Connecting with GME: Building on previous efforts, structuring outreach, and increasing engagement with Graduate Medical Education

Background: After intermittent outreach to Graduate Medical Education (GME) residents, fellows, and faculty, a medical school library assigned one librarian to be the liaison to GME. After designating a GME liaison, engagement with GME students and departments improved with increased numbers of orientations. Further outreach approaches were diversified and designed to meet the needs of students, staff and faculty. An MLA 2020 poster highlighted the lack of literature about GME liaison librarians and their experiences. This paper provides a variety of ideas for librarians who want to connect with GME stakeholders in a medical school. Description: Previous outreach to the GME consisted of tabling during general new resident orientations, email offers for library orientations sent to resident coordinators, and regular search consultations provided to two departments' residents who lead journal clubs. To increase contact, the liaison librarian expanded previous efforts by designing a robust multipronged outreach approach, including: scheduling earlier communication to GME departments, providing updated lists of contacts to departmental liaisons, collecting and sharing GME news and information with other liaisons, reaching out to newly-established residencies across the state, working with colleagues to develop a scholarly publishing research guide, establishing a regular class with Family Medicine residents, and implementing assessment of resident library orientations. When GME general orientations were held online during the pandemic, a Zoom room was created and an interactive handout was developed. Interaction was incentivized with "swag bags" sent through campus mail. Conclusions: In 2018, seven sessions with new residents were provided after twenty-seven emails to 27 GME departments were sent in June. After tracking email timing 2018-2020, the GME liaison determined that communication sent March-April before residents arrive in June received the most responses from resident coordinators. In 2021, GME departmental information and tracking sheets were reorganized to better match liaison departmental areas. Forty GME departments were contacted via 48 individualized emails (including follow-up emails to non-responders), and 16 library orientations were scheduled for new residents and fellows. During the pandemic, more than thirty-seven residents and fellows attended the library's general orientation Zoom room in 2020. Twenty-nine residents and fellows interacted with the library's ORCiD handout in 2021. Additional GME initiatives since 2019 include: a Scholarly Publishing Research Guide, a Family Medicine Scholarship Rotation instruction, and GME Scholarship tracking projects

Video modules for online learning: Creating content for the new normal.

15-minute Webinar PresentationIn order to supplement the Evidence based medicine (EBM) curriculum that Ruth Lilly Medical Library teaches to 1st and 2nd year medical undergraduates, two librarians created four short videos on EBM topics. Join us for this interactive session focused on teaching the skills and techniques used in video creation such as: modified story-boarding for script creation and presentation software design, calculation of video length as well as methods used to practice and record the videos. We will provide lessons learned and also have ample time for questions from the audience.ACRL Health Sciences Interest Grou

The scholarly activity of GME trainees: Early stages of a research project analyzing publication patterns

Poster presents the process author undertook during first nine months of a Medical Library Association Research Training Institute. Final objective: We will examine the publication patterns of residents, fellows, and graduate students at a large medical school in the Midwest. Methods: We will use a set of Graduate Medical Education (GME) trainees who graduated 2018-2019 in order to examine their publication productivity as well as to analyze in which journals they publish and which journals they cite in their reference lists

Streamlining Library Classes: Scheduling, marketing, and data gathering in order to increase the value of a library service

Presented at the 2020 Medical Library Association Virtual Conference

Providing medical information to college health center personnel: A circuit librarian service at the University of Illinois

College health center personnel are no different from other health practitioners in their need for medical information. To help meet this need, the McKinley Health Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign developed a partnership in 1997 with the Library of the Health Sciences–Urbana, a regional site library of the University of Illinois at Chicago campus. This partnership led to the adoption of circuit librarianship, a dynamic outreach model, to enhance access to health information for McKinley Health Center personnel. A circuit librarian consults with health center personnel during regularly scheduled on-site visits to the health center and its satellite office. Upon returning to the resource library, she conducts research for clinical information on their behalf. Articles, books, and relevant Web sites, are identified and delivered to assist in answering questions regarding topics such as disease management, drug therapy, wellness, and health administration

Understanding the experiences of Black women medical students and residents: A narrative review.

Few research studies examine medical students and residents with intersectional identities. In the emerging literature, data on Black women’s experiences may be misrepresented and misinterpreted as studies aggregate data for women, students of color, and Black/African American men. As such, these studies do not account for the nuanced experiences of gendered racism that Black women students and residents may encounter during their medical education. Using Crenshaw’s intersectionality as an analytical lens, we conducted a narrative review to highlight how Black women medical students and residents are rendered invisible in the current literature on medical education. The results generated 13 citations specifically discussing Black women medical students and residents. This study underscores the importance of diversifying medical education

Understanding the Experiences of Black Women Medical Students and Residents: A Narrative Review..

Background: Few research studies examine medical students and residents with intersectional identities. In the emerging literature, data on Black women’s experiences may be misrepresented and misinterpreted as studies aggregate data for women, students of color, and Black/African American men. As such, these studies do not account for the nuanced experiences of gendered racism that Black women students and residents may encounter during their medical education. Methods: Using Crenshaw’s intersectionality as an analytical tool, we conducted a narrative review to highlight how Black women medical students and residents are rendered invisible in the current literature on medical education. Results: The results generated 13 citations specifically discussing Black women medical students and residents, with only six studies being empirical research. Conclusion: We conclude that 13 articles is inadequate for understanding the experiences of these populations. Without centering Black women or using an intersectional lens, researchers could invalidate the lived experiences of this population and create barriers to the political resources Black women learners need to be successful. Moreover, the lack of intention behind addressing the needs of Black women can be viewed as complicity in the oppressive structures that serve to subjugate them

Enhancing resident scholarship with a library partnership.

Introduction: The ACGME requires that residents understand and participate in scholarly activities in order to meet graduation requirements. Although library support had historically been available to residents, there was no evidence that this resource was utilized in the past. The Family Medicine residency utilizes the library partnership in order to educate residents about the most effective methods to search for relevant literature and provide residents with an overview of pertinent library resources, including how to access full-text articles. A couple of years ago, the presenters developed a curriculum to provide residents with education on library resources, so that residents could effectively complete their scholarly activities by utilizing evidence-based literature. Study Objective: The study objective was to gather data from residents who have received education on IUSM library resources in order to describe what residents learned and what they identify are future educational needs. Methods: During 2 academic years, 23 second-year residents attended a one-hour library instruction session while on their scholarship rotation. Thirteen residents attended a session during October – February of the first academic year, and 10 residents attended a session during August – November of the second academic year. The goals for the session were that residents would: learn the basics of searching for literature on a topic, become familiar with library resources, and begin searching for literature related to their individual scholarly projects. This cross-sectional study used an 8-question survey given to all second and third-year residents at the end of the second year that the library instruction sessions were implemented. Results: Thirteen of the 23 residents responded to the survey (57%). Five of the respondents (38%) were second-year residents, and 8 of the respondents (62%) were third-year residents. All 13 residents responded that they learned about library resources during the session, and 11 residents said they learned the basics of searching for literature on a topic. Eight residents responded that they learned how to get access to full-text articles. Seven residents also responded that having a second session after the project is further along would be useful to them, and 6 residents responded that citation information would be useful for the librarians to cover. Conclusions: Results of the cross-sectional survey indicated that the goal of increasing residents' knowledge about library resources was met. As a result of the library instruction, residents used what they learned when searching for articles and when accessing the full-text of articles. Feedback from the survey suggested that an additional session and more instruction on citation information would be helpful. Future scholarship sessions will be modified to include an introduction to citation management software, and an additional session will be scheduled during the third core to focus more in-depth on citation management software, keyword searching, and any other questions residents may have. Pre-& post-tests to evaluate residents' change in confidence when literature searching and managing citations during their scholarly project will be implemented

Integrating Data Science into T32 Training Programs at IUPUI

Data science is critically important to the biomedical research enterprise. Many research efforts currently and in the future will employ advanced computational techniques to analyze extremely large datasets in order to discover insights relevant to human health. Therefore the next generation of biomedical scientists requires knowledge of and proficiency in data science. With support from the U.S. National Library of Medicine, a team of faculty from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) facilitated curricula enhancement for National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32 research training programs with respect to data science. In collaboration with the existing NIH T32 Program Directors at IUPUI and the IU School of Medicine, the interdisciplinary team of faculty drawn from multiple schools and departments examined the existing landscape of data science offerings on campus in parallel with an assessment of the competencies that future biomedical and clinician scientists will require to be comfortable using data science methods to advance their research. The IUPUI campus possesses a rich tapestry of data science education programs across multiple schools and departments. Furthermore, the campus is home to more than a dozen world-class T32 programs funded by the NIH to train biomedical and clinician scientists. However, existing training programs do not currently emphasize data science or provide specific curriculum designed to ensure T32 graduates possess basic competencies in data science. To position the campus for the future, robust T32 programs need to connect with the rapidly growing data science programs. This report summarizes the rationale for the importance of connection and the competencies that future biomedical and clinical scientists will require to be successful. The report further describes the curriculum mapping efforts to link competencies with available degree programs, courses and workshops on campus. The report further recommends next steps for campus leadership, including but not limited to T32 Program Directors, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, the Executive Associate Dean for Research Affairs at the IU School of Medicine, and the President and CEO of the Regenstrief Institute. Together we can strengthen the IUPUI campus and help ensure its T32 graduates are successful in their research careers.National Library of Medicin

Improving a library workshop service: Implementing change and enhancing the service based on data analysis

PURPOSE This paper aims to describe how one medical library implemented a new scheduling system, initiated data analysis and modified its regularly scheduled workshop program because of evidence-based decision-making. Academic libraries that struggle with workshop attendance may use this process as a model. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH Workshop registration data analysis focused on registrants' affiliation, role and location, and how registrants learned of workshops. Workshop attendance data analysis focused on which workshops, days, times of the day and months had the highest attendance. The analysis led to changes in marketing and targeted scheduling of future workshops by the time of day, day of the week and month of the year. FINDINGS Data collected for four years, fall 2018 – summer 2022 (12 semesters), shows a steady increase in the number of people attending library workshops. The increase in attendance and ROI experienced after the changes implemented at Ruth Lilly Medical Library (RLML) is significant as libraries often struggle with attendance, marketing and return on investment when offering ongoing educational workshops. ORIGINALITY/VALUE Many libraries offer ongoing workshops with low attendance. This article provides an example of how one library changed software and registration and implemented evidence-based decision-making related to scheduling which may have contributed to an increase in workshop attendance. Other academic libraries might consider adopting similar software and evidence-based decision-making to improve their library workshop service