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Tweets to put Students in the Driver’s Seat: A Systematic Review of Twitter in Medical Education
Tweets to put Students in the Driver’s Seat: A Systematic Review of Twitter in Medical Education
Download2017-05-01
Background Social media has transformed communication and information dissemination. Despite its almost ubiquitous use among students, its impact on medical education (ME) is less clear. Among social media platforms, Twitter facilitates active participation, fosters concise discussions, may be...
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2011-04-21
Seale, Linda, Dorgan, Marlene, Campbell, Sandy, Storie, Dale, Chan, Liza, Chor, Louis
On October 26, 2011, The John W. Scott Health Sciences Library at the University of Alberta opened a Traditional and Indigenous Healing Collection.
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2012-06-04
Dorgan, Marlene, Seale, Linda, Chambers, Thane, Chojecki, Dagmara, Campbell, Sandy, Tjosvold, Lisa, Chatterley, Trish, Dennett, Liz, Slater, Linda, Chan, Liza, Storie, Dale
Eleven practicing academic health librarians at the University of Alberta taught LIS 520: Introduction to Health Sciences Librarianship as a large team. This study evaluated the students’ responses to being taught by a large team and the librarians’ responses to teaching in a large team. Overall,...
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Teaching Health Librarianship with a Very Large Team: breaking the borders of the one-instructor model
Download2012-06-20
Storie, Dale, Chan, Liza, Chojecki, Dagmara, Seale, Linda, Dennett, Liz, Dorgan, Marlene, Chatterley, Trish, Slater, Linda, Tjosvold, Lisa, Chambers, Thane, Campbell, Sandy
Eleven practicing health librarians taught LIS 520, a graduate course in Health Librarianship, as a large team rather than as a course with one instructor and many guest lecturers. Finding little guidance from the literature of the field, the team undertook a research project to evaluate the...
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Really Simple Syndication? A study on health sciences faculty and medical residents’ adoption of a new technology following an instruction session on RSS
Really Simple Syndication? A study on health sciences faculty and medical residents’ adoption of a new technology following an instruction session on RSS
Download2008/2009
Storie, Dale, Campbell, Sandy, Chambers, Thane
A variety of health professionals were surveyed about their use of RSS feeds, introduced to RSS feeds in a hands-on class and then later surveyed about their use of RSS feeds.
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Information Use on Mobile Devices in Medicine
2012-06-11
Boruff, Jill, Robertson, Helen, Ufholz, Lee-Anne, Storie, Dale, Chojecki, Dagmara
Introduction: Little is known about medical trainees’ and clinicians’ current use of mobile devices for information-seeking, including the resources they use and in what context. This study was designed to better understand what types of mobile information resources this population finds...
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2011-07-01
An electronic survey was distributed to all pharmacists serving as preceptors for the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in the Winter and Fall 2010 terms. The survey questions addressed use of and access to information resources, barriers to accessing electronic resources,...
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2012-11-07
The University of Alberta Libraries undertook a creative patron-driven acquisition project in order to more fully meet user needs as well as to evaluate current collection development procedures. The project was unique in that it involved on-demand purchase of both print and electronic titles,...