Creating an evidence-based culture within the schools of public health and medicine.
Information technology is having a huge influence on health care. With ease of access and an abundance of information, today's health care personnel are expected to practice and develop policies or programs based upon evidence in order to avoid inefficiency and ineffectiveness. Our library has the responsibility to serve the needs of students, faculty, and practitioners of medicine and public health and strives to create an information literate workforce. In this article, the authors reflect on the library's instruction program and evaluate and plan for the future order to determine if the library's instruction program is properly developing an evidence-based medical and public health workforce.
Walker
Philip D
PD
Rudolph Matas Library of the Health Sciences, Tulane University, 1430 Tulane Avenue SL86, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA. pwalker@tulane.edu
Dorsey
Susan M
SM
D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D008145:Louisiana; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D015279:Organizational Culture; D011634:Public Health / Q000193:education; D012577:Schools, Medical; D012581:Schools, Public Health