Medical Library Information Mastery instruction is strategically placed within the medical curriculum to develop students’ information skills for self-directed, lifelong learning and to enhance students’ learning outcomes in courses. Medical Library faculty are actively involved in curriculum development, designing and teaching sessions that integrate information mastery concepts into coursework and assignments/activities at the point of need. The following are examples of course-integrated instructional sessions.
The Medical Library offers students regular sessions (extracurricular learning experiences) designed to introduce and facilitate the use of various learning resources specific to student learning of various subjects (anatomy resources), clerkships (mobile resources), and preparation for board examinations (review materials and question banks).
Library faculty create and offer individualized sessions or tutorials tailored to each student’s unique needs. These in-person or online one-on-one tutorial sessions focus on teaching individual students how to identify specific learning or research resources or tools, design research projects, write research proposals, prepare manuscripts, create a poster, or identify venues for scholarly publications.
The Medical Library develops and offers formal (e.g., workshops, presentations) and informal training sessions (e.g., brown bag series) to develop faculty and meet their needs in teaching and research. When offered, these sessions introduce and promote teaching and research resources, tools, and information technologies to enhance faculty’s information-seeking skills and facilitate their use of these resources. These faculty development opportunities support faculty’s pursuits in teaching, research, and professional development.
The Medical Library creates and offers individualized or on-demand training sessions at the point of need. These in-person or online one-on-one training or orientation sessions cover a wide array of topics, including but not limited to teaching or research resources selection, literature search, reference management tools, systematic review methodology design, use of Covidence, manuscript preparation, scholarly journal selection, and open access publication.