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Wikipedia in Medical Education: Student Group to Course

Felix Richter, Mark Bailey

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NYC

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Wikiproject:Medicine

  • 32,801 English Articles1
  • Most accessed source for medical content1

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine

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About Us

  • Felix Richter
    • President, Co-Founder, User:Salubrious_Toxin
  • Mark Bailey
    • Vice President, Co-Founder, User:Mjbailey
  • Preston Atteberry
    • Treasurer, Co-Founder, User:Preston.Atteberry
  • Marcus Badgeley
    • Co-Founder, User: VivamusAmemus
  • Vincent Luo
    • Photographer, User:Viinsanity

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Student Group Formation

  1. Contact Wikipedia Education
    • User:Bluerasberry
    • Wikimedia New York City
  2. Engage faculty
    • Sharon Edwards, MD, Dept of Medical Education
    • Funding: $750 Grant/yr
  3. Organize online
  4. Motivate students
  5. Organize Edit-a-thons
  6. Measure Progress

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"Unisfera Flushing" by Flapane - Flapane. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unisfera_Flushing.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Unisfera_Flushing.jpg

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Organizing Online

Student Group Website

Wikipedia Course Page

http://webcommons.mssm.edu/wikiproject/

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Motivating Students

Become the most consulted medical

expert in the world

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  • Your patients (and your peers) read wikipedia [1]
  • Use the internet to reach out to millions of people [2]
  • Connect with people outside of medicine [3]
  • Write about what you’re learning [4]
  • Learn how to write about medicine in another language [5]

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21282098

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Popular_pages

[3] http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Main_Page

[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/30/business/media/editing-wikipedia-pages-for-med-school-credit.html

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_Task_Force

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Organizing Edit-a-thons

Dates

  • 5/14/2014: Microbiology
  • 6/26/2014: Summer research project
  • 8/19/2014
  • 9/30/2014: Emergency Medicine, public edit-a-thon
  • 12/15/2014

Pictures

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Wikimetrics Progress

  • Start Date: March, 2014
  • 31 Participants
    • 28 MD Students, 1 PhD Student, 1 Resident Physician, 1 Attending Physician
    • 10 Women
  • 5-15 people attend each edit-a-thon
  • Bytes added (absolute sum): 117K
  • Edits: 870
  • Pages Created: 67

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Creating an Elective

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Creating an Elective

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Working with Physicians

Kevin Hu, MD

NYC Emergency medicine. Resident Physician, Mt. Sinai Hospital.

Trevor Pour, MD

NYC Emergency medicine. Assistant Residency Program Director, Mt. Sinai Hospital.

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Expansion to other Medical Schools

  • GOAL: Establish New York Metropolitan Area Medical edit-a-thons

New York City Metro Facts

20 Million Residents

9000 Medical Students

15 Medical Schools

5 Medical schools in

“US News top 20”

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Thank You!

Wikipedia

  • User:Bluerasberry
  • User:Doc_James
  • User:AminMDMA
  • Wikipedia Education
  • Wikimedia New York City
  • Wiki Project Med Foundation

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