Building capacity among health care librarians to teach evidence-based practice-an evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

An innovative funding scheme for health care librarians to attend an intensive short course in teaching evidence-based practice was established in the West of England in 2016. This evaluation aims to understand the value of the scheme and the impact of the training opportunity for the librarians, establish an evidence base for continuing with the funding scheme, and inform the development of plans to build additional capacity among health care librarians to provide critical appraisal training.

Methods

Seven librarians working in health care system settings were funded by the scheme between 2016 and 2018. Post-course feedback forms gathered initial views on course content and delivery, which informed the development of questions for the qualitative phase of the eval

SUBMITTER: Sabey A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8485954 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature