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Wikipedia: A Medical Student Educational Project to Edit Wikipedia in Preparation for Practicing Evidence-Based Pain Medicine
Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development Pub Date : 2020-01-01 , DOI: 10.1177/2382120520959691
Diana Kantarovich 1 , Hanna B Vollbrecht 2 , Sebastian A Cruz 2 , Hector Castillo 2 , Cody S Lee 2 , Josef Kushner 2 , Jim X Leng 2 , Vince K Morgan 2 , Kevin M Hellman 2, 3
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Objective: Wikipedia is commonly used to acquire information about various medical conditions such as chronic pain. Ideally, better online pain management content could reduce the burden of opioid use disorders. Our goal was to improve the quality of the content available on Wikipedia to make it more accurate and applicable to medical students and the general public while training medical students to practice evidence-based medicine and critically assess their sources of information. Methods: An elective class in Neuroscience, Pain, and Opioids composed of 10 medical students met biweekly to discuss landmark and practice-changing research articles in the fields of acute pain, chronic pain, and opioid management. The professor chose Wikipedia articles relevant to this course. Three independent viewers analyzed the quality of citations, anecdotal medical content, and content value for both patients and medical professionals. As part of their coursework, students then edited the Wikipedia articles. Results: Although some of the Wikipedia pain topic content (6.7% ± 2.0) was anecdotal, financially biased, or inconsistent with Western Medical Practice content, overall articles included primarily high-quality citations (85.6% ± 3.1). On a 0-5 Likert scale, students felt content would be moderately helpful for both medical students/professionals (3.4 ± 0.2) and laypersons (3.5 ± 0.2). Editing and adding citations was feasible, but novel material was often reverted. Conclusion: A significant amount of pain medicine content was relevant and amenable to student editing. Therefore, future use of this tactic could provide a unique opportunity to integrate evidence-based medicine into the medical curriculum and have a direct impact on the widely available medical information. Future refinement in the editorial process may also further improve online information.

中文翻译:

维基百科:一个医学生教育项目,用于编辑维基百科,为实践循证疼痛医学做准备

目的:维基百科通常用于获取有关各种医疗状况的信息,例如慢性疼痛。理想情况下,更好的在线疼痛管理内容可以减轻阿片类药物使用障碍的负担。我们的目标是提高 Wikipedia 上可用内容的质量,使其更加准确并适用于医学生和公众,同时培训医学生实践循证医学并批判性地评估他们的信息来源。方法:由 10 名医学生组成的神经科学、疼痛和阿片类药物选修课每两周开一次会,讨论急性疼痛、慢性疼痛和阿片类药物管理领域具有里程碑意义和改变实践的研究文章。教授选择了与本课程相关的维基百科文章。三位独立的观众分析了引用的质量,轶事医学内容,以及对患者和医疗专业人员的内容价值。作为课程作业的一部分,学生们随后编辑了维基百科的文章。结果:尽管 Wikipedia 的一些疼痛主题内容 (6.7% ± 2.0) 是轶事、经济上存在偏见或与西方医学实践内容不一致,但总体文章主要包括高质量的引文 (85.6% ± 3.1)。在 0-5 的李克特量表上,学生认为内容对医学生/专业人士 (3.4 ± 0.2) 和非专业人士 (3.5 ± 0.2) 都有一定的帮助。编辑和添加引用是可行的,但新颖的材料经常被还原。结论:大量的止痛药内容与学生编辑相关且易于编辑。所以,未来使用这种策略可以提供一个独特的机会,将循证医学纳入医学课程,并对广泛可用的医学信息产生直接影响。编辑过程中的未来改进也可能进一步改善在线信息。
更新日期:2020-01-01
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