Amin Azzam

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, the associate director of the UC Berkeley – UCSF Joint Medical Program, and the 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 Medical Company.[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]

Amin Azzam
NationalityAmerican
OccupationClinical professor
Known forClinical officer

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]

See also

References
  1. "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. 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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