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Amin Azzam

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American clinical professor in UCSF

Amin Azzam
Headshot of Amin AzzamAzzam in 2018
NationalityAmerican
Occupations
Known forClinical officer
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Amin Azzam is an American clinical professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of California School of Medicine. He is also a clinical professor at the University of California, Berkeley, former Associate Director of the UC Berkeley – UCSF Joint Medical Program, and the former Director of the program's "Problem-Based Learning" curriculum, besides being the director of Open Learning Initiatives and Faculty Engagement coordinator at Osmosis by Elsevier. He is known for teaching an elective class for fourth year medical students that consists entirely of editing Misplaced Pages 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 Misplaced Pages 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 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.

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References

  1. ^ "Amin Azzam". University of California, San Francisco.
  2. Seipel, Tracy (May 4, 2014). "San Francisco company aims to become the Misplaced Pages of medicine". The Mercury News (published May 4, 2014).
  3. "Osmosis - Editorial Board". Archived from the original on May 25, 2021. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
  4. NPR Staff (February 8, 2014). "Dr. Misplaced Pages: The 'Double-Edged Sword' Of Crowdsourced Medicine". NPR.org.
  5. Feltman, Rachel (January 28, 2014). "America's future doctors are starting their careers by saving Misplaced Pages". Quartz (published January 28, 2014).
  6. ^ Xia, Rosanna (September 20, 2016). "College students take to Misplaced Pages to rewrite the wrongs of Internet science". Los Angeles Times (published September 20, 2016).
  7. Cohen, Noam (September 29, 2013). "Editing Misplaced Pages Pages for Med School Credit". New York Times (published September 29, 2013).

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