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Title: MEDICAL INFORMATION SPECIALISTS IN THE NETHERLANDS


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MEDICAL INFORMATION SPECIALISTS IN THE NETHERLANDS
  • Heleen Dyserinck, Faridi van Etten, Hans Ket
  • Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam
  • VU University, Amsterdam
  • York, June 2007

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THE NETHERLANDS
  • 8 University Medical
  • Centres
  • 19 Top Clinical Hospitals
  • 109 Regional Hospitals

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MEDICAL LIBRARIES
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ON BEHALF OF COLLEAGUES
  • Faridi van Etten, Clinical librarian AMC,
    Amsterdam
  • Hans Ket, Medical Information Specialist, VU
    Medical Centre, Amsterdam

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AMSTERDAM
  • University of Amsterdam
  • VU University

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AMC
  • Academic Medical Centre
  • University of Amsterdam
  • 1002 beds
  • Advanced specialist functions including
    traumatology, pediatric and neonatal intensive
    care, neurosurgery
  • General care
  • Medical education

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VUmc
  • VU University Medical Center Amsterdam
  • 733 beds
  • VU University
  • Scientific reseach
  • Intensive cooperation with the AMC

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PURPOSE
  • Survey of the profession of medical information
    specialists.
  • Questionnaire
  • Meeting

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QUESTIONNAIRE
  • 80 medical librarians were consulted by
    e-mail-lists of professional societies
  • 25 questions
  • 41 librarians responded to the
    questionnaire

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Themes of the questionnaire
  • Organizations
  • Training, background and experience
  • Customers
  • Courses
  • Quality care
  • Search filters
  • Products
  • Communication and public relations

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Examples of questions
  • What is your profession called?
  • What is your background, training, knowledge and
    experience?
  • Who are your customers and who are not?
  • What kind of courses do you give?
  • Do you use a reference interview?
  • Do you develop search filters?
  • Do you develop educational materials, websites or
    tutorials?
  • How do you communicate with your customers?

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Results of the questionnaire
  • Different hospitals
  • Different training
  • Different functions
  • Different tasks
  • It is very hard to draw conclusions!!!
  • Diversity in the Netherlands

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HIGHLIGHTS
  • But we present some highlights

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Whats in a name?
  • Medical information specialists (16)
  • Librarians (13)
  • Clinical librarians (12)
  • Medical librarians
  • Literature researchers
  • Head Medical Library

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TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
  • Basic education in librarianship (college level)
    (33)
  • University education (mostly biomedical) (20)
  • Medical terminology by experience (25)
  • Courses (presentation skills, primary medical
    knowledge, database skills) (41)

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CLIENTS
  • Students
  • Doctors
  • Nurses
  • Researchers
  • Paramedical personnel
  • No patients

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CLINICAL LIBRARIANSHIP IN THE NETHERLANDS
  • No clinical questions and answer services
  • 1991 CL project in the AMC1992 publication in
    the Dutch Medical Journal
  • In UMCs and topclinical hospitals medical
    information specialists offer special services
    for the clinics

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COMMUNICATION
  • Presentations for clients (24)
  • Instructions to departments (17)
  • Present at meetings (12)
  • Column in hospital magazines (16)

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COURSES
  • Pubmed
  • Cochrane Library
  • Evidence based sources
  • OVID databases EMBASE, CINAHL
  • Reference Manager, Endnote

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LITERATURE SEARCHES
  • Reference interview often PICO!
  • Search protocol (20)
  • Reporting of search strategies

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MEDICAL LIBRARY AMC
  • 9 divisions
  • Each division has its own CL
  • AMC first evidence based hospital in the
    Netherlands
  • Medical Library joins in Evidence Based Medicine
    courses together with DCC

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AMC DCC AMSTERDAM
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Different departments different needs
  • Students, hospital and research departments

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NURSING
  • Courses
  • Help with individual searches
  • Training Course Evidence Based Nursing
  • Introduction Medical Library

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PEDIATRICS
  • Searches
  • Cochrane Childhood Cancer Group
  • Patient information centre
  • Course EBM KEK
  • Emmakrant newspaper

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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
  • Searches for the Government
  • Newsletter and
  • helpdesk for Dutch Centre Occupational
    Diseases
  • EBM Courses for all occupational health doctors
    in the Netherlands

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OBSTETRICS/GYNAECOLOGY
  • Presentation of CATs at morning report
  • Courses Evidence Based Searching for a CAT
  • Participation in EBM course for the NVOG
  • Searches

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Clinical librarians in EBM
  • PICOs and CATs
  • Use of evidence based resources
  • Use of proper search terms
  • Speciality based training courses
  • Evidence based searching courses

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April 3rd 2007
  • Meeting of medical information specialists in the
    AMC, Amsterdam
  • Reporting on the state of affairs of
    clinicallibrarianship/medical information
    specialists
  • Planning co-operation for the future

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CONSULTATION / COURSE
  • Consultation OR course
  • Consultation AND course
  • Course NOT consultation

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CRITICAL APPRAISAL
  • Critical appraisal of search results is not
    conducted by medical information specialists
  • Only quick selection of evidence

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USE OF SEARCHFILTERS
  • Searchfilters (e.g.clinical queries Pubmed) are
    used a lot
  • Some libraries develop search filters

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NATIONAL COOPERATION
  • Developing search filters
  • Pubmed course
  • Pubmed guide/book
  • Search protocol
  • WIKI

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MEETINGS AND COOPERATION
  • WEBZ (working committee electronic sources and
    searching)
  • MAILINGLIST Clinical librarians

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  • Bulletin of the department of biomedical
    information of the NVB

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PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE
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CLINICAL LIBRARIANS/MEDICAL INFORMATION
SPECIALISTS
  • Optimal quality search strategies are required
    for guidelines, systematic reviews, research and
    fundraising for research
  • Training courses in the curriculum
  • Digital libraries per discipline

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MEDICAL CURRICULUM
  • Clinical Librarian gives evidence based search
    training for students
  • Search skills for PICOs and CATs
  • Lifelong learning

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INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
  • Exchange of new ideas
  • Best practices of digital libraries
  • Best practices in teaching information skills
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