NDLI: Can the profession of pharmacy serve as a model for health informationist professionals?

Content Provider	PubMed Central
Author	Byrd, Gary D.
Copyright Year	2001
Abstract	Pharmacy could serve as a model for the health informationist profession proposed by Davidoff and Florance in their 2000 editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The current training and practice roles for pharmacists suggest a way to prepare health sciences librarians for work with clinical health care teams. The influences that spurred the transformation of pharmacy parallel in many respects those suggesting the need for more information professionals prepared to practice in clinical health care settings. During the same decades that health sciences librarians have been debating and experimenting with new professional roles such as clinical medical librarians, pharmacy has undergone an intensive review of its core values, mission, practice roles, and educational preparation methods. Until recently, most pharmacists graduated from five-year baccalaureate programs preparing them to understand drug products, sources of supply, and effective ways to dispense them to patients as prescribed by physicians. Today, almost all pharmacy students graduate from six-year doctor of pharmacy programs that prepare them to be the primary providers of what their profession calls “pharmaceutical care.” The pharmaceutical care model suggests that health information professionals in clinical settings could be educated and trained to provide what we might call health information care.
Starting Page	68
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15589439
e-ISSN	15589439
Journal	Journal of the Medical Library Association
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	90
Language	English
Publisher	Medical Library Association
Publisher Date	2002-01-01
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	Medical Library Association
Subject Keyword	Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Library and Information Sciences Health Informatics

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