title: Do you Mini-Med School? Leveraging library resources to improve Internet consumer health information literacy.
abstract: Popular for engaging public interest in medical science while promoting health awareness, Mini-Med School (MMS) programs also afford important if largely unrealized opportunities to improve the health information literacy of attendees. With a growing population using the Internet to make health decisions, needed venues for improving Internet Consumer Health Information (CHI) literacy may be found in the MMS platform. Surveyed directors of MMS programs understand the need to include CHI, and successful programs at SUNY Stony Brook and elsewhere demonstrate the potential for collaboration with affiliated health sciences libraries to integrate CHI instruction into MMS curricula.
authors.affiliation: Stony Brook University, SUNY 8034, HSC Level 3, Room 136, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8034, USA. guillaume.vanmoorsel@sunysb.edu
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Van Moorsel
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D000368:Aged; D003256:Community Participation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003197:Computer Literacy; D003625:Data Collection; D006266:Health Education / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D007993:Libraries, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016239:MEDLINE; D009518:New York; D016730:Program Development