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April 17, 2007
Update on Health Sciences Libraries Liaison Services
The Health Sciences Libraries have a variety of initiatives underway as part of its new Liaison Services. Dr. Rajesh Mangrulkar, Department of Internal Medicine, was invited to the April 3 all-staff meeting to discuss Encore (Ensure Competence, Inspire Excellence), a proposed pilot program for a new system of medical student education. The program emphasizes systems-based approaches to learning; team-based practice; self-assessment; and competencies in clinical skills, diagnosis, therapeutics, the social context of health and disease, scientific reasoning, educational technology, and information management. The Health Sciences Libraries (HSL) are also working with the Department of Internal Medicine on another pilot program to provide real-time searching and discussion of clinical information resources during residents’ Ambulatory Morning Report as well as partnering with the Department of Internal Medicine to investigate the involvement of librarians as onsite consultants to patient safety teams to support patient care and residency education. On April 6, the HSL launched a collaborative project with the Department of Surgery to assess the searching skills of all surgery residents and to obtain data on their information seeking behavior.
The HSL recently offered informal brownbag Learn @ Lunchtime demonstrations, entitled Finding Information Fast! and Using Literature Alerts, focused on helping hospital staff search library resources effectively. Other liaison activities include a new symposium series to assist grant applicants with the electronic submission of National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants. The series featured sessions on NIH Electronic Submission and Deep Blue, Deep Blue and Intellectual Property (Copyright), and the NIH Electronic Submission Process. In June, the HSL will be presenting two hands-on computer sessions in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Michigan on Finding Health Information on the Internet. The lifelong learning institute is a program established by a group of Turner Geriatric Clinic volunteers.
In other areas of the health sciences, the HSL is providing support to the public health practice community by teaching classes on new web technologies at the Michigan Association for Local Public Health annual conference. These classes are in addition to instruction on library services and resources to audiences including the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy researchers and workshops on software resources for working with survey data for courses in the Department of Epidemiology. The HSL is offering a training series teaching overviews of current awareness skills and techniques at the School of Dentistry. Each training session is also provided as a podcast. A pilot, for-credit elective course was taught for graduating seniors at Dentistry, and it has now been approved for Fall 2007 and Winter 2008 terms.
As part of Liaison Services initiatives, HSL librarians have been invited to serve on curriculum committees in the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Dentistry.
Posted by nallee at April 17, 2007 05:49 PM