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MEDICAL INFORMATION SPECIALISTS IN THE NETHERLANDS

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. THE NETHERLANDS. 8 University Medical Centres 19 Top Clinical Hospitals

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MEDICAL INFORMATION SPECIALISTS IN THE NETHERLANDS

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  1. 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

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

  3. MEDICAL LIBRARIES

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

  5. University of Amsterdam VU University AMSTERDAM

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

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

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

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

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

  11. 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?

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

  13. HIGHLIGHTS • But we present some highlights

  14. What’s in a name? • Medical information specialists (16) • Librarians (13) • Clinical librarians (12) • Medical librarians • Literature researchers • Head Medical Library

  15. 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)

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

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

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

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

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

  21. 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

  22. AMC DCC AMSTERDAM

  23. Different departments different needs • Students, hospital and research departments

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

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

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

  27. OBSTETRICS/GYNAECOLOGY • Presentation of CAT’s at morning report • Courses ‘Evidence Based Searching for a CAT’ • Participation in EBM course for the NVOG • Searches

  28. Clinical librarians in EBM • PICO’s and CAT’s • Use of evidence based resources • Use of proper search terms • Speciality based training & courses • Evidence based searching courses

  29. 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

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

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

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

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

  34. MEETINGS AND COOPERATION • WEB&Z (working committee electronic sources and searching) • MAILINGLIST Clinical librarians

  35. Bulletin of the department of biomedical information of the NVB

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