Supporting a Pathway Scholars Program: How a Librarian Can Add Information Literacy to Premedical Education

摘要

Each year the Director and Program Coordinator of the Pathway Scholars Program have determined whether it is important to include a library literacy session for the students. The author appreciates that they think of the library and health literacy when fostering new physicians and is hopeful that each year additional questions will be considered for the post session assessment. Upon approval of next year's program, the author plans to create library pre and post evaluation instruments to find out what the Pathway Scholars knew prior to and after the library instruction session. There is a need to increase the number of physicians who are identified as underrepresented minorities and the UA College of Medicine-Phoenix Pathway Scholars Program is just one of the ways to do that. The medical literature shows that these physicians are most likely to serve minority populations and may be able to provide a more complete type of health care because they can identify closely with their patients (2).