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Wikimedia Canada as part of the Global Education Program and in collaboration with the Medical Education Unit of University College of Medical Sciences of India is working on organizing a half day workshop in New Delhi, India to discussion the significance of Wikipedia in medicine and how one becomes involved. Please post questions on the discussion page.

Date and venue

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This event will be held on 1.11.11 (Nov 1) starting at 9 am at Conference hall, library block, UCMS & GTB Hospital. The breakout workshop will be held in the Medical Education Unit room on second floor of conference hall.

Presenters are

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  • Dr James Heilman, UBC Faculty of Medicine,Wikimedia Canada Board of Directors. He is an active editor and administrator on the English Wikipedia involved primarily with Wikiproject Medicine. He is one of the top 1000th most prolific editors of the English site by edit count[1] and has contributed hundreds of medical images over the previous 4 years. In 2009 he was involved with promoting and protecting Wikipedia's right to contain images in the public domain.[2] In 2011 in collaboration with 18 other medical editors he published a peer reviewed article in the Journal of Medical Internet Research calling upon his peers to join in as editors.[3][4]
  • Hisham Mundol leads the India Programs for the Wikimedia Foundation. This is a catalyst that seeks to increase participation (both access and editorial contribution) to Wikimedia projects in India. It encompasses efforts in both English and Indic language projects.

Presentations

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  • A presentation given at McMaster and UBC. Feel free to reuse. [1]
  • Videos of presentations given at UBC Oct 6th, 2011 [2]

Contact

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For further details, contact Dr Satendra Singhat dr.satendra@gmail.com. All are invited for the lectures but only 20 pre-registered participants will be allowed for the break out hands-on workshop.

Signatures of participants

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Sign up if attending

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(To give us some idea of numbers)


Name Organization Email/Contact info
Arun Singh IIT Delhi arunsingh.in@gmail.com
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The presentations are open for all but hands-on breakout workshop is limited to 20 participants. List of participants for Hands-on workshop (All from UCMS & GTB Hospital, Delhi):

Name Designation Department
Dr. Renu Chauhan Associate Professor Anatomy
Dr Rehan Ul Haq Associate Professor Orthopedics
Dr Rajat Jhamb Assistant Professor Medicine
Dr. Archana Singh Assistant Professor Biochemistry
Dr Sumita Halder Assistant Professor Pharmacology
Dr Seema Jain Assistant Professor Pharmacology
Dr Sumit Rai Assistant Professor Microbiology
Dr Rumpa Saha Assistant Professor Microbiology
Dr Navjeevan Singh Professor Pathology
Dr Surendra Kumar Assistant Professor Anaesthesiology
Dr. Khan Amir Maroof Assistant Professor Community Medicine
Dr Mohit Joshi Assistant Professor Surgery
Dr Satendra Singh Workshop Organizer Physiology
Dr.Indu Bhushan Dubey Senior Resident Surgery
Parth 1st semester, MBBS
Siddharth Chand 1st semester, MBBS
Nikunj Mendiratta 3rd semester, MBBS
Dilip Chaurasiya 3rd semester, MBBS
Bhavesh 3rd semester, MBBS
Karambeer Singh 3rd semester, MBBS
Shobhana Sridhar 3rd semester, MBBS
Aheed Khan 3rd semester, MBBS
Ahmad Jibran Javed 3rd semester, MBBS

References

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  1. ^ "Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits".
  2. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/technology/internet/29inkblot.html?_r=1 A Rorschach Cheat Sheet on Wikipedia?
  3. ^ Heilman JM, Kemmann E, Bonert M; et al. (2011). "Wikipedia: a key tool for global public health promotion". J. Med. Internet Res. 13 (1): e14. doi:10.2196/jmir.1589. PMID 21282098.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ http://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/events/view/1407 WIkipedia and Higher Education