Amin Azzam is a clinical professor in the department of psychiatry at the
University of California, San Francisco
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UCSF
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School of Medicine
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. He is also a clinical professor at the
University of California, Berkeley
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, the associate director of the
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, and the director of the program's "Problem-Based Learning" curriculum,
besides being the director of Open Learning Initiatives and Faculty Engagement coordinator at Osmosis Medical Company. He is known for teaching an elective class for fourth year medical students that consists entirely of editing
Wikipedia
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articles about medical topics. He originally got the idea from one of his students, Michael Turken, in 2012, and was skeptical at first, but later became convinced that it could be a good idea. He then developed the class with Turken.
He first taught the monthlong course in December 2013.
With regard to the class, he has said, "It is part of our social contract with society, as physicians, to be contributing to Wikipedia and other open-access repositories because that is where the world reads about health information.”
Education
Azzam received his undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester
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The University of Roc ...
and his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia.[ He then completed his general adult psychiatry residency at the University of California, San Francisco, followed by a master's degree in education from the University of California, Berkeley.]
See also
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Living people
American psychiatrists
UC Berkeley School of Public Health faculty
UCSF School of Medicine faculty
Wikipedia people
American Wikimedians
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Rochester alumni
Medical College of Virginia alumni