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Integration Of Arts And Humanities In Medicine To Develop Well-Rounded Physicians: The Roles Of Health Sciences Librarians, Misa Mi, Lin Wu, Yingting Zhang, Wendy Wu
Integration Of Arts And Humanities In Medicine To Develop Well-Rounded Physicians: The Roles Of Health Sciences Librarians, Misa Mi, Lin Wu, Yingting Zhang, Wendy Wu
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Over the past ten years, there has been a growing interest in integrating arts and humanities in medicine to increase learners’ empathy and resilience, improve personal well-being, communication, and observational skills, enhance self- reflection, and promote professionalism. These desired skills and qualities are becoming increasingly important for the physicians of tomorrow. Parallel to curricular interventions of integrating arts and humanities to medical education, there has been an increasing research interest in investigating the impact of such interventions on medical students with respect to improving and sustaining students’ empathy as they progress in their medical education and develop their professional identity. …
Use Of The Research Readiness Self-Assessment (Rrsa) To Evaluate Medical Students’ Competencies In Finding And Evaluating Online Health Information (Poster Presented At Mhsla Annual Conference), Katherine G. Akers, Laventra E. Danquah, Ella Hu, Sandra Martin, Wendy Wu, Patricia Vinson
Use Of The Research Readiness Self-Assessment (Rrsa) To Evaluate Medical Students’ Competencies In Finding And Evaluating Online Health Information (Poster Presented At Mhsla Annual Conference), Katherine G. Akers, Laventra E. Danquah, Ella Hu, Sandra Martin, Wendy Wu, Patricia Vinson
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To maintain awareness of current medical evidence and clinical practice guidelines in order to provide the best possible patient care, physicians must be able to locate, critically evaluate, synthesize, and make clinical decisions based on health information from multiple digital sources. Concerningly, however, medical students and junior doctors have been found to exhibit poor information literacy skills, including an inability to conduct efficient literature searches, find randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews, or evaluate study quality. Here, we describe our medical library’s experience in administering the Health version of the Research Readiness Self-Assessment (RRSA) tool to two cohorts of first-year …