IND 2994: Wikipedia: WikiProject Medicine Elective

Class Program
Credits 1 4

The Wikipedia: WikiProject Medicine is an online elective course. The goal is to select and improve important medical topics and develop them to a high level of quality. In 2013, Dr. Amin Azzam, MD, Adjunct Professor at UCSF School of Medicine, founded the WikiMedicine Project and has since worked with medical students from such institutions as UCSF, University of Central Florida, and Vanderbilt to offer immersion elective rotations for fourth-year medical students to receive academic credit for editing Wikipedia. In this WikiProject Medicine elective course, students will gain insight into the value of Wikipedia as a viable reference and build the skills and knowledge needed to evaluate articles on Wikipedia for yourself or your colleagues, with a specific focus on health and medical topics.  Students also learn skills that help them detect the quality of information on the site.