How to train the Clinical Librarian

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How to train the Clinical Librarian

• Presentation at the 9th EAHIL conference in
  Santander, 2004
• by Suzanne Bakker

Chair Continuing Education Committee of the
Biomedical Information Group of the Dutch Library
Association
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Clinical Librarians in Amsterdam

• 1991 project summary in Bulletin of med. libr.
  http//www.kb.nl/infolev/bmi/biomeditaties/bm24/cl
  inical.html
• 1992 publication in the Dutch Medical Journal
  (Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd)
• 1995 presentation at 7th ICML Washington
• 2001 differentiation clinical librarians in
  context (account managers and/or as part of the
  clinical team)
• 2004 how to educate/train the next generation

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NTvG 1992136(16)797-800
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The medical library at the desk top
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Nowadays at Leicester
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Postgraduate education

• which degree(s)
• what level(s)
• LIS ? biomedical sciences
• competences
• experience
• domain / culture
• diplome / certificate / qualification system

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Medical/hospital librarianship

• Basic education in librarianship (college-level
  in the Netherlands)
• on the job training / experience
• terminology / classification / descriptors
• journal collection management
• bibliographic databases search retrieval
• personal database management systems
• user groups context

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Continuing education courses

• 1992 program of short courses (1/2/3 days)
• Medical terminology classification (incl. MeSH)
• Medline/PubMed (CD/online) end-user training
• Health care system
• National providers of health information
• International health information resources
• Quality management
• Marketing

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Clinical librarianship

• On ward rounds clinical teams
• Student medical staff training in end-user
  searching
• Patient education
• EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE
• Outside the clinical context?
• research teams
• educational teams
• management teams
• Account management

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Clin. Libr. supporting EBM

• Ward rounds
• Part of clinical teams
• EBM
• structured searches (PICO)
• search filters
• research methodology
• finding selecting best evidence

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Clinical librarian a specialty?

• Medical knowledge
• Library information knowledge
• Information technology skills
• Metadata systems
• Research methodology (EBM)
• EBM information resources
• User groups, behavior information needs

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Postgraduate training

• One year (bi)weekly with on the job training
• Assessment on entry level competences
• Individualized program, personal coaching
• (para)medical background
• LIS background
• bio/medical informatics background

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Towards a Masters degree?

• Professional recognition how by whom?
• Which professional bodies
• medicine / library / informatics
• Whos responsibility
• higher education / government / profession /
  health care management

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Current projects

• Vanderbilt Medical Center the Eskind Biomedical
  Library
• Information Specialist In Context
• Clinical Informatics Consult Service
• University Hospitals of Leicester
• NHS Trust Clinical Librarian Service Strategy
  2004-2006
• . and many more in UK, Australia, USA