This week, we are offering you a glimpse of the paper, "Re-Thinking Resident Orientations: Changes over Time in Resident Information Seeking Behaviors and Confidence in Critical Appraisal Skills" by Cynthia J. Beeler, R. Eric Heidel, and Martha F. Earl, from the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine.
Back in 2006, in collaboration with the Core Curriculum
Committee, librarians at Preston Medical Library added three questions to every
exiting resident survey, and began to survey incoming residents. The idea
was that we would be able to see changes in how residents approach information
resources, how many articles they read per week, and how confident they are
with journal article appraisal. For this project, we looked at the data
for incoming and exiting residents from 2006-2016. Even though the data
is not specific to the person (as in, we don’t have identifiers to know the
change in specific residents), we can see that there are trends, and some of
those trends lead to more questions. Exiting residents report reading
more articles than incoming residents. Is that because their attendings
encourage them to read more? Is it because they aren’t learning what they
need to know during hours that they are on duty? Or is it because with
smartphones and social media it’s easier than ever to just click and read
articles?
We were overjoyed to see that exiting residents were four
times more likely to consult a librarian with information needs than incoming
residents. We like to think that this is a direct reflection of being
integrated into the curriculum of some programs and having orientation sessions
with all programs. Even with this going well, is there more we can do to
help our residents become lifelong library users?
We are looking forward to telling you more about our research on Tuesday, October 4 between 11:30a-12:30p!
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