Health Sciences and Medical Librarianship Commons^™

Elevating Patient Education Through State-Wide Instruction Of Nurses And Patient Educators On Consumer Health Resources, Lindsay Blake, Alice Jaggers

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Background: Patient Education is consistently cited by the Joint Commission as needing work at many institutions. However, with a limited number of patient educators and high nurse to patient ratios it is hard to find the time to adequately teach patients all they may need to know. The goal of this project was to create a course and online guide for nurses and patient educators. The course was approved for continuing education credit for nurses, dieticians, and health education specialists. The guide would serve as a central location for accessing consumer health websites and information for both educators and patients. …

Three Year Trend In Interlibrary Loan Requests, David Goolabsingh

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: Background: In response to the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) ILL service increase from $9 to $12, and in preparation for an upcoming retreat discussion in April 2018, the Consortium of Southern Biomedical Libraries (CONBLS) polled its 21 member libraries for ILL fills and borrows to and from other CONBLS libraries for calendar years 2016 and 2017.

Methods: To analyze three years of data, 2018 ILL statistics was requested from CONBLS libraries and permission was obtained to use it and the previously collected 2016 and 2017 ILL CONBLS statistics for this poster. Data was combined in Excel and analyzed …

Shaping The Future Of Education For The Medical Library Association, Gail Kouame, Heather Holmes, Elizabeth Laera

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: Inform health sciences information professionals about the newly developed structure for educational programming for the Medical Library Association (MLA) based on MLA’s Professional Competencies.

Methods: MLA appointed the Education Steering Committee and six Education Curriculum Committees to develop education content based on the Association’s revised Professional Competencies. The Competencies provide the framework that define the skills to be gained as a result of educational offerings. The Education Curriculum Committees are charged with: 1. Designing and planning curriculum and educational offerings and resources; 2. Providing direction, expertise, and knowledge to creators and instructors of educational offerings with respect to content …

Squaring An Open Circle: Trends And Opportunities In Open Access Publishing, Promotion, And Impact, G. Randall Watts, Hilary Jasmin, Jess Newman

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

This poster will examine the trends surrounding scholarly communications amongst faculty authors at UTHSC to determine prevalence of Open Access (OA) publishing in order to formulate a strategy for the library to reallocate services and funds to meet the changing needs of the Library’s users. Using bibliographic analysis and citation analysis for the prior 10 years (2009-2018), we hope to discover the following: the trend with respect to OA publishing amongst UTHSC faculty including the difference between Gold OA and Green OA; the specific journals in which UTHSC faculty choose to publish; and, the impact of OA publishing versus traditional …

Shaping An Institutional Workplace Wellness Program To Fit An Academic Health Science Center Library, Sarah Adcock, Chameka C. Robinson

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: In 2018, The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) established the Office of Wellbeing as an umbrella structure to enhance the physical health, emotional wellbeing, and professional fulfillment of faculty, staff, and students. The UMMC Office of Wellbeing sponsors workshops, lectures, and classes on a variety of wellness topics. Wellness events are held primarily in the clinical areas of the large academic medical center campus during the noon hour. Attending these events can be challenging for library faculty and staff that are juggling busy work schedules, responsibilities, and duties. The aim is to improve accessibility and participation in wellness …

Any Shape Or Form: An Online Module For Teaching Medical Students Citation Management In Residency Settings, Erica Heasley, Robyn Rosasco

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: To describe how the library’s online tutorial for medical students, “Introduction to Citation Management Tools,” was created and integrated into the College of Medicine’s Residency Preparation Boot Camp. Implemented in 2017, passing the tutorial is still a requirement for completing the boot camp.

Methods: In 2017, the Maguire Medical Library was asked by undergraduate and graduate medical education faculty to create a citation management tutorial for 4th-year medical students preparing to commence their respective residency programs. As part of the College of Medicine’s Residency Preparation Boot Camp, the tutorial needed to provide students with an overview of citation management …

Overview Of Credit-Bearing Library-Sponsored Courses For Health Sciences Students, Emily Brennan, Christine Andresen, Irene Lubker

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: This research project aims to present an overview of credit-bearing library-sponsored courses offered by librarians at Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) member institutions during the 2017-2018 academic year.

Methods: The research team gathered information about credit-bearing library-sponsored courses offered during the 2017-2018 academic year through a national survey, and gathered additional data using semistructured interviews. The cross-sectional survey investigated prevalence, content covered, credits offered, barriers, and other details about credit-bearing library courses. Information gleaned from interviews was thematically analyzed using qualitative methodologies.

Results: The survey was completed by 40 of 150 U.S. AAHSL institutions, resulting in a …

Using A Search Strategy Tool To Teach Search Strategy Development, Krystal Bullers, Allison M. Howard

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: To demonstrate how use of a search strategy form together with a health science librarian consult improved student understanding of search strategy.

Methods: Two embedded librarians for pharmacy and public health had separately designed assignments to teach advanced search techniques for their respective students but felt the outcomes were unsatisfactory. To address this, the pharmacy librarian created an exercise for students that would facilitate understanding of the search development process. Students completed a form that walked through the steps of the development process prior to meeting with a research librarian. Students then integrated librarian feedback into the final search …

Professionalism And Educational Research & Involvement The Importance Of Librarians Showing Up And Showing Out, Joe Swanson Jr., Roland Bernard Welmaker Sr.

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

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Medical Libraries Of Tomorrow: Exploring New Acquisition Methods For E-Textbook Reference Collection Titles, Yumi Yaguchi

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

Objective: Acquiring new individual e-textbook titles at the Florida International University (FIU) Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine (HWCOM) Medical Library: The current method needs to be reconsidered?

Introduction: The Course Textbook Reference Collection has annually prepared for HWCOM programs based on the course textbook lists from each program coordinator. Librarians are always required to first look for textbooks in an electronic format:

HWCOM Library = Nearly 100% digital

Limited space for print copies

Clinical teaching sites -across the South Florida region

However, searching a specific e-book title is challenging.

Methods: A review and analysis of e-textbook acquisition activity records from …