Wikipedia:Integrating Patient-centered Outcomes Research into Wikipedia/Teaching Resources/Other

  Integrating Patient-centered Outcomes Research into Wikipedia OTHER TEACHING PROJECTS AND RELATED DISUCSSIONS

In addition to this project integrating Patient-centered Outcomes Research into Wikipedia there are a range of other Wikipedia-focused teaching initiatives in the health services. This page includes links to those initiatives and other resources that have evolved from some of those projects.

Wikimedia Medicine
Wikimedia Medicine, which also uses the name Wiki Project Med Foundation (WPMEDF), is a nonprofit founded in 2012. Their mission is "to make clear, reliable, comprehensive, up-to-date educational resources and information in the biomedical and related social sciences freely available to all people in the language of their choice on and off line." They provide support to a range a university courses in the health services. Wikimedia Medicine has a project page to track of classes editing Medical Content on Wikipedia: Wiki Project Medicine Classes. This list is not a comprehensive list of all classes being offered.

Wikipedia and Education User Group
The Wikipedia & Education User Group is part of the Wikimedia Movement "that facilitates, supports, and advocates for implementing Wikipedia and its sister projects into the educational and academic curricula". The site includes a resource portal.

List of Wikipedia Courses
A range of schools have begun to integrate Wikipedia courses into their curricula focusing on the health services. The following list primarily focuses on medical education courses in North America.
 * List of Courses

Touro College Course Resources
Touro College is a private university in New York City, New York. In collaboration with the Wikipedia community and Wikimedia, there have been several Wikipedia projects at Touro College. A project page was created for those projects.

UCSF Summer 2019 Course
During the summer of 2019, approximately 100 student editors participated in a Wikipedia editing course at the University of California, San Francisco. A course page for the site exists at:


 * Summer 2019 course page

Large Scale Teaching Project
In Autumn 2011, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto at Scarborough, offered a Wikipedia editing activity for 1500 students in an “Introduction to Psychology” undergraduate course. A page with a project overview and information from the project was created.

National Library of Medicine Wikipedia Project
The National Network of Libraries of Medicine is coordinated by the National Library of Medicine. They host regular Wikipedia editathons. Information and resources about the editathons can be found at:
 * WikiProject Medicine/National Network of Libraries of Medicine

Talk Page Interactions
Discussions over the edits for Wikipedia articles occur in the talk pages. These discussions serve as a review process for article edits by the volunteer Wikipedia community. By planning and discussing edits in the talk pages, professors and students can ensure that edits are accurate, easy to ready, and remain as part of the article. The following examples illustrate how professors and students used the talk pages for their courses, in editing articles, and in course design.

Students and instructors interacting with WikiProject Medicine
 * Article on HPV-Vaccine Spring 2019: Revision differences
 * Article on PTSD Fall 2018: Adding information

WikiProject Medicine talk page discussions
 * Queen's Fall 2019 WikiProject Med introduction (note this link will need to be fixed in a few weeks once the talk page is archived)
 * Introducing the Queen's initiative 2017

Other discussions
 * Learning from the E-Justice Course (Medical education): WikiEdu talkpage
 * JenOttawa: Talk page discussion 2017

PCORI-specific discussions
 * WP:MEDRS Discussion about PCORI and Wikipedia: Link to archived discussion
 * Article on stroke: Revision differences

UCSF talk page
 * Talk page etiquette: Article talk pages for course discussions and Use of talk pages during educational initiatives to improve article content (WP:MED discussion)
 * Related discussion on WikiProject Medicine: A lot of student editing coming our way