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标题：“Mini-Medical School for Librarians”: from needs assessment to educational outcomes
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作者：Kathel Dunn ; Suzanne J. Crow ; T. Guillaume Van Moorsel 等
期刊名称：Journal of the Medical Library Association
印刷版ISSN：1536-5050
出版年度：2006
卷号：94
期号：2
页码：166-173
语种：English
出版社：Medical Library Association
摘要：Purpose: This study evaluates the outcomes of the “Mini-Medical School for Librarians” or “Medical School Experience,” a continuing education symposium designed to improve librarians' understanding of medicine and medical education. Subjects: The subjects are the symposium participants, a group that consisted of fifty-eight medical librarians and other information professionals. Methodology: Pre- and post-symposium self-evaluation surveys gauged participants' self-assessed confidence with the course content. A follow-up survey was administered six months after the symposium. A learning action plan recorded both the intended and actual applications of course content to professional settings. Results: T-test analysis of paired pre- and post-symposium responses reveal a significant positive change in the mean self-assessed confidence with course content immediately following the symposium. Pairings of post-symposium and follow-up survey responses indicate a slight reversal in attendees' confidence in the months following the symposium, but pairings of pre-symposium and follow-up survey results demonstrate that the longitudinal impact of the program on self-assessed confidence with course content was positive and significant. Analysis of the learning action plan revealed a disparity in how participants planned to use the information they learned in the course and how they actually used it. Conclusions: Continuing education programs that address the content and structure of medicine can be an effective means by which to inform both the novice's and mid-career medical librarian's understanding of medicine and medical education.