Level: Beginning
Prerequisite: None
Cost: $260 (nonmember, $390)
Attendance Maximum: None

Instructor(s): Jennifer Lyon, Clinical and Bioinformatics Librarian, Rachel Walden, Librarian, and Julie Beauregard, Librarian, Eskind Biomedical Library, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

Offered: Saturday, May 17, 8:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.

Continued education in medicine is essential to integrating librarians more fully into medical teams and improving their understanding of the medical literature and the ways it applies to individual patient cases. The purpose of this course is to provide librarians with practical medical knowledge, focusing on information relevant to case histories, laboratory data, and medical team discussions. Understanding medical concepts improves the librarian's abilities to communicate with physicians and patients, to read and understand the medical literature, and to relate clinical concepts in constructing a literature search.