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Robert B. Greenblatt
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Increase and Integrate Applied Health Informatics Instruction Longitudinally Within all Curricula


Objectives

  • Integrate Greenblatt Library's interdisciplinary role in the curricula of all five schools through advocacy with administrators and course directors
  • Emphasize evidence-based health care, especially the importance of seeking best practice to aid in our decision making
  • Implement an introductory library resources session during the first year of each curriculum, i.e., Level I
  • Increase the use of information resources used for critical thinking, i.e., Level II
  • Construct library education programs to include the needs of distance learners
  • Devise pilot projects requiring information synthesis from multiple sources that will be given during the final stages of each curriculum
  • Provide subject/discipline specific instruction/information literacy programs

Assessment

  • Compare programs with benchmark institutions
  • Measure the increase in instructional activities in each school
  • Use pre and post tests of MCG student skills in applied informatics
  • Analyze faculty and librarian evaluations of student skills
  • Report results of health informatics instructional pilot projects

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March 05, 2003