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Library and Information Science Education for the New Medical Environment and the Age of Integrated Information

In a review of factors that are changing the ways in which medical librarians and health information specialists are educated, the present scene is set and the current educational practice described. In particular, contemporary library and information science (LIS) schools and programs, their faculty, and current course work for medical librarianship are reviewed. Those LIS programs emphasizing doctoral research are indicated as models. Specific success factors for health sciences information education are identified. The impact of changes in medical education that are leading to new and changing roles for medical librarians and health information professionals is described, as is the effect of the emergence of the field of medical informatics on health information practice