Writing a Wikipedia Article on Cultural Competence in Health Care

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Writing a Wikipedia Article on Cultural Competence in Health Care - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2016, written by Yingting Zhang and Yu-Hung Lin.

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ABSTRACTThis 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.