Identifying information literacy skills and behaviors in the curricular competencies of health professions.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This research identified the presence of information skill and behaviors components of information literacy in curricular competencies to inform a medical sciences library's instructional schema for five different professional programs at Texas A&M University: College of Medicine, College of Nursing, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy, and School of Public Health.

Methods

Curricular competency documents were collected from each program and reviewed. Coding categories were identified from the curricular competencies of professional health curricula using data-driven qualitative coding. To guide the identification and coding of competency categories, we developed a seven-category rubric from the coding catego

SUBMITTER: Waltz MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7441914 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature