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N S Stearns

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PubMed1986

Tufts academic health information network: concept and scenario.

Tufts University School of Medicine's new health sciences education building, the Arthur M. Sackler Center for Health Communications, will house a modern medical library and computer center, classrooms, auditoria, and media facilities. The building will also serve as the center for an information and communication network linking the medical school and adjacent New England Medical Center, Tufts' primary teaching hospital, with Tufts Associated Teaching Hospitals throughout New England. Ultimately, the Tufts network will join other gateway networks, information resource facilities, health care institutions, and medical schools throughout the world. The center and the network are intended to facilitate and improve the education of health professionals, the delivery of health care to patients, the conduct of research, and the implementation of administrative management approaches that should provide more efficient utilization of resources and save dollars. A model and scenario show how health care delivery and health care education are integrated through better use of information transfer technologies by health information specialists, practitioners, and educators.

Academic Medical Centers↗
PubMed1985

Clinical medicine for dental students.

A program in clinical medicine for dental students was introduced at the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in 1974. Instruction in medical topics is delivered throughout the dental curriculum. Faculty and patient resources of the School of Dental Medicine, the School of Medicine, and the adjacent New England Medical Center Hospital are used. The ten-year evolution of this program is described in relation to the problems that had to be overcome. A survey of alumni indicated that the graduates who had taken the program felt better trained in physical evaluation techniques and reported higher frequencies of detecting medical problems in their patients than those who had not.

Curriculum↗
PubMed1981

Preselecting literature for routine delivery to physicians in a community hospital-based patient care related reading program.

Health sciences librarians have been actively responding to the changing information needs of users by extending services which involve the selection of literature in response to specific requests from health care personnel. A further development is Patient Care Related Reading (PCRR), a hospital-based program of continuing medical education in which the librarian actively participates in the preselection, packaging, and routine delivery of literature for use by physicians caring for patients with certain clinical disorders. Criteria for selection of literature packet topics were developed jointly by librarians and physicians at their own hospitals. Librarians compiled bibliographic material, reviewed articles, and prepared preliminary packets. Physicians reviewed these packets and made suggestions for each article. Librarians then prepared final packets following reviewers' recommendations and distributed them as a routine procedure to all physicians caring for patients with a diagnosis corresponding to prepared topics. Librarians were notified of patients with PCRR clinical problems by admitting office personnel, floor nurses, nursing supervisors, utilization review, and Professional Standards Review Organization personnel as a part of their usual activities. Packets are used by physicians to add to their fund of knowledge, and for review and teaching purposes. PCRR has provided increased visibility of the library and its many services. Recognition of the librarian's role in the program reinforces the concept of the community hospital library as a service-oriented entity, and helps to establish the library as an active partner in the development and implementation of hospital-based continuing education programs.

Hospitals, Community↗
PubMed1978

A systems intervention for improving medical-school-hospital interrelationships.

The large number of affiliations between medical schools and hospitals resulting from recently increased size of schools has typically been accompanied by both school-hospital and hospital-hospital interrelationship problems involving faculty and administrative personnel in all departments and at all levels. In this paper the authors describe a new technique, "systems intervention," designed specifically to deal with problems of needed change in complex organizational settings, and they illustrate its use by reporting a case study of the relationships between Tufts University School of Medicine and its associated hospitals. The process combines system analysis and behavioral science techniques to promote understanding and overcome barriers to change. Changes attributed to the systems intervention at Tufts are outlined.

Administrative Personnel↗
PubMed1974

The health information specialist: a new resource for hospital library services and education programs.

Growing pressures for more effective education programs at community hospitals demand better and more responsive hospital library resources and services. It is suggested that, with a modest amount of additional training and support, a community hospital librarian can play a key role in (1) improving the effectiveness of the hospital's library services and resources, (2) assisting hospital educators with the task of developing, implementing, and evaluating education programs, and (3) facilitating coordination of health information resources and services with all aspects of hospital education programs. An expanded, more active role, that of the Health Information Specialist, is suggested for hospital librarians. A one-week training program for librarians and special orientation for hospital educators and administrators plus followup field consultation for all three is described and proposed as an implementation strategy to provide the background and impetus needed to help hospital librarians evolve and expand their functional role into that of a Health Information Specialist.

Health Education↗