University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City 2nd Semester 2011-2012 Course Number: LIS 141 Course Title:

Introduction to Methods in Medical Information Research Description: Methods and techniques of searching for health/medical literature with emphasis on the use of new information and communication technology (ICTs) Objectives: 1. To acquaint students with the different characteristics and types of medical and health information 2. To introduce/review the basic mechanisms of information retrieval in medical and health information sources. 3. To introduce basic concepts of medical informatics 4. To learn, develop and implement skills and techniques necessary to conduct medical library research and manage recorded information At the end of the course: 1. Students should be able to understand basic medical and health terminologies needed in searching 2. Students should be able to formulate search strategies using appropriate key words using different classification systems 3. Students should be able to execute searches using traditional and current medical information retrieval strategies Methodology 1. Lectures 2. Class Report / Discussion 3. Project 4. Medical/Health Sciences Library tour / visit Ms. Joenabie Encanto

Requirements 1. Project 2. Exams (Midterm & Finals) 3. Exercises 4. Individual/Group report 5. Attendance 6. Library visit

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COURSE OUTLINE I. Introduction 1. Medical/Health Libraries Environment a. Definition of Medical Library b. Classification/Types of Medical Library c. Medical and Health Libraries in the Philippines d. Development and trends in health librarianship e. Changing roles of medical/health librarians and libraries 2. Types of medical and health information a. By Targeted audience Patient specific Knowledge based i. Curriculum support ii. Clinical reference tools b. By Contents Basic resources Research resources Analytical resources c. By publication format Primary resources Secondary resources Tertiary resources II. Medical and health sciences vocabularies and classification systems 1. Vocabularies and terminologies a. Medicine Basic medical sciences Anatomy, Histology, Pathology Specialty Pediatrics, Ophthalmology, OB, Oncology b. Allied Health Nursing, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy 2. Classification systems a. Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classification b. MESH c. ICD -9 and ICD-10 d. Other clinical classification systems HCPCS (Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System) CPT-4 (Current Procedural Terminology ver. 4) SNOMED CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terminology) DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) III. Medical information research 1. Definition of medical research 2. Purpose/characteristics of research in medicine 3. Medical information resources (Reference tools)

4. Types of medical research a. Primary Basic Research Clinical Studies Epidemiological Studies b. Secondary Meta-analysis Review 5. Steps in Medical Research

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Search techniques and Information Retrieval Systems 1. How are information classified (review/recap of I.2 and III) 2. Information Retrieval Systems (IRS) a. Indexing b. Retrieval c. IRS Contents 1. Bibliographic 2. Full text 3. Aggregations 4. Databases Databases 1. Subscription Academic Source Complete Access Medicine CINAHL Cochrane Collection Plus Gideon MD Consult Medline Ovid Proquest Medical Library Science Direct Springer Link UpToDate 2. Open Access Virtual Health Libraries (VHL) SCIELO PlOS Pubmed Local website HERDIN WHO/WPRIM DOH websites 3. Literature search in Pubmed 4. Literature search in a subscribed database

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References: Carter, Jerome H. 2008. Electronic health records: a guide for clinicians and administrators. Phil.: ACP Press, page 3-8. Health information management technology: an applied approach. 2007. Johns, Merida L., ed. Chi.: AHIMA, page 193-230. Medical informatics: knowledge management and data mining in biomedicine. 2005. Chen, Hsin Chun, editors et al. NY: Springer Science Business Media, page 237-269. Medical library handbook. 2002 World Health Organization. Regional Office for Eastern Mediterranean. Chapter 1, page 1-10. http://www.emro.who.int/lin/media/pdf/handbook_chap1.pdf What do medical librarians do? Medical Library Association. http://www.mlanet.org/pdf/career/med_libns_for_kids.pdf http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/40/hic08-med-librarian.pdf List of basic sources in English for a medical faculty library: books, journals, CD-ROMs World Health Organization. 2003. Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean. Brandon/Hill selected list of print books and journals for the small medical library* Dorothy R. Hill, M.S., M.L.S., Assistant Professor of Medical Education and Collection Development Librarian1 and Henry N. Stickell, M.L.S., Head of Access Services Indrayan A (2004). "Elements of medical research." Indian J Med Res 119 (3): 93100 http://icmr.nic.in/ijmr/2004/0301.pdf Types of Study in Medical Research. (2009) Dtsch Arztebl Int 2009; 106(15): 2628 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2689572/pdf/Dtsch_Arztebl_Int-106-0262.pdf