Book Discussion Course: Timely Topics for Medical Students

Abstract

Several library faculty members at the Louisiana State University Health Shreveport Health Sciences Library offered a book discussion course as an elective for first-year medical students. This article provides details on how the librarians developed, taught, and evaluated this elective. The librarians took a team-teaching approach, required the students to read two books, and outlined the criteria for participation. At the end of the course, the students completed an evaluation, commenting on positive and negative aspects of the course. The elective proved to be successful, and the librarians look forward to offering the course again in the spring of 2014.

KEYWORDS:

• Book club
• book discussion
• medical education
• medical librarians
• medical students

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Notes on contributors

Donna F. Timm

Donna F. Timm, MLS ([email protected]) is Head, User Education

Deidra Woodson

Deidra Woodson, MLS, MA, MT (ASCP) ([email protected]) is Metadata and Digitization Librarian

Dee Jones

Dee Jones, MLS ([email protected]) is Head, Cataloging; all at Department of Medical Library Science, Louisiana State University Health Shreveport, 1501 Kings Highway, Shreveport, LA 71103.