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

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.

Why create medical student electives?
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
''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
''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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Useful links

 * WGEA 2014 Conference Website
 * WP:STUDENTS, which has general advice to students editing as part of an assignment
 * Wikipedia Adventure, to engage in a game that helps you learn how to edit wikipedia
 * WP:Training/For_students, a training module with slides
 * Is anything unclear? Then please head over to WP:Teahouse/Questions then click "Ask a question" to ask one
 * Wikipedia: Tips for identifying reliable medical sources
 * Medicine specific
 * WP:MEDHOW: an overview of how to edit
 * WP:MEDRS: referencing guidelines
 * WP:MEDMOS: manual of style
 * 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
 * UCSF Press release
 * New York Times coverage
 * The Atlantic coverage
 * Are Traditional Peer-Reviewed Medical Articles Obsolete?A Pitch for the Wikipedia Concept Medscape. Jan 06, 2006. Accessed Nov 20, 2013.


 * http://e-patients.net/archives/2014/03/wikiproject-medicine-med-students-producing-high-quality-wikipedia-articles.html