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Pharmacy students can improve access to quality medicines information by editing Wikipedia articles.

Dorie E ApollonioKeren BroydeAmin AzzamMichael De GuiaJames HeilmanTina P Brock
Published in: BMC medical education (2018)
Our results suggest that engaging pharmacy students in a Wikipedia editing assignment is a feasible alternative to writing drug monographs as a classroom assignment. Both tasks provide opportunities for students to demonstrate their skills at researching and explaining drug information but only one serves to improve wider access to quality medicines information. Wikipedia editing assignments are feasible for large groups of pharmacy students and effective in improving publicly available information on one of the most heavily accessed websites globally.
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