title: Information literacy skills retention over the first professional year of pharmacy school.
abstract: The authors aimed to determine if first-professional-year pharmacy students retain library literature search skills throughout the school year. Students (n = 61 consented) were given an identical seven-item quiz on basic library search skills prior to library instruction in the fall semester and at the end of the spring semester. There was no significant difference between median scores on the two quizzes, nor were any significant differences noted in subgroup analyses. Search competency may be retained to a higher degree if library instruction is moved later in the pharmacy curriculum when literature search skills are used more often.
authors.affiliation: a Health Sciences Library , State University of New York at Buffalo , Buffalo , New York , USA.
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chiarella
authors.forename: Tina M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Khadem
authors.forename: Jack E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Mark J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Wrobel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003197:Computer Literacy; D003479:Curriculum; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004512:Education, Pharmacy; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000592:standards; D007998:Library Science / Q000193:education*; D008297:Male; D009518:New York
keywords: Information literacy; knowledge retention; library instruction; pharmacy instruction