title: "Information Survival Skills": a medical school elective.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The authors developed an elective course to assist students in (1) understanding the changing nature of scholarly communication and online publishing, (2) identifying resources and strategies for searching current best evidence, and (3) demonstrating effective communication of information.
  
  
  METHODS
  The course took place in a medical school in the Southwest.
  
  
  METHODS
  Second- and third-year medical students participated in the course.
  
  
  METHODS
  A pass-fail, undergraduate-level elective was first offered October to December 2006. This 7.5 hour course, developed and co-taught by 2 health sciences library faculty, consisted of hands-on exercises, small group discussion, and didactic lecture.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Presenting a medical school elective is one possible outlet for intensive bibliographic instruction. Illustrating the flow of information from creation to management and presentation affords students an opportunity to understand information in context. This elective has been consistently ranked very high in student evaluations and led to new and expanded teaching opportunities.
authors.affiliation: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA. smorley@salud.unm.edu
authors.forename: Sarah Knox
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Morley
authors.forename: Ingrid Claire
authors.initials: IC
authors.lastname: Hendrix
mesh_terms: D003197:Computer Literacy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003479:Curriculum; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D058980:Information Literacy; D057226:Information Seeking Behavior; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D016245:Librarians; D007993:Libraries, Medical; D018794:Problem-Based Learning / Q000379:methods; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data