A Multicomponent Library Resource Model to Enhance Academic Global Health Education Among Residency Programs

ABSTRACT

Global health is becoming an increasingly important component of medical education. Medical libraries have an opportunity to assist global health residents with their information needs, but first it is important to identify what those needs are and how best they can be addressed. This article reports a collaboration between global health faculty and an academic medical librarian to assess the information needs of global health pathway residents and how assessment data are used to create a multicomponent program designed to enhance global health education.

KEYWORDS:

• Collaboration
• faculty-librarian interactions
• global data sources
• global health education
• global health residency
• library services

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Notes on contributors

Rupa R. Patel

Rupa R. Patel, MD, MPH ([email protected]) is Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid, Campus Box 8051, St. Louis, MO 63110.

Sandhiya Ravichandran

Sandhiya Ravichandran, BS ([email protected]) is Master in Public Health Candidate, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, 6350 Forsyth Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63105.

Michelle M. Doering

Michelle M. Doering, MLS ([email protected]) is Librarian, Becker Medical Library, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid, Campus Box 8051, St. Louis, MO 63110.

Angela C. Hardi

Angela C. Hardi, MLS ([email protected]) is Librarian, Becker Medical Library, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid, Campus Box 8051, St. Louis, MO 63110.