title: Evidence-based medicine at the intersection of research interests between academic health sciences librarians and medical educators: a review of the literature.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  In 2008, the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries established an Education Research Task Force (ERTF) to plan research addressing research priorities outlined in key Association of American Medical Colleges reports. ERTF members conducted a literature review to describe the state of collaborative research at the intersection of medical education and health sciences librarianship. Analysis of initial results revealed instruction in evidence-based medicine (EBM) was a shared interest and is thus the focus of this review.
  
  
  METHODS
  Searches on EBM teaching programs were conducted, and results were posted to a shared online citation management service. Individual articles were assessed and assigned metadata describing subject matter, scope, and format.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Article analysis identified key themes. Most papers were descriptive narratives of curricular development. Evaluation studies were also prominent and often based on student satisfaction or self-reported competency. A smaller number of controlled studies provide evidence of impacts of librarian involvement in EBM instruction.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Scholarship of EBM instruction is of common interest between medical educators and health sciences librarians. Coauthorship between the groups and distribution of literature points to a productive collaboration. An emerging literature of controlled studies measuring the impact of cross-disciplinary efforts signals continued progress in the arena of EBM instruction.
authors.affiliation: Library of the Health Sciences-Peoria, University of Illinois at Chicago, P.O. Box 1649, Peoria, IL 61656, USA. jod@uic.edu
authors.forename: Josephine L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Dorsch
authors.forename: Gerald Jerry
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Perry
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees / Q000592:standards; D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D016245:Librarians; D007993:Libraries, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007998:Library Science / Q000193:education*; D018794:Problem-Based Learning / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D012106:Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States