Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Resources The Role of the National Library of Medicine (1997) / Chapter Skim
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5 Increasing Awareness: Training and Outreach
5 Increasing Awareness: Training and Outreach
Pages 87-100
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provides through its computerized MEDLARS services alla the regional medical library network The Committee believes that this program should be expanded to reach all American health professionals, wherever located, so that they will be able to take advantage of the library's information services (U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, 1988, p.
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Additionally, recognizing the vastness of the biomedical knowledge base and the necessity of lifelong learning, many health professional schools are using approaches, such as problem-based learning, that focus on independent learning and that incorporate learning through computers by emphasizing the frequent use of information resources, such as online databases, to solve clinical problems (Earl et al., 1996; Rankin, 1992; Schilling et al., 19953. Approaches to computer training vary between institutions.
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A survey of 423 accredited baccalaureate schools of nursing found that while most of those responding included occupational and environmental health content in their curricula, fewer than half offered course content in epidemiology, toxicology, industrial hygiene, and occupational health nursing concepts and practice-related fields of knowledge essential to the understanding and management of such problems (Rogers, 19911. A 1994 study of graduate nursing programs in public health or community nursing found that only 17 percent required a course in environmental health (Ostwalt and Josten, 1994~.
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OUTREACH To assist in strategic planning on outreach issues, the NLM Board of Regents convened an Outreach Planning Panel in 1988 that was mandated to identify opportunities for improving the access to and dissemination of NLM's information resources (NLM, 1989~. The initiatives proposed by that panel have been implemented into what is now an extensive outreach effort.
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Within each geographic region, the RMLs manage outreach activities that focus on connecting unaffiliated, rural, and minority health professionals with their local medical libraries and with NLM products and services. NLM supports Grateful Med demonstration and training projects through NN/LM, and since 1994, RMLs have awarded American Medical Association Category 1 Continuing Medical Education credits to those attending Grateful Med training sessions.
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· Internet Connection Grants are available through NLM. They enable health science libraries and other organizations to initiate Internet connections or to extend existing connections to outlying institutions (Corn and Johnson, 1994~.
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Toxicology Information Outreach Project In 1991, SIS implemented a pilot Toxicology Information Outreach Project with the objective of strengthening the capacity of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to train medical and other health professionals in the use of NLM's toxicology and environmental health information resources.
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Use of the NLM databases has been incorporated into a number of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Additionally, several universities have initiated their own outreach efforts involving educating junior high and high school students, college undergraduates, and local health professionals in accessing and searching NLM's toxicology and environmental health databases (Wallingford et al., 1996)
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Additionally, SIS and NN/LM staff schedule a number of exhibits specifically to demonstrate the TEHIP databases at relevant national and regional meetings and conferences for health professionals. In FY 1996, the TEHIP program exhibit schedule included the annual conferences of the American Industrial Hygiene Association, the National Environmental Health Association, and the Society of Toxicology and the American Occupational Health Conference.
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Although most health professionals do not require intense specialized training on the TEHIP databases, such as the training currently provided through NLM's National Online Training Program, this training is useful for certain individuals including librarians and scientists who may be performing in-depth searches of the TEHIP databases. The committee believes that the key to effective outreach and training is to focus those efforts by demonstrating the utility of the TEHIP databases and other similar information resources to health professionals.
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Publishing articles or informational advertisements in health professional publications is another way of reaching a large audience; these resources include scientific journals, and professional society newsletters and Web sites. These are only a few examples of networks and activities that are in place and that can be used to infonn health professionals about toxicology and environmental health information resources that are relevant to their work.
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Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 84~3~:41 1~13. Florance V, Braude RM, Frisse ME, Fuller S
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Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 80:124130. IOM (Institute of Medicine)
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