Information 'Sound Bites' by E-mail: Increasing Information Awareness and Improving Clinical Information Skills

摘要

E-mails from a clinical medical librarian integrated information education "sound bites" into clinical information and refer-ences provided to internal medicine teams. The e-mails followed adult education recommendations and physician preferences. Information education topics were short and directly applied to the clinical question discussed. Feedback has been positive and a small survey indicated that 79% of respondents learned more about Ovid MEDLINE and PubMed as information resources through clini-cal medical librarian e-mails and participation in patient care rounds. The sound bites project was well received and reinforced the value of information resources and of the librarian.