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
109 Regional Hospitals

MEDICAL LIBRARIES

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

AMSTERDAM
University of Amsterdam
VU University

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

HIGHLIGHTS
But we present some highlights

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

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)

CLIENTS
Students
Doctors
Nurses
Researchers
Paramedical personnel
No patients

CLINICAL LIBRARIANSHIP IN THE NETHERLANDS
No clinical questions and answer services
1991 CL project in the AMC 1992 publication in the Dutch Medical Journal
In UMC’s and topclinical hospitals medical information specialists offer special services for the clinics

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

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

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

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

AMC DCC AMSTERDAM

Different departments different needs
Students, hospital and research departments

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

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

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

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

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

April 3rd 2007
Meeting of medical information specialists in the AMC, Amsterdam
Reporting on the state of affairs of clinical librarianship/medical information specialists
Planning co-operation for the future

CONSULTATION / COURSE
Consultation OR course
Consultation AND course
Course NOT consultation

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

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

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

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

Bulletin of the department of biomedical information of the NVB

PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE

CLINICAL LIBRARIANS/MEDICAL INFORMATION SPECIALISTS
Optimal quality search strategies are required for guidelines, systematic reviews, research and fundraising for research
Training courses in the curriculum
Digital libraries per discipline

MEDICAL CURRICULUM
Clinical Librarian gives evidence based search training for students
Search skills for PICO’s and CAT’s
Lifelong learning

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
Exchange of new ideas
Best practices of digital libraries
Best practices in teaching information skills
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