Amin Azzam is an American clinical professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of California School of Medicine. He is also a clinical professor at the University of California, Berkeley, former Associate Director of the UC Berkeley – UCSF Joint Medical Program, and the former Director of the program's "Problem-Based Learning" curriculum,[1][2] besides being the director of Open Learning Initiatives and Faculty Engagement coordinator at Osmosis by Elsevier.[3] He is known for teaching an elective class for fourth year medical students that consists entirely of editing Wikipedia articles about medical topics.[4] 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.[5][6] He first taught the monthlong course in December 2013.[7] 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.”[6]
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| Nationality | American |
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Education
editAzzam received his undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester and his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia.[1] He then completed his general adult psychiatry residency at the University of California, San Francisco, followed by a master's degree in education from the University of California, Berkeley.[1]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Amin Azzam". University of California, San Francisco.
- ^ Seipel, Tracy (May 4, 2014). "San Francisco company aims to become the Wikipedia of medicine". The Mercury News (published May 4, 2014).
- ^ "Osmosis - Editorial Board". Archived from the original on May 25, 2021. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
- ^ NPR Staff (February 8, 2014). "Dr. Wikipedia: The 'Double-Edged Sword' Of Crowdsourced Medicine". NPR.org.
- ^ Feltman, Rachel (January 28, 2014). "America's future doctors are starting their careers by saving Wikipedia". Quartz (published January 28, 2014).
- ^ a b Xia, Rosanna (September 20, 2016). "College students take to Wikipedia to rewrite the wrongs of Internet science". Los Angeles Times (published September 20, 2016).
- ^ Cohen, Noam (September 29, 2013). "Editing Wikipedia Pages for Med School Credit". New York Times (published September 29, 2013).
External links
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- Official profile on UCSF
- Amin Azzam's user page on Wikipedia
- Amin Azzam on Twitter