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Writing a Wikipedia Article on Cultural Competence in Health Care
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Writing a Wikipedia Article on Cultural Competence in Health Care

Yingting Zhang and Yu-Hung Lin
Medical Reference Services Quarterly, Vol.35(2), pp.175-186
2016
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7282/T39K4DBQ

Abstract

Cultural competence Cultural competence in health care Cultural competency Librarians Wikipedia Wikipedia collaborations Information literacy
This article describes how librarians created a Wikipedia article on cultural competence in health care to support the medical school’s curriculum. Wikipedia, often considered not as reliable as scholarly articles, continues to be popular. Rutgers librarians conducted a Wikipedia project to improve its content to benefit students. The importance of cultural competency in health care is widely recognized due to increasingly diverse patient populations. Medical schools integrate cultural competency in curricula to train students to be culturally competent. Therefore, this topic was chosen for the Wikipedia Project. It is hoped that health sciences librarians and educators will benefit from their experience.
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