Wikipedia:Wikipedia in health professions education/Additional Teaching Resources

Wiki Education
Wiki Education is 501(c) nonprofit organization designed to connect higher education and Wikipedia. Their Wikipedia Student Program includes a range a 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.


 * Link to information page: Wikipedia Student Assignments

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 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


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


 * Cochrane Wikipedian-in-Training Resource