Growing global opportunities: taking continuing education to a land down under

Abstract

Objectives: To expand the opportunities for continuing education (CE) to the international medical librarian community. Methods: The evidence-based medicine (EBM) and the medical librarian course broke new ground as a collaborative effort between a library school and MLA in providing an opportunity for students and practicing librarians to participate in a distance education course. The course allows librarians working across the US to engage in timely studies with all the benefits of distance education. A welcomed consequence was the enrollment of librarians from around the globe. For the last three years, we have had a consistent enrollment of three to five Australian librarians per semester. This led to a collaboration between five Australian medical librarians and the two US instructors to plan and deliver an on-site EBM workshop in Brisbane. The poster will describe the steps taken to change our game,–from a local CE course to an international semina