%0 Conference Paper %A McCabe, Grainne %D 2019 %T RCSI Library Information Skills Training and Evidence-based Study Programme %U https://repository.rcsi.com/articles/poster/RCSI_Library_Information_Skills_Training_and_Evidence-based_Study_Programme/10781297 %R 10.25419/rcsi.10781297.v1 %2 https://repository.rcsi.com/ndownloader/files/19294598 %K Information Skills %K Information Literacy %K Evidence-Based Healthcare %K Continuing professional Development %K Life-long Learning %K Librarianship %K Library and Information Studies %X

The RCSI Medical Graduate Profile includes the following outcome for:

Information literacy competencies are inextricably linked to finding the best evidence and therefore essential to practising evidence-based healthcare and to continuing professional development or life-long learning. By equipping students with these skills early in their careers RCSI is equipping them for life.

RCSI Library Information Skills Training Programme and Evidence-based Study Workshops
RCSI library staff have developed a number of “Information Skills Units” to support module specific learning outcomes across the RCSI biosciences schools. These units include learning activities to develop student information skills and being information literate is a specified outcome of the RCSI Medical Graduate Profile.
This poster will focus on Evidence-based Study Workshops which have been developed and delivered in modules within the School of Medicine and the School of Physiotherapy. These workshops have been customised in co-ordination with module administrators and embedded in timetables. This close cooperation between faculty and health sciences librarians has been crucial to the success of the workshops.
Specifically this poster will

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