Clinical Librarian in a University Medical Library

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Utilising international good practice Why you
should take that trip

• Sarah Sutton
• Clinical Librarian
• University Hospitals Leicester

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What I am going to talk about

• Vision
• Where should you go?
• Finding your niche
• Benefits

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Have a vision

• Know what you want to do
• Think about what may help you get it
• Keep an open mind
• Share your idea others may find solution

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Choose ExcellenceYou could choose a great
conference?The next CL conference will be at
ICML 2009EAHIL will also be taking partLots
of other world leading medical librarians
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Choose excellence

• Or a study tour of cutting edge institutions
• RCH Guidelines pages superb
• Good quality guidelines
• Well presented interactive and printable
• Attended guidelines meeting with ED clinicians
• Did presentation, toured library, met library
  staff

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Monash Institute of Health Services Research

• Leaders in evidence based medicine
• Visited hospital library
• Training sessions for medical students
• All in one day

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See other highlights of area Hospital Cafes!
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Downtown Melbourne
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Health Libraries Inc
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Become a TV star
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How do you get there??
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Get a niche

• PDAs not popularly used in UK when we started
  so cutting edge
• May get free resources to trial
• Be in right place and grab that opportunity
• Lots of work but does open doors
• Clinicians see you as expert

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Clinical Librarianship another excellent niche

• Again not a lot of CLs around when the UHL
  project started
• Get a high profile
• Maintain it!

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Agree to do presentations

• Get yourself out there and seen as an expert
• If you present on subject you are an expert
• Go on training to improve your skills if you need
  to

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Do some research

• Cochrane Systematic Review originally done in
  2002, updated 2006
• Written by theatre nurses originally one now a
  Professor at DMU
• Got funding from Cochrane to do research into
  something they wanted to know about real
  interest
• Travels the world to speak to conferences and as
  expert witness!

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Benefits

• There should be benefits to both sides for a
  study tour
• We all gained from mine Anne and Catherine, who
  I met at Monash are leading workshops at this
  conference
• Cathy now attends guidelines meeting got access
  when she said I was visiting and interested in
  guidelines
• RCH considering CL pilot
• CL appointed at RMH
• IP Medline on OVID
• Investigated electronic signatures for ILL

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Use your findings

• Special link to Childrens Guidelines
• List of all guidelines not needle in haystack
  DMS
• I have had web training and am setting up a
  patient information page for childrens

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Thank you for coming and hope to see you in
Brisbane!
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