Amin Azzam
NationalityAmerican
OccupationClinical professor
Known forClinical officer

Amin Azzam is a clinical professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) 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]

Education

Azzam 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]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Amin Azzam". University of California, San Francisco.
  2. ↑ Seipel, Tracy (4 May 2014). "San Francisco company aims to become the Wikipedia of medicine". The Mercury News (published 2014-05-04).
  3. ↑ "Osmosis - Editorial Board". Archived from the original on 2021-05-25. Retrieved 2020-12-11.
  4. ↑ NPR Staff (2014-02-08). "Dr. Wikipedia: The 'Double-Edged Sword' Of Crowdsourced Medicine". NPR.org.
  5. ↑ Feltman, Rachel (28 January 2014). "America's future doctors are starting their careers by saving Wikipedia". Quartz (published 2014-01-28).
  6. 1 2 Xia, Rosanna (20 September 2016). "College students take to Wikipedia to rewrite the wrongs of Internet science". Los Angeles Times (published 2016-09-20).
  7. ↑ Cohen, Noam (29 September 2013). "Editing Wikipedia Pages for Med School Credit". New York Times (published 2013-09-29).
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