Wikipedia:USEP/Courses/Medical Missionaries to Community Partners: Great Ideas in the name of Public Health (Kent Bream)

Course information

 * University: University of Pennsylvania
 * Course title: Medical Missionaries to Community Partners: Great Ideas in the Name of Public Health
 * Professor name: Kent Bream, MD
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 * Course start date: September 2012
 * Assignment due date: 25 September 2012 - Essay; 31 October 2012 - Outline, 12 December 2012 - Final article
 * Online ambassador -  Blue Rasberry    (talk)   20:41, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

Course description
Global health is an increasingly popular and important goal for many modern leaders. Yet critics highlight language of a new imperialism through aid programs. We will examine the evolution over time and place of people and programs to improve health of “underserved” populations. Categorized as public health programs and efforts to achieve a just society, we will examine the benefits and risks of past programs and conceptualize future partnerships on both a local and global stage. Students should expect to question broadly held beliefs about common good and service. Ultimately we will examine the past and present concept of partnership and the notion of community health with shared ownership, control, and goals between outside expert and inside community member. Students will be expected to develop a historical narrative regarding a medical missionary or concept in missionary medicine. At the end of the course, students should have an introductory view of fields that contribute to the conceptualization of health (history, anthropology, global politics, and biomedicine).

Wikipedia assignment
Students will develop a final project on a topic of their choosing which will be added to the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. This is an opportunity for students to explore an area of global health that interests them and become initial experts on the topic. This project will focus on an historical, biographical, policy/political, anthropological, financial, or social topic in global or local health programs for the “underserved”. The thesis of the project will advance the student’s expertise on the extqant knowledge on the issue or topic. Students are expected to upload this work to Wikipedia. The format should include links to categories and other Wikipedia pages. This is a research project and should be heavily supported from multiple sources. At least one of these sources, substantially used, should be found in the library. Wikipedia does not accept position articles and these will be deleted by Wikipedia editors. In addition, simply editing an existing Wikipedia page will not substitute for this assignment. Students are expected to create a new article.

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This article is the subject of an educational assignment at University of Pennsylvania supported by the Wikipedia Ambassador Program&#32;during the Fall 2012 term. Further details are available on the course page.

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