Developing an Instruction Series for Summer Research Students in Veterinary Medicine
Andrea C. Kepsel MLIS, AHIP; Michigan State University Libraries

In the summer of 2015, a three-part instructional series was created for students participating in the Summer Research Program at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Michigan State University. This group of 30 undergraduate and DVM students was a mix of current MSU students and those visiting from other institutions, with approximately a third of the group being minority scholars. Previously contact with this group was limited to a 30-minute introduction to the MSU Libraries held at the beginning of the summer during the program's orientation week. The coordinator of the program approached the veterinary medicine librarian about expanding involvement with the program and, in addition to the orientation session, offering a hands-on searching workshop and an EndNote Online session. The resulting expanded instructional offerings will be discussed, including a new LibGuide, a spreadsheet for building and comparing search strategies, and a presentation on how to keep track of searches and results. Based on assessments performed at the end of each session, as well as anecdotal discussion with the program coordinator, it appears that the new educational offerings were a success.

Explore the MHSLA Archives!
Alison Konieczny MS LIS, MS; Ferris State University

The MHSLA Archives are live and include both a documents and pictures archive. Learn how to access and navigate the MHSLA Archives. Prepare to jump in and explore!

Understanding Student USMLE Study Habits: Strategies, Successes, and Lessons from a Focus Group
Iris Kovar-Gough MA, MLIS, AHIP; Michigan State University Libraries

In May 2015 we conducted a focus group with eight 3rd year medical students with a faculty co-facilitator. We wanted to know how students studied for their USMLE Step 1 and 2 exams and how the exam preparation products the MSU Libraries could subscribe to compared to the student’s gold standard tool – USMLE World Q Bank. We discovered the students’ study strategies, what they liked about each product, and made recommendations about future purchasing. We learned how to facilitate a successful focus group, recruitment strategies, and the importance of partnering with faculty to improve buy-in by all stakeholders. Our take away was that, although the students liked the products MSU Libraries could purchase, they were not going to veer away from the study tool that had helped them pass the boards for the last two years – but there was one unique product that they thought was worthwhile.

How Were Nursing Students' Efficacy Beliefs in Information Skills Related to Their Attitude Toward Lifelong Learning?
Misa Mi PhD, MLIS, AHIP; Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine Library
Cheryl Riley-Doucet PhD, RN, FGSA; Oakland University School of Nursing

Purpose: The research project investigated how nursing students’ self-assessed information skills were associated with their attitude toward lifelong learning.

Method: This was a descriptive study. Participants were nursing students enrolled at the School of Nursing, Oakland University. A survey was used to gather information from participants.

Results: Nursing students’ perceived information self-efficacy was significantly correlated with their lifelong learning scores, r (265) = .441, p < .001. Average lifelong learning total scores for undergraduate nursing students (M = 41.84) were significantly lower than average lifelong learning total scores for graduate nursing students (M = 46.20), t (283) = -6.89, p < .001. Average information self-efficacy total scores were significantly lower for undergraduate nursing students (M = 63.34) than average informational self-efficacy total scores for graduate nursing students (M = 65.97), t (270) = -2.40, p = .031. Students’ information seeking frequency and satisfaction with their search results were strongly correlated with their lifelong learning scores, rs (266) = .206, p = .001, or information self-efficacy, rs (256) = .157, p = .012.

Medical Students' Lifelong Learning Orientation and Their Information Self-Efficacy
Misa Mi PhD, MLIS, AHIP; Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine Library
Cheryl Riley-Doucet PhD, RN, FGSA; Oakland University School of Nursing

Purpose: The study examined medical students’ lifelong learning orientation in relation to their efficacy beliefs in information skills.

Method: This was a descriptive study. Participants were 325 medical students enrolled at the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine. A survey was used to gather information from participants. It contained three parts: demographic information, a lifelong learning scale, and information self-efficacy scale.

Results: Out of 325 medical students, 132 participants responded to the survey. There was a significant correlation between lifelong learning total scores and information self-efficacy total scores, r (123) = .345, p < .001. There were no significant differences among first, second, and third/fourth year medical students for lifelong learning total scores, F (2, 121) = 2.13, p = .123. However, for the information self-efficacy scale, first year medical students (M = 55.62) and second year medical students (M = 58.00) had significantly lower scores than third/fourth year students (M = 64.42), F (2, 119) = 5.16, p = .007. The information seeking frequency was not correlated with lifelong learning scores, rs (123) = .161, p = .072, nor information self-efficacy scores, rs (121) = .130, p = .152. However, students’ satisfaction with their search results was strongly correlated with their attitude toward lifelong learning, rs (126) = .208, p = .019, or their perceived information self-efficacy, rs (122) = .565, p < .001.

Medical Library Association Research Section: Engage and Promote Research in Health Sciences
Merle Rosenzweig AMLS; University of Michigan Taubman Health Sciences Library

The Research Section of the Medical Library Association is composed of health information professionals and other interested individuals who promote the importance of research and assessment to improve library practice and patient care. The Research Section is committed to the idea that librarians should base their professional decisions and actions on the best available evidence. The Section provides and promotes education and training to support health sciences information research. The Section disseminates and promotes health sciences information research through publications and the section web site. The Section also partners with MLA to enhance the research knowledge and skills of MLA members, advance the MLA Research Policy Statement https://www.mlanet.org/research/policy, and develop and achieve the MLA Research Agenda.

The Section provides a full range of professional services and programs for its diverse membership of hospital, academic and special librarians. The Research Section meets annually, provides quality programming on research topics of interest, recognizes research excellence through its Awards Program http://research.mlanet.org/wp/research-awards, and shares information through the Hypothesis http://research.mlanet.org/wp/hypothesis journal, section web site, and informal networking.

Michigan Libraries for Life: A State-Wide Library Initiative to Increase Organ Donation Registration
Kate Saylor MSI; University of Michigan Taubman Health Sciences Library
Carol Shannon MA, MPH; University of Michigan Taubman Health Sciences Library
Jennifer Tislerics BA; Gift of Life Michigan
Maria McCarville MBA, MILS; Wayne County Library
Martha Knuth MLIS; Western Michigan University Homer Stryker School of Medicine
Stefanie Overhuel; Kellogg Community College
Pamela R. Christensen MLS; Peter White Public Library
Lori McGeary BS; Orion Township Public Library

Since 2010, libraries across Michigan have participated in a simple and effective campaign to educate patrons about donation and transplantation, and to give them an opportunity to join the Michigan Organ Donor Registry. The campaign is called Michigan Libraries for Life. This effort, which began with the University of Michigan’s Taubman Health Sciences Library, has expanded to include public, academic, special, and hospital libraries across the state. This award-winning collaborative effort has inspired more than 2,450 people to sign up as donors!

This poster will discuss program details and information about this successful collaboration between the state’s designated organ and tissue recovery program and participating academic libraries, and future plans to expand the effort across the state and beyond!

Implementing an Online Literature Search Request Form to Support Nursing Faculty
Heidi Schroeder MLIS, AHIP; Michigan State University Libraries

Due to the advanced nature of health sciences literature searching, health sciences librarians frequently partner with faculty researchers by completing in-depth database searches for their grant proposals, publications, and presentations. In order to streamline and organize these requests, the nursing librarian at the Michigan State University Libraries implemented an online submission form. This poster describes the online form and how it has improved the literature searching service for both the librarian and faculty researchers. A brief analysis of search requests received and an explanation of how the form has and will continue to evolve will also be provided.

Expanding the Boundaries of Instructional Tradition
Carol Shannon MA, MPH; University of Michigan Taubman Health Sciences Library

There is a long history of collaboration between the Taubman Health Sciences Library and the College of Pharmacy. As the new lead informationist to the College of Pharmacy, faculty and I reviewed the students’ searching skills and found that they were not as good as we wanted them to be, primarily because there was not enough time for the students to learn and apply their knowledge.

In response, we have created a more active and engaged learning experience, changing both the content and method of instruction by:
- Increasing the number of classes, so that students have more time to learn;
- Scaffolding the sessions, so that the classes are organized in a clear and logical way; and
- Using a flipped-classroom model, which provides online instruction prior to class and team-based problem solving to reinforce student learning in class.

This new format has been piloted in the last year (although not in its full form), and we are already seeing important changes in the students’ understanding of database searching, such as confidence in the use of Boolean operators, PubMed, and other databases; and the need for different search terms for different databases. With the full implementation of the program, we expect to see even greater increases in students’ skills, in team-based learning, and in communication through peer-to-peer teaching in small groups. This will give students a better foundation for research both during their program and in their future careers.

Developing a Semi-Automated Process to Track Institutional Scholarly Publications
Evan Sprague BS; Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine Library

Many medical schools take on the task of tracking institutional publications in order to meet Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) requirements for accreditation. This, however, is a very laborious endeavor, involving many hours of searching through citations in an attempt to locate authors associated with one’s institution. The OUWB Medical Library has been working on a computer script designed to automate and assist in completing this task. Once the citations have been imported into EndNote and an XML file has been created, the script is designed to take a list of faculty members and their departments and compare it to the XML file. As it successfully locates the institutional faculty members as authors of the publications, it marks the author and then denotes the department associated with the author in the XML data as well. Once the script has completed searching all the citations, it saves to a new XML file, which can be imported back into EndNote. Although this script does not automate the entire process of tracking institutional publications, it does lighten a very time-consuming portion of the task. The searching algorithms in the script still need to be refined to more accurately locate institutional authors, and our next goal is to attempt to remove duplicate articles. Initial experiments suggest the script will be a great time saving tool.

Achieving Consistency of Patient-Education Across the Continuum of Care: Linking Materials to the EMR, Internal Resources, and the Public Website
Ruti Volk MSI, AHIP; University of Michigan Taubman Health Sciences Library

The University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) maintains a database of patient education materials used in our health system. This central repository was implemented to prevent problems with version control, duplication of effort and low quality that exited when materials were kept in drawers or on local shared servers, not accessible across the institution. The Patient Education Clearinghouse is a Drupal site integrated with the Electronic Medical Record System (EPIC EMR) and internal websites. It is also available free on the Internet for patients, families and the general public.

The Clearinghouse includes materials that have been created by UMHS experts on many difficult-to-find topics, rare conditions and state-of-the-art therapies. It also includes materials from other organizations that have been reviewed and approved by UMHS experts. Print materials, videos, websites and apps are included. A submission and approval process ensures that materials follow plain language guidelines and are branded properly. The system also enables integrating a subset of materials with the EMR so clinicians are able to send them to print with the after visit paperwork in both ambulatory and inpatient care settings. The institution’s public website links to the database and allows patients at home to access the materials on computers, laptops, tablets and smartphones. This is a cost-effective model as governance and quality-control of materials is done centrally for all users and client-systems. The system ensures quality and consistency of education provided to patients across the continuum-of-care and promotes use of standardized, approved, high-quality materials.

Integrating Evidence-Based Content Longitudinally Into the Medical School Curriculum
Abraham Wheeler MLS, AHIP; Michigan State University Libraries

I created and integrated a longitudinal evidence based medicine thread into the four-year medical school curriculum at MSU. The multi part thread is used to teach the students practical bio-statistics, research methods, foundations of science based medicine, and patient information interviewing skills. The ultimate goal is repeatedly practicing and deepening understanding in these knowledge domains in order to directly answer patient questions and improve patient care.

We train students to present their evidence-based answers to patient questions in both a journal club format, as well as in face to face patient encounters. These sessions are embedded as required classes in the curriculum, with the themes and topics covered integrated into the larger content the students are learning.

The poster will cover the timeline and deepening content instruction the students receive throughout their four years. I will also present syllabi and course materials to demonstrate the content students are learning. I will also present some lessons learned, pitfalls, and best practices.