Faculty and staff news from the libraries at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences.
Hello all – I hope you all enjoyed the Townhall meeting last week. It was great to see so many of our colleagues virtually and in-person and to review all the ways we’ve moved forward on the priorities we identified… Continue Reading
Objectives Within the library, Access Services staff stand at the convergence of users and services and are armed with core functional skills. Despite this, they have traditionally played a passive role in patron-centered outreach. Our objective: to see if Access… Continue Reading
Objectives Librarians contributed evidence-based medicine curriculum. The CATs project provides instruction on basic EBM concepts: the evidence pyramid and levels of evidence, formulating a searchable clinical question, using the PICO format, searching PubMEd. Articles were read, synthesized, and turned into… Continue Reading
Objectives With the advent of RCM, Responsibility Center Management, as a new financial/budgeting model, fees assessed to schools or departments are more transparent. To demonstrate the value of the libraries beyond collections, an Events Assessment Task Force was formed to… Continue Reading
Objectives This study investigated how health sciences libraries provide services to lead, promote, and support initiatives in cultural competence in health professions education or patient care and to examine health sciences librarians’ opinions on cultural competence in relation to library… Continue Reading
Objective Despite the availability of various online patient education resources, the majority of physicians have not incorporated them into practice. The SHARE Program’s objective is to reach out to physicians, faculty, students, nurses, patients and their families to raise the… Continue Reading
Objectives A poster describing a CAT-writing project was presented at the Rutgers University “State of the Libraries” meeting in 2014. It gained the attention of the Chancellor. At the conclusion of the discussion, he urged that transferrable concepts be taught… Continue Reading
Objectives: To describe the successful implementation of a project to increase the ability of pediatric residents at a medical school to practice evidence based medicine (EBM) in real time; examine if patient care is supported or changed based on the… Continue Reading
Objectives Learning is most effective when it takes place in a context as a collaborative rather than an isolated activity. Experience serves as the basis for learning and cannot take place without reflection. We formed a team of 6 health… Continue Reading
We are holding the reception for A Celebration of Books (previously called the Faculty Author Celebration) on April 12 at 5 p.m. in Alexander Library. In addition to a display of books and poster giveaways, we are delighted to announce… Continue Reading