Librarians Strengthening Partnerships: Ongoing Collaborations with Colleagues in Medical and Healthcare Education Cynthia Robinson, AAHSL and Penn State.

Librarians Strengthening Partnerships: Ongoing Collaborations with Colleagues in Medical and Healthcare EducationCynthia Robinson, AAHSL and Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center; Lauren Maggio, Western LiME and Stanford University School of Medicine;

Jacqueline Doyle, AAHSL and University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix; Julia Sollenberger, AAHSL and University of Rochester Medical Center

AAHSL’s Teaching & Learning Oversight Committee (TLOC) is the coordinating body for these efforts, including:

Partnering to determine and assess competencies related to evidence based

search, retrieval and evaluation skills. Supporting LiME in taking responsibility for literature searching courses in MERC. Developing self-paced, interactive instructional modules that teach and assess

competencies of evidence-based search, retrieval and evaluation skills. Conducting research to address research priorities outlined in IIME and GEA

reports. In collaboration with AMIA and/or GIR, developing a review article on the current

state of integration of evidence-based information into the electronic health record. Communicating with AAHSL members regarding progress on implementation plan.

Contact: Cynthia Robinson, Penn State University, [email protected]

Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL)

AAMC Group on Educational Affairs (GEA) & Group on

Information Resources (GIR)

Libraries in Medical Education (LiME) Association of Academic Health Centers (AAHC)

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

Collaboration Focus Areas

EDUCATION RESEARCH

Partners: AAHSL and GEA

Coordinated by: AAHSL Education Research Task Force

Activities/Progress: Conducts collaborative research with GEA and others to address the

research priorities outlined in the IIME report on reshaping the future of medical education.

Currently conducting a systematic literature review to document the state of educational research

in four key areas.

Contact: Karen Brewer, New York University, [email protected]

ONLINE INSTRUCTIONAL MODULE DEVELOPMENT

Partners: LiME, AAHSL, GEA

Coordinated by: LiME/AAHSL Joint Task Force

Activities/Progress: Develops self-paced, interactive instructional modules that teach and

assess competencies in evidence-based search, retrieval and evaluation skills. Currently

refining the MERC course on "Literature Searching in Medical Education" with GEA.

Contact: Lauren Maggio, Stanford University, [email protected] and Kerry O’Rourke,

UMDMJ, [email protected]

INFORMATICS CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

Partners: AAHSL, AAHC, AMIA and other AAHC affiliates

Coordinated by: Rick Forsman, AAHSL Teaching/Learning Project Manager

Activities/Progress: AAHSL participates on an AAHC/AMIA Steering Committee formed to

develop an inter-professional informatics curriculum. In November a major grant proposal will be

submitted to establish shared learning objectives and design a core curriculum for use across all

heath professions.

Contact: Project Manager, Rick Forsman, [email protected]

AAHSL, AAMC’s GEA/GIR, AMIA, AAHC and LiME share a vision and many similar goals for the education of physicians and other health professions across the continuum and throughout their careers, among them:

evidence-based healthcare principles and skills learning needs assessment, competencies and outcomes assessment development of self-paced, interactive instruction health sciences educational research integration of evidence-based information into the Electronic Health Record (EHR)

Partnerships among these organizations offer extraordinary opportunities to achieve these and other mutually complementary goals.