Wikipedia-editing as a teaching strategy in health professional schools: 6 years, 5 countries, 5 professions...and counting.

● Wikipedia is the world’s most frequently used health-information source.
● Embracing the platform helps fulfill health professional schools’ teaching & service missions.
● Student & faculty effort searching, analyzing, writing & editing Wikipedia is scholarly work.
● The Wiki Education Foundation’s “Students in the Health Professions” campaign aggregates all efforts of these students editing WIkipedia as part of formal coursework.
● Since 2013, there have been 1,271 students who have added 711,000 words, 86 images and 9,030 references to 642 health-related Wikipedia pages.
● These Wikipedia pages have been viewed 55.2 million times since students began contributing.
● Participants highlight the refreshingly collaborative nature of the work-- for students, librarians, and faculty alike!