Why Medical Schools Should Embrace Wikipedia: Final-Year Medical Student Contributions to Wikipedia Articles for Academic Credit at One School

2016103 citationsJournal Articlehybrid Open Access

Authors

Amin Azzam · University of California, San Francisco

David E. Bresler · University of California, Los Angeles

Armando García de León · San Mateo County Health System

Lauren A. Maggio · Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Evans Whitaker · University of San Francisco

James Heilman · University of British Columbia

Jake Orlowitz

Abstract

If other schools replicate and improve on this initiative, future multi-institution studies could more accurately measure the effect of medical students on Wikipedia, and vice versa.

Topics & Keywords

Wikis in Education and Collaboration Web and Library Services

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Quality Education

Publication Details

Published in: Academic Medicine

Volume 92, Issue 2, pp. 194-200

DOI: 10.1097/acm.0000000000001381

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