Wikipedia:Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai



Students at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai started a Wikipedia club in spring 2014 to gather students to edit Wikipedia health articles related to their studies.

Coordinators and supporters
Salubrious Toxin, Preston.atteberry, Mjbailey, and VivamusAmemus founded the Mount Sinai WikiProject Medicine group. From the beginning Viinsanity has been project photographer. Many others also contributed to make the group work, but these have been points of contact and have taken leadership roles.

Supporters of the project include
 * Wiki Project Med
 * Wikimedia New York City
 * Consumer Reports and Bluerasberry

Project history
These pages track different projects of a Wikipedia club at the school.
 * 2014
 * Expanding Wikiproject Medicine (2014 Spring): May-December 2014 Wikipedia editing club (record lost?)
 * Mount Sinai Emergency Medicine Interest Group: September 30, 2014 meetup and editing event open to the public
 * 2015
 * Wikiproject Medicine (Winter 2015): January-March 2015 elective course
 * Wiki Medicine (Autumn 2015): Autumn 2015 social meetup - This term was Wikipedia talks
 * 2016
 * December 2016 Librarian Meetup at Levy Library: December 5, 2016
 * December 2016 Student Meetup: December 6, 2016
 * 2017
 * #1Lib1Ref Librarian Training: January 27, 2017
 * February 16, 2017 meet up
 * Outcomes of Teaching Students to Edit Medical Content on Wikipedia, a poster presentation on Tuesday 25 April 2017
 * Race and Gender Bias in Medicine @ Icahn School of Medicine. Friday, 28 April, 2017
 * 2019
 * Pizza and wikimed: April 25, 2019