class record

Project outcomes

The UCSF student editing project continues today. The below summarizes the impact of the UCSF student efforts.

More information Course Date, Number of students ...

School of Medicine
Course Date	Number of students	Number of pages edited	Days of active editing	Number of edits during course	Average views per page per day over course days	Total views during course
Nov-Dec 2013	5	5	28 days	176	3,279	459,071
April 2014	7	7	28 days	181	1,455	285,233
Nov 2014	16	16	28 days	727	513	229,761
Nov 2015	15	15	26 days	444	1,628	500,708
March 2016	7	1	28 days	347	2,536	71,016
Nov-Dec 2016	22	14	27 days	850	490	185,107
Feb-Mar 2017	8	7		850	236	246,000

More information Course Date, Number of students ...

School of Pharmacy
Course Date	Number of students	Number of pages edited	Days of active editing	Number of edits during course	Average views per page per day over course days	Total views during course
Fall 2014	116	116	28 days	737	443	1,438,535
Fall 2015	125	31	28 days	2,350	667	579,000
Fall 2016	119	30	28 days	1,190	249	293,169

Media coverage

The UCSF student editing project has gotten as much media coverage as any other Wikimedia outreach project. The below sources are supporting evidence that there is public interest in learning about how medical students participate in Wikipedia and how this class can be a model for similar efforts.

Brandt, Michelle (7 September 2014). "At Medicine X, four innovators talk teaching digital literacy and professionalism in medical school". scopeblog.stanford.edu. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
AirTalk host (12 May 2014). "Is Wikipedia good for medicine?". scpr.org. KPCC. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
Zwillich, Todd (3 October 2013). "Med Students Earn Credit For Editing Wikipedia - The Takeaway". thetakeaway.org. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
Moses, Alan (25 June 2014). "Study: Wikipedia Drug Entries Not Always Up-to-Date". consumer.healthday.com. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
Gordon, Larry (14 June 2014). "Wikipedia pops up in bibliographies, and even college curricula - LA Times". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles: Tribune Co. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
Feltman, Rachel (24 January 2014). "America's future doctors are starting their careers by saving Wikipedia - Quartz". qz.com. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
Cohen, Noam (29 September 2014). "Editing Wikipedia Pages for Med School Credit". The New York Times. New York: NYTC. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
Beck, Julie (1 October 2013). "Should I Be Getting Health Information From Wikipedia? - The Atlantic". theatlantic.com. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
Brustein, Joshua (13 March 2014). "Can Crowdsourcing Your Symptoms Reveal What Ails You? - Businessweek". bloomberg.com. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
deBronkart, Dave (5 March 2014). "WikiProject Medicine Wikipedia Editing Trust Medical School Participatory Medicine". e-patients.net. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
Roscorla, Tanya (9 October 2013). "Why Medical Schools Add Wikipedia Editing to Curriculum". centerdigitaled.com. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
Palmer, Roxanne (3 October 2013). "Wikipedia Goes To Medical School: UCSF Med Students Will Learn How To Improve Online Encyclopedia". ibtimes.com. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
poster summarizing school of pharmacy effort outcomes
NPR staff (8 February 2014). "Dr. Wikipedia: The 'Double-Edged Sword' Of Crowdsourced Medicine". npr.org. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
Lehrer, Brian (5 May 2014). "Dr. Wikipedia Gets a Booster Shot". youtube.com. 39m35s. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
Warren Drimmer, Stephanie (3 March 2015). "The Doctor Who's Healing Wikipedia". Retrieved 23 March 2015.
Dominguez, Trace (Oct 4, 2013). "Is Wikipedia a Credible Source?". DNews. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
Sluizer, Jan (3 December 2014). "Medical Students Learn to Treat Ailing Wikipedia Entries". voanews.com. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
Fonseca Rendeiro, Mark (22 June 2016). "Wikpedia, Doctors, and the Future of Medicine". sourcecode berlin. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
Xia, Rosanna (20 September 2016), "College students take to Wikipedia to rewrite the wrongs of Internet science", Los Angeles Times, retrieved 20 September 2016
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McClurg, Lesley; Brooks, Jon (8 November 2016). "Should I Trust Wikipedia With My Health?". NPR. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
McCartney, Al (2 December 2016). "Imperial's School of Medicine hosts Wikipedia health hackathon". imperial.ac.uk. Imperial College London. Retrieved 6 December 2016. The project is modelled in part on a similar Wikipedia page grading project run at the University of California in 2013...
Joshi, Mihir; Verduzco, Rafael; Yogi, Sara; Garcia, Maite; Saxena, Sanskriti; Tackett, Sean; Dexter, Nadine; Dempsey, Angela; Whitaker, Evans; Azzam, Amin (2019). "Wikipedia Editing Courses at Three US Medical Schools in the 2017-2018 Academic Year". MedEdPublish. 8 (2). doi:10.15694/mep.2019.000146.1.

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Userbox

This user participated in a medical editing session at UCSF.

Persons who have participated in the program may add the "UCSF editing" box to their userpage by adding the following template to their userpage after creating a Wikipedia account: {{User UCSF Editing}}

The Wikipedia Education Program is a project to connect students and the Wikipedia community to share information together through Wikipedia. Background information is available at Wikipedia:Education program.

About the Wikipedia Education Program

Partnerships with medical schools are important because Wikipedia has substantial coverage of the majority of medical topics. Wikipedia medical articles are highly trafficked: over 25,000 medicine articles receive almost 200 million views per month and nearly 8,000 pharmacology articles receive over 40 million views per month as shown at Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Popular pages. Research supports Wikipedia's increasingly influential role as the dominant online reference in delivering medical information to the lay public—as well as being a frequently consulted resource for medical professionals. The Wikipedia article "Health information on Wikipedia" summarizes this, and for more information, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Research publications for a list of academic studies of Wikipedia's health content.