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Several library faculty members at the Louisiana State University Health Shreveport Health Sciences Library offered a book discussion course as an elective for first-year medical students. This article provides details on how the librarians developed, taught, and evaluated this elective. The librarians took a team-teaching approach, required the students to read two books, and outlined the criteria for participation. At the end of the course, the students completed an evaluation, commenting on positive and negative aspects of the course. The elective proved to be successful, and the librarians look forward to offering the course again in the spring of 2014.
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Libros , Educación de Pregrado en Medicina/organización & administración , Bibliotecólogos , Bibliotecas Médicas/organización & administración , Humanos , Louisiana , Desarrollo de Programa , Evaluación de Programas y Proyectos de SaludRESUMEN
The Fourth-year Academic Clinical Training and Teaching Selective (FACTTS) is a course taught by medical and library faculty on the practice of evidence-based medicine and critical appraisal of the medical literature. This study assesses the impact of the course on students' understanding of the subject matter by examining three years of pre- and post-test data and addresses whether the number of sessions in the course affects the knowledge gained by the students. The data show an improvement in the students' understanding of course material, but no benefit was found in having two versus three sessions.
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Curriculum/normas , Medicina Basada en la Evidencia/educación , Conocimientos, Actitudes y Práctica en Salud , Estudiantes de Medicina , Educación de Pregrado en Medicina , Humanos , Bibliotecas Médicas , Estudios Retrospectivos , Encuestas y CuestionariosRESUMEN
Library faculty members at the Health Sciences Library at the LSU Health Shreveport campus offer a database searching class for third-year medical students during their surgery rotation. For a number of years, students completed "ten-minute clinical challenges," but the instructors decided to replace the clinical challenges with innovative exercises using The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus to emphasize concepts learned. The Surgical Papyrus is an online resource that is part of the National Library of Medicine's "Turning the Pages" digital initiative. In addition, vintage surgical instruments and historic books are displayed in the classroom to enhance the learning experience.
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Instrucción por Computador , Bases de Datos Factuales , Educación de Pregrado en Medicina/organización & administración , Cirugía General/educación , Cirugía General/historia , Bibliotecas Médicas/organización & administración , Manuscritos Médicos como Asunto/historia , Estudiantes de Medicina , Historia del Siglo XVII , Humanos , Louisiana , Innovación OrganizacionalRESUMEN
Childhood obesity remains a serious problem that requires health literacy projects to engage both parents and children in making healthy choices. This paper describes an award-funded project designed by LSU Health Shreveport (LSUHS) faculty from the Health Sciences Library and the Department of Pediatrics who created a comic book to help children and their parents learn practical ways children can make healthier lifestyle choices. LSUHS also collaborated with LSU-Shreveport to recruit a student artist, who illustrated the comic and designed promotional items used to promote the print and online versions of the book throughout the community.