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PubMed1975

From poor farm to medical center: a century of library services to the Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center.

As its centennial approaches, the history and development of library services to the patients and professional staff of the Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center is traced from the early days when the library was housed in the cafeteria of the dispensary to its present position of being first point of access to library service for one of the largest teaching hospitals in the country. Its recent affiliation with the Norris Medical Library of the University of Southern California School of Medicine is explained. The change in emphasis from patients' library to health sciences library is illustrated, and the contribution of the library to the Cumulative Index to Nursing Literature is detailed.

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PubMed1994

HUBNET: Wide Area Network utilization of Local Area Network medical reference and communication resources.

The State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and its associated teaching sites have developed and partially implemented a regional Wide Area Network (WAN) in Buffalo and Western New York. The school wishes to use this WAN to deliver reference and communication resources to students, residents and faculty. The richest pool of easy to use reference and communication resources are PC software programs that are intended for individual workstations or at best, client-server, Local Area Network (LAN) implementation. HUBNET (Hospitals and University at Buffalo Library Resource Network), a project of the School of Medicine and the Library Consortium of Health Institutions in Buffalo offers integrated presentation of many such LAN resources over this regional WAN. The system crosses many institutional boundaries and reaches physically remote sites in a complex mix of information systems environments with few issues related to performance. The system design provides a level of ease of use that has brought many new users into active computer use while addressing integration into diverse information systems settings and networking environments.

Computer Communication Networks↗
PubMed1992

Problem-based medical education: effect on library use.

Problem-based learning (PBL) is being adopted by U.S. medical schools. Information-seeking skills are central to the PBL curriculum, which emphasizes self-directed learning and the acquisition of problem-solving and lifelong learning skills. The purpose of this study is to begin exploring the relationship between the PBL curriculum and student information and library use. Medical students in PBL and conventional medical school curricula were compared on library and information-seeking competencies, behaviors, and perceptions. A survey was sent to second-year students in four medical schools, two schools with two curricular tracks (one PBL and one conventional), one PBL school, and one conventional school. The results showed certain significant differences (P less than 0.05) between PBL and conventional curriculum students, suggesting that PBL students were the more frequent library users, used information resources that supported the independent learning process, acquired information-seeking skills at an earlier stage in their medical education, and reported greater ease in using these skills.

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PubMed1965

THE CONTEMPORARY MEDICAL SOCIETY LIBRARY.

Four hundred sixty-eight medical societies in the United States were surveyed to determine those which sponsor libraries. Seventy-eight libraries were identified, of which eighteen are "marginal" and nine are jointly supported by a medical school and a society, leaving fifty-one relatively "substantial" libraries whose major support is through society membership. Characteristics measured include size of collection, types of media, staff, budget, services, and sources of support. Questions are raised concerning the role of the medical library as one institution which participates in the continuing education of the physician.

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PubMed2004

Angel: post-implementation evaluation at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

With continued adoption of course management systems, librarians are assuming new roles and challenges with regard to providing information resources and library services in a digital environment. For approximately five years, the Indiana University School of Medicine has employed Angel as its online teaching environment, and the Ruth Lilly Medical Library has been actively involved in the adoption of Angel. As the implementation phase was completed, a post-implementation evaluation was due. The authors conducted an evaluation of the Angel system to evaluate utilization level, content types, and library resources/services integration. This article provides the findings of the post-implementation Angel Courses Evaluation.

Competency-Based Education↗
PubMed1972

Mechanization of library procedures in the medium-sized medical library. 8. Computer applications in hospital departmental libraries.

To test the hypothesis that a standard library system could be designed for hospital departmental libraries, a system was developed and partially tested for four departmental libraries in the Washington University School of Medicine and Associated Hospitals. The system from determination of needs through design and evaluation, is described. The system was limited by specific constraints to control of the monograph collection. Products of control include catalog cards, accessions list, new book list, location list, fund list, missing book list, and discard book list. Sample data form and pages from a procedure manual are given, and conversion from a manual to an automated system is outlined. The question of standardization of library records and procedures is discussed, with indications of the way in which modular design, as utilized in this system, could contribute to greater flexibility in design of future systems. Reference is made to anticipating needs for organizing departmental libraries in developing regional medical library programs and to exploring the role of the departmental library in a medical library network.

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PubMed2004

Assessing reference staff competency in the electronic environment.

This paper shows how the Galter Health Sciences Library of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine developed and implemented a program to assess reference staff competencies for assisting users in the electronic environment after completing a new training program. The first phase was a year-long assessment of reference questions to identify the types of questions received at the desk. Next, a training program for reference was developed and implemented with an emphasis on answering the most common questions identified such as remote access, access privileges, holdings information, and database searching. The program included individualized instruction on library policies, electronic resources, access restrictions, and troubleshooting. The next phase was to create instruments to test staff competencies in answering questions after training. Based on the scores, additional training was individualized and provided to the appropriate staff member to enhance their skills where needed. The training system that was developed has proven to be effective as most staff scored better than 92% on initial testing. As a result, library management can be certain that users' questions are being answered correctly and that the staff has the skills required to work in an electronic environment.

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PubMed2002

[Seyyid Mehmed Efendi's work, the Mizan-i Nabz].

This study is a criticism of the medical manuscript Mizan-i Nabz's text. The first manuscript of Mizan-I Nabz is kept at the Beyazt Goverment Library registered at number 2557 and a copy of it is at the Medical History Department library of the Cerrahpaşa medical School, at number 313. Mizan-i Nabz was written by Seyyid Mehmed Efendi in H.1179/M.1765. It was copied by Re'fet Efendi in H.1254/M.1838. This study consists of an introduction, a critisized text, index and Arabic terminology. The introduction describes the Mizan-i Nabz, gives a biography of the writer and the period it was composed, its contents, Mizan-i Nabz's characterictics of spelling and grammar, the number and the percentage of the Arabic, Turkish. Persian, Latin and Greek words, the medical ideas and perspectives of Seyyid Mehmed, the former scholars and a brief information on the treatment according to the four elements, humors and the pulse. The second part of the study is the text and the page numbers of each copy are noted, but, line numbers are given according to the Bayezit Library copy, which is 21 lines. The words in red by the writer are written in italics. Differents between the two texts are noted as footnotes. The third part is the index and it contains 136 Turkish, 810 Arabic, 41 Persian, 4 Latin, 2 Greek, overall 993 words, including the entry of all forms of the words. The fourth part is on the Arabic terminology used in the text and their meanings.

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PubMed1995

[Development of traditional careers at new universities. The case of medicine].

In 1981, the educational system in Chile was diversified characterizing Universities, Professional Institutes and Technical Training Centers. The provincial seats of traditional Universities were transformed in independent universities, which strongly increased its number. A number of private universities also emerged. This strategy was quantitatively successful, duplicating the number of youngsters between 19 and 24 years old that were following superior studies (from 88 to 199 per 1,000) and duplicating the registers at higher education institutions (from 118,000 to 244,000). The quality of the education is a matter of concern at the present time. In the case of Medicine, the Medical Schools Association has proposed to the Higher Education Council an accreditation system for programs that pursue the M.D. degree, based on explicit standards for all medical schools. Considering that teaching, research, laboratory and library resources in Chile are limited, accreditation is even more important. The splitting relationship between Medical Schools and the Ministry of Health, whose establishments are used as training centers, is also worrisome. Finally the physician:inhabitant relationship in Chile is adequate for its development level (1:960). Its geographical distribution, however, is highly unsatisfactory (1:657 in Santiago and 1:2,200 in some Regions). The implementation of professional and economical incentives could reverse this situation.

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PubMed1993

Collaboration in support of curriculum media: educational media and video production services.

Video Production Services and the Educational Media Department of the St. Louis University Health Sciences Center Library have an interrelated working relationship serving the schools of medicine, nursing, and allied health by providing videotaped instructional material. This paper details the various processes involved from the time a faculty member approaches the librarian in search of a specific subject video to the completion of an original production by the video professional, with both professionals playing an integral role in the provision of high quality curricular material. Our experience in the evolution of the process provides other medical libraries or biomedical communications units with a framework for successful production delivery.

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PubMed1999

Evaluating medical student searches of MEDLINE for evidence-based information: process and application of results.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the adequacy of the MEDLINE instruction routinely given to all entering medical students at the University of Miami School of Medicine and the ability of students to search effectively for and retrieve evidence-based information for clinical decision making by the end of their third-year. METHODOLOGY: The authors developed and implemented a strategy for evaluating the search strategies and articles selected by third-year students, who participated in the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) in June 1996, 1997, and 1998, and reviewed the literature on evidence-based medicine and evaluation of medical student searches. RESULTS: A mean of 5% of the students' search strategies and a mean of 26% of articles selected were ranked "excellent" or "good"; a mean of 26% of search strategies were ranked "fair" and a mean of 69% were ranked "poor"; and a mean of 22% of articles selected were ranked "fair" and a mean of 52% were ranked "poor" based on the strategy developed to evaluate student searches. CONCLUSIONS: Evaluating medical student searches for evidence-based information is an effective way of evaluating students' searching proficiency, and, in turn, the adequacy of the instruction they receive. Based on the results of the OSCE test, the school of medicine expanded the library's educational role and the library implemented major changes in the training program. Information on evidence-based medicine is now incorporated into the MEDLINE instruction. Library faculty evaluate the required searches performed by students for evidence-based information during their first and second years; 30% of students are identified for follow-up, individualized instruction based on the evaluation; and a new case-based curriculum has been proposed with a fourteen-week problem-based learning (PBL) block. These developments are timely in light of the evidence-based competencies recently published by the Association of American Medical Colleges.

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