RCSI Library

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Conul Information Literacy SeminarThurs Feb 2
2006

• Information skills training
• RCSI LIBRARY 2006
• Paul Murphy BA MLIS
• Deputy Librarian RCSI Library
• pauljmurphy_at_rcsi.ie
• www.rcsi.ie/library

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IST RCSI

• Context
• Profile of activity
• Post grad info skills and evidence based medicine
• 1st Med
• Progress and ?

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IST context

• Medical education
• High end students, high expectations
• Academic QA/QI
• Curriculum re-design, shift from didactic
• More case-based groupwork
• More independent learning activities

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IST context

• VLE as contact, scheduler, store.
• Online assessments - MCQ
• E-learning still aspirational

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IST in RCSI methods

• 1. Lecture / demo
• 2. Practicals (75)
• Favoured method
• Timed to project work
• Focus on retrieval techniques
• CINAHL, Medline, Web of Science, PsychINFO
• Little emphasis on library
• Activity worksheet / Q A

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IST in RCSI methods

• 3. One-to-one (hospital staff)
• 4. VLE support
• Developed course mid-2005
• Shopwindow
• Literature Review
• Medline
• Web search
• Web resources
• Citation / referencing

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IST profile RCSI
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IST profile RCSI
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IST profile RCSI
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IST profile RCSI
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Facilities

• Desktop / wired teaching lab
• 15 seater Mercer Library
• 45 seater Beaumont ERC
• All medical students with wireless laptop

• Wireless
• All lecture theatres
• 12 tutorial rooms from 14 to 50
• All these venues now viable for laptop work

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IST Evidence Based Medicine

• UKGMC graduate outcome
• Tomorrows Doctors
• Gain, assess, apply new knowledge
• Medical practice as evidence based
• Evidence from research experience
• EBM research literature
• Systematic reviews, Cochrane
• RCTs, meta-analyses, cases studies

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IST Evidence Based Medicine

• Librarian role
• Finding the evidence course
• Subject retrieval techniques
• Identify navigate EBM studies
• Clinical teacher role
• Critical appraisal of studies
• Success of interventions, therapy
• Strength of evidence

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IST Evidence Based Medicine

• M Primary Healthcare (16)
• Clinical case scenario
• Do literature review
• Evaluate search
• Evaluate appraise results
• gt 2,500 words

• Intro 50 min Medline 40 min Cochrane
• 2 EBM lectures
• Coursework briefing
• Jointly correct projects
• Debrief students
• 14 staff hours

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Evidence Based MedicineM Primary Healthcare

• 2001
• Course director deputy librarian develop EBM
  assignment
• Substantial literature search appraisal in EBM
  model
• gt 14 hrs contact
• Joint assessment

• 2005
• 4 people changes
• Course emphasis shifts from EBM
• 2 hrs contact
• Search embedded but not separately assessed

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1 Med 288 students Health, Behaviour
Society

• Proposed information retrieval and appraisal
  element in semester II coursework based upon
  Librarys track record
• Invited to course board
• Negotiate generic IST skills as outcomes and
  courseboards concern for do-able tasks
• Volume of information on most medical topics
• Need to steer first year students to books,
  articles and sites

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1 Med 288 students Health, Behaviour Society

• Balance skills and learning into achievable
  outcomes
• Negotiate time for practicals
• Assessment within project
• Marks for literature review
• Marks for search strategy

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1 Med 288 students 1 hr web Medline practical

• 2005
• First year of course
• 1 venue
• sequential sessions _at_ 36 students each X 8 times
  over 3 days
• 2 staff

• 2006
• Room change
• Timetable change
• 4 venues
• parallel sessions _at_ 24 students each X 16 times
  over 1 day
• 4 staff

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To do

• Promote existing capabilities
• Insert IST within EBM module 3 Med
• Enhance generic VLE programme
• Requests for customised content
• Remote surgical trainees
• Common e-course in research methods
• Assess IST

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Conul Information Literacy SeminarThurs Feb 2
2006

• Information skills training
• RCSI LIBRARY 2006
• Thank you