User:Pnovello/Choose an Article

Article Selection

Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

• Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
• Is it written neutrally?
• Does each claim have a citation?
• Are the citations reliable?
• Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too.
  

Option 1

Article title: Flexner Report

Article Evaluation: This article contains relevant information pertaining to the topic of the Flexner Report. The article explains the historical consequences of this medical report in transforming the perception of medicine in the United States, with Johns Hopkins serving as the model for medicine and medical education in the United States. The article can be updated with a current analysis of the presence of alternative forms of medicine, which inherently became marginalized as a result of the report calling for greater scientific medical research and credentials to govern medical practices. Additionally, I would find it interesting to investigate the economic consequences the Report had on medicine by favoring a biomedical form of medicine in the United States, which could explain the rise in pharmaceutical drug companies. The article is written in a neutral tone but does include direct quotes from the Report which were professed by Flexner, which could present a bias in the article's presentation of facts. I would include greater pieces of evidence pertaining to alternative medical practices and minority groups excluded from medicine as a result of the Report, to observe the other reactions the Report instilled in people. Each claim does not have a citation, as the section explaining the consequences of the Report is not supported by evidence for each claim given. The citations are reliable, but some links do not work and some sources are outdated, having been published in the 1990s.

Sources

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2967338/

https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Fulltext/2010/02000/Progress_for_Whose_Future__The_Impact_of_the.20.aspx

Option 2

Article title: Celine Gounder

Article Evaluation: This article describes Celine Gounder, who is an American medical doctor and medical journalist dedicated to studying and writing about infectious disease and global health. The article provides details about her career, including her undergraduate education at Princeton University, graduate education at Johns Hopkins which also included her role as a post-doc for the School of Public Health in which she researched TB and HIV in sub-saharan Africa, and her medical education at the University of Washington School of Medicine. The article briefly mentions her different roles in addressing public health issues as a doctor, a medical journalist, and other positions for numerous institutions. The article is written neutrally and does not appear to present a bias towards her research and work in the medical and public health sphere. Each claim does have a citation, however, the sources used to substantiate this information can be updated, as one source is a direct link to her LinkedIn profile, which may contain personal biases due to information being reported from herself. The article has the potential to be edited with relevant information about her current research endeavors and followup on the impact of the achievements and awards mentioned in the article.

Sources

https://www.theatlantic.com/author/celine-gounder/

Option 3

Article title: Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

Article Evaluation: The article explains the role and impact of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, which is a part of the School of Medicine along with three other divisions in the university. The institute's mission is to promote interdisciplinary studies of the moral issues present in health care, health policy, and biomedical science, and encourages research in bioethics to study the influences of ethical decisions in the medical sector. The article provides a history of the establishment of the Institute and outlines the five core areas of the Institute's research focus, with brief descriptions of the programs in each of these different areas. However, the article lacks citations for a majority of its claims, and does not contain a diverse composition of sources to substantiate the information in the article. Many ideas in the article are stated without any citation to another source to support the claim. Also, the article includes direct quotes from presidents and donors to Johns Hopkins on their thoughts about the Institute, which present a bias about the article's objective and accuracy in reporting information to readers, which is not completely neutral.

Sources

http://learninghealthcare.bioethicsinstitute.org/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3583388/

Option 4

Article title: Peter Pronovost

Article Evaluation: The article provides information about Dr. Peter Pronovost, who is a Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Carey Business School, and School of Public Health, as well as the Chief Clinical Technician Officer at University Hospitals health system in Ohio. The article highlights his various awards and accomplishments and the success of his development of an intensive care checklist, which was noted as saving a tremendous amount of lives. However, the information in the article is disorganized, as there is no overall lead mentioning his significant achievements and role in medicine. Also, the section discussing his work is simply titled "Work," and the subsection of his recent work has not be expanded upon and simply lists projects that he has/is working on, and some are unclear if they pertain to the article, such as his participation in an online course through Hopkins. The claims made in the article are supported by reliable citations from peer-reviewed sources, but could be expanded if the information in the article were to be expanded upon to provide readers with more coherent information. Also, there is some evidence that are direct quotes from Pronovost, which may contain a bias towards his interests and research findings, especially with the development of his intensive care checklist.

Sources

https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.1513/AnnalsATS.201410-494OC

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5334089/

Option 5

Article title: Paul B. Rothman

Article Evaluation: The article extensively discusses the history of the current CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine and Vice President of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. The article extensively describes his undergraduate and graduate education experiences, including his involvement in extracurricular activities and his participation in different research studies in T cells at Yale University and his experience as a molecular immunologist at Columbia University after being appointed to a professor position. The article is written neutrally and does not favor one argument of Rothman over another. While each claim is substantiated by a reliable source, the article relies heavily on a few sources, and could afford the use of a more diverse set of sources to provide greater information about Rothman's role at Hopkins and initiatives he has taken at the university, as well as his other endeavors.

Sources

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/leading_the_change/podcasts.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2687901/