Wikipedia:Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Outcomes of teaching students 2017
Outcomes of Teaching Students to Edit Medical Content on Wikipedia is a 2017 poster describing the contributions which the student Wikipedia club at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have made to Wikipedia's medical articles.
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[edit]Abstract: Our goal was to empower medical students and physicians to improve and peer review Wikipedia content through interactive group editing sessions (edit-a-thons) and a medical elective course aimed at 1st and 2nd year medical students.
Methods: In order to teach Wikipedia editing to the ISMMS community, we formed a student group and led a Nexus course. The student group organized monthly edit-a-thons, where the goal of each session was to interactively teach editing by asking each attendee to contribute one peer-reviewed reference and five edits to Wikipedia over a one to two-hour long session.
Conclusion: The overall contribution to Wikipedia encourages us that both the edit-a-thons and Nexus course are effective.
— Richter, Felix; Atteberry, Preston; Bailey, Mark J.; Badgeley, Marcus A.; Rasberry, Lane (25 April 2017), "Outcomes of Teaching Students to Edit Medical Content on Wikipedia", The Institute for Medical Education presents Education Research Day 2017, New York City: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Presentation
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| When and Where | |
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| When: | Tuesday, 25 May, 2017 |
| Time | all day |
| Where: | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Guggenheim Pavilion |
| Address: | One Gustave L. Levy Place Near 99th Street & Madison Avenue New York, NY 10029 |
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The Institute for Medical Education at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai presented Education Research Day 2017 on Tuesday, April 25. On this day 54 teams presented posters showcasing various research projects which students and researchers had done recently. One of those projects was "Outcomes of Teaching Students to Edit Medical Content on Wikipedia".
Posters were set up in the Guggenheim Pavilion of the medical center from 9-5 on the day of the event. At appointed times, exhibitors stood by their posters to answer questions about their research.
Links
[edit]- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)