Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Queen's University/Critical Appraisal, Research and Lifelong Learning (Fall Term 1)

MEDS 112, Queen's School of Medicine. This is a foundations course for beginning (1st year) medical students that teaches critical appraisal and the basic steps in Evidence-Based Medicine.

Week 1
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.

Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Content Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the &quot;Get Help&quot; button on this page.

Week 2
'''To be completed before class on Sept 21st

'''Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (To avoid hitting Wikipedia's account creation limits, this is best done outside of class. Only 6 new accounts may be created per day from the same IP address.)

Review the following handouts:


 * Editing Wikipedia pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia

Then, take the first three training modules, linked below.

Week 3
Session Date/Time: Thursday September 21st 0930, rm 032A New Medical Building

Session Goal: Select and evaluate your topic

Format: Small groups

Session Notes:


 * 1) Working in Groups:


 * Make sure everyone in the group is assigned to the same Wikipedia article on the Students tab of this course page.
 * Select one group member whose Sandbox space you'll all share to draft your article.
 * Each group member should open the link to the chosen shared Sandbox at the same time. A sandbox is like any other page on Wikipedia, and anyone can edit it.  A link to the Sandboxes can be found under the &quot;Students&quot; tab, above.
 * Wikipedia doesn't allow multiple people to edit from different devices at the same time. If you're working together in person, one person should add the work to the Sandbox. If you are all working independently, make small edits and save often to avoid &quot;editing conflicts&quot; with classmates. Make sure that you're logged in under your own Wikipedia account while editing in your classmate's sandbox to ensure your edits are recorded.
 * Each team member should be logged into Wikipedia using their own user name. Don't create a group account for your project. Group accounts are prohibited.

2.   Select your topic


 * Click on the &quot;Articles&quot; tab above for a screened list of available articles.
 * Ideally, you should choose articles with &quot;high&quot; importance ranked at the &quot;start&quot; level or articles which are not ranked. There are some articles which are on the list which have been flagged as needing improvement (B or C class). Any of the articles on the list are appropriate, so pick something of interest to you and to your group.
 * Once you have an article selected, each member of your group should assign themselves the topic on the &quot;Students&quot; tab above.

3.  Evaluate your topic

Now it's time to think critically about your Wikipedia article.


 * Complete the &quot;Evaluating Articles and Sources&quot; training (linked below).
 * Create a section in your sandbox titled &quot;Article Evaluation&quot; where you'll leave notes about your observations and learnings.
 * As you read, consider the following questions (but don't feel limited to these):
 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are they secondary sources? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * Is any information out of date (within 5 years from the publication date)? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * Outline the article as it stands. What do you plan to contribute?

Assignment:

Each group will hand in a written evaluation of their page by the end of the day Sept 25th, maximum 2 pages long, using the above questions as a guide for your assessment.

Optional:

A page with more information about how the Wikipedia medical editing community assesses the quality of medical-related articles: WikiProject Medicine: Assessment

Evolution of Wikipedia’s medical content: past, present and future

NEW: Link to FAQs regarding Assignment # 1.

Week 4
Hand one assignment per small group with the group name and Wikiassignment1 in the title, to the &quot;submit assignments&quot; button on the Queen's Medtech course page. This is due  September 26th by 11:59pm.


 * 1) Your group's selected page from the list of Wikiproject Medicine pages that are tagged as &quot;needing work.&quot;
 * 2) A summary of your evaluation of the page using the bulletpoints above. If you find unreferenced statements on your page, please include a list of them.
 * 3) Remember - this should be no more than about 2 pages long. You may use point form if you like.

Answers to FAQs for Assignment # 1

Grade: 2% (group)

Week 5
Session Date/Time: Thursday Oct 5th 0930, rm 032A, New Medical Building

Session Goal: Familiarize yourself how statements in Wikipedia medical articles are supported, and find sources which will allow you to improve your article for the assignment due Oct 10th.

Format: Small groups

Session Notes and Assignment:


 * Individually take the &quot;Sources and Citations&quot; training, linked below.
 * Each group member should find at least one citation that could be used to improve your article. In one member of your group's Sandbox, generate an annotated bibliography for your groups projected contributions. Note: Please be sure to be logged into your own Wikipedia account when editing your group's sandbox. This ensures that your own contributions are recorded.
 * Medical-related articles require high-quality secondary sources - you can find more information on this here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Editing_Wikipedia_articles_on_medicine.pdf
 * For medical-related articles, there are a few key differences when compared to some of the other Wikipedia subjects:


 * 1) Medical articles are required to follow the &quot;Identifying Reliable Sources in Medicine&quot; guidelines in WP:MEDRS. Please familiarize yourself with these guidelines.
 * 2) Use up to date sources only, within the past 5 years as per WP:MEDDATE. There are a few exceptions to this, such as Cochrane Reviews, which are updated regularly, even if their date of publication is more than 5 years old.
 * 3) Directly quoting a source (even if you use quotation marks and cite it properly) is not accepted in medical-related Wikipedia articles. Please paraphrase all content into your own words.
 * 4) WikiProject Medicine prefers a citation after every sentence, even if it is the same source. Instructions for multiple uses of the same in-line citation can be found here.
 * 5) Medical-related articles follow a set style of formatting: Wikipedia: Manual of Style for Medicine-related articles.

Week 6
Hand in a summary of your group's work on the bibliography to the &quot;submit assignments&quot; button on the Medtech course page, including the words Wikiassignment2 and your group number in the document title. Every member of the group should have found a citation to add to the page.

'''Please make sure that each member of the group explains (using no more than one page):

1) how they searched for their source

2) how many potential sources were identified and considered

3) why the source was chosen

4) list at least three reasons why the source that was selected met Wikipedia’s reliable medical sources criteria

5) how you plan to use the source for improving the article'''

Keep a list of all sources considered for inclusion on a bibliography on your sandbox.

Remember that there is one assignment for each group but clearly document who did which part.

Grade: 2% (group)

Week 9
Session Date/Time: Tuesday October 31st, 3:30pm, Rm 032A, New Medical Building

'''Session Goals:

1. Go through your topic with the experts

2. Prepare to add content to Wikipedia by putting your article suggestions on the article'stalk page. Please wait until Nov 15th (class session) to edit the actual Wikipedia article live.

3. Each student should practice using the PMID citation tool on Wikipedia (practice in your sandbox).'''

Format: Small groups

Required Preparation:


 * 1) Each group must prepare a list of questions to ask their expert, based on the content of the Wikipedia articles. You should go through the content you are adding and ask any questions you have about your interpretation of the literature and the importance of that particular fact being added to the Wikipedia article. It would be helpful to ask the expert if he or she has any suggestions for other authoritative sources in the field such as Clinical Guidelines, etc.
 * 2) Individually, take the &quot;Sandboxes and Mainspace&quot; training, linked below. See How to Edit for more information about inserting citations using the PMID (PubMed ID) citation tool.

Session Notes for Assignment # 3:


 * Draft how your group is planning to use their citations to improve your article. Use your sandbox to draft your work and this will be the basis of assignment #3, due on Nov 10th.
 * A template of what to write on the talk page of your article can be found here:link to template
 * Each group member should come to class having closely read their source and with a plan of how they want to use it to improve the page.
 * As a group, you'll develop an implementation plan for your contributions.
 * Once you have a plan in place, post your plan on the articles Talk page.
 * What is the need you identified?
 * What sources are you using that fill the need?
 * What new content are you generating?
 * Monitor your article's talk page over the next week for community responses, before preparing your assignment to hand in. Please respond to any feedback on your article's talk page - this will be included in your assignment. Please monitor your own personal talk page as well on Wikipedia, in case an editor makes a comment directly to you.  Do not make any actual editing changes to your article yet - that is for assignment #4!
 * Each member of the group should plan to add their selected citation and 1-2 sentences or content changes to the article with the citation. So a group of 7 students should have between 7 and 14 new sources, changes to existing content, new sentences or a combination of these.
 * Reminder: Wikipedia doesn't allow multiple people to edit from different devices at the same time. If you're working together in person, only one person should add the work to the Sandbox or to the talk page at a time. If you are all working independently, make small edits and save often to avoid &quot;editing conflicts&quot; with classmates. Make sure that you're logged in under your own Wikipedia account while editing in your classmate's sandbox to ensure your edits are recorded.
 * Dr. Dawson will be available if you have any technical questions. She will also be following your edits &quot;live&quot; on Wikipedia and can help as needed with technical issues as they arise.

Week 10
Please hand in a copy of your article talk page edit summarizing your planned content changes, exported to a word doc and then uploaded on medtech.

Include any comments you have received from the Wikipedia community and how you plan to incorporate community feedback into your actual edit in the Wikipedia article. Please hand in one assignment per small group by 4pm on Nov 10th.

Make sure that you have put Wikiassignment3 and your group name on the assignment.

Once all the groups have posted their suggestions on the article talk pages (before November 10th), we will be posting a notice to inform the WikiProject Med community that you have posted your suggestions and will be editing the articles the next week.

Note: Before November 10th, each student needs to have used their Wikipedia account to practice using the PMID citation tool. Each student must add a citation to their sandbox successfully. This will be in preparation for actual Wikipedia article editing on November 15th.

Mark: 2% for completion.

Week 11
Session Date/Time: Wednesday Nov 15th, 0930, rm 032A New Medical Building.

Session goal: Add your content to improve your page and incorporate community and instructor feedback.

Format: Small groups

Session notes: This is the final week to work on your group article. Please incorporate any feedback from your previous assignment and from the community into the plans for your page. Add in the changes and finalize your group's page and the links to other articles. Make sure that you use the correct format for adding references and ensure that your language is jargon-free and neutral. The final changes will be the bulk of assignment #4, due on Nov 20th.


 * Read Editing Wikipedia page 12 to see how to create links from your article to others, and from other articles to your own. Try to link to 3–5 articles, and link to your article from 2–3 other articles.
 * Review Editing Wikipedia page 15 for the final article checklist.

Week 12
This is the final assignment for your group's chosen page. Please hand it in by 4pm on Nov 2th4.

Each group should hand in a summary of the following, along with a description of how you incorporated feedback you received on your previous assignments:

1) The main problems identified on the page at the start of the course and itemized in assignment #1, along with any other problems you identified while you were working on the page. Please keep this part of the assignment brief with global themes identified rather than small individual problems. (i.e. &quot;the page was focused only on male problems and lacked any mention of women,&quot; &quot;many of the statements about xx and yy were unsourced&quot; and &quot;the citations about topic zz did not support the statements made in the article&quot;)

2) Please outline briefly your group's plan for improving the page and how that evolved over the fall, and what you finally ended up changing.

3) List all the citations that you found and highlight the ones were added in for assignment #3.

4) Outline where you received feedback and how your groups responded to it, and how it did or did not change your final incorporated article changes.

You should also hand in a final version of your article, highlighting the changes you made.

Make sure that your group's name and Wikiassignment4 are on the document name and upload the assignment to the submit assignments button on the course page.

Mark: 8% (group)

Week 13
Session Date/Time: Monday Nov 27th 3:30pm, directed independent learning.

Session Goal: Apply your critical thinking skills to a new wikipedia page and analyze it

Format: Individual work for upcoming assignment due December 8th

Session notes: It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. You'll use the evaluation template we used at the start of the course, this time to evaluate a more controversial topic area.

The assignment instructions are attached to the Medtech learning events as a word document. Here are the instructions:

Purpose:

1)    Using Wikipedia as a launch pad, familiarize yourself with a therapy or technique commonly referred to as “Complementary and Alternative Medicine.”

2)    Demonstrate critical thinking in your analysis of the article’s claims and quality of the supporting evidence.

3)    Justify a position on whether you will recommend this therapy and for what purpose, and how you will respond to patient questions in this area.

You will be assigned one of 10 topics: Naturopathy, Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Ayurveda, Orthomolecular Medicine, Cryotherapy, Qigong, Energy Medicine, Chelation Therapy, or Herbalism.

1)    Provide a brief (1-2 sentence) overview of your assigned topic and the therapies that are commonly administered as part of this practice. After reading the Wikipedia page, provide a structured (PICO-style) question you have about this topic as it relates to patient care.

2)    What are 2 potential benefits outlined by practitioners of this practice/technique? On the Wikipedia page, what evidence supports these benefits? What type of evidence is it? (you should classify the type of publication and provide an opinion about the validity) Do you trust this evidence or not? Justify your answer.

3)    Using the same framework as question 2, outline 2 potential harms of this practice/technique.

4)    Do you believe that this Wikipedia page is communicating accurate and unbiased information, as per the Wikipedia mandate? Why or why not? Give 2 examples to support your conclusion.

5)    Can you envision a patient scenario where you would recommend this therapy / practice to a patient? Why or why not?

6)    Write out how you would you respond to a patient who acknowledges taking part in this therapy /practice and asks for your opinion? Use lay language to answer this question.

You will have another 2 hour work period for this assignment, which is due at the end of the day December 8th.