Explore a wealth of ideas, insights, and approaches that can be used or adapted by any medical library! Curricular changes in the health professions, coupled with a growing acceptance of the Internet as a tool for daily living, have contributed to a climate of change and opportunity for health sciences libraries. A Guide to Developing End User Education Programs in Medical Libraries will help graduate students in library science, entry-level medical librarians, and experienced educators to understand best practices and to build, expand, and improve medical library-sponsored educational programs. A Guide to Developing End User Education Programs in Medical Libraries is designed to aid and inform professionals who develop, teach, or evaluate end-user education programs in health sciences libraries. Eighteen case studies represent the ideas and approaches of more than fifteen private and public institutions in the United States and the Caribbean. The studies focus on effective end-user programs for medical information electives, veterinary medicine programs, health care informatics, and evidence-based medicine, plus instructional programs for teaching residents, ThinkPad-facilitated instruction, and more. The guide also examines how several medical libraries have created and expanded their end-user education programs. The contributors to A Guide to Developing End User Education Programs in Medical Libraries are health sciences librarians from teaching hospitals, medical/dental/veterinary schools, and health professions-focused universities in a dozen U.S. states and the West Indies. Each of them is involved in designing, teaching, and evaluating user education. This book will help you educate students of medicine, pharmacy, physical therapy, dentistry, and veterinary medicine, plus residents and practicing health professionals. The educational objectives and approaches in the case studies include: clinical medical librarianship integrating informatics objectives into curricula developing credit and non-credit coursework distance learning using new and emerging technologies to improve instruction The case studies in A Guide to Developing End User Education Programs in Medical Libraries follow a format similar to that of the structured abstract, including introduction, setting, educational approaches, evaluation methods, future plans, conclusion, and references. Some are illustrated with tables and figures. Several are supplemented by material in chapter-specific appendixes. Further information about specific classes, programs, or teaching philosophies is made available via Web sites featured in the book. Let this valuable guide help youand your institutiontake advantage of the opportunities available at this exciting time in the evolution of library science!

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About the Editor Contributors Preface Introduction Chapter 1. Computers & Medical Information Elective at Texas A&M University (Gale G. Hannigan) Setting Educational Approaches Evaluation Methods Future Plans Conclusion Appendix A: Computers & Medical Information Elective (IMED-989301) 2003-2004 Modules Appendix B: Computers & Medical Information Elective (IMED-989301) Evaluation Chapter 2. Instructional Outreach and Liaison to a Veterinary Medicine Program at Washington State University (Sarah K. McCord and Vicki F. Croft) Setting Educational Approaches Evaluation Methods Conclusion Chapter 3. Researching the Evidence in Physical Therapy at the University of Missouri-Columbia (Rebecca S. Graves, Evan Prost, and Yvette Silvey) Setting Background Educational Approaches Evaluation Methods Future Plans Conclusion Chapter 4. The Librarian As Partner in the Development of the Health Care Informatics Curriculum at James Madison University (Jennifer McCabe) Setting Educational Approaches Evaluation Methods Conclusion Appendix: Informatics for Health Care Professionals Syllabus Chapter 5. Educating Users of the Health Sciences Library System at the University of Pittsburgh (Linda M. Hartman) Setting Educational Approaches Evaluation Methods Conclusion Chapter 6. Hardin Library for the Health Sciences: Experiencing Change (Denise H. Britigan and Anne K. Gehringer) Introduction Setting Background Educational Approaches Evaluation Methods Conclusion Chapter 7. Medical Informatics Intervention: Teaching the Teaching Residents at Christiana Care Health System (Sharon Easterby-Gannett and Ellen M. Justice) Setting Educational Approaches Evaluation Methods Future Plans Conclusion Appendix: Findings from the Teaching Resident Block: Pre- and Postinformatics Rating Scale Chapter 8. The Librarian’s Role As Information Technology Educator at the University of South Alabama (Justin Robertson) Introduction Setting Educational Approaches Evaluation Methods Conclusion Appendix A: College of Medicine Elective FMP 479 Appendix B: Basic Personal Computer Confidence Survey (BBL 479) Chapter 9. Using Computer-Based Case Studies for Developing Information Searching Skills and Implementing Evidence-Based Medicine at Jefferson Medical College (Anthony J. Frisby and Daniel G. Kipnis) Introduction Setting Educational Approaches Support Issues Evaluation Methods Future Plans Chapter 10. Education and E-Learning at the William H. Welch Medical Library (Cynthia L. Sheffield, Jayne M. Campbell, and Dongming Zhang) Introduction Setting Educational Approaches Future Plans Conclusion Chapter 11. An Information Course for First-Year Pharmacy Students at the University of California, San Francisco (David J. Owen, Gail L. Persily, and Patricia C. Babbitt) Introduction Setting Educational Approaches Evaluation Methods Conclusion Chapter 12. Building an Effective User Education Program: The Medical Librarian As Coeducator at the University of the West Indies (Ernesta Greenidge and Meerabai Gosine-Boodoo) Setting Educational Approaches Evaluation Methods Future Plans Conclusion Chapter 13. Educational Programs at the New York University College of