INTRODUCTION

User guides are prepared for Year 1 to Year 5 students to help meet their research needs. Each user guide covers essential information required for information literacy, writing skills and citation management. This enables students to experience a learning progression during their course of study, eventually becoming competent with scholarly works.

LEARNING PROGRESSION MODEL 

Your medical library developed an overall learning progression model for year 1 to 5 based on information literacy skills, writing skills and citation management skills. See fig 1 below.

Alignment to Standards

Curriculum Standards

Our learning progression model aligns to MBBS curriculum standards set by LKC, Medicine (Aligned to the Imperial College London – Faculty of Medicine, MBBS programme)

• Years 1 and 2: Integrated Science in a Medical Context
• Year 3: Core Clinical Medicine in Practice
• Year 4: Medicine for All Stages of Life & in Diverse Settings
• Year 5: Preparing for Practice as a Doctor

The topics addressed in each year will be used for clinical scenarios or case studies to align to the leanring outcomes for information literacy using Evidence-based Medicine (EBM).

Library Standards

Our learning progression model anchors and adapts the following library standards:

• The gold standards framework Library
  • Literature review
  • Grey Literature
  • Citations
  • Medical Terminologies at NLM

• Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Standards (Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education)
  • Standard 1: The information literate student determines the nature and extent of the information needed.
  • Standard 2: The information literate student accesses needed information effectively and efficiently.
  • Standard 3: The information literate student evaluates information and its sources critically and incorporates selected information into his or her knowledge base and value system.
  • Standard 4: The information literate student, individually or as a member of a group, uses information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose.
  • Standard 5: The information literate student understands many of the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information and accesses and uses information ethically and legally.

• Selected top medical schools in the world (2016) – Medical/ Health Care Library Information Literacy Standards
  • Harvard University, US
    • Mobile Resources for Medicine
    • EBM – Evidence Based Medicine (Information resources)
    • EBM Search Tips
  • University of Oxford, UK
    • Research Skills – Health Care Libraries
    • Medical Literature search skills
  • University of Cambridge, UK
    • Literature Search – Services Standards
  • Stanford University
    • Competencies for Residency (Applicable for Year 5 students in preparation for Year 1 residency upon graduation)
  • McMaster University

    • Resources for Evidence-Based Practice: The 6S Pyramid

Refer to the user guides prepared for year 1 to year 5. PDF versions are also available.

Prepared by: Rebecca David, Medical Library, Senior Assistant Manager