Wikipedia:UCSF School of Medicine



The School of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco and Wiki Project Med collaborate in presenting Wikipedia to health care practitioners, especially by encouraging medical students to edit Wikipedia as part of their coursework. This partnership began in 2013 as coordinated by Professor Amin Azzam, on Wikipedia as user:AminMDMA, and continues to the present (2016).

The School of Pharmacy at the University of California San Francisco began integrating Wikipedia editing into its curriculum in 2014. Professor Tina Brock as Wikipedia user:Tmpbrock, former Associate Dean of Global Health and Educational Innovations for the School of Pharmacy and now an adjunct professor at UCSF and Director of Pharmacy Education at Monash University and Dorie Apollonio as Wikipedia user:Health policy, lead pharmacy students in this effort as part of a required Health Policy course. Third year pharmacy students are assigned articles to edit from Wiki Project Pharmacology as a required part of their course. This capitalizes on skills from a prior required course in medicines information that all pharmacy students take in their second year.

Project history
Most of the collaboration can be organized as projects associated with particular courses. Here is a history of the school of medicine courses:


 * January 2013 meetup and presentation
 * November 2013 class record
 * April 2014 class record
 * November 2014 class record
 * November 2015 class record
 * March 2016 class record
 * November 2016 class record
 * Feb 2017 class record

Project outcomes
The UCSF student editing project continues today. The below summarizes the impact of the UCSF student efforts.

Media coverage
The UCSF student editing project has gotten as much media coverage as any other Wikimedia outreach project. The below sources are supporting evidence that there is public interest in learning about how medical students participate in Wikipedia and how this class can be a model for similar efforts.


 * Students Improving Medicines Information Worldwide.jpg
 * Leader Telegram
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Other presentations



 * Recap #1 by Rob Farrow: WIKIPEDIA IN ACTION #OER2015
 * Recap #2 by Stephen Downes: The Power of Reuse: Wikipedia in Action
 * The Western Group on Educational Affairs is a regional division of the Association of American Medical Colleges. At their spring 2015 conference the project team shared these presentations:
 * spring 2015 poster summarizing outcomes
 * slide set for oral presentation to accompany poster
 * abstract proposal to get poster and presentation into a conference
 * abstract proposal to get poster and presentation into a conference

Userbox
Persons who have participated in the program may add the "UCSF editing" box to their userpage by adding the following template to their userpage after creating a Wikipedia account: