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Demonstration sites from our partners

This project engages four partners as demonstration sites. Explore their work, which includes articles they have written, descriptions of their courses, media coverage, and links to their course dashboards. These demonstration sites are training health professional students to appraise, translate, and embed research into Wikipedia.


Click the images below for information about each of our partner's work integrating Wikipedia into their HPE course dashboards.


Additional teaching sites

In addition to the above partners, multiple health professions schools integrate Wikipedia into their curriculum.

Click the images below for examples of their HPE course information.


"Inherent in these courses is the empowering and positioning of students as critics and moderators of knowledge. Indeed, all courses culminated in students critically appraising Wikipedia topics." Lauren A. Maggio, John M. Willinsky, Joseph A. Costello, Nadine A. Skinner, Paolo C. Martin and Jennifer E. Dawson Integrating Wikipedia editing into health professions education: a curricular inventory and review of the literature Perspectives on Medical Education volume 9 (2020).