Health sciences librarians' instructional engagement in continuing education: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Healthcare professionals (HCPs) have an ongoing need for continuing education (CE) while Health Science Librarians (HSLs), accustomed to supporting a range of learning needs in a variety of contexts, are well situated to provide CE that addresses information retrieval, literacy, management, and more. To better understand the extent of HSL delivered CE activities, we undertook a scoping review to determine how HSLs instruct practicing HCPs in support of their CE.

Methods

We searched for published and unpublished literature sources including PubMed (NCBI), Embase (Elsevier); Dissertations and Theses Global (ProQuest); CINAHL (EBSCO); Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (EBSCO); and Library Literature and Information Science Full Text (EBSCO). To ide

SUBMITTER: Phinney J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11081124 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature