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 Wikipedia in Health Professions Education: A Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Approach

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Project Overview
Welcome to our project site, Wikipedia in Health Professions Education: A Patient-Centered Outcomes Approach! 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 of the Health Sciences. 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) by through Wikipedia. Health professionals and trainees are increasingly seeking to practice evidence-based medicine (EBM) and as such provide a key resource for translating PCOR into meaningful content for the public by increasing the extent to which Wikipedia entries on health matters are supported and informed by PCOR research, and thus ensuring that patients and their loved ones have access to patient-centered health information in making healthcare decisions. This engagement is driven through two principal activities:

1. This Wiki project site, which consolidates existing research and educational materials relevant to the training of health professionals in the best ways to edit Wikipedia, effectively access and assess PCOR, and practice EBM. 2. Collaboration with faculty, staff and students at four health profession education institutions—namely, Queen’s University School of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Monash University and Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine—on aspects related to the design, implementation and evaluation of their health training courses in Wikipedia.

Our goal is to identify the most promising HPE practices and explore improved means of integrating these practices into a well-curated set of curriculum materials, which are to be made readily accessible, as well as augmented by others, through this Wiki project site.