scholarly journals An historical overview of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, 1985–2015

2018 ◽  
Vol 106 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan L. Speaker
Keyword(s):  
Health Resources ◽  
Consumer Health ◽  
National Network ◽  
Medical Centers ◽  
Medical Library ◽  
Academic Medical ◽  
Regional Medical ◽  
Library Program ◽  
The Many ◽  
Health Information Resources

The National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM), established as the Regional Medical Library Program in 1965, has a rich and remarkable history. The network’s first twenty years were documented in a detailed 1987 history by Alison Bunting, AHIP, FMLA. This article traces the major trends in the network’s development since then: reconceiving the Regional Medical Library staff as a “field force” for developing, marketing, and distributing a growing number of National Library of Medicine (NLM) products and services; subsequent expansion of outreach to health professionals who are unaffiliated with academic medical centers, particularly those in public health; the advent of the Internet during the 1990s, which brought the migration of NLM and NNLM resources and services to the World Wide Web, and a mandate to encourage and facilitate Internet connectivity in the network; and the further expansion of the NLM and NNLM mission to include providing consumer health resources to satisfy growing public demand. The concluding section discusses the many challenges that NNLM staff faced as they transformed the network from a system that served mainly academic medical researchers to a larger, denser organization that offers health information resources to everyone.

Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS) Sponsorship Program Improves the Capacity of Public Library Staff to Provide Health Information to their Community

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Kiscaden ◽  
Michele Spatz ◽  
Susan M Wolfe ◽  
Molly Knapp ◽  
Erica Lake
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Health Resources ◽  
Consumer Health Information ◽  
Consumer Health ◽  
National Network ◽  
Medical Library ◽  
Library Staff ◽  
Health Information Resources ◽  
The Impact

In 2018, the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) launched a national sponsorship program to support U.S. library staff in obtaining the Medical Library Association (MLA) Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS). To evaluate the impact of the sponsorship program, staff developed and administered a 16-question assessment to 224 library staff sponsored in the first year of the program. The objective of this research project was to determine if 1) obtaining the specialization was successful in improving library staff ability to provide consumer health information, 2) sponsorship made obtaining the specialization possible, and 3) sponsorship resulted in recipients offering new health or wellness services, programming, or outreach activities at their library. The survey had a 61% response rate (n=136) and all respondents indicated that obtaining the specialization met their expectations. Over 80% of respondents reported an increase in knowledge of health information resources and over half offered new health information programs and services as a result of the sponsored training. Additionally, over 60% of respondents weeded or updated their library’s consumer health resources as a result of the training they received for the certificate. Respondents indicated that their intention to renew the CHIS certificate or obtain the more advanced, Level II specialization, was not certain. This research indicates that sponsorship of the certificate program was successful in increasing the capacity of public library staff to provide health information to their community.

scholarly journals Developing an Online Consumer Health Course for Public Library Staff

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Kiscaden ◽  
Carolyn Martin ◽  
Bobbi Newman ◽  
Margot Malachowski
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Consumer Health Information ◽  
Consumer Health ◽  
National Network ◽  
Medical Library ◽  
Health Course ◽  
Midwest Region ◽  
Online Consumer ◽  
Library Staff

The National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Greater Midwest Region (NNLM GMR) received funding to support the evaluation and development of an asynchronous consumer health information course. Requirements of this project included: incorporating recommendations from NNLM instructors, National Library of Medicine staff and public library staff; piloting the revised course with a nationwide cohort; incorporating feedback from the pilot; and delivering a second instance of the revised course. The revised course meets existing requirements for public library certification and for Level 1 certification of the Medical Library Association’s Consumer Health Information Specialization.

Measuring the impact of healthcare indicators on academic medical centers’ scientific production

2021 ◽  
pp. 161-165
Author(s):  
Corrado Cuccurullo ◽  
Luca D’Aniello ◽  
Massimo Aria ◽  
Maria Spano
Keyword(s):  
Research Productivity ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Academic Medical Centers ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
The Public ◽  
Medical Centers ◽  
Academic Medical ◽  
The Many

The Italian public-owned Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) are hospitals where the activities of scientific research, teaching, and patients care are fully integrated. AMCs have an enormous impact on society and country health. Recently, policymakers and practitioners give more and more great importance to the AMCs’ scientific activity for both welfare and national competitivity. The scientific production and its impact on the research community could be obviously affected by different factors related to the structural and operational characteristics of each AMC. Healthcare institutions could be different for the typology of services that they offer, their geolocation, the presence/absence of Emergency Departments, the number of employees, and so forth. In this sense, our study aims to investigate and determine which are the possible factors impacting the research productivity of AMCs. We develop a model to assess the academic value of AMCs by taking into account these factors and how they are related to healthcare performance, measured in terms of scientific production (e.g. scientific publications) and impact on the research field (e.g. citations). To face this issue, for each of the public AMCs we collect data about research productivity from bibliographic indexing databases (e.g. Web of Science, PubMed) and we retrieve structural information mainly from their official websites. This work has been partially financed by the research project “Leading Change in Academic Medical Centers”, funded by the competitive call for projects V:ALERE 2019. The project aims to provide evidence, advice, and remarks to help the agents of the public health system to address the many challenges that they face.

scholarly journals A Computer System for Effective Management of a Medical Library Network

1971 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
Richard E. Nance ◽  
W. Kenneth Wickham ◽  
Maryann Duggan
Keyword(s):  
Processing System ◽  
Network Activity ◽  
Arrival Time Distribution ◽  
Interactive Software ◽  
Elapsed Time ◽  
South Central ◽  
Medical Library ◽  
Regional Medical ◽  
Library Program ◽  
Library Network

<p class="p1">TRIPS <span class="s1">(TALON </span>Reporting and Information Processing System) is an interactive software system for generating reports to NLM on regional medical library network activity and <span class="s1">constitutes </span>a vital part of a network management information system (NEMIS) for the South Central Regional Medical Library Program. Implemented on a PDP-lOfSRU 1108 interfaced <span class="s1">system, </span>TRIPS accepts paper tape <span class="s1">input </span>describing network transactions and generates output statistics on disposition of requests, elapsed time for <span class="s1">completing </span>filled requests, time to clear unfilled requests, arrival time distribution of requests by day <span class="s1">of </span>month, and various other measures of activ<span class="s1">ity </span>andjor performance. Emphasized in the TRIPS design are flexibility, <span class="s1">extensibility, </span>and <span class="s1">system </span>integrity. Processing costs, neglecting preparation of input which may be accomplished in several ways, are estimated at $.05 per transaction, a transaction being the transmittal of a message from one library to another.</p>

Pediatric Residency Training in An Era of Managed Care: An Introduction to Proceedings of a National Conference

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 101 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. 735-738
Author(s):  
Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Keyword(s):  
Managed Care ◽  
Residency Training ◽  
Health Resources ◽  
Medical Centers ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Pediatric Residency ◽  
Academic Medical ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Critical Issues

On May 4, 1996, a conference sponsored jointly by the Division of Medicine of the Health Resources and Services Administration and the Ambulatory Pediatric Association brought together pediatric educators from academic medical centers and managed care organizations to address the challenges and opportunities for pediatric residency training, given current trends toward increasing managed care for children. This supplement is designed to bring the issues discussed there to a broader audience of pediatricians and educators. The contributions are written by the participants of that conference, with invited commentaries to add additional perspectives on each topic. The papers were reviewed by an editorial board of leaders in pediatric education with experience in relevant areas. This introduction describes the impetus for the conference and highlights a number of critical issues facing pediatric postgraduate training that are presented in greater depth in the contributions that follow. Finally, this paper summarizes the recommendations of the conference for meeting the challenges of training pediatricians in these areas.

scholarly journals A framework for faculty development programming at VA and non-VA Academic Medical Centers

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Topor ◽  
Andrew Budson
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Development ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Academic Medical Centers ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Medical Centers ◽  
Academic Medical ◽  
Regional Medical ◽  
Development Programming

VA and non-VA Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) serve as training environments for learners from many different professions and academic affiliates, including regional medical campuses.  Faculty members at these AMCs need programming to help create and enhance the educational environment for learners.  In this paper, we provide a framework for AMCs to develop and implement faculty development programming and provide a case example of how this programming was implemented at one VA AMC.  It is the hope that this framework and programming can be adopted by other AMCs to provide faculty members with the programming needed to sustain high quality training environments.      

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