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Course name: 2022-23 WikiMed Directed Studies

Institution: Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine

Instructor: Scott Ewing

Wikipedia Expert: Ian (Wiki Ed)

Subject: Medicine

Course dates: 2023-02-27 00:00:00 UTC – 2023-04-12 23:59:59 UTC

Approximate number of student editors: 15

Welcome to your 4 week directed studies course for 4th-year medical students at TCOM! This course is designed to encourage electronic healthcare literacy. Students will work in class and remotely to select articles, research, and then edit over the course of the month.

Student	Assigned	Reviewing
Mburgon	Canthotomy	Resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta
Roddamar	Alcoholic cardiomyopathy	Bowel resection
LutzDO	Bowel resection	Fontan procedure
Azbeartx	Resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta	Canthotomy
Nbnmaria	Lifestyle medicine	Alcoholic cardiomyopathy
PediHeartsAndCaths	Fontan procedure	Lifestyle medicine

Timeline

Week 1

Course meetings

Monday, 27 February 2023 | Tuesday, 28 February 2023 | Wednesday, 1 March 2023 | Thursday, 2 March 2023 | Friday, 3 March 2023

In class - TCOM WikiMed Directed Studies course

Welcome to your TCOM WikiMed course!

Over the next four weeks, you will choose a Wikipedia article and make significant improvements to the content and references utilized by the article. If you are bold enough, you might even choose to improve more than one article.

The goals this first week include:

Register a user account with Wikipedia (if you don't already have one). Choose your username wisely since all your work will be associated with that name and publicly viewable.
Complete initial Wikipedia training modules that will help familiarize you with how the world of Wikipedia operates.
Research and select your topic that will be the focus of your work these next few weeks.
Complete an initial evaluation of your chosen page. This evaluation will need to be submitted at the end of the first week. Looking ahead, you and I will also evaluate your article again at the end of the four weeks to gain a better understanding of the improvements that have been made.
Once you have completed your initial evaluation, please email a copy.
Here is a link to the rubric:

Grading rubric

At all times, your course instructor will be available to help. We will be meeting twice a week to review progress, answer questions, and guide you hopefully every step of the way.

Additionally, our course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

To help you get started this first week, here are some useful resources. In your travels, if you discover other resources that you feel are worthwhile, please let your instructor know and we will update this page so that others may benefit.

In class - Welcome to the course! Monday, Feb 27th @ 12: 30 - 2:00 pm

All classes will be held in person. We will also make use of zoom for those who might miss class otherwise.

Please, please, please bring your laptop to all class meetings!!!

Room IREB 410

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86260574201

Agenda

Introduction and overview
Creating a user account
Navigating around Wikipedia
Talk pages
Wikipedia training modules
WikiProject Medicine
Selecting an article

Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia

Create an account and then complete the online training for students. During this training, you will make edits in a sandbox and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Medicine

Psychology

In class - Weekly Discussion: Wednesday Mar 1st @ 12:30 - 2:00pm

Join the team from the UNTHSC Lewis library in discussing which tools are available to us and how to access them in our research.

All classes will be held in person. We will also make use of zoom for those who might miss class otherwise.

Room IREB 410

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86260574201

Agenda

Progress review
Citations

1. How to use PubMed and Google Scholar (and others?)
2. Primary vs secondary vs tertiary references and how/when to use each with Wikipedia
3. Plagiarism and copyright infringement (both will be covered again down the road)
Question and Answers

Resources:

Wiki Editing: Misinformation Series

Password: 2021WikiEdu

Info Retrieval & Appraisal

https://rise.articulate.com/share/J1XXagiMGa4zQvCvykzeKsjplxMFF6U0

Citation Management & EndNote

https://rise.articulate.com/share/ZcKutMmoc13XdXKBKsqCazG9PVgSE5ee

Assignment - Selection of Article and Posting your Workplan

So that you can engage with the Wikipedian community members who are interested & actively following your article, post your Workplan on the talk page of your selected Wikipedia article.

Consider explicitly declaring any/all of the following (but don't feel limited to these):

Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference?
Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
Check a few citations. Do the links work? Is there any close paraphrasing or plagiarism in the article?
Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
Which sections will you prioritize?
What resources do you intend to look up, and when?
How will you decide what things (signs, symptoms, side-effects, etc.) to explicitly include? To explicitly exclude?
Will you also embed additional links to other Wiki pages?
How will you ensure you avoid "doctor-speak" and not use jargon?

Review pages 4-7 of the Evaluating Wikipedia brochure. This will give you a good, brief overview of what to look for in other articles, and what other people will look for in your own.

Resources: Evaluating Wikipedia, Using Talk Pages

Milestones

By the end of the week, everyone should have made an account, selected a topic and posted their work plan!

Excellent work!

Week 2

Course meetings

Monday, 6 March 2023 | Tuesday, 7 March 2023 | Wednesday, 8 March 2023 | Thursday, 9 March 2023 | Friday, 10 March 2023

Assignment - Theme of the week: Accuracy and Plagiarism

To be discussed at the weekly WIP meeting:

A major source of healthcare information from our patients is from Dr. Google. With increased access to knowledge online, comes the dangers of inaccuracy. How can we be a part of that conversation outside of the face-to-face office interaction?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4448244/

Assignment:

Read through the above article about the reliability of Google and come prepared to the weekly meeting to discuss your thoughts on the subject. Consider what the consequences of inaccurate information on your chosen medical wiki might be. Locate and read the liability information on the medical wiki. Should medical wikis be subject to FDA or other oversight?

In class - Weekly Discussion: Monday, Mar 6th @ 12:30 - 2:00 pm

All classes will be held in person. We will also make use of zoom for those who might miss class otherwise.

Room IREB 410

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86260574201

This meeting is just to get a short update from everyone about where they are at with choosing a topic and creating a work plan.

In class - Weekly Discussion: Wednesday, Mar 8th @ 12:30 - 2:00 pm

Meet to discuss the assignment and your achievements for the week.

All classes will be held in person. We will also make use of zoom for those who might miss class otherwise.

Room IREB 410

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86260574201

Due this week by Friday: the first draft of your article

Milestones

This week is all about starting to make edits live on Wikipedia (not just your Sandbox).

Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 3

Course meetings

Monday, 13 March 2023 | Tuesday, 14 March 2023 | Wednesday, 15 March 2023 | Thursday, 16 March 2023 | Friday, 17 March 2023

In class - Weekly Discussion: Monday Mar 13th @8:00 - 9:00 am

Meet to discuss the assignment and your achievements for the week.

All classes will be held in person. We will also make use of zoom for those who might miss class otherwise.

Room zoom only

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86260574201

Due this week by Friday at 11:59 pm: peer review of your classmates' article

In class - Theme of the week: Collaborative Medicine

It is safe to say that with the ever-increasing accessibility of the internet, our world is becoming smaller and closer together. It has also allowed us to become privy to the extent of human knowledge at a very fast pace. This means that discoveries made on one side of the world that once took years to get to the other, are now avaibile at a moments notice. This begs the question then, how can collaboration shape the way we diagnose and treat our patients?

Assignment: watch the first episode of the show "Diagnosis" on Netflix.

Come prepared to the weekly meeting to discuss your thoughts on the subject.

Assignment - Lend a hand to your classmates and peer review their article!

Guiding framework

Work on helping your classmates by conducting peer reviews:

Post your Review to the talk page of the article you are reviewing.
Aim for finishing your peer review BEFORE Wed

How to conduct peer review? :

Make sure it's understandable to the intended WP audience
Make sure we include appropriate sources, mostly NOT primary literature. But OK to use primary literature when there is no secondary literature
Also OK to use closed-access resources
Look at the workplan and compare/contrast it to actual work done
Don't be harsh on your classmate
Spot check a few links to ensure links are not broken
Ensure the structure of article flows understandably
Follow readability guidelines (no sentences longer than 26 words)
Lots of periods, few commas or semicolons
Post the peer-review on the TALK page of the article you are reviewing.

Peer editing how-to:

Go to your home page and click peer review under the "Articles I’m peer reviewing" subheading.
This should take you to make a new page and walks you through what you should be looking for.
Go ahead and add edits to the talk page of the peer review article so it’s easier to see
You need to have that peer review page published for this assignment to count.

Handout: Wikipedia peer-review rubric

In class - Weekly Discussion: Wednesday, Mar 15th @8:00 - 9:00 am

Meet to discuss the assignment and your achievements for the week.

All classes will be held in person. We will also make use of zoom for those who might miss class otherwise.

Room zoom only

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86260574201

Due this week by Friday 11:59 pm: peer review of your classmates' article

Week 4

Course meetings

Monday, 20 March 2023 | Tuesday, 21 March 2023 | Wednesday, 22 March 2023 | Thursday, 23 March 2023 | Friday, 24 March 2023

In class - Weekly Discussion: Monday, Mar 20th at 12:30 - 2:00 pm

All classes will be held in person. We will also make use of zoom for those who might miss class otherwise.

Room IREB 410

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86260574201

This meeting is just to get a short update from everyone about where they are with their project.

In class - Theme of the week: Medical Wikis: Discovery and Retention

The world is constantly changing. What was once represented by a blurb in medical education reference books has become one of the most relevant topics of today; coronavirus. Therefore, Wikipedia articles that are visited more frequently have the higher burden of accuracy. The ”rate of returning visitors” (RVR) is a major measure of success for any web resource. How does your article fare in this battle for viewership?

Readings:

Google Analytics overview
Article on RVR
Dr. Azzam's student's success story

Assignment:

Using one or more search engines (e.g., Google, Bing, Yagoo, Baidu etc.) of your choice, try to discover some of the content of your chosen medical wiki. Come prepared to the meeting ready to comment on where the search results appear (if at all) and how this might impact traﬃc to the medical wiki. Are search engines the best way for new users to discover medical wiki content? What are other methods that might also be effective?

Assignment - Respond to your peer review

Use the final week of the course to respond to your peer-reviewer's suggestions. Additionally:

Leverage the Wikipedian community members who are interested in your article
Consider replying to the peer review directly on the talk page of your article
If you disagree with your peer reviewer, explain your rationale

Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!

Assignment - Polish your work!

Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.

Resources:

Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14

In class - Weekly Discussion: Wednesday, Mar 22nd @12:30 - 2:00 pm

Meet to discuss the assignment and your achievements for the week.

All classes will be held in person. We will also make use of zoom for those who might miss class otherwise.

Room IREB 410

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86260574201

What did I accomplish this month (broad overview)?
What did I learn?
What will I take forward with me into the future?
Now in hindsight, is there anything I would have done differently?

Due this week by the end of this week, your final draft of the article!!!

Milestones

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.