Isolated to Integrated: An Evolving Medical Informatics Curriculum

Abstract

A library-led introductory informatics theme has been part of the Albany Medical College undergraduate medical school curriculum as a concurrent theme since 1993. Initially, classes were limited to large group sessions focusing on general searching skills. Over the past several years, course content has been expanded and increasingly integrated into other themes and clerkships. Web-based self-paced tutorials have replaced many classroom sessions, and Web 2.0 technologies have been introduced. Collaborations with clinical and basic science faculty in other themes supplement and strengthen the theme.

How are medical students trained to locate biomedical information to practice evidence-based medicine? a review of the 2007–2012 literature

“…We defined classrooms as traditional classrooms, lectures, computer labs, and any other physical space that enables teaching medical students in a formalized situation. Two (17%) of the trainings were a hybrid of online and classroom sessions [15,21]. A single training took place in a clinical setting, which we identified as a hospital ward [21].…”

“…Sessions in which students received training in more than 1 session were considered multiple session trainings. Five (42%) of the trainings were considered single-session training [16,18,22,23,25], and 7 (58%) were multi-session trainings [14,15,17,[19][20][21]24]. For multi-session trainings, the average number of sessions was 6, ranging between 2 and 8 sessions.…”

“…Following the removal of duplicate articles, review of titles and abstracts of the 433 articles left 23 articles that appeared to meet the inclusion criteria. After full-text review, 12 articles remained for analysis [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] (Table 1).…”

Librarians' Roles in Evidence-Based Dentistry Education: A Review of Literature and a Survey in North America

“…23 In a recent book chapter on evidence-based practice, Eldredge discussed in detail the potential roles of librarians in EBM, such as producing systemic reviews, creating EBM information resources, and EBM training. 9 In addition to the advocacy articles cited above and a number of individual case reports on health sciences librarians' involvement in EBM, [24][25][26] there have been relatively few empirical studies dealing with how the library profession currently is involved in supporting EBM. Pappas recently surveyed all members of the Hospital Libraries Section (HLS) of the Medical Library Association (MLA) to examine members' perceptions of the skills needed to support EBM.…”

Librarian Integration in a Four-Year Medical School Curriculum: A Timeline

“…1,2 The closest equivalent is the Schaffer Library of Health Sciences at Albany Medical College, which has a medical informatics thread that weaves through the four-year medical curriculum in a manner that very much resembles the THL experience. 3 At Albany, as at the University of Michigan (UM), resources are introduced at strategic points throughout the curriculum so that students receive training at times when they are most likely to need the resource. At UM, this means that content on e-book resources and basic MEDLINE appear very early in the first year.…”