title: Surveying knowledge and skills in the health sciences: results and implications.
abstract: The MLA Knowledge and Skills Task Force was appointed in May 1989. The task force decided to survey a sample of the membership to define the knowledge and skills required for competent professional performance and to enable MLA to establish educational policies which would ensure acquisition and maintenance of the necessary knowledge and skills throughout a professional career. This report presents the initial findings of the survey, upon which MLA's educational policy statement, Platform for Change, is based.
authors.affiliation: College of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia 29208.
authors.forename: F W
authors.initials: FW
authors.lastname: Roper
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Mayfield
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004521:Educational Measurement; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services; D007993:Libraries, Medical; D016242:Library Automation; D007998:Library Science / Q000193:education*; D014481:United States