Critical Contributions: Developing Research Appraisal Skills at Your Institution - Medical Library Association 

Wednesday, June 26, 2019, 2:00 PM–3:30 PM, Health Science Center Libraries C2-41A

With the reproducibility crisis in biomedical and health sciences and the ever-present necessity of basing medical practice on valid research, medical librarians have an opening to expand their contributions to health care and raise their status by teaching critical appraisal at their institutions. Abraham Wheeler and Amy Blevins aim to get you fired up about teaching in this new area!

You will learn why critical appraisal is an emerging need in health sciences programs, how librarians can fill a gap in critical appraisal expertise, and how you can increase your involvement in the evidence-based medicine (EBM) curriculum at your institution. You will understand the essence of critical appraisal and its place in the cycle of EBM and learn steps that you can take to develop and improve your critical appraisal skills.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• identify strategies to increase involvement in their institutions’ curricula
• explain the value of librarians having the skills to practice and teach critical appraisal
• describe ways to improve knowledge of critical appraisal concepts
• describe basic critical appraisal competencies and how to build skills in this area

Presenters:

Megan von Isenburg, AHIP, is associate dean for library services and archives at the Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, co-director of the EBM course for medical students, and adjunct faculty at the University of North Carolina (UNC)−Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science, where she co-teaches the “Evidence-Based Practice and the Medical Librarian” online course with Cantrell.

Sarah Cantrell is the associate director for research and education at the Duke University Medical Center Library & Archives, liaison to the Graduate Medical Education programs at Duke Health, and co-director for Duke’s national EBM workshop for clinicians and librarians, and adjunct faculty at the UNC−Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science, where she co-teaches the “Evidence-Based Practice and the Medical Librarian” online course with von Isenburg.

Registration: UF Libraries employees register through the Instruction and Training Database.