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Being The Inspiration: Seizing The Fosce Opportunity, Alexandra Gomes, Tom Harrod

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

The launch of the revised medical school curriculum in Fall 2014 provided new opportunities for librarians to collaborate with clinical faculty. As a result of our past informatics instruction embedded in the first year curriculum, we were invited to expand this content as part of a new formative Objective Structured Clinical Examination (FOSCE) initiative. Two reference librarians worked closely with faculty to develop original case-based scenarios that were taught by a team of six reference librarians over the course of a year.

In FOSCEs, small groups of students rotated through simulated patient encounters in order to demonstrate their clinical knowledge …