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Virginia Commonwealth University – Richmond, VA www.library.vcu.edu iFusions: Integrating a consumer health library into the academic medical center community Dana L. Ladd, Community Health Education Center & Shannon D. Jones, Head, Outreach Services, Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, VCU Libraries Objective Integrating into the larger academic curriculum and medical community can be challenging for a consumer health library. Developing training opportunities, providing activities, and seeking opportunities to market CHEC are key to linking the faculty, students, and medical professionals with the services of the consumer health library. This poster explores ways in which the Community Health Education Center (CHEC) has successfully integrated its services into the academic and medical communities. Setting/Participants/ Resources The Community Health Education Center (CHEC), a library for patients, their family members, and the general public to find health information, is located in an urban academic medical center. Methods 1.Training opportunities for students and medical center employees were made available through CHEC electives, internships, and shadowing opportunities. 2.The librarian also provides tours of the library to hospital staff and provides short training sessions to nurses and other hospital staff. 3.A Blackboard class, Providing Health Information to Patients was developed as a way of not only teaching users to how to find health information for patients but as a means of making them aware of CHEC’s services. 4.The librarian participates in health information rounds on the Women’s Surgical unit of the hospital. 5.Activities such as Open Houses were for medical employees and students were held to make them aware of CHEC and its services. Results and Conclusions Over time, CHEC’s efforts to integrate into the academic and medical communities have been successful. Students have sought out CHEC’s instructional activities; 3 medical students have taken the CHEC elective; 8 Community Health students have completed CHEC internships; 5 Community health and 1 nursing students have shadowed in CHEC; 6 students have enrolled in the CHEC blackboard self-paced course; and Over 600 people attended our 5 th Anniversary, Week of the Nurse, Contact Us Dana L. Ladd, MS, SLIS, AHIP Community Health Education Center Librarian [email protected] 804.628.2429 & Shannon D. Jones, MLS, MIS, AHIP Head, Outreach Services Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences [email protected] 804.828.0626 VCU Libraries Web site: www.library.vcu.edu/tml/ About CHEC Motto: Where Knowledge Empowers People Mission: To foster the advancement and development of health knowledge within the community Partners: VCU Health System, Medical College of Virginia Hospitals Auxiliary of VCU, and the VCU Libraries Web site: www.vcuhealth.org/chec

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Results and Conclusions. Setting/Participants/Resources. Over time, CHEC’s efforts to integrate into the academic and medical communities have been successful. Students have sought out CHEC’s instructional activities; 3 medical students have taken the CHEC elective; - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Virginia Commonwealth University – Richmond, VA www.library.vcu.edu

iFusions: Integrating a consumer health library into the academic medical center community Dana L. Ladd, Community Health Education Center & Shannon D. Jones, Head, Outreach Services, Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, VCU Libraries

Objective

Integrating into the larger academic curriculum and medical community can be challenging for a consumer health library. Developing training opportunities, providing activities, and seeking opportunities to market CHEC are key to

linking the faculty, students, and medical professionals with the services of the consumer health library. This poster explores ways in which the Community Health Education Center (CHEC) has successfully integrated its services

into the academic and medical communities.

Setting/Participants/Resources

The Community Health Education Center (CHEC), a

library for patients, their family members, and the

general public to find health information, is located in an

urban academic medical center.

Methods

1. Training opportunities for students and medical center employees were made available through CHEC electives, internships, and shadowing opportunities.

2. The librarian also provides tours of the library to hospital staff and provides short training sessions to nurses and other hospital staff.

3. A Blackboard class, Providing Health Information to Patients was developed as a way of not only teaching users to how to find health information for patients but as a means of making them aware of CHEC’s services.

4. The librarian participates in health information rounds on the Women’s Surgical unit of the hospital.

5. Activities such as Open Houses were for medical employees and students were held to make them aware of CHEC and its services.

Results and Conclusions Over time, CHEC’s efforts to integrate into the academic

and medical communities have been successful.

Students have sought out CHEC’s instructional

activities;

3 medical students have taken the CHEC elective;

8 Community Health students have completed

CHEC internships;

5 Community health and 1 nursing students have

shadowed in CHEC;

6 students have enrolled in the CHEC blackboard