Tina Brock & Dorie Apollonio
Tina is Professor of Pharmacy Education & Practice at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She works with the Monash Centre for Scholarship in Health Education (MCSHE) and the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) to develop, implement, and evaluate innovative curricula in health professions education worldwide.
Dorie is Professor of Health Policy in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at the School of Pharmacy and in the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco in San Francisco, California. Her research considers the role of scientific evidence and interest group lobbying in decision-making on public health.
Dorie is Professor of Health Policy in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at the School of Pharmacy and in the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco in San Francisco, California. Her research considers the role of scientific evidence and interest group lobbying in decision-making on public health.
Paving the desire paths of health information needs: Teaching students to edit Wikipedia
Research recently published in BMC Medical Education found that pharmacy students can improve access to quality medicines information by editing Wikipedia pages. Here, Prof. Tina Brock and Prof. Dorie Apollonio describe the research performed by themselves and their colleagues and its potential dual benefits for students and society.
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Health professionals express concern when we see patients influenced by medical misinformation. We know that poor-quality information is convenient and widespread. We worry that it will lead people down pathways that diverge from professional guidance. We are uneasy when we consider the potentially devastating health effects of such deviations. We have seen first-hand howmisinformation can negatively influence health behaviors in areas like vaccines and cancer treatment.
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