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Welcome to this toolkit for health professions educators interested in integrating Wikipedia into their courses. We're glad you're here.

This site is a resource for a community of HPE instructors who are interested in using Wikipedia and PCOR in their courses, whether it be for the first time, or as part of a lifelong professional commitment. This site provides basic resources for editing and disseminating content through Wikipedia, as well as links to a curated selection of published articles, brochures, Wikipedia resources, and videos to grow your practice for years to come.

This site is for you and by you. Your contributions are important and welcome!

 Learn about teaching with Wikipedia and design your own course. This module offers a beginner's step-by-step guide, teaching resources, and teaching advice from other HPE Instructors. Resources also include a video of Dr. Amin Azzam, a clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco UCSF School of Medicine and the University of California, Berkeley, discussing his experiences teaching medical students with Wikipedia.

Learn the basics of what it means to be a Wikipedian, including how to edit health articles, with the help of the following resources:

Overview: An Introduction to Medical Editing


 * Introduction to Wikipedia handbook: An introduction to Wikipedia editing (Wikipedia)


 * Introduction to Wikipedia Medicine tutorial blog and video: Medicine Newbie Crash Course (Students4BestEvidence)


 * Wikipedia Libraries training curriculum: Wikipedia + Libraries Training Curriculum (OCLC)


 * Live stream demonstration: METRO Webcast Wikipedia and Medicine (Metropolitan New York Library Council)

You do not need a Wikipedia account to read and edit Wikipedia articles, but you will need a Wikipedia account to start your own WikiEdu course. By creating an account you will also gain access to a number of other useful Wikipedia resources and features.


 * Benefits of creating an account article: "Why Create an Account?" (Wikipedia)


 * Step-by-step account setup tutorial video: How to create an account on Wikipedia (Pete Forsyth).

[ Create your account today! ]



It is important to have some familiarity with the process of editing in the Wikipedia space. The following tutorial page will help give you some practice on what it means to be a Wikipedian. It is geared toward newcomers, but it also offers links to help anyone more easily navigate Wikipedia editing.


 * Practice editing: Introduction to Contributing to Wikipedia

Now that you've created an account and have some practical knowledge it's time to learn begin the process of designing your course. This process will look different for every instructor, but the following pages by the Wikipedia Education Foundation will help break some of this down and start you own your way to setting up your own HPE course.


 * Teaching with Wikipedia: Teach with Wikipedia Start-up Page
 * Understanding your course's dashboard: Explore Course Dashboards
 * Orientation for instructors: Instructor Orientation Materials
 * Extra resources: WikiEdu Resources for Intsructors



Wiki Education Wiki Education is 501(c) nonprofit organization designed to connect higher education and Wikipedia. Their Wikipedia Student Program includes a range a resources for university faculty who incorporate Wikipedia assignments into their courses.
 * WikiEducation
 * WkiEdu Resource for Educators
 * WikiEdu handout for Medicine

Wikipedia Student Information Page and Editing Guides In response to numerous teaching initiatives on Wikipedia, Wikipedians created an information page with suggestions for developing student assignments editing Wikipedia. This page contains information for instructors on best practices for course design, including a specific section for editing medical articles.


 * Link to information page: Wikipedia Student Assignments

Wikipedia relies on volunteer editors and the Wikipedia community provides many resources and guidelines about how to edit in Wikipedia. Some basic Wikipedia sites are listed here:


 * Reliable sources
 * Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles
 * Conflicts of interest (medicine)
 * Neutral point of view

Those who edit medical articles in Wikipedia follow strict guidelines, which include Wikipedia's Guideline for Reliable Sources for Medical Articles and Medical Manual of Style. We encourage educators to first familiarize themselves with these guidelines before sharing evidence on Wikipedia.

WikiProject Medicine WikiProject Medicine was developed to manage and help in curation of Wikipedia's medical articles. WikiProject Medicine has generated a number of resources that are helpful for university faculty who incorporate Wikipedia assignments into courses in the health care fields. WikiProject Medicine has created a resource to guide new student editors of Wikipedia pages about healthcare. This notice for students includes information about proper Wikipedia editing formats and is designed to be added to student talk pages.


 * WikiProject Medicine/How to edit
 * Help:Wikipedia editing for medical experts
 * Spanish version


 * Link to template page: Template for medical student notice
 * Template (copy and past the following template onto student talk pages): ~


 * Cochrane Wikipedian-in-Training Resource



Demonstration sites from our partners

This project engages four partners as demonstration sites. Explore their work, which includes articles they have written, descriptions of their courses, media coverage, and links to their course dashboards. These demonstration sites are training health professional students to appraise, translate, and embed research into Wikipedia.

Click the images below for information about each of our partner's work integrating Wikipedia into their HPE course dashboards.

 An important aspect of this project is to provide educators, collaborators, and anyone interested in Wikipedia and education with a comprehensive database of relevant citations. These citations can be used to provide resources for building a new Wikipedia medical education project and for conceptualizing new research projects. This list was generated using a formalized search strategy (see "Search Strategy" below) and also includes references compiled by WikiProject Medicine, The Wiki Education Foundation, and The Cochrane Wikipedia Project.

Click the buttons below to start viewing curated libraries of references.



This site was borne from a two-year engagement project, "Integrating Patient-Centered Outcomes Research into Wikipedia," led by John Willinsky, Stanford University and Lauren Maggio, Uniformed Services University. Funded by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), the project aims to build a community able to engage with patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) through Wikipedia.

About the Patient-Centered Outcomes ResearchIn striving to answer patient-centered questions, PCOR:
 * Assesses the benefits and harms of preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, palliative, or health delivery system interventions to inform decision making, highlighting comparisons and outcomes that matter to people;
 * Is inclusive of an individual's preferences, autonomy, and needs, focusing on outcomes that people notice and care about such as survival, function, symptoms, and health-related quality of life;


 * Incorporates a wide variety of settings and diversity of participants to address individual differences and barriers to implementation and dissemination; and
 * Investigates optimizing outcomes while addressing burden to individuals, availability of services, technology, and personnel, and other stakeholder perspectives.

Health professionals, trainees, and educators like you, provide a key resource for translating PCOR into meaningful evidence-based medicine (EBM) resources for practitioners and the public. By increasing the extent to which Wikipedia entries on health matters are supported and informed by PCOR research, this budding community will help ensure that patients and their loved ones have access to patient-centered health information in making healthcare decisions.

Wikipedia can be a powerful tool with real-world outcomes, by training healthcare professionals to engage with medical and health-related articles and with the medical community through Wikipedia, educators like you can increase the impact of your healthcare courses for years to come.