| Amin Azzam | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Known For: | Clinical officer |
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,[1] [2] besides being the director of Open Learning Initiatives and Faculty Engagement coordinator at Osmosis by Elsevier.[3] He is known for teaching an elective class for fourth year medical students that consists entirely of editing Wikipedia articles about medical topics.[4] 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.[5] [6] He first taught the monthlong course in December 2013.[7] 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.”[6]
Azzam received his undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester and his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia.[1] 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.