Teaching Medical Bibliography to Medical Students

摘要

After one year's experience in teaching medical bibliography to first year medical students, it became quite obvious that to do justice to this course it would have to be taught with all the formality, dignity, and prestige that is required of all other courses. It was felt that it would be lowering the dignity of the library in the school if instruction in the use of the literature was of lower caliber than instruction in other courses. Since students have the tendency to follow the path of least resistance a non-credit course would, to a large majority of the students, be a waste of time on their part and on the part of the library staff. Accordingly, on the recommendation of the librarian, the curriculum committee recommended that seven hours of credit be assigned this course. This recommendation was approved by the Dean.