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ABSTRACT
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.
Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Ms. Daniela Mejía in training Wikipedia editing; Ms. Grace Agnew, Associate University Librarian for Digital Library Systems, for her support to this project; and the review, comments, and suggestions provided by Dr. Robert C. Like, Professor and Director of the Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
This article is based on a poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association, Austin, TX, May 19, 2015.
Notes on Contributors
Yingting Zhang, MLS, AHIP ([email protected]) is Information & Education Librarian, Robert Wood Johnson Library of the Health Sciences, Rutgers University, 1 RWJ Place, P.O. Box 19, New Brunswick, NJ 08903. Yu-Hung Lin, MLS, MS ([email protected]) is Metadata Librarian for Continuing Resources, Scholarship and Data, Rutgers University Libraries, 47 Davidson Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854.