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Abstract
Background: Medical librarians play an essential role in providing information literacy instruction for pharmacy students in order to educate them on health information searching, retrieval, and evaluation. Nevertheless, there have been no peer-reviewed publications providing comprehensive data on librarians' involvement in pharmacy education across the United States.
Objectives: The goal of this study was to investigate the instructional delivery methods, technology used, and topics taught by librarians across the Doctor of Pharmacy curriculum in the United States.
Methods: A 17-question electronic survey was designed using Qualtrics and distributed via professional library discussion lists in 2023.
Results: Thirty-eight librarians indicated their involvement in teaching information literacy to pharmacy students during orientation sessions, elective and credit-bearing courses using in-class, online synchronous, and hybrid instructional delivery formats. Topics included medical and drug databases, citation management tools, evidence-based medicine, and free drug information resources.
Discussion: This is the first study that provides a broad insight into the teaching roles and instructional trends of medical librarians in pharmacy education.
Conclusions: Though the results of this survey demonstrate a high level of integration of library instruction into the pharmacy curriculum, more research needs to be done to collect data on medical librarians' contribution to educating student pharmacists.
期刊介绍：
Health Information and Libraries Journal (HILJ) provides practitioners, researchers, and students in library and health professions an international and interdisciplinary forum. Its objectives are to encourage discussion and to disseminate developments at the frontiers of information management and libraries. A major focus is communicating practices that are evidence based both in managing information and in supporting health care. The Journal encompasses: - Identifying health information needs and uses - Managing programmes and services in the changing health environment - Information technology and applications in health - Educating and training health information professionals - Outreach to health user groups
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