Librarians in Evidence-Based Medicine Curricula: A Qualitative Study of Librarian Roles, Training, and Desires for Future Development

Maggio, Lauren A.; Durieux, Nancy; Tannery, Nancy Hrinya

doi:10.1080/02763869.2015.1082375

“…Bibliographies that would take hours to compile by hand could be produced in a matter of minutes with the development of digital information retrieval [4]. As experts in information collection, today's librarians are often involved in informatics, data mining, teaching, and publication [4][5][6]. This has led to the specialization of many librarians in different fields such as government, theology, law, and medicine.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Bibliographies that would take hours to compile by hand could be produced in a matter of minutes with the development of digital information retrieval [4]. As experts in information collection, today's librarians are often involved in informatics, data mining, teaching, and publication [4][5][6]. This has led to the specialization of many librarians in different fields such as government, theology, law, and medicine.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One study found medical librarians were active participants in the design, deployment, and assessment of students in EvidenceBased Medicine Curricula [5,6]. Training for this role is acquired in both formal (i.e., medical education scholars program) and non-formal settings (i.e., self directed and on the job) [6].…”

Section: Teaching Is Often Identified As An Important Role Of Librarimentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Medical Librarian - The Unsung Enablers of Military Academic Medicine

Johnson¹,

Rodkey²,

Bates³

2017

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“…PubMed searching is consistently taught throughout the curriculum, and despite the fact that students remain aware of the high reliability of this resource, clearly there is room for improvement. Current teaching strategies for PubMed in medical school curricula focus mostly on more traditional lecture hall or computer lab classes [16,17], as opposed to integration into the clinical context where students will be expected to perform these behaviors. Just-intime teaching strategies that incorporate formative feedback need to be designed and tested.…”

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Understanding medical student evidence-based medicine information seeking in an authentic clinical simulation

Nicholson

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Kalet

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Vleuten

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Objective: Evidence-based medicine practices of medical students in clinical scenarios are not well understood. Optimal foraging theory (OFT) is one framework that could be useful in breaking apart information-seeking patterns to determine effectiveness and efficiency of different methods of information seeking. The aims of this study were to use OFT to determine the number and type of resources used in information seeking when medical students answer a clinical question, to describe common information-seeking patterns, and identify patterns associated with higher quality answers to a clinical question.Methods: Medical students were observed via screen recordings while they sought evidence related to a clinical question and provided a written response for what they would do for that patient based on the evidence that they found.Results: Half (51%) of study participants used only 1 source before answering the clinical question. While the participants were able to successfully and efficiently navigate point-of-care tools and search engines, searching PubMed was not favored, with only half (48%) of PubMed searches being successful. There were no associations between information-seeking patterns and the quality of answers to the clinical question.Conclusion: Clinically experienced medical students most frequently relied on point-of-care tools alone or in combination with PubMed to answer a clinical question. OFT can be used as a framework to understand the information-seeking practices of medical students in clinical scenarios. This has implications for both teaching and assessment of evidence-based medicine in medical students.

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Librarians in Evidence-Based Medicine Curricula: A Qualitative Study of Librarian Roles, Training, and Desires for Future Development

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