Amin Azzam

Amin Azzam is an associate clinical professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. He is also an associate clinical professor at the University of California, Berkeley, the associate director of the UC Berkeley—UCSF Joint Medical Program, and the director of the program's "Problem-Based Learning" curriculum.[1][2] He is known for teaching an elective class for fourth-year medical students that consists entirely of editing Wikipedia articles about medical topics.[3] He originally got the idea from one of his students, Michael Turken, in 2012, and was skeptical at first, but later became convinced that it could be a good idea. He then developed the class with Turken.[4][5] He first taught the monthlong course in December 2013.[6] With regard to the class, he has said, "It is part of our social contract with society, as physicians, to be contributing to Wikipedia and other open-access repositories because that is where the world reads about health information.”[5]

Education

Azzam received his undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester and his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Amin Azzam". University of California, San Francisco.
  2. ↑ Seipel, Tracy (2014-05-04). "San Francisco company aims to become the Wikipedia of medicine". The Mercury News.
  3. ↑ NPR Staff (2014-02-08). "Dr. Wikipedia: The 'Double-Edged Sword' Of Crowdsourced Medicine". NPR.
  4. ↑ Feltman, Rachel (2014-01-28). "America's future doctors are starting their careers by saving Wikipedia". Quartz.
  5. 1 2 Xia, Rosanna (2016-09-20). "College students take to Wikipedia to rewrite the wrongs of Internet science". Los Angeles Times.
  6. ↑ Cohen, Noam (2013-09-29). "Editing Wikipedia Pages for Med School Credit". New York Times.
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