Wikipedia:Wikipedia in Health Professions Education/Tools

Tools
 Learn about teaching with Wikipedia and design your own course. This module offers a beginner's step-by-step guide, teaching resources, and teaching advice from other HPE Instructors. Resources also include a video of Dr. Amin Azzam, a clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco UCSF School of Medicine and the University of California, Berkeley, discussing his experiences teaching medical students with Wikipedia.

Learn the basics of what it means to be a Wikipedian, including how to edit health articles, with the help of the following resources:

Overview: An Introduction to Medical Editing


 * Introduction to Wikipedia handbook: An introduction to Wikipedia editing (Wikipedia)


 * Introduction to Wikipedia Medicine tutorial blog and video: Medicine Newbie Crash Course (Students4BestEvidence)


 * Wikipedia Libraries training curriculum: Wikipedia + Libraries Training Curriculum (OCLC)


 * Live stream demonstration: METRO Webcast Wikipedia and Medicine (Metropolitan New York Library Council)

You do not need a Wikipedia account to read and edit Wikipedia articles, but you will need a Wikipedia account to start your own WikiEdu course. By creating an account you will also gain access to a number of other useful Wikipedia resources and features.


 * Benefits of creating an account article: "Why Create an Account?" (Wikipedia)


 * Step-by-step account setup tutorial video: How to create an account on Wikipedia (Pete Forsyth).

[ Create your account today! ]



It is important to have some familiarity with the process of editing in the Wikipedia space. The following tutorial page will help give you some practice on what it means to be a Wikipedian. It is geared toward newcomers, but it also offers links to help anyone more easily navigate Wikipedia editing.


 * Practice editing: Introduction to Contributing to Wikipedia

Now that you've created an account and have some practical knowledge it's time to design your course. This process will look different for every instructor, but the following pages by the Wikipedia Education Foundation will help break some of this down and start you on your way to setting up your own HPE course.


 * Teaching with Wikipedia: Teach with Wikipedia Start-up Page
 * Understanding your course's dashboard: Explore Course Dashboards
 * Orientation for instructors: Instructor Orientation Materials
 * Extra resources: WikiEdu Resources for Instructors



The following quotes are drawn from interviews conducted in 2020 and reported in Paolo C. Martin, Lauren A. Maggio, Heather Murray, John M. Willinsky, "Enculturating a Community of Action (CoA): A qualitative study of health professions educators’ perspectives on teaching with Wikipedia” (preprint here)

Wiki Education Wiki Education is 501(c) nonprofit organization designed to connect higher education and Wikipedia. Their Wikipedia Student Program includes a range of resources for university faculty who incorporate Wikipedia assignments into their courses.
 * WikiEducation
 * WkiEdu Resource for Educators
 * WikiEdu handout for Medicine

Wikipedia Student Information Page and Editing Guides In response to numerous teaching initiatives on Wikipedia, Wikipedians created an information page with suggestions for developing student assignments editing Wikipedia. This page contains information for instructors on best practices for course design, including a specific section for editing medical articles.

Wikipedia relies on volunteer editors and the Wikipedia community provides many resources and guidelines about how to edit in Wikipedia. Some basic Wikipedia sites are listed here:


 * Reliable sources
 * Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles
 * Conflicts of interest (medicine)
 * Neutral point of view

Those who edit medical articles in Wikipedia follow strict guidelines, which include Wikipedia's Guideline for Reliable Sources for Medical Articles and Medical Manual of Style. We encourage educators to first familiarize themselves with these guidelines before sharing evidence on Wikipedia.

WikiProject Medicine WikiProject Medicine was developed to manage and help in curation of Wikipedia's medical articles. WikiProject Medicine has generated a number of resources that are helpful for university faculty who incorporate Wikipedia assignments into courses in the health care fields. WikiProject Medicine has created a resource to guide for new student editors of Wikipedia pages about healthcare. This notice for students includes information about proper Wikipedia editing formats and is designed to be added to student talk pages.


 * WikiProject Medicine/How to edit
 * Help:Wikipedia editing for medical experts
 * Spanish version


 * Template for medical student notice
 * Template (copy and past the following template onto student talk pages): ~


 * Cochrane Wikipedian-in-Training Resource